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Open Theism
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Annabel Lee
Beware the Thought Police
victoryword said:
I've run into it a few times. At first I mistook it for Deism, which is not the case.
An Open Theist while agreeing with Orthodox Christianity on the omniscience of God, also states that God can only know that which is knowable. The future is NOT knowable so God does not know the future.
They also believe that God is involved, adapting and loving while the God of Orthodoxy is distant and unyeilding.
The site I got the info a while back is under construction now but here is the website anyway.
Hopefully someone else will have more information for you.
http://www.opentheism.org/
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zoziw
a mari usque ad mare
victoryword said:
If you are talking about the Open View Theism of Gregory Boyd it is another attempt to reconcile God's omniscience with the concept of man's freewill with some kind of logical consistency.
It has raised a lot of eyebrows and seems to have attracted several people from the process theism camp. In trying to redefine the attribute of God's omniscience you could classify it as unorthodox.
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victoryword said:
Yes, Boyd's work is getting more and more press. It is certainly considered "unorthodox".
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I don't think "orthodox" is the term you're looking for because the term refers to what is "commonly" accepted--in which case, of course it's orthodox because O*****m is a minority position (by a longshot).
As to whether I think it's biblically correct? No, I don't. Do I think it is heretical? Possibly, although at this stage I think that might be too strong a word to use.
I know Clark Pinnock and others are having their membership in the Evanelical Theological Society (ETS) questioned because many in ETS feel that O*****m is not Evangelical (I personally do not feel their membership should be revoked at this stage). One of their biggest problems is that they, although denying it, force the conclusions that Biblical prophecy does not imply that God had specific plans in mind, and that prophecy is little more than a very educated guess. This of course takes God's Word and removes it of part of its authority.
As to whether I think it's biblically correct? No, I don't. Do I think it is heretical? Possibly, although at this stage I think that might be too strong a word to use.
I know Clark Pinnock and others are having their membership in the Evanelical Theological Society (ETS) questioned because many in ETS feel that O*****m is not Evangelical (I personally do not feel their membership should be revoked at this stage). One of their biggest problems is that they, although denying it, force the conclusions that Biblical prophecy does not imply that God had specific plans in mind, and that prophecy is little more than a very educated guess. This of course takes God's Word and removes it of part of its authority.
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It just dawned on me why those asterisks appeared. The word I was going for was "Open-ism" without the hyphen...which of course leaves a male organ in the middle which was bleeped out. So "O****m" = "Open-ism"="Open theism"
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