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The future can't be both settled and open at the same time. If God knows the future exhaustively, then it is settled, and people are destined before they exist to whatever they do. God doesn't need to predict anything if His knowledge is exhaustive. It's all fact, not prediction. That's why I...

Was it? When God said He would "add" 15 years to Hezekiah's days, what was He adding to? So you are saying that even though the plan is already settled, and God knows everything we are going to do, we still have to ACT like God might change His mind? I'm not sure I understand the benefit of a...

Btw, Open Theists don't say God "can't" have exhaustive foreknowledge so much as that God doesn't want to have exhaustive foreknowledge. He made man to be a relational creature (something you picked up in earlier posts), and relational means that you actually respond to what the other person...

Can someone explain why all of the png's and jpg's are not rendering on my phone now? here's what the last several look like:

Exhaustive foreknowledge requires that God never changes His prediction. When God said Hezekiah would die of his illness, then said He would add 15 years to his life, which result was the true foreknowledge God had from the foundation of the world? Does God have exhaustive foreknowledge about...

Ok, that makes some sense. Then these are circumcised proselytes. Are they believers in Christ already? Romans 1:6 KJV — Among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ: If they are believers in Christ, circumcised so that they are Gentiles, but Jews, Then they must be Kingdom of Israel...

Yes, that's correct. Open Theism thinks that "I will go down now and see" and "if not, I will know" means that God did not have some information that later He would have. God is an Open Theist. God knew something, but He didn't know something else. There is disagreement among Open Theists about...

Why not? If it tells us something about the body of Christ, we should listen, not just assume it doesn't apply. This us what we say againat traditional theists when they take passages that say God learns something and say it cannot mean what it says. In other words, our theological system...

Can you explain this? Is it because MAD says they were Jewish proselytes before Paul had a chance to have some fruit among them?

Bump so I remember to reply.

It is unlikely that he will change his mind, but he could. Repentance (change of direction, not turning from sin) is possible, but based on a few factors, it is unlikely in @way 2 go’s case. He isn’t currently addressing even the arguments presented, so how would he be convinced by them...

Are you kidding? Did you not read his last 2 posts at all?

Maybe. But that is open theism. If God's knowledge increases, it doesn't matter where the information comes from. it only says when they "fall to the ground", right? be careful of extrapolating. God might have told His angels to let Him know if any sparrows die. Did God know, at the foundation...

If you read the passages about how God knows things, it becomes more clear. God "searches" our hearts to see if there is any wicked way in us. He "numbers" (counts) the hairs of our heads. If these passages mean what they seem to say, then God acquires information that He didn't have before. God...

And you're doing the same thing with Rev 22:19. If it's ok for you to filter the whole bible through ONE verse, which is what you've said the word of faith followers are doing (except that they use 2 verses), yet you admit in this post I'm responding to that open theists filter the whole Bible...