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The feast of unleavened bread starts with the day of passover, which is a sabbath day no matter which day of the week it falls on. If on Friday, it makes for two sabbath days in a row (neither of which would work for the women to go to the tomb, apparently, so they waited until Sunday morning)...

That doesn't seem to work, because the Jews thought the passover hadn't happened yet: John 18:28 KJV — Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the...

That's not true. Jesus gave gentiles as a task to all the 12: Matthew 28:19-20 KJV — Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with...

Does God love the inanimate molecules enough to preserve them through destruction (the death of a molecule, I suppose)? Yes. But wasn't it important enough that God provided it? I'm not saying why it was important, only that it was. Genesis is not a HUGE postulation to build a theology off of...

The same church He said He would build, but there are multiple churches. So He is the head of the church, without continuing to be the head of the church of Laodicea, where He has to knock to be let in.

I'd count myself a dispensationalist, but not mid-Acts. But I don't think I need an excuse for anything. Jesus sent letters to 7 churches. And the movement wasn't called a church movement, it was called the Way. If you group together to worship God for providing salvation from death through...

I didn't know the date for Calvin's assumption. Thanks.

That's for all those Catholic Calvinists.

Your question is "What does one gain from Open Theism". I said, "Meaning". You said: This is, imho, a way to avoid the conversation, despite it being your thread. If you say, "meaning is of no importance", then your thread is of no importance. But by saying, "meaning isn't important, only...

I just don't like it importing curses. Sounds like it would destroy life instead of create it. It should import blessings.

Maybe tomorrow.

On what way do you think we are made in the image of God? Do you think the battery is a temporary infusion of God's characteristic(s) that express His image? Was that a good or a bad thing? If God has freewill, isn't it a good thing?

Nope, just turtles all the way down.

You're avoiding the question by bringing it into the conversation. Ok. Not if He decided you would hate it, as He must have with some in that theology . Truth. You're the one that put limits on immutability.

No.

Meh. If God's will is the only thing, and He can perform it with robots, it's meaningless to us. Then it would only be necessary to list one. Yet we regularly speak of 3. And I've heard some add omni-benevolent and all-seeing (not sure what the omni is for that, omnioptical?) Who's talking...

"All power" doesn't have to mean nobody else can do anything, but it can mean "able to do anything". We recognize limits on what that can include, like logical impossibilities (married bachelors). That's why omniscience is OK with me, too, leaving out the logically impossible, such as knowing...

Meaning. But you lose meaning. What value is your version of omniscience if it means that your life was all predetermined. Your choices are meaningless, because even your choice to find meaning is predetermined. Or your choice to despair of meaning in life is meaningless. I don't think most...

Thanks! Did I say we know absolutely nothing about our future choices? I gave an option of fruitloops vs raisin bran, which is a major narrowing down from all possible cereals. Any narrowing of options is positive information about the final choices. Yes, and none of it is more than God knows...

Huh?