Joshua believed God, but the text does not say Joshua "chose" to do so.
Yes, it does Nang! Who are you trying to fool here, yourself?
God chooses all the Sons of God, and after the Holy Spirit gifts them with new life and spiritual eyes and ears to know this truth, they choose to act on that gifted faith in obedient acts as demonstration of being justified by faith alone.
Double talk!
You don't believe that anyone does anything like choosing. You think that because it feels like choosing then it counts as choosing but by any meaningful definition of the word, if one cannot do otherwise, then it was not a choice because there was no real alternative.
At bottom, you don't even think that God can choose! You believe that whatever God chose was the perfect choice and that there was only ever one perfect choice and that God cannot do other than what is perfect and that therefore God could not have done other than what He did or else He'd no longer be perfect.
You fail to acknowledge or entertain such theological depths of Holy Scripture, and end up claiming the Bible only "indicates" what Open Theists WANT Scripture to say . . when GOD HAS NOT SAID
The problem for you is that I directly quoted the passages.
Of course all scripture has to be interpreted by anyone who reads it. The question is whether the methods used to interpret it makes sense. You interpret the scripture in a manner that preserves God's quantitative attributes (i.e. size and power and how much God knows) as well as to preserve your a priori doctrine of immutability. I, on the other hand, interpret the scripture in light of His qualitative attributes (i.e. His character). God is personal, intelligent (i.e. wise), righteous, loving and just. You are forced to subordinate these attributes in order to preserve concepts of God that were born in the mind's of pagan Greek philosophers and are thereby forced to not only say such mindless things as "the text does not say Joshua chose" when it plainly does and to turn whole passages on their head and explain how they mean the absolute opposite of what they say and to just completely ignore when the bible shows God doing things like deciding not to do that which He said He would do (i.e. repenting).
Immutability is the attribute of Triune God. It is eternal and not subject to change. God is perfect and has no need to change, or learn, or will/purpose any differently. You insult and blaspheme Triune God in your attempts to bring him down to your human level.
I'm not trying to do anything! You think that I wrote the bible? You think I'm making it up when I quote the bible where it states as plain as day that the Logos became flesh? I didn't write that! The apostle John wrote that under the direct inspiration of the Holy Spirit Himself!
It isn't me you have a quarel with, but God! Not only did He inspire the writing of the scripture that tells us God changed in a dramatic and permanent way but your idiotic doctrine teaches you that every word of my "bringing God down to my human level" was predestined by God Himself to be done by me to His glory! So according to you, if I'm a blasphemer, it's God who made me that and I am utterly incapable of being anything else.
God the Father didn't and God the Holy Spirit didn't. Only God the Son became flesh and died and resurrected to glory.
Exactly!
Are you saying that the second person of the Trinity is mutable (i.e. NOT immutable)?
Yes. I believe that the Son of God "who created all things became a man and died on that cross."
Then how is that not a dramatic and permanent change? It's not some sort of minor or insignificant change. It's a humongous alteration in the form of God's very existence. Prior to the incarnation God did not have a body. Before the incarnation He had never felt hunger or physical pain nor had it ever been possible to tempt Him. Before the incarnation God had never suckled from His mother's breast or grown and matured into a man. Before the incarnation God had never had His face wetted by tears. Before the incarnation God had never before been a human being!
In what universe is that not change?
What you are now forced to do is to come up with some wack-a-doodle nonsense about hypostatic unions and what ever other convoluted thing rather than just simply taking the bible to mean what it plainly states, that God became a man, dwelt among us, died and rose from the dead! But instead, you want to figure out some complex way to have your cake and eat it too but it doesn't work! God cannot be immutable and become anything.
This Son was the Word of God become flesh; Jesus Christ who possesses the same attributes as the full Godhead. He was God. He is God. He is Eternally God. Hebrews 13:8
Thus He is not immutable in the classical (i.e. Calvinist) sense of the word.
Distinct from the Father and the Holy Spirit, but same in all ways, purpose, and will.
Your false teachers have failed to emphasize these Trinitarian truths in their seduction of your soul.
Sad . . .
Yeah sure, except that I fully embrace them and have never said a word to undermine them anywhere other than in your own broken Calvinist mind.
