Yes we can. My point is that while I am unusual in being able to shift my theology qualitatively, categorically, and in step changes, that my prima facie lived experience of your theology is that it makes God look pathetic to me. You're right to push back and ask whether it's justified that it's my knee jerk reaction. But that's why a lot of people aren't persuaded by your theology, it's because it fails the sniff test. They take a whiff of it, and it makes God look like a loser and pathetic, and reminds us all of that gay song, "What If God Was One of Us?" which was so gay.
It's not a valid argument, I agree. I admit it. But that is what you're up against re your theology, just honestly. It just rubs a lot of people the wrong way, about God. Right away. It's like, "Nah, that makes God seem like a loser, and that's just not how I see God, that's incompatible with how I see God." Not many people have the ability to say, "Well maybe my intuition here is wrong." That does take an unusual person to be able to do that. Especially since we have no interest in your theology being right. It doesn't solve any problems that we have, and it does seem like Open Theists find a solution in Open Theism to a problem that they do have. We all non-Open Theists just don't have any problem that Open Theism solves, we're just not in the market for a solution to a problem that we don't have.
It means that it's strictly a Biblical and logical argument that we are evaluating, it isn't motivated by anything other than care and concern and respect for the truth. If it is true, then we will accede to it and approbate it. Once we work it out with it failing our sniff test, which forces us to evaluate our sniff test, to make sure that it's not a false negative, then we are dealing with the argument on its merits.
