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The Reformers also taught that all of our "moral self‑presentation and attempts at uprightness" or lack thereof was all predestined to...

Himself.

But...Jesus marveled at the faith that the Gentiles had in him. @Bright Raven -you're using an AI! (Let me know if you would rather...

He isn't omniscient! At least not in the classical sense of that word! The real God is not the god of Aristotle. As for causing people...

You! Your AI bot has failed you. Open Theism is not principally about reconciling free will with divine foreknowledge. It's about...

As are a great many other traditional things. Biblically, God knows everything knowable THAT HE WANTS TO KNOW and is able to find out...

Excellent questions all, but they won't move him an inch. His belief in God is not rational, it is emotional. Indeed, he very likely...

If it's heretical to believe God can change His mind, then why are there so many examples of God changing His mind in the Bible?

The Omniscience you speak of is unbiblical.

I couldn't care less what Nietzche said that Christianity is. On the contrary. Your post is still there for everyone to read. I quoted...

Such a paradox does not belong to the biblical worldview but to Aristotle's. The biblical God is not Omni-whatever in the Classical...

First, I'd just like to say that it's nice to find someone new on TOL who appears to have read more than one book in his lifetime and...

I'm reminded of something from a book I read years ago.... “There being no cause in the creature why Grace should be shown, the...

Way to ignore what I said. Brilliant! Don't flatter yourself. My reasons have to do with accuracy. Jew are NOT Christian - period. Any...

Little Jimmy, 5 years old, kills his mother (intentionally or otherwise). A tragedy, to be sure. All the kids at his school hear about...