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The only reason I can think of for why it's problematic for Lon is that it completely destroys the notion that God is "omniscient," because it shows that God learns! (Which in fact is one of the categories of verses on https://opentheism.org/verses!) That's a HUGE problem for his position. But...

Amazing insight! I had never considered that the background of the church fathers of the 3rd century onwards woud have had such an effect on what they believe, but it makes TOTAL SENSE that because they were pagans originally, and did not grow up in the scriptures, that their readings of the...

And this is why you check the original language... "Want" here is not "desire." It's "lack." “For thus says the Lord: ‘David shall never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel; nor shall the priests, the Levites, lack a man to offer burnt offerings before Me, to kindle grain...

Indeed. But one cannot be an heir if he is not part of the family. No. You have misread what is said. Not once does Paul (who is the only person to use the word in the Bible) use "predestined" when speaking of unbelievers. It's ALWAYS someone who is "in Him." Romans 8:28b-29a: "those who...

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Lon, you're seriously overthinking this! I'm glad you think it was a good question, but you're overthinking it! It's an excellent point that I didn't even think of, that even further blows your position out of the water, but it wasn't what I was getting at. When I asked you, "Does your wife...

Saying it doesn't make it so.

Again, they do not have all their land back. Their land includes everything between the river of Egypt, the Nile, and the great river, the Euphrates. (Genesis 15:18) Currently, the modern nation called Israel only occupies a small portion of that land. So no, NOT fulfilled.

Tripartite. Body, soul, spirit. Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Thessalonians5:23&version=NKJV

RSR did a video about it recently:

When $50M of supposedly "environmental protection" money is sent to a pro-palestinian group...

I read it. That's nice, but completely irrelevant. A casual Bible reading is enough to glean the meaning from the Bible. You don't need to be a studied professor of Hebrew or Greek to know what the Bible says at face value. It's easy enough for a child to understand. I'm not sure what you...

Your wife knows you're going to be at work tomorrow, does she not? And again, it's not like Abraham was being dragged there kicking and screaming, for three days straight! This is why you have a hard time. Don't assume "everything." Doing so is eisegesis. God can't know someone's thought...

See post #1060. God knows men's hearts. But men don't know everything. Abraham likely did not know if he was going to follow through with God's command to offer up Isaac right up until he reached out to grab the knife and took it. God stopped him when he took the knife, because that was...

Again, God doesn't have to keep a running tally of how many hairs all humans have on their heads at all times. It is inane to think He does.

Present knowledge. God is able to count hairs. Does He need to know how many hairs are on a given person's head? No. Can He find out should He so desire to know? Absolutely. God can instantly know how many hairs are on someone's head. But that's, by definition, NOT omniscience!

So what? God had three days until Abraham and Isaac arrived on the mountain. You really think it was that hard for Him to prepare the ram beforehand? Not to mention, even on the Open view, God was banking on Abraham being willing to give up his only son, and planning on stopping him. Are you...

No, it doesn't jive with YOUR, theology Lon. It "jives" just fine with ours.

This is simply false. As Clete said above, NO OPEN THEIST BELIEVES THAT GOD CANNOT READ PEOPLE'S MINDS! QUITE THE OPPOSITE! We believe that God knows people's thoughts before they put them into words, as the Bible says. You believe God knows people's thoughts before they think them. But that...

The fool has said in his heart,“There is no God.”They are corrupt,They have done abominable works,There is none who does good. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm14:1&version=NKJV This is all false. He didn't create robots. He created man. He tried that. Guess what...