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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...

Then what would you have God do? Yes, we agree. There are only two options, SoT: 1. Live with God for eternity. 2. Live without God for eternity. There is no third option. Forcing someone who hates Him to live with Him for all eternity would be cruel, equivalent to a kidnapper preventing...

It's not. The UK police enforce unjust laws, such as the so-called "hate speech" laws. You, sir, are an idiot. Con-artist? Dunno yet, but wouldn't be surprised. This isn't the UK. This is an internet forum. Stop twisting your knickers into a bunch. If you can't handle the truth, you're...

When the only alternative is to force the beings He created to live with Him against their wills, the lake of fire is the only reasonable solution. It's neither madness nor stupidity. It's merciful and loving. So that they could interact with the physical world, since the intent was that man...

Far as I can tell, no one here has said it does, I find this article from John Piper back in the 70s helpful when discussing this topic: https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/is-faith-meritorious The answer is no, of course, it is not. Faith does not save you, but it is required to be saved...

Lon, the entire article was about panentheism. If you think otherwise, you either didn't read it, or you weren't paying enough attention to the words on the page.

The way I do it is I type the tags in manually. This is selected, so every time I start a reply to someone, it's just plain text, and not formatted. I then use (some of) the formatting tags from the BB Codes page. (Click on "Help" at the bottom of the page, then click on "BB codes", it has a...

Don't be afraid to experiment with the text editor. We're talking about the Greek manuscripts, are we not? From the New Testament? The Old Testament manuscripts are all in Hebrew. The New Testament ones are mostly in Greek, with a smattering of Aramaic mixed in in places. The only Greek Old...

The language of scholars at the time was Greek. The language of the scriptures Jesus used was Greek (He quoted from the Septuagint). All of the manuscripts of the New Testament we have are in Greek, and only parts of them are in Aramaic. None of them are in Hebrew, and there is no evidence...

Paul talks about the "unsolicited" in Romans 2.

You don't need politicians to run a country. Democracy is one of the tools of Marxism. Democracy is mob rule, slightly slowed. A republic is a democracy, slightly slowed. In them, "politics" and "politicians" are used as perjoratives.

I don't agree with everything the woman being interviewed says, but I think she gives a good answer regarding the reason God doesn't intervene:

Truck drivers have some pretty crazy theology sometimes... I speak from experience! ;D