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“Omniscience” is not a biblical term, so Scripture does not give us a dictionary definition of it. It is a theological term used to summarize what people believe Scripture teaches about God’s knowledge. Psalm 147:5 says God’s understanding is infinite. Amen. But it does not say “infinite...

I understand the concern, but the issue is not that God lacks knowledge of some existing fact. The issue is whether every future free choice already exists as a settled fact to be known. Omniscience means God knows everything that exists to be known. But if a future free choice has not yet been...

Posts #5 and #25.

Gladly. But first, let’s define the claim correctly. Open Theism is not the claim that God is ignorant, weak, mistaken, or surprised because He lacks intelligence. That is a straw man. Open Theists affirm that God is all-knowing, sovereign, incapable of error, and able to accomplish His...

Omniscience means that God knows everything that exists to be known. So no, I am not saying God is ignorant. I am saying that a future free choice is not yet a settled fact before it is made. There is a difference between: “I do not know the answer,” and “There is not yet an answer to...

No, this is the standard settled-view caricature. Open theists do not believe in “partial omniscience.” We believe God knows everything that exists to be known. The dispute is whether future free choices already exist as settled facts before they are made. You are assuming they do, then...

“One olive tree” does not mean “Israel disappears.” Romans 11 teaches the opposite: “Has God cast away his people? God forbid.” Israel is partially blinded until the fulness of the Gentiles comes in, and then “all Israel shall be saved,” because “the gifts and calling of God are irrevocable.”...

Schrodinger's cat just wanted a nap.

If the consequences of your paradigm make God out to be unjust, check your premises. "Since God is omniscient" begs the question that God infallibly knows everything. Get rid of that premise, and most of the problems go away. The only rational response to that is... Who cares? And by that I...

You’re confusing providence with approval. God governing history does not mean every evil act is morally endorsed by God. Joseph’s brothers meant evil; God meant good. Judas sinned; God ordained the crucifixion. Your objection only works if biblical providence is flattened into “whatever happens...

No. The Kingdom preached by Christ and His disciples will be the new homeland of Israel. We, the Body of Christ, have our residence in heaven.

You’re equivocating between pagan enchantment and biblical providence. Christianity does abolish the idea that nature is full of gods. It does not abolish the truth that creation is full of God’s glory, governed by His providence, upheld by His power, and interpreted rightly only in relation to...

This is pure nonsense. God lived in the Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve. Adam still sinned of his own free will.

False. Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Corinthians6:19&version=NKJV The world being "thoroughly secularized" is due to how evil man is, not because...

I think he was referring to Christ's crucifixion here, not ascension. I was going to respond the same way you did, but then I realized that was a possibility. He's not being very clear. Just vague claims.

Because, and this is the issue you people keep dancing around because you don't want to admit where it leads, crime multiplies when the law is treated as selective or negotiable. Criminals thrive where punishment is weak, selective, or negotiable. Most of those are not root causes so much as...

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Not to diminish your point at all, but this is something I wasn't even considering! My main point is that it, to answer the question I've been harrying Arthur with for the last several pages of this thread, teaches men that they can get away with things normally deemed wrong/immoral/illegal...