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If Jesus knew Judas didn't believe when He chose him to be one of the 12, it is not hard to believe that Jesus knew he would betray Him, especially since Judas was continuing his evil ways (he stole from the "bag"). Jesus probably even encouraged Judas in his deception by exalting the woman who...

I don't think it is unreasonable, as there's no verse making the claim that He knew such a thing. However, it is entirely appropriate to think God knew SOME of the angels would fall before He created them. Maybe not which ones, because if He knew which ones would fall, then they were determined...

@JudgeRightly responded better than I would have. While we might have different interpretations, it is unlikely all could be correct. There is, whether we discern it or not, one right way to interpret passages, and that means considering when our own interpretation is false. Eventually it...

Glad it made such an impact on you. Yes, "those people". Whoever those people were, are, or will be, they won't repent. Just like most people today, when you tell them they've done something wrong, like abort their babies, will not repent. Why is that a surprise that God could say something...

You don't like open theism because you like denying scripture (funny how that can work either direction). But if just one man repented, do you think it would change the passage? I doubt it, because it is dealing with a large group of people who don't repent. And even if no one repented, it...

You can change who "they" refers to. for instance we don't know how many are included in "they". If one repented, the scripture would still be fulfilled, since "they" appears to be talking about all those who did not repent.

This is true. But at the same time, accurate foreknowledge is the same as it having been assured by someone. Calvinists are at least honest when they say that God's foreknowledge is not based on knowledge of the future, but decree (God causes). If it is known prior to the existence of someone...

Judas, at the time Jesus was dining at Simon's house, was identified as the son of Simon. John 12:4 KJV — Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which should betray him, In Luke's account, Simon is identified as a pharisee: Luke 7:39-40 KJV — Now when the Pharisee which...

His deity of deception argument is a good one, but don't you think God picking which of all viable worlds amounts to the same thing, because He's picking the world in which everybody has something wrong with their theology?

Tim Stratton (of Free Thinking Ministries) gives some of the same reasons for rejecting Open Theism that others offer, like Jesus' detailed prophecy of Peter's denial, but he offers Molinism as the alternative. From what I understand him saying, Molinism posits that God has "middle knowledge"...

I don't see why this is a problem. Jesus was intimately involved in making sure prophecy was fulfilled, so much so that He actually chose Judas, knowing what was in his heart--not from the foundation of the world, but when He chose him. Judas was the only one that was of the Pharisees. His...

Meaning that the verse doesn't really mean what it seems to say, right? And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought [them] unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that [was] the...

What then do you think scripture is trying to say when it says God wanted to see what Adam would call the animals? Obviously it was to name them, but why did God want to see what he would name them? It seems like you are ignoring that ine part, or saying it means the opposite of what it...

Detailed? That some men refused to repent and blasphemed God? That could apply to any age. the difference is that great heat and darkness and pain are prophesied, but those things are something God can inflict. So all we have in your reference is 1. stuff that God does, and 2. stuff that evil...

Is the author's position atheism? Along with Darwinism? It seems like less of a steelman for creationism and more of an answer to determinism.

Birth requires the labor of others.

Why is he dressed like Dr. Trump?

https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/blind-test-audiophiles-cable-banana

I guess I don't see the point in bringing it up at this particular time, since it is unlikely someone will be searching the archives of Theologyonline.com for such things to help explain creation better.

And? How does that help in your quest?