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Your analogy actually helps my point. The man may already know his friend likes to bluff. But does he know his friend will still bluff...

Did God know? I already showed what Lord God said of himself. Abraham could have rebelled and said no, as most people would.

This is true of most of the biblical passages when you apply the open theism paradigm. Most aren't that comfortable with such shifts...

Which act of grace are you talking about? If the replacement ram for Isaac, then And therefore there was nothing left for God to find...

You're completely confused as to what the "three-body problem" is. It's about the limits of OUR human understanding and NOT anything...

And not to be a pest, but I don't see the application in the vineyard passage for eternal suffering. The part I bolded talks of "Sheol"...

I'm not disagreeing with you on this, but I have been thinking through some of these things. Are you saying that the "kingdom of heaven"...

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Why was that necessary if he had already been declared righteous? (Gen 15:6, as you pointed out) And he was already known to be...

You didn't answer Nick’s question. He asked what would have happened if Abraham refused. Instead, you cited passages where God asks...

If he's weak, (aren't we all in some way?) then other Christians have a responsibility to not throw temptations in his face, right? We...

So I guess, to be correct, we need to use the term "Free Market Capitalism" as opposed to the current "Crony Capitalism".

If Capitalism is likened to the game of football, the free market is the field on which it is played. A free market is a necessary, but...

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