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I don't get this. When there are numerous people that resist, we should ask them. But why ask a person who didn't resist something he sees as good why he didn't resist?

two things 1: 'nuff said. 2: Are you saying you agree with Hilston's explanations of the two wills in the rest of the thread there? You would agree that the prescriptive will is for the group of people, but the decretive will is for the individuals (to include the group sometimes)? Isn't that...

By that criterion, today is as He willed it, too, but then why would Jesus tell the disciples to pray "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven." Apparently not, since God ascribes willfulness to the clay. [Jer 18:4 KJV] And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the...

Thanks. Of course that's the intent of the passage, along with the idea that there is a TIME for everything. But why is it a misconception that God cannot go back in time? (scripture, if you can find one) Legos that have their own brains/minds/wills, and can act opposite of the perfect...

This is the shortest post, so I'm responding to it first. No, you don't call yourself one, anyone. But you revert to open theism whenever you don't like/agree with your own view's logical extension. All people do. (And no, I can't prove it, it's an assertion.)...

I don't know how well I can keep the different parts of this conversation in perspective without including the post parts you were replying to, and maybe what I was replying to from you, too. So I'll try to intersperse some of the older posts. Evidence after the fact is all we have. The bible...

I was kind of hoping for some elaboration from him. I don't see why God providing for our sins is "murder" or Jesus offering Himself for our salvation is "suicide", but from a human point of view Abraham would be guilty of murder of Isaac in our society, under our laws, so Gary has a point about...

I thought the magnet on the magnetic medium was the joke, not that there aren't any systems that can be restored from a floppy these days.

If it is still stuck to the fridge, it probably doesn't matter anymore anyway.

That's an interesting thought. Why do you think it is worse with open theism than other views?

Knowledge might not DO anything, but for a causative event to be known, the causative agent must be in existence, or the causative agent is not really causing anything. So, you like vanilla, and God knew you would like vanilla from the foundation of the earth. Did you "decide" to like vanilla...

I read the Soteriology 101 article, and I have a problem or two with it. First, Flowers (whom I enjoy listening to, by the way) says, correctly, that just because God knows something will happen doesn't mean that He causes it to happen. I agree. But what it does mean is that SOMEONE causes it to...

To focus in better, I'm just going to answer this: The plain reading of the text is: "Adam, where are you?" As a question, it gives no doctrinal clarity as to whether God knew or did not know Adam's whereabouts, so you are correct that it doesn't conflict with any aspect of your doctrine. But...

I suppose you mean "thief", where He comes, takes, and leaves. But if He wasn't there, then was, then wasn't. The absence alone is not enough to cause the melting/atomic explosion, since He wasn't there before He was, even if He won't be there after He was. These may be two different states, but...

Would it? I don't know. Or would it just run down and die of "heat death"? The description sounds like God is actually going to step away from His creation at some point in the future, and when He does, everything will fly apart like an atomic bomb went off. This is described here: [2Pe 3:10...

I'm a bit disappointed that you say changing the future of a relationship changes the past.

So "in Him", according to that, is figurative, not literal. It means "by His power" or some such. Or are you saying that God has no power to create or sustain anything that isn't actually inside Himself? Sounds like a limitation. @moonbeam made that case, but I can't see that he was able to...

Maybe you should consider what I meant, since I was the one who used the term. Isn't that part of communicating? Highlight: pick out and emphasize. "the issues highlighted by the report" synonyms: call attention to, focus attention on, focus on, spotlight, foreground, underline, underscore...

You quoted a portion of their article. That's a way of highlighting a particular part. You talked about their "2 assumptions and 1 observation", and then narrowed your focus to the 1 observation. That's a way of highlighting a particular part. You claimed that their "observation" was really just...

Here's what you wrote before, including the part of the article you wanted to highlight. It doesn't say anything about billions of years old. They defined what they meant by "biological succession", which was referring to a consistent ordering of fossils in the rocks from bottom to top. Dr...