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Only idiots and con-artists even try to convince anyone that pantheism isn't wrong. Which are you? I have absolutely no respect for you whatsoever, so there you go. This is an intentional mischaracterization of my opening post. Intentional, meaning that it is a lie. I am not here sniping at...

Which is precisely the doctrine that the OP addresses and, for my money, proves to be false.

Since we're being snide and rediculous... Yes, it does. I don't care how odd anything is to you. I don't base my doctrine on your state of mind. I base it on the gospel as presented by the apostle to the gentiles. Israel had to do all kinds of things to get and remain saved. The list is quite...

I'm not offended, it's just exacerbating when someone says such things. It demonstrates such a shallow understanding of things that it just make my brain ache! Paul absolutely was not explaining how Israel got saved! They had to do one hell of a lot more than believe and make verbal...

Contradict yourself much? Stupidity. No one has made any such idiotic claim so, tell me again who's being absurd? Utterly supid nonsense. There are those who consider themselves both you slobbering moron! And even if that weren't true, my audience is primarily Christians. You are on an...

I didn't say a word about pantheism until the extreme end of the essay, Lon. Reread it and try again. Panentheism is YOUR term, not mine and it has a very specific definition that I used while researching for this essay. You are NOT the guy who gets to define the term. If it doesn't fit then...

@Lon, https://www.theologyonline.com/threads/why-panentheism-is-false.60723/post-1911488

Of course it is. The notion that verbal confession amounts to some sort of meritorious work that earns your salvation for you is stupidity beyond what I am capable of tolerating. I will not debate it. It is self-defeating nonsense to all but the most stubborn legalists. It's right up there with...

"partially all knowing" is an obvious contradiction. When the bible says things like God "who knows all things" it has to be understood within the context of what it being talked about. If John is talking about your conscience condemning you and tells you that God is greater than your conscience...

Panentheism is the view that the universe is part of God while He also transcends it. This doctrine blurs the Creator-creature distinction that is foundational to biblical revelation. In this thread, I want to present and examine some biblical and philosophical arguments arguments against...

Except that it isn't! You ARE reading your doctrine into that text! The term παντοκράτωρ (pantokrátōr) does not mean "omnipotent" in the sense of possessing unlimited power. Instead, it conveys the idea of supreme authority or universal dominion. The Greek is not "omni-" anything (see below)...

It isn't me you disagree with, it's the Apostle Paul..... Romans 10:9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

God definitely spoke the universe into being but no word can be spoken without the thought that produced it coming first. The thought it primary. Further, the word used in John 1 is NOT the Greek word for the single English term, "word". It is simply an incorrect translation into English. The...

Saying it doesn't make it so, Nick. Your OP is still right there for the whole world to read. There is no explanation of what Jesus meant nor how to use what He said as a test anywhere in that post. If you explained it elsewhere, please just give me the post number and I'll read it.

So let's kind of focus this discussion a bit. You say that you don't use the terms that name the omni-doctrines the way the Greeks (and Augustine and Calvin) did. If so, then just how do you use them? Just what is it that you mean when you say that God is omni-this or omni-that? Can you...

Oh, how I wish more Christians understood this amazing truth!

So, I've not read the thread but can see that Right Divider is participating and so am VERY confident that this point has already been made, but here goes nothing..... Christians today are not born again, they are new creations. Same thing? No, not really. In some contexts they could be...

It really is true that one of the most important premises upon which Open Theism is based is the practice of letting the bible say what it actually says and then formulating our doctrine on that. Everyone else does it the other way around, to one degree or another.

Samuel’s warnings didn’t specifically highlight the importance of the king’s obedience to God, rather Samuel predicted a king would oppress the Israelites (i.e. taking their sons, daughters, land, and wealth for his own benefit). Saul’s failures, however, were not about widespread exploitation...

The simplest answer is because they've convinced themselves that a God who can change at all isn't God. Their entire system flows logically from that single premise. In their minds, if everything isn't predestined, there is no God. That's a pretty tough wall to get over.