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There really is no way to make "Pilgrims of the dispersion" mean only Jews; it refers to the Church which began as a mixture of Jews and Gentiles in Israel and expanded from there. This in stark contrast to those addressed at the beginning of James, "the twelve tribes," clearly referring to...

How does the open theist view 1PE 1:2, i.e., that we are "elect according to foreknowledge?"

Minor point I suppose, but you missed it; "before formed" almost certainly means before conception (that's how virtually everyone understands it). So the ordaining took place with at least some foreknowledge. But even setting that aside, how did God know, with certainly, Jeremiah's future? How...

JER 1:5 "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations." The second clause is fine, but the first, before he was even formed; it's hard to see how this can be understood without future knowledge. Unless God simply...

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It looks like I'll never have enough privileges to reply, so this is in reply to Judge Rightly's question on the previous thread "As for Ruth meeting Boaz, why couldn't it be "by chance"? Because the book of Ruth is integral to Christ's ancestry, right? God was orchestrating all of this, it...

The Calvinist would say there is no such thing as chance; the Open Theist would say there is. If we take the example of "Ruth happened across Boaz' field," wouldn't all agree that this really wasn't by chance at all, rather that this was similar to God leading Abraham's servant right to Isaac's...

Still can't reply, so this is reply to this post copied below. God is a God we can depend on, because He laid down His life for us. God can use the wicked to bring about His purposes. =========================== My question isn't actually that he is willing, but more how this would...

Again, can't reply, replying to this: a job, for instance, when it may otherwise be difficult to find.

If open theists believe God can't know the future, then the common Christian refrain, "this didn't take God by surprise" upon any bad thing happening (the pandemic, for example) is wrong. I think most Christians would then say this really isn't a God I can depend on for my needs because he is...

The forum tells me I'm not allowed to reply, so this is in response to the statement from the previous thread: Prophecy isn't a telling of the future, it's simply a prediction of what will happen if things continue as they are. When the circumstances change, the prophecy, either good or bad...

Question for any open theist reference point 1 %20https%3A//opentheism.org/verses']here. God wishes for his (negative) prophecies to go unfulfilled. Do you then have assurance that the good ones will come to pass? And of course, you can't actually be sure, right?