Greetings All,
I have read the three rounds of presentations concerning “Openess theology.”
It should be clear to all individuals that the nature and attributes of the Godhead are being addressed.
In this debate, there is no middle ground.
Either you believe that God does not change or that He does. Whoever is on the wrong side is not a Christian.
This is not some mere academic argument.
If God can change, I cannot have trust in Him. Stop and consider.
Mal 3:6 For I [am] the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed
If God cannot completely know all things, my future is uncertain. Stop and consider.
Isa 46:10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times [the things] that are not [yet] done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
If God does not have complete power, I could be swept away. Stop and consider.
Rom 8: 36 - 39 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
God’s people always expressed confidence in their hope. Here are a couple of examples of this certainty.
Job 19:25 For I know [that] my redeemer liveth, and [that] he shall stand at the latter [day] upon the earth:.
1Jo 5:20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, [even] in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
Remember,
Gal 6: 7-9 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
God has written to His people in plain words and they are knowable. Stop and consider.
Leonard A.