Marcia
Active Member
Why do you think we are not confronting the beliefs??Originally posted by All about Grace:
I am not an open theist. Yet I am not as quick to toss around the word "heretic" as some. I would like to see some of the critics here interact with the Pinnock interview cited earlier:
http://www.homileticsonline.com/subscriber/interviews/Pinnock.asp
It is easy to attack what one thinks others believe. It is more difficult to confront the actual beliefs. Here is your opportunity.
Here's some of what Pinnock says:
So our view is not that God knows everything that can be known and is therefore omniscient without qualification, but that some aspects of the future are settled and other aspects are not settled. The world is such that certain things are still being settled by the agents in the world, by us and by God, so God knows things as possible as well as certain.
...Traditionally, God knows everything that will ever happen certainly, so it must happen exactly that way. Whereas we’re saying that God appears in the Bible to know some things for certain because he planned them or because they’re going to happen definitely, but aspects of the future may surprise him.
...But if, in fact, God’s will is affected by what his creatures decide, then that calls for a personal theism, relational theism, open theism.