One of the challenges with the EFS debate was the tendency by those critiquing Grudem Ware and others was to get frustrated with their failure to follow classical theist formulations. They would then accuse those who held to EFS of either being in outright heresy or straying into heresy. The problem was that they ignored… Continue reading Oh thou who changest not: God as pure act and a warning about imported metaphysics
Tag: immutability
God, eternity, time and relenting
One of the issues with current debates about impassibility and also immutability (that God does not change) is that we are trying to understand how the infinite, eternal God can relate to finite human-beings. One aspect of this is to do with how we can know God through the language we use about him. We… Continue reading God, eternity, time and relenting
Is Open Theism Biblical?
The Biblical argument for Open Theism is set out in Richard Rice’s chapter in The Openness of God.[1] As we saw in the previous post, the foundation for the argument is 1 John 4:8. Rice goes on to argue that the approach is supported more widely by Scripture. The next part of the argument is… Continue reading Is Open Theism Biblical?
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