 |
| 
a_theist
"Thy will be done."
Date Joined Dec 2002
Total Posts : 286
| Posted 2/3/2003 7:17 PM (GMT -6) |   | Has anyone seen those anti-marijauna commercials?
They usually give you and outrageous scenario on marijauna, and then rhetorically ask: "harmless?"
Usually in between that, this lady says, "I guess it was more dangerous than we thought."
Now, wouldn't this be funny?
Characters: a boy (irrational open theist), a girl (rationale classical theist), lady announcer.
Boy: Did you know that God knows future possibilities but not future certanties?
girl: NO, God knows all of the future perfectly, because he is omniscient and anything he doesn't know means that he isn't omniscient and he is a contradiction.
*girl steps away from boy*
*lightning bolt hits boy"
Harmless?
Lady announcer: "open theism, maybe it wasn't as safe as we all thought?"
(The boy and girl are made up; the coment I make below is about a dude that told me this.)
Until tongiht, I've never been told that I was rejecting God because I espouse open theism. It feels kind of weird being pigeonholed like that. I would like to think in my struggles to understand God and the world, that I was making an honest attempt in God's (anthropomorphic) eyes.
Blessings,
paul
The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the overexamined life is nothing to write home about either.
Daniel C. Dennett
| | Back to Top | | |
 |
John Earp
Registered Member
Date Joined Oct 2002
Total Posts : 1715
| Posted 2/3/2003 7:46 PM (GMT -6) | | quote:
Until tongiht, I've never been told that I was rejecting God because I espouse open theism. It feels kind of weird being pigeonholed like that. I would like to think in my struggles to understand God and the world, that I was making an honest attempt in God's (anthropomorphic) eyes.
Blessings,
paul
Don't let it bother you too much, Paul. It's amazing to me how they can assume they are right, quote Romans 9 as if that settled the matter of determinism, and then act so un-Christlike. (I should say that I have known some Calvinists who were not mean spirited, but that it would seem to me that their theology tends to work itself out into a very unkind, dogmatic way). Historically those who have firmly believed in free will have been the only group of Christians who has never murdered other Christians for holding to a different belief. That makes you wonder. Calvinists can be some of the most uncharitable people in the world. But they can afford to, because they're the elect. 
I mean the above in the nicest possible way.
May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. | | Back to Top | | |
|
a_theist
"Thy will be done."
Date Joined Dec 2002
Total Posts : 286
| Posted 2/3/2003 8:40 PM (GMT -6) | | Thanks for that, John!
I really appreciate the kind words.
God Bless,
Paul
The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the overexamined life is nothing to write home about either.
Daniel C. Dennett
| | Back to Top | | |
|
fyodor
Registered Member
Date Joined Dec 2002
Total Posts : 179
| Posted 2/4/2003 3:20 AM (GMT -6) | | I genuinely enjoy beer and punk music...This has gotten me some dirty looks from fellow Christians as well.
†††"To have a self, to be a self, is the greatest concession, an infinite concession, given to man, but it is also eternity's claim upon him." – S. Kierkegaard | | Back to Top | | |
| Forum Information | Currently it is Monday, November 09, 2026 11:05 AM (GMT -6)
There are a total of 97,718 posts in 6,040 threads.
In the last 3 days there were 0 new threads and 0 reply posts. View Active Threads
|
Forum powered by dotNetBB v2.42EC SP3
dotNetBB © 2000-2026 |
|
|