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stanlei
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Date Joined Mar 2002
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| Posted 3/19/2002 11:53 AM (GMT -6) |   | Accordingly to Open Theism:
1.Things can happen in our lives which God didn’t plan or even foreknow with certainty (though he always foreknew they were possible)
2.There are things that God will do because for some divine reason God wants them to happen (explanation for prophecy).
So God must manipulate human beings in order to accomplish His goals.
Example: When Peter Disowns Jesus.
If Jesus did not know the future when he said to Peter "I tell you, Peter, before the rooster crows today, you will deny three times that you know me", then God must have manipulated 3 person not only to accuse Peter but to do so inside a time frame (the rooster crow)
If God does not have foreknowledge of specific future but of its possibilities then it would be impossible for Jesus to so accurately and specifically tell what was going to happen, unless God (Jesus) intention was to manipulate the whole situation.
Do you agree?
Stanlei
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