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micah4
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Date Joined Aug 2004
Total Posts : 8
| Posted 10/1/2004 1:09 PM (GMT -6) |   | Hello everybody!
I just want to say what a pleasure it is to see the first rate discussion on these boards, I have certainly been blessed by the contributions of the many excellent scholars and thinkers here. I do believe that the open view is a much needed correction to the longstanding hermeneutical bias which Christendom has gathered with respect to our views on the immutability of God. It is exciting to think that we are living in a time when this perspective is first being adequately articulated and systematized-- and I think powerfully enough to establish it permanently as a theological perspective which must be recognized among the orthodox camps of interpetation. It is the sort of development in theological tradition which may only come about once every few hundred years, as with the systematic work done by Calvin four hundred years ago.
I post on some other message boards also, and was recently surprised to see just how resonant what Dr. Boyd calls "the open motif" of scripture is with people who would otherwise consider themselves classical theists when it is raised in the right context. Unfortunately there is a great want of people who can adequately articulate the open perspective and give a systematic foundation to these themes as people struggle with reconciling the open passages of scripture with God's foreknowledge and omniscience. I think this message board and community is great, and I so wish the type of knowledge and understanding displayed here could be better represented in the larger christian community. So I just wanted to thank everybody here, and also present a personal invitation to those here who simply have too much time and not enough public forums to disseminate their knowledge, to come join me in helping inform the larger christian community on my favorite message board of the knowledge which the open theist community is so wonderfully bringing forth from the scriptures. Here is a fun thread to look at, and if anybody is willing I would love to see your input on this discussion of "Can God's Mind be Changed?":
forums.christianity.com/html/P1163901/
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