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jessemorrell
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Posted 3/30/2008 2:19 PM (GMT -6)

Has anyone read "Does God Know the Future" by Michael Saia? The forward is by Gregory Boyd.

He was a missionary for 17 years. I think he was with YWAM. And from his writings I can tell that his theology is "Moral Government".

Has anyone read his book and does anyone know anything more about Michael Saia?

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Similitude
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Posted 3/30/2008 9:35 PM (GMT -6)

Don't know for sure, Jesse, but I want to say that Saia is the guy that John Earp claims sees divine omniscience analogously to divine omnipotence. By that, John meant that God CAN know anything just like God CAN do anything. But God doesn't eternally know, necessarily, all future states of affairs, even as possibilities. I find that view much easier to make sense of, myself.

Post Edited (Similtude) : 3/30/2008 10:00:51 PM (GMT-5)

feelinahole
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Posted 4/1/2008 5:19 PM (GMT -6)

Have the book, haven't read it. I have, however, read his response in the end of the book to Bruce Ware. Good stuff.

PotOnWheel
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Posted 4/1/2008 6:41 PM (GMT -6)

http://www.uky.edu/~dbradsh/papers/Christian Approach to Phil of Time.pdf

Surprises! Pp. 5-8 made me think of your thread. (9-11 are very clear.)

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Post Edited (plato's_playdough) : 4/1/2008 7:26:18 PM (GMT-5)

Laika
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Posted 4/2/2008 7:34 AM (GMT -6)

jessemorrell said...
Has anyone read "Does God Know the Future" by Michael Saia? The forward is by Gregory Boyd.

He was a missionary for 17 years. I think he was with YWAM. And from his writings I can tell that his theology is "Moral Government".

Has anyone read his book and does anyone know anything more about Michael Saia?

My wife and I attended a few seminars and a sermon he gave in late 1985 or early 1986.

One was on the openness of the future and the other on evangelizing gays, which he was involved

in at the time. He told of his forays into west Hollywood. Both topics quite radical at the time.

Last I heard he's in the Seattle area.

Romance at short notice was her specialty.

Post Edited (Laika) : 4/2/2008 12:22:44 PM (GMT-5)

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