Submitted questions regarding open theism and openness perspectives.

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Biblical Questions

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• Do Open Theists think the canon is still open?
• Genesis 18:21
• Exodus 32
• Proverbs
• • 16:1
  • 16:4
  • 16:9
  • 16:33
  • 19:21
• 2 Kings 20
• Isaiah 46:10
• Matthew 26:30-35 & Mark 14:26-31
• Ephesians 1:11

Philosophical Questions

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Free will

• So, will there be free will in heaven?
• But it seems our environment and our past decide our actions, what do we mean by free will? Do we mean uncoerced?
• Did Jesus have free will?
• What about verbal plenary inspiration? Wouldn’t that thwart man’s free will?

God & Time

• Doesn’t God work outside of Time?

The grace of God verses the will of man

• So how does prevenient grace fit in with Open Theism?
• Another question regarding prevenient grace.
• If man in any way chooses God, isn’t that merit on man’s part?

Sovereignty

• If God controls everything, isn’t his foreknowledge a moot point?
• How is God sovereign if he is not in total control?

Miscellaneous

• Are all Open Theists also Inclusivists?
• Doesn’t speaking of God in relation to other beings make him finite?
• What about the problem of natural evil?
  see: here
• Does God simply choose to limit his knowledge?
• Is Open Theism essentially an Evangelical thing?
• Are any Reformed theologians sympathetic to or proponents of open theism?
• Is God confined by logic?

Questions on Tradition

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• Who might have taught this, say, just prior to the 1900’s?
• Who has held this view in history?

Notable Open Theists

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• Polkinghorne, is he an Open Theist?
• How did we come to Open Theism?
• How about Barth and Open Theism?