- Love is God's most important quality.
- Love is not only care and commitment, but also being sensitive and responsive.
- Creatures exert an influence on God.
- God's will is not the ultimate explanation of everything. History is the combined result of what God and his creatures decide to do.
- God does not know everything timelessly, but learns from events as they take place.
- So God is dependent on the world in some ways.
- Human beings are free in the libertarian sense.
Here is a part from Bruce Ware's book.
If, for example, a believer's response of faith in conversion is the result of God's effectual drawing of this blind sinner to see the glory of Christ and to respond (as the doctrine of irresistible grace advocates), God is guilty, in the words of John Sanders, of "divine rape because it involves nonconsensual control; the will of one is forced on the will of the other."The words that the Open Theists use are designed to evoke an emotional response. Which in fact does evoke an emotional response from me, righteous anger. They are trampling on God's precious Grace.
Since mankind refuses to believe the Bible (and in God for that matter) which is the revelation that God has given us of himself these heresies continue to resurface through out history. Mankind either wants no god at all or one of his own making.
The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." they are corrupt, they do abominable deeds, there is none who does good.Psalm 14:1
for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying 'My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,Isaiah 46:9-10
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Amen David, This is a hopeless belief system that leaves everything to chance and would deliver the future over to the sinful caprice of man. How could God promise that "all things work together for good" if He does not even know the future?
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