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. In freedom God decided to create beings capable of experiencing his love.
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We believe love is the primary characteristic of God because the triune Godhead has eternally loved even prior to any creation. Divine holiness and justice are aspects of the divine love towards creatures, expressions of God's loving concern for us. Love takes many forms-it can even be experienced as wrath when the lover sees the beloved destroying herself and others.
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Second, God has, in sovereign freedom, decided to make some of his actions contingent upon our requests and actions
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God can be influenced by what we do
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That God changes in some respects implies that God is temporal, working with us in time. God, at least since creation, experiences duration.[1] God is everlasting through time rather than timelessly eternal.
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Third, the only wise God has chosen to exercise general rather than meticulous providence, allowing space for us to operate and for God to be creative and resourceful in working with us.
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Moreover, God has flexible strategies
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od reacts to contingencies, even adjusting his plans, if necessary, to take into account the decisions of his free creatures.
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sually, however, God elicits human cooperation such that it is both God and humanity who decide what the future shall be.
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Fourth, God has granted us the type of freedom (libertarian) necessary for a truly personal relationship of love to develop.
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Finally, the omniscient God knows all that can be known given the sort of world he created.
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We believe that God could have known every event of the future had God decided to create a fully determined universe. However, in our view God decided to create beings with indeterministic freedom which implies that God chose to create a universe in which the future is not entirely knowable, even for God. For many open theists the "future" is not a present reality-it does not exist-and God knows reality as it is.
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This view may be called dynamic omniscience (it corresponds to the dynamic theory of time rather than the stasis theory).
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Our rejection of divine timelessness and our affirmation of dynamic omniscience are the most controversial elements in our proposal and the view of foreknowledge receives the most attention. However, the watershed issue in the debate is not whether God has exhaustive definite foreknowledge (EDF) but whether God is ever affected by and responds to what we do. This is the same watershed that divides Calvinism from Arminianism.
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10 Sep 09
Marita ThomsonOpenness Theology (commonly referred to as Open Theism and Free Will Theism) connects with the spirituality of many Christians throughout the history of the church especially when it comes to prayer. Many Christians feel that our prayers or lack of them c
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"Much Modern theology presupposes the deistic assumption that the first step is to prove God exists. No, the biblical question is what kind of God exists?"
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Openness Theology (commonly referred to as Open Theism and Free Will Theism) connects with the spirituality of many Christians
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Dr. John Sanders
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in almighty power, created all that is and is sovereign over all
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We believe love is the primary characteristic of God
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Second, God has, in sovereign freedom, decided to make some of his actions contingent upon our requests and actions.
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That God changes in some respects implies that God is temporal, working with us in time. God, at least since creation, experiences duration.[1] God is everlasting through time rather than timelessly eternal.
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Third, the only wise God has chosen to exercise general rather than meticulous providence,
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We believe that God could have known every event of the future had God decided to create a fully determined universe. However, in our view God decided to create beings with indeterministic freedom which implies that God chose to create a universe in which the future is not entirely knowable, even for God. For many open theists the "future" is not a present reality-it does not exist-and God knows reality as it is.
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dynamic omniscience
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