{"id":272,"date":"2004-06-28T17:31:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-28T17:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/2004\/06\/28\/open-theism\/"},"modified":"2025-01-13T20:23:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T20:23:01","slug":"open-theism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/2004\/06\/28\/open-theism\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Theism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Open theists assert that God does not know the future until it happens. One verse that is difficult for their position is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Isaiah 46:10 <strong>Declaring the end from the beginning<\/strong>, And from ancient times things which have not been done, Saying, &#8216;My purpose will be established, And I will accomplish all My good pleasure&#8217;;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>God is shown as knowing the end from the beginning. The idea of foreknowledge is also problematic for this view:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Acts 2:23 this Man delivered over by the predetermined plan and <strong>foreknowledge<\/strong> of God, you nailed to a cross by the hands of godless men and put Him to death.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>We can be sure that God does know the future and that our futures are in His hands. He is worthy.<br>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open theists assert that God does not know the future until it happens. One verse that is difficult for their position is: Isaiah 46:10 Declaring the end from the beginning, And from ancient times things which have not been done, Saying, &#8216;My purpose will be established, And I will accomplish all My good pleasure&#8217;; God [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calvinism","category-philosophy","category-reformed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":686,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}