Because we need to move on and because I find that more and more talk doesn’t always equate to more and more "conversions," I will try to wrap this one up and ask those with questions to continue to study, read the book by Greg Boyd, etc. I’ll start it with a quote from Boyd [...]
Good stuff coming in. Here is one question asked in various ways by several of you: “If God changes his mind what would keep him from changing his mind about providing grace through Jesus?†Wayne does a good job answering this, but suggests that Open Theism would say it was possible for God to change [...]
Ahhh… we have contact! Thank you for all the thoughtful comments. Before we review some Biblical examples, remember what the classical view states: God knows the entire future — every single bit of it — of every person, place and thing. That requires that future to have been prewritten. That does not necessarily mean that [...]
Here is another hot one right off tentpegsquestion@yahoo.com that might have to be done in two or three parts if interest/friendly debate ensues. what is open theism and is it Biblical? Full disclosure: I believe in Open Theism. Some people claim it is the same as Process Theology but they are way, way off base. [...]
This one has been sitting in tentpegsquestion@yahoo.com for awhile because, well, it can take a lot of ‘splainin’ (as Ricky used to say to Lucy). Let’s give it a very quick try. I ran into someone who said that Jesus came back in AD70 and that he wasn’t coming back again. Where did this idea [...]
Let’s hit a few that don’t require a ton of material to answer. I was wondering if there are degrees of punishment in hell? Someone I have come into contact with used the passage in Luke 12: 46 the lord of that servant shall come in a day when he expecteth not, and in an hour [...]
Seventy questions… who’d a’ thunk it? Oh well, there are about 20 still in the stack so we might as well keep this series going! Here’s a softball that has absolutely no eternal consequences whatsoever, but I have been asking preachers this one for 10 years and have never gotten a good answer to it. [...]
Now for one of the more interesting questions, i.e. one of those that might cause a firestorm. I know that my response to it will be on anti-Patrick and anti-Rochester websites within the hour. That’s okay; there’s no way I can make those people happy anyway! I have a question for you…and if this is [...]
Now here’s a question I haven’t received before! When things like big storms happen (or other incredible occurances of nature–bad or good) I love to think of it as a reminder of God’s amazing power. But I think it’s cliche to think that God micromanages things like thunderstorms to "tell us something." Being a science-minded [...]
This one has been sitting in tentpegsquestion@yahoo.com for awhile so I had better get to it! Why does there continue to be so much confusion in Church dogma? Christians criticize one another for music or no music, a little wet or all the way wet. How powerful it would be if all pulled together for [...]