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the instances of God relenting are prophetic testimony of Him accepting the propitiation He made on the cross. they are not evidence that God is beholden to time. they are in fact evidence that time is beholden to Him.

the scriptures are literally true events and their primary purpose is testimony of Christ. the events took place in order to testify of Christ and were written to testify of Him. when we do not search the scriptures looking for Him in them, we miss the point.

God tells Abraham "I have made you" not "will make you" the Greek is very specifically past fully completed action. because He has done it, even though it is for Abraham, in the future. for God it is not. QED - time is not greater than God, but God is greater than time.

By saying, not the angels, He stopped their mouths, that they should not seek to learn what these angels know not; and by saying, neither the Son, forbids them not only to learn, but even to inquire. For in proof that therefore He said this, see after His resurrection, when He saw they had...

God was not ignorant of the day and hour of the flood, nor is He ignorant of the day and the hour of the fire. He shut the door to the ark Himself, and told Noah the time, a seven beforehand. Christ is God, the very same. Noah is a typological symbol of Him, and the ark is also, and the coming...

there are Hebrew wedding ceremony references all over the NT. no need to presume that Matthew 24 contradicts John 16.

when you have a Christless interpretation of the OT, you are not interpretating it according to the purpose it was written and the purpose for which these events took place - therefore you naturally get it absolutely wrong. Exodus 32 is John 17. it is Christ on the cross making substitutionary...

what an amazing picture of Christ!!

God's anger is not our anger. what the 21st century western psychology calls "negative emotion" is not necessarily truly negative. when you read something like Genesis 6:6 your reaction should be absolute amazement and wonder, not thinking that God is like me and you. His thoughts and ways are...

this is Hebrew betrothal ceremony language. in the ancient custom, the groom if asked about the secret time of the snatching away of the bride, would defer all questions to his father, saying, only he knows - because it is the father of the groom who sets the time. it doesn't mean the groom...

God does not tell Abraham He will make him father of many nations He tells him he has been made father of many nations. the open theism narrative doesn't fit the text. you do not have the luxury of appealing to imprecise Hebrew language in Romans to dismiss the argument: Greek is precise...

but friend, God doesn't say to Abraham that 'he probably will be the father of man, but maybe not, depending on man's will which even being God I can't control or fully predict since there really is no such thing as knowledge of the future' God says Abraham already has been made the father of...

Paul by the Spirit in Romans 4 interprets Abraham being told he is the father of many nations when he hasn't yet born a single child, to be demonstrating that God has power not only over life and death but also that His power transcends time and human will. God doesn't merely know the future -...

He tells Abraham He has made him the father of many nations, long before it began to take place. That's the completed action, yes? While it is yet incomplete from an human perspective. Similarly He tells His apostle: Matthew 16:19 and I will give to thee the keys of the reign of the heavens...

it may have been CS Lewis who said, the purpose of prayer is not to change God, but to change us

i am also wasting my prayers if God does not dare intervene in a person's heart. so, i think neither hypercalvinism, nor this neo-pelagianistic idea of "sovereign human will" can be correct.

i have an unsaved friend. am i wasting my time praying for God to save him? on what basis do we pray for anyone, if God does not work change in people's hearts and will?

Adam didn't get to choose to be put in the garden: Genesis 2:8 The LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed. and Saul did not choose Jesus, but Jesus chose him: Acts 9:3-8 As he journeyed he came near Damascus, and suddenly a light shone around...

God speaks to Abraham about the future as though it is already the past: Romans 4:16-17 Therefore [it is] of faith that [it might be] according to grace, so that the promise might be sure to all the seed, not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham...

i don't know that i'd call it heresy. but i don't agree with it.