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Chemistry and physics doesn't allow you to reason. In other words, your question is a loaded question. Answering it the way you want it answered concedes the very premise that Clete has already undermined. No one is saying that your brain doesn't do stuff when you think. But to assume that...

The answer is that this isn't how reality works. When did God decide to give up His freedom? Do you not think God is capable of creating free moral agents, capable of going against His will?

@Lon you're still on ignore, but you need to watch this.

I don't get it either. It honestly seems like a humility problem.

If someone is incapable of admitting that those verses show God changing His mind, he either hasn't read the passages cited, or he's lying to himself. Such passages clearly show God changing His mind, His followers believing He can change His mind, and even acting towards that option, and God...

Seems like you got it. It does take a moment for it to load the embed.

See this post:

"You will never find a verse that says God changed His mind." *cough cough* Anyone who claims to know God's word and says that the Bible doesn't say that God changed His mind is a liar, plain and simple.

Something else to point out: Generally speaking, wicked societies don't tend to progress much in terms of technological advancement, because they tend to reject the foundational principles on which the world works. We see this today. Just yesterday I heard that Ohio had it's first case of...

He's alive and well. I see him posting on X almost every day. @Stripe

So what? Again, I have no problem with the ancients being geniuses. The problem comes in when you try to assert because they were evil, just as today's society is evil... therefore they must have been capable of things that we today are capable of. That's a non-sequitur. It does not...

I mean, I know what you're getting at, but I would point out that God having free will is more foundational to any discussion of the matter. You just made my argument for me. "We are made in His image." Not the other way around. Thus, "God is free" implies that man is free, because man is...

@Nick M The problem was that it wasn't embedded properly. Currently on TOL, when you want to embed an X post, you have to remove everything from the question mark onwards (which is just the tracking identifier; any link, not just x.com ones, you can remove everything after and including the...

It sounds like you're making an argument from silence. Jesus said He would. And He had the authority/power to do so. I don't see why we should say He didn't.

I told them they could find my response here. One of them (the other hasn't responded) wants me to post my response from here, there.

Last I checked, marriage is (sadly) on the decline in today's society. Compare to what the scripture you quoted says.

Excellent post, but let's not forget that Open Theism isn't really about man's free will, but rather God's. Yes, we often talk about men, but Bob Enyart did a great job refocusing the discussion back onto God's freedom, which you touched on here.

The trumpets in Revelation are the fulfillment of the Feast of Trumpets. The feasts in Leviticus 23 were supposed to have all been fulfilled in order with Christ's first coming, and His second coming was supposed to be soon after, within 7 years.

@LogicStandsBeforeGod says: Jesus did not raise another man from the dead until after He had been given authority to do so. He did so on His own authority. The Apostles, for comparison, did so on HIS authority. It's only nonsensical if He wasn't God to begin with. He became obedient to...