Hello to Nang and Ask Mr. Religion...
Hello to Nang and Ask Mr. Religion...
Dear Ask Mr. Religion, your post contained four question marks. At $5 per, that would be $20, in advance please. PAYPALd to
Bob@KGOV.com would suffice.
Dear Nang and Ask Mr. Religion (together or separately): I would enjoy discussing theology with either of you. I make time to do such things by phone M-F at 5 p.m. E.T. at 800-8Enyart (I even pay for the call). As to personal chats, I would love that also, but pastoring a church, heading a family, hosting a talk show, writing books, presenting seminars, counseling, and trying to take over the world all take up a bit of time. Thus, I offer an alternative:
Right here on TOL is my Open Theism Debate with Dr. Lamerson. He was EXTREMELY unresponsive to the questions I carefully composed and posted in numerical order, BEQ1 - BEQ50.
Either of you can read that debate and answer those questions. And then, if you would, post all 50 questions (full text of each), with your answers (please be direct, I directly answered all of Lamerson's questions), in a single post, and I'll make a commitment to reply.
You would be doing the Settled View camp a service, since, after many have read that debate, they have no idea what answers there may be to many of those questions, since Lamerson was so unresponsive and left many completely unaddressed.
Please consider my offer, either by phone, or right here on TOL.
And as a sign of good faith, I will reply to Mr. Re's questions
pro bono:
Ask Mr. Religion said:
Bob, Could you be so kind as to explain your confidence in the eschaton and the realization of God's ultimate glory given unsettled theism's tenets regarding God's exhaustive foreknowledge?
I have faith in God's wisdom, power, and love.
Ask Mr. Religion said:
Where then lies your confidence that God's ultimate purposes will be realized?
Mr. Re, you could have saved yourself a fin by not repeating the question!
And you asked the next question twice also. I've combined them to save you $$:
Ask Mr. Religion said:
Do you believe that God will always respect the free will of His creatures or that God will, albeit rarely, overrule the free will of a person or persons?
Mr. Re, there is no such thing as overruling someone's will. That is a non-sequitir. I'm not saying just that it is not possible, I am saying that it is not rational (it is illogical). Will is the ability to decide.
-Bob Enyart