Ep. 61 Providence and God's Unfulfilled Desires, with John Peckham
The Reluctant Theologian Podcast
Why Do You Find Opentheism Unsatisfactory?
"i don't see a way to reconcile open theism with the biblical data on divine foreknowledge and providence, right? So you not only have those kinds of overarching texts that i mentioned before about go the end from the beginning, they are thoe specific instances," he says. "When you look at those very closely, like peters and i all, it's very difficult to make sense of these and long term prophecies." 'If god selectively determines the free will of creatures just to make it look like he predicted something, then you're already undermining what's kind of axiomatic to open theism,' adds O'Neill.
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