Theology

In studying various interpretations of The Bible including Bob Enyart’s “The Plot” which has inspired a couple of essays here, one question continues to nag: Do I trust The Bible to be “the word of God”?

The main tenet of Open Theism is that man has free will and, consequently, God does not know what we are going to do.

I’m studying Bob Enyart’s the Plot, the premiss being that God not only responds to what humans do, but also that God may, over time and in response to what we do, change His mind.

A contract basically says that if one party does something, then the other party promises to do something in return.

If you believe that praying for something works, that praying for God to intercede and save a child’s life, or to help warring factions agree to a cease fire, or simply that God will help you find a way to help others this day, then you are an Open Theist.

Just as a parent is sometimes surprised, or horrified, at something his/her child may do, so too is God sometimes pleased and sometimes unhappy with our choices.

Bob Enyart of the Denver Bible Church is a proponent of both Open Theism and Bible-based Christian teachings.

Astronomers tell us there may be as many as 500 billion (500,000,000,000) galaxies out there.