Welcome to E D Skinner's Website

I’m teaching a “remote” class today. I’m in Phoenix Arizona, they’re in White Plains New York.

This website is our new family home. It’s also the new home for all the blogs I’ve been writing the last seven years.

This story takes place in three big steps. The first is centered on Jesus, His teachings and crucifixion.

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”? That is, how much of it is to be accepted as God’s message to us: 100%, 50%, 10%, none?

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

My wife and I were on our way to one of our granddaughter’s soccer games one recent Saturday. I was hungry and decided to stop for something at McDonalds but the drive-through was jammed so I parked and went inside.

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. That is, He may promise that if we do something, He will then do something, but if we don’t hold up our end of the bargain, then He is not obligated to do what He promised in return.

A contract basically says that if one party does something, then the other party promises to do something in return. It implicitly acknowledges that the first party could choose to do otherwise but, if they do as stated, then the second party will then respond in a certain way.