The Castle Church Door

Last time Victor Reppert thought he had a silver bullet objection to Frankfurt-type counter examples. I pointed out that Frankfurt-cases have been employed that dealt with choice and not only action.Another objection to Frankfurt-cases we will look at has a strong pedigree. It has been advanced by Kane (who many of our Arminian friends here have lauded ad nauseum), Widerker, Ginet, and Wyma. It goes like this:If free ...

alan rhoda said...Hi Vic,__Some open theists (e.g., John Sanders) believe that God can and sometimes does literally change his mind in response to creation. Others, such as Greg Boyd and myself, believe that God does exhaustive contingency planning from the beginning. (And given that He can, why wouldn't he?) We would say that what changes in these passages is not literally God's mind or will. Rather, what changes ...

Back to Reppert:“I think you are making a mistake. You assume that if I accept Hasker's argument for incompatibilism of free will and determinism, that I must accept his arguments against the compatibility of foreknowledge and freedom.”How is that a mistake? “I'm pretty sympathetic to open theism myself. It's hardly a reductio in my book.”So it’s not a mistake after all. Reppert is tacitly admitting a tension between ...

Open theism is generally identified with such contemporary theologians as Clark Pinnock, Gregory Boyd, John Sanders, David Basinger, and William Hasker. However, the greatest living theologian of open theism is undoubtedly Eddie Izzard: "Among Izzard's comic talents are mimicry and mime. He portrays God (as a bumbling authority figure who doesn't really seem to know what he's doing) using the voice of James Mason."http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Izzard

Some LFWers (and some atheists) here raised the objection of theological fatalism for the Calvinist (though we escape that by denyingt eh LFW premise).We raised the objection that exhaustive, traditionally conceived views of God's foreknowledge actually puts the LFWer in the predicament.They danced around that with the Boethian shuffle.We shoot back with the Dr. Sudduth bazooka."It seems that divine timelessness, rather than providing a way to reconcile foreknowledge ...