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Author Topic: How did you arrive at your current Theological stance?  (Read 4816 times)

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are you familiar with Arminianism?  It is the opposite of Calvinism as they still believe that God allows MAN to have free will to accept or reject HIM. They simply do not believe in predestination The open Theology is a runoff from that. It is a silly argument to me but then that is my opinion. God is not forcing us to accept HIM, but rather has foreseen who will accept him and He does everything He can do to make sure that happens including saving my but many times in those early years.

The free-will people do not believe Rom 8:29-30. This is pretty clearly stated and I feel God will have something to say about their not believing His scripture. Whether it will affect their salvation, I do not know as there is some dispute on this point.

My post shows why I believe in Predestination. God in eons past  saw me, Blade and knew that I would seek Him. He then set my heart right at the right time. I still had the free will at that time to seek HIM or NOT. Bringing this information forward to when we are actually living on earth, Jesus knows everyone, etc. He also knew that on a certain day, I would raise my face to heaven and ask Him to come into my heart and become my savior. 

He also knows those that will not accept him, that have rejected Him (and I am getting close to the line here) during their lifetimes. You have seen some of these people on atheist forums, etc. that simply do not believe in anything except mankind.

Hope this helps.

Blade

I think the main point of open theism is to say that not all outcomes are always predetermined, and that we are followers of Jesus because we want to be, not because He knows that we would. I guess i’m Not a traditional representation of an open theist either, because I can see some of the arguments for Calvinism in a way that I understand and agree with as well.

I think I don’t fully fall into either of the two categories in a traditional sense. To a traditional open theist, Calvinists seem like they are saying that God is just up there playing army men all day. To a traditional Calvinist, an open theist sounds like they are saying that God has no control over anything.

Like many arguments in theology that I’ve run across, most of the points of contention are actually the extremist view on either side and/or a misunderstanding of terminology. If you pay close enough attention, both sides agree with each other more than you would think they do, (except the extremists)
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