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GREG BOYD HERETIC

In this in-depth article about the heretical open theism of Greg Boyd from Personal Freedom Outreach G. Richard Fisher points out:

Gregory Boyd, professor of theology at Bethel College in Minneapolis, writes: “We might imagine God as something like an infinitely intelligent chess player.” The Apostle Paul wrote: “They ... changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man.”
Is God really a lot like us? Is He growing, learning and unable to know all the future with any accuracy? Is God infinite or is He finite and limited in His knowing? Has the Christian Church really been wrong — or at least confused on these points — for 2000 years? Is God, after all, really just an infinitely intelligent chess player...
Boyd’s teaching is not new. It has a history and roots outside of evangelicalism that can be traced to the early 1800s and names like Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne,...
Baker Book House formerly printed books that were orthodox and Reformed. Early in 2000, it promoted in its advertising catalog Boyd’s book, God of the Possible, calling his view “the open view of God.” Baker said Boyd outlines “an alternate open view” to the traditional view that God always knows what will happen in the future.
For all the posturing and nuancing, the question boils down to this: does God know all the future or does He not? To say He might just know a little of or even most of it denies all the Scriptural passages that say He knows all of it. If He is ever-growing, ever-learning and adjusting, He is not unchanging. It appears Baker Book House is capitulating to a weak and terminal aspect of Postmodernism: the idea that everyone’s viewpoint is valid...

You can read the entire article by G. Richard Fisher here.

See also:

Zondervan's 2008 National Pastors Convention Features Open Theist Greg Boyd

Answering Greg Boyd's Openness of God Texts

Open Theism Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four

The Foreknowledge of God

Monergism: Open Theism

What Is Open Theism?

Pastoral Implications of Open Theism

Posted by Ken Silva, pastor-teacher at February 23, 2008 06:57 PM
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