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Bound Only Once!
The problems with Open theism lie deeper than most critiques
suggest. This book interacts not only with the truth claims of Open theism but also its
distorted aesthetic and ethical assumptions that do so much work in their program.
Open theists like to picture the God of classical Christian theism as a distant, despotic,
micromanaging sovereign. The god of Open theism, on the other hand, is ready to enter into
new experiences and to become deeply involved in helping us cope as we, with him, face
things we simply did not know would happen. They insist that God has knowledge, but not
all knowledge, certainly not knowledge of the future acts of free beings. Such Open
theistic inferences reveal a deep-seated devotion to Enlightenment categories and narrow
unpoetic imaginations.
Ideas have destinations, and one of the consequences of our trying to read the Scriptures
without any poetry in our souls will be the eventual destruction of any possibility of
ministering to souls. Just imagine the hymn writer trying to lift up the
downcast"I know not what the future holds, but I know Who also doesn't know
much about it either."
Contributors:
John MacArthur, Jr.
R.C. Sproul, Jr.
Peter Leithart
John Frame
Phillip Johnson
Thomas Ascol
Steve Schlissel
Ben Merkle
Douglas Jones
Joost Nixon
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