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    Why has Open Theism become popular?

    What you've written is like the explanation of "open theism" that was given by the Anabaptist (see here). It looks like you're saying that humans choose but God overrides their choices by his almighty power. That is open theism. Perhaps you believe open theism without using the name.
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    Why has Open Theism become popular?

    Human freedom, if it truly exists, is a gift from God. A grace given by which free choices could be made. Does it exist?
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    Why has Open Theism become popular?

    The premise appears to be God's absolute freedom.
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    Why has Open Theism become popular?

    I reject open theism and I reject your summary too. But your summary is a caricature of what the article says about open theism. If free-will is supposed (for the sake of argument) to be truly unpredictable then knowing the future is impossible in the same way that having a 4 angled triangle is...
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    Salvation

    I do deny it. I deny that the gospel of the kingdom is about Israel in 30 AD. "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel." The kingdom of which Jesus spoke is the kingdom of God. Holy scripture explains the kingdom of God in these words: Mark 1:15...
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    Transubtantiation and Alchemy?

    That is right, everything that you and I wrote here in CH that is not a quote from holy scripture is a tradition but some traditions are more enduring than others and some are true while others are not.
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    Faith without good works is dead.

    My only glory is the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, which crucifies the world to me and me to the world. Take the case, my brothers, of someone who has never done a single good act but claims that he has faith. Will that faith save him? If one of the brothers or one of the sisters is in need...
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    Transubtantiation and Alchemy?

    The first is from saint Thomas Aquinas The second from saint John Chrysostom The third ... I'll need to check the sources again :) Saint John Chrysostom
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    Ask whatever you wish John 16:24

    Yeah, you are right. John 17 is a prayer, 14-16 is the context from which the prayer arose.
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    Transubtantiation and Alchemy?

    'Whenever the commemoration of this sacrifice is celebrated, the work of our redemption is enacted' "The sacrifices of the Old Law contained only in figure that true sacrifice of Christ's Passion" "it was necessary that the sacrifice of the New Law instituted by Christ should have something...
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    mentioning politics from the pulpit

    I agree that self examination ought to be applied before launching a message to correct somebody else who is only doing what we do ourselves. If we are silenced by our own sins then maybe we will never speak at all ...
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    Why has Open Theism become popular?

    I think that every Christian would reject that. The web page you cited does not say anything like what you say. There's no mention of "God is our genie and we make our own future by telling God what to do."
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    What is Justification ?

    Luke 12:22-34 And he said to his disciples: "And so I say to you: Do not choose to be anxious about your life, as to what you may eat, nor about your body, as to what you will wear. 23 Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing. 24 Consider the ravens. For they neither sow nor...
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    Salvation

    I do differentiate between the old covenant and the new covenant. The Gospel according to saint Mark is about Jesus Christ and the gospel that Jesus brought to light.
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    Should abortion be illegal?

    Your experience sounds deeply sorrowful.
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    Is your creed catholic, Catholic, or Christian?

    NIV? which edition of it? I like other translations better. But I am not telling which ones :smirk: Amos 3:1-5 Listen to the word which the Lord has spoken about you, sons of Israel, concerning the whole family that I led out of the land of Egypt, saying: 2 I have known only you in such a...
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    mentioning politics from the pulpit

    Saint John mentions the politics and leaders of his day and so does saint Paul; their example appears to imply that godly teaching ought to address such matters but with care and with truth.
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    Why has Open Theism become popular?

    What is Open Theism MennoSota? Do you have a definition? The link that you gave in the first post starts by saying: Open Theism is the thesis that, because God loves us and desires that we freely choose to reciprocate His love, He has made His knowledge of, and plans for, the future conditional...
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    Salvation

    Mark 1:1 The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. ... Mark 1:15 and saying, "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel." ... Mark 16:15-16 And he said to them, "Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole...
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    Is your creed catholic, Catholic, or Christian?

    Franciscan monks and Dominican monks once (a long while ago) had seriously bad inter order relations even though they shared exactly the same creeds and dogmas as defined by authorised councils and papal declarations. Their differences arose from philosophical differences between followers of...
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