Heart of the Living God:
Love, Free Will, Foreknowledge, Heaven
Heart of the Living God:
Love, Free Will, Foreknowledge, Heaven
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Preface — Hi ... I am Gonna to Defend My Daddy
Grand Canyon Hiking Challenge
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I. Grand Canyon of God’s Genuine Real-time Concern
II. Genuine Relationship in Classical & Open Theism
III. When Master Guides Disagree: the
Craig-Pinnock Dilemma
IV. Christ-Freedom Dynamic Truth
V. Shadow of Prayer Dynamic Truth
VI. Imago Dei—God the Source of Our Relationships
VII. HEAVEN ~ Part I: Simple, Elemental Experiences
VIII. HEAVEN ~ Part II: Greater Experiences
Epilogue
… the Challenge & Larger Context
APPENDIX 1. Master Canyon Guide
Literature Reviews
APPENDIX 2. Intro to Appendices
3-6, ETS Sources, Context
APPENDIX 3. Hezekiah Letter-Roger
Nicole vs. Clark Pinnock
APPENDIX 4. Timothy George’s
“What God Knows”
APPENDIX 5. L. Russ Bush’s ETS
Letters & Book The Advancement
APPENDIX 6. Journal on Open
Theism: JETS (June 2002)
APPENDIX 7. Paige Patterson’s
Letter—Maness Mistaken
APPENDIX 8 Grand Canyon Map of
Where You & I Hiked
Grand Canyon Fishing Index
Other Books by Author
Preface — Hi ... I am
Gonna to Defend My Daddy
Grand Canyon Hiking Challenge ~ Top
A. The
Challenge—Come Clean with Love
B. The Best Part—Heaven
C. Let’s Go to the Grand Canyon—God
Is Love
I. Grand Canyon of God’s Genuine Real-time Concern ~ Top
A. Storm
Blowing-Hope It Doesn’t Rain
1. Preparing
to Take a Hike
2. Classical
Theism—Absolute Divine Sovereignty
3. Open
Theism—God’s Ability to be with You Today
4. Love ...
the Greatest—the Treasury of Our Heart
5. Classical
Theists Do Not Like Open Theists
B. Can God Feel Joy and Sadness
Today?
C. My Friend ... We Shall Walk with
Freedom & Gusto
D. Sunrise at the Grand Canyon—You
Have to See it!
II. Genuine Relationship in Classical & Open Theism ~ Top
First View of the
Grand Canyon
1. Legend
Has It ... Two Sides of the Grand Canyon
2. The Big
Stink ... Classical Theist Avoidance & Genuineness
3. William
Lane Craig—the Most Powerful Defense
4. Middle
Knowledge a Great Piece of Backtracking Speculation
A. Omniscient-Omnipresent
Attribute of God
1. Omniscient-Omnipresence
Attribute—Grand Canyon Strata
2. Omniscient-Omnipresence
& Foreknowledge—Dice
3. Omniscient-Omnipresence
& Foreknowledge—Limits?
4. Omniscient-Omnipresence
& Foreknowledge—Responses
5. Omniscient-Omnipresence
& Foreknowledge—Freshness
B. Foreknown Response Quotient (FRQ)
1. Assumed
Pillar of Truth
2. FRQ—God
Knows the Next Response
3. FRQ—A
Bedrock of Concurrence
4. FRQ—God’s
Aliveness and Isaiah 46 and 55
C. God & the Existence of the Future
1. God’s
Word & Promises Are More Certain than the Future
2. Relationship
More Important than the Existence of the Future
3. Relationship
in Two Dynamic Truths Supercedes FRQ
4. What Is
Important About the Future
D. Conjecture: Time a Non-Entity,
Non-Substantial
E. God’s Exhaustive Foreknowledge
of the Next 5 Seconds
F. Relationship, Lordship, and John
Frame’s Effigy
G. Genuineness—the Supreme
Theological Construct
1. Image
Side of the Image-Maker
2. Genuineness—No
Other Issue More Important
III. When Master Guides Disagree: the Craig-Pinnock
Dilemma ~ Top
A. The
Craig-Pinnock Dilemma
B. Farthest Point of Progress—Which
Way Do We Go?
C. Bridge Building 101 ... What Do
We Share?
D. Craig-Pinnock Dilemma &
God’s Foreknowledge
E. Prayer—The Beginning of Progress
IV. Christ-Freedom Dynamic Truth ~ Top
A. Grand
Canyon Village-Oh, Yeah!
1. River
Wild
2. Freedom’s
Wild Ride & Baukman’s “Infinitely Desirable”
3. God’s
Dynamic Foreknowledge a Servant to His Heart
B. Christ-Freedom Dynamic & G.
C. Berkouwer
1. Freedom:
Freed From and Freed To
2. Freedom
Defined by the Child of God’s Submission
3. Freedom:
Our True Humanness in Resurrection Service to God
4. Freedom
= Dignity of Humanity
D. Freedom and Service in God’s
Kingdom
1. Freedom
to Serve as Sons & Daughters Here & Hereafter
2. Freedom
vs. Sin: Overcome only in Faith
E. Freedom Challenging Classical
Theism
F. Freedom and Our Resurrection
1. Freedom
Is Divinely Empowered
2. Freedom
by God’s Power & the Classical Theism Burden
V. Shadow of Prayer Dynamic Truth ~ Top
A. The
Splendor of Prayer
1. Prayer
Explained ... the Radiant Color of Life
2. Splendor
of Prayer—the First Step of Obedience
B. Prayer the Essence of the
Christian Life
1. Prayer—Crucial
to the Entire Debate & Civilization
2. Prayer—Master
Canyon Guide Richard Foster
C. Prayer Degraded in Classical
Theism
1. Classical
Theist Effigies—Pushing a Mule Backwards
2. Yuck,
Yuck Stuff—Bruce Ware’s Soggy Effigy
D. Prayer a Relationship with Our
Heavenly Father, Abba
VI. Imago Dei—God the Source of Our Relationships ~ Top
Bridge Building 201:
We Have a Beginning
A. Our Imago
Dei—the Quintessence of Loving Relationships
1. Our Imago
Dei
2. Love and
Our Imago Dei—Transcends Time Like God
3. Our Imago
Dei—Our Ability to Relate to God & Others
4. Our Imago
Dei—the Splendor of Loving Relationships
5. Our Imago
Dei—Treasuring the Moment of Love
B. God’s Love Is Dynamic ... Alive
1. What
Changes for God? Not the Same 1,000 Years Ago as Today
2. Can
God’s Perfected Love Grow?
C. Our Imago Dei—the Very
Validation of Genuineness
D. Going Home—Free at Last
1. Onward
Christian Soldiers ... Not Onward Passive Puppets
2. Craig-Pinnock
Dilemma & Prayer Indicate Some Freedom
3. Where
Time, Free will, Sovereignty, and Foreknowledge will be Swallowed up in Glory,
and the Classical Theist Burden
4. Going
Home—Seeing God’s Heart Dissipates Sovereignty
VII. HEAVEN ~ Part I: Simple, Elemental Experiences ~ Top
Outline of Heaven
Introduction to the
Heaven of Revelation 21-22
1. Heaven—Some
Technical Data & John MacArthur
2. Best Is
Yet to Come—Heaven—Personal to the Uttermost
3. Origin
of These Two Chapters—Serendipitous, Providential
A. Heaven
Is Perfected Everlasting Love-No Eye Has Seen
1. Visual
Boundary: What Eye Hath Not Seen
2. Revelation
21-22 & the Holy City—Personal & Dynamic
3. Holy
City = the Picture of Perfected Everlasting Love
B. Picture Worth a Thousand
Words-Words Can Say More
C. Similarities Between Two
Passages: Rev. 21:1-8 & 21:9-22:6
1. Descending
Holy City Is the Same City in Both Passages
2. Five
Similarities Between the Two Passages
3. Conclusion
on the Similarities—God’s Marriage Fresh to Him
4. Conclusion
on the Similarities—Open Wedding Feast
5. Conclusion
on the Similarities—Fresh Wedding Feast
D. Simple, Elemental Experiences of
Heaven
1. No More
Tears, Death or Curse: a New Freedom
2. Spring
and River and Tree of Life: a New Economy
3. No More
Evil People: a New Purity and Peace
E. Cloudy Dark Side of Living
Obscures the True Fullness of the New Freedom, New Economy, New Purity &
Peace
1. Between
the Clouds of Earth and the Clear Skies of Heaven
2. What
We Know Here ... a Cloudy Shadow of Heaven
3. Earth
and Heaven Connected—C. H. Spurgeon
VIII. HEAVEN ~ Part II: Greater Experiences ~ Top
A. Greater
Experiences of Heaven
1. Simple
Experiences Versus the Greater Experiences of Heaven
2. Holy
City as Bride & Wife of the Lamb
3. Great
Wall Reveals an Everlasting Security
B. Recap of Heaven
C. Greatest Experience in
Heaven—Sharing in God’s Life and Glory
Conclusion
Epilogue …
the Challenge & Larger Context
A. Challenging Classical Theists—Grasshopper Gauntlet
B. Book’s Larger Context—my Would You Lie
to Save a Life?
APPENDIX 1. Master Canyon Guide Literature Reviews ~ Top
Craig-Pinnock Dilemma:
Literature Review Conclusion.
Literature Review of
25 Important Works
1. Craig, William Lane. The
Only Wise God
2. Pinnock, Clark H. Most
Moved Mover
3. Sanders, John. The
God Who Risks
4. Boyd, Gregory A. God
of the Possible
5. Maston, T.B. God’s
Will and Your Life
6. Rice, John R. Predestined
for HELL? NO!
7. Hunt, David. What
Love Is This?
8. Basinger, D., & R.
Basinger. Predestination & Free Will
Introduction.
A. Feinberg’s Position & Counters.
B. Geisler’s
Position & Counters.
C. Reichenbach’s
Position & Counters.
D. Pinnock’s
Position & Counters.
9. Beilby, J., & P.
Eddy. Divine Foreknowledge: Four Views
10. Zagzebski,
Linda. “Recent Work on Divine Foreknowlege”
11. May, Rollo. Freedom
and Destiny
12. Erickson, Millard. What
Does God Know
13. Packer, J. I. Evangelism
& the Sovereignty of God
14. Geisler, Norman. Chosen
But Free
15. Spurgeon, C. H. Sermons
on Sovereignty
16. Strong, August H. Systematic
Theology
17. White, James R. The
Potter’s Freedom
18. Boettner, L. Reformed
Doctrine of Predestination
19. Frame, John M. No
Other God
20. Ware, Bruce A. God’s
Lesser Glory
21. Piper, Taylor,
Helseth. Beyond the Bounds
Preface by John Piper
Introduction by Justin Taylor
1. Fuller’s
“Rabbis & Claims of Openness Advocates”
2. Chad Brand’s
“Genetic Defects or Accidental Similarities”
3. Talbot’s
“True Freedom & Liberty Worth Having”
4. Davis’
“Why Open Theism Is Flourishing Now”
5. Caneday’s
“God’s Self-Revelation in Human Likeness”
6. Horton’s
“Hellenistic or Hebrew?”
7. Wellum’s
“Inerrancy of Scripture”
8. Helseth’s
“Trustworthiness of God & Foundation of Hope”
9. Ware’s
“The gospel of Christ”
10. Grudem’s
“When, Why, & What ... Boundaries?”
11. John
Piper’s “Grounds for Dismay”
22. Huffman &
Johnson. God Under Fire
1. Huffman
& Johnson’s “Should the God be Replaced?”
2. Talbot’s
“Does God Reveal Who He Is?”
3. Johnson’s
“Can God be Grasped by Reason?”
4. Bray’s
“Has the Greek Philosophy Corrupted Christianity?”
5. Helm’s
“Is God Bound by Time?”
6. Craig’s
“What Does God Know?”
7. Geivett’s
“How Do we Answer Theodicy?”
8. Spiegel’s
“Does God Take Risks?”
9. Lee’s
“Does God have Emotions?”
10. Gutenson’s
“Does God Change?”
11. Ware’s
“How so We Think on the Trinity?”
12. Carson’s
“How Can We Reconcile Love & Sovereignty?”
23. Wilson, Douglas. Bound
Only Once
24. Dihle, Albrecht. Theory of
Will in Classical Antiquity
25. Great Classics: Augustine to Wesley and
More
APPENDIX 2. Intro to Appendices 3-6, ETS
Sources, Context ~ Top
A. Grasshopper Questions His
Teachers
1. Grasshopper
Hops
2. Grasshopper’s
Vagabond Story
3. Grasshopper
Canvases of Ad Hominy & Boundaries
4. Grasshopper
& Rice-Bowl Theology
5. Grasshopper’s
Critics
C. ETS Primary Web Sources & Grasshopper
Initiatives
D. Larger Context of This Book
1. Grasshopper’s
Book: Would You Lie to Save a Life?
2. The Case
Against Radical Fundamentalism
APPENDIX 3. Hezekiah Letter-Roger Nicole vs.
Clark Pinnock ~ Top
Introduction to Hezekiah Letter
My Initial Excitement & Some Misguided
Firepower
A. How God Related to
Hezekiah
1. Why Did
God Cater to Hezekiah in 2 Kings 20:1-11?
2. Difference
Between Fidelity & Interpolation
3. Nicole’s
Violation of the ETS Larger than Pinnock’s
4. Pinnock
Closer to the Text
5. Nicole
Crushed by His Own Standard
B. Fidelity to the Text Is the Main Issue
Epilogue: Final Heartfelt Plea
APPENDIX 4. Timothy George’s “What God
Knows” ~ Top
1. Open Theism a Source of Conflict
& Confusion
2. Classical Theism Superior in
Theodicy-Are You Sure?
3. Open Theism More Powerfully
Exculpates God, yet Theodicy Is Not the Engine of Open Theism
4. George’s “Seminiscient” Deity of
Open Theism a Misnomer
5. Ultimate Split Infinitive: Eternal
v. Everlasting & Open Theism’s Actual Engine-Genuineness
6. Missing the Engine of
Genuineness Is a Serious Oversight
APPENDIX 5. L. Russ Bush’s ETS Letters &
Book The Advancement ~ Top
A. L. Russ Bush Dialogue: Integrity
vs. Myth-Busting
B. L. Russ Bush’s The
Advancement—A New Level of Acrimony
APPENDIX 6. Journal on Open Theism: JETS
(June 2002) ~ Top
1. Ware’s “Defining
Evangelicalism’s Boundaries”
2. Pinnock’s “There is Room For Us”
3. Sanders’ “Be Wary of Ware”
4. Boyd’s “Christian Love and
Academic Dialogue”
5. Ware’s “Rejoinder to Pinnock,
Sanders, & Boyd”
6. Wellum’s “Divine
Sovereignty-Omniscience”
7. Highfield’s “Function of Divine
Self-Limitation in Open Theism”
8. Grenze’s “Boundaried People and
Evangelical Theology”
9. Horton’s “Hellenistic or
Hebrew?”
APPENDIX 7. Paige Patterson’s Letter—Maness
Mistaken ~ Top
Item #1. Paige Patterson’s Letter
Oct. 6, 2003
APPENDIX 8. Grand Canyon Map of Where You
& I Hiked ~ Top
1. Love Bibliography
2. Free will, Foreknowledge, Some
Prayer & Theology Bibliography
3. Time Bibliography
4. Dissertations on Free Will, Foreknowledge,
Time
5. Articles: Free Will,
Foreknowledge, Determinism, Etc.
6. Heaven Bibliography
7. Revelation of Christ Bibliography
Grand Canyon Fishing Index ~ Top
Heart of the Living God:
Love, Free Will, Foreknowledge, Heaven
Would You Lie to Save a Life?:
Ethics
~ Top ~