“In the play Hamlet, Ophelia climbs out on a branch overhanging a river: the branch breaks, she falls and drowns. What would you reply if someone asked, ‘Did Ophelia die because Shakespeare for poetic reasons, wanted her to die at that moment – or because the branch broke?’ I think that one would have to say ‘For both reasons.’ Every event in the play happens as a result of other events in the play, but also every event happens because the poet wants it to happen. All the events in the play are Shakespearean events; similarly, all events in the real world are providential events… ‘Providence’ and natural causation are not alternatives; both determine every event. Both are one.”

“In the play Hamlet, Ophelia climbs out on a branch overhanging a river: the branch breaks, she falls and drowns. What would you reply if someone asked, ‘Did Ophelia die because Shakespeare for poetic reasons, wanted her to die at that moment – or because the branch broke?’ I think that one would have to say ‘For both reasons.’ Every event in the play happens as a result of other events in the play, but also every event happens because the poet wants it to happen. All the events in the play are Shakespearean events; similarly, all events in the real world are providential events… ‘Providence’ and natural causation are not alternatives; both determine every event. Both are one.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_theism

What stood out to me about a Closed Theism was the idea of impassibility, or that God does not have emotion. Yet when I look at Jesus, I find deep emotion. And therein lies the problem.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_theism

What stood out to me about a Closed Theism was the idea of impassibility, or that God does not have emotion. Yet when I look at Jesus, I find deep emotion. And therein lies the problem.

Burn, heretic, burn!!!

Burn, heretic, burn!!!