No Christian who has studied his Bible denies that God knows future events, but one of the most controversial topics among Christians is the question of "how?"--how does God know the future? While Bible scholars propose several possible answers to that question, here are the two most common positions: 1. God knows the future because, being outside of space and time, he can foresee everything that will happen. This perspective is often referred to as the "eternal now", where t

Recap: In the last post, I explained that a Calvinist pastor/friend took issue with a statement from my book that says, "the god of Calvinism [is] not the God of the Bible." This statement, he wrote, "put[s] Calvinists outside the pale of Christianity and under the judgment of the First Commandment." Here's a link to the previous post: Post 43: A Different God? - Intro . This, understandably, drew some strong reactions as I posed the question: At what point does a deity be

Recap: We have been tackling some challenging questions that are often posed by Calvinists which evoke typically unsatisfying answers from the non-Calvinist. In the last two posts we completed a very brief overview of a very complex issue; the question of why we came to believe in Jesus but our neighbor (or brother, or friend, etc.) did not. I concluded that our belief was due to a combination of God's grace and our response to his grace. The reason our neighbor might not ye