Now, the democrats seek to load up the system with expensive legislation–the so-calle Stimulus bill, Cap and Trade, now the health care bill. The idea is almost definitely to break the economy so Obama and his cohorts can come to the rescue by taking over completely.

http://sntjohnny.com/front/radio-interview-with-wlea-on-saul-alinsky/619.html

I meant this in the framework of questions like ‘Can God create a rock that he cannot move?’ Or, ‘Can God make a square circle?’ I assume that you will agree with me that the doctrine of God’s omnipotence does not mean he ‘can’ ‘do’ non-sensical things. These questions can be re-worked to deal with omniscience: ‘Does God know how to create a square circle?’ And to that I would answer “no”, not because God doesn’t know everything but because the thing to be known is pure nonsense. It’s just throwing words together in a grammatically sound way… the sentence itself is almost meaningless, given the definitions of the individual words.

So, I mean what I said about God not knowing the unknowable, in the sense in which I just described, but this is of course a joke as applied to Obama to highlight how little we can trust the man’s stated positions and intentions.

Hope that helps.

Here is the comment I was talking about: “And only God and Obama knows what that might be. I take that back: it is possible that neither of them know, for what Obama believes (if Alinksy is any clue) is adaptable, formless, and flexible. And God, though omniscient, can only know that which can actually be known.”

Noting your surprise, I’m hoping that you were only joking. But an open theist would say this and mean it. Scripture on the other hand declares clearly that God knows the end from the beginning (Isaiah 46:10, etc.). He knows all of our lives in detail before we are even born: “All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be” (Psalm 139:16, NIV). God has known the decisions we will make before we even existed (Romans 8:29; 11:2, 26, etc.). There is nothing past, present or future that God does not know.

I hope this clears up my previous statement, but just in case: Open theism is an attack on God’s character and on the Scripture and I am therefore very much against it.

I am hopeful that you were just joking. ….In which case, I apologize for the confusion. Have a great day!

Also, to be clear, are you saying that as someone who is a proponent of open theism or one who disagrees with it? From your comment it is ambiguous… but I don’t see where I made a reference to open theism.

For the record, I disagree with open theism.

Forgot to thank you for one of your other recent comments that provided some good resource material. Thanks!