No ‘open theism’

This is in reference to the Feb. 7 edition of The Alabama Baptist article on “Theologians agree God knows everything.”

I’m 54 years old and have been in numerous countries all over the world and don’t really think I’ve led a sheltered life, but the “open theism” concept spouted by “evangelical scholars” Clark Pinnock, Gregory Boyd and John Sanders left me slack-jawed. I know that there will always be false prophets because the Bible says so, but I’ve assumed that they would be groups like the Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses and Muslims.

But to read the reasoning these men give as to why God cannot know the future lets me know without a doubt that they don’t read the same Bible I read and they sure don’t know the same God I know.

What I would like to know is if this Evangelical Theological Society is part of Southern Baptist work and do these men hold themselves out to be Southern Baptists? If either of these answers is ‘yes’ then we need to make some major changes before God sends His finger to write on our walls.

Jerome Baxley
Dothan, Ala.

Editor’s Note – None are currently Southern Baptists or teach at Southern Baptist institutions.