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Originally Posted by BJClark  Quote:
The God I read about is loving and learned his lessons from the old testament.
I believe God is brilliant and can learn how humans act work and what we need.
| I have honestly never heard this belief before today...  |
Their statement is poorly stated and vague, though it does seem to be a logical outworking of Arminianism, i.e., Open Theism. However, since it is so poorly stated, I am hesitant to classify it as *representative* of Open Theism. Just as when someone makes statements that are poorly stated and *sound* Calvinistic. Most open theists, Hasker, et al., still believe that God knows all of the possibilities of future contingencies. He just *cannot* know (for certain) what will be actual until it is actual--though he can be predictive through his intimate knowledge of the individual(s) past action. So he may "learn" what becomes actual, but it is not as if God had 'no idea' ("learned his lessons"--'oh, so THAT"S what humans need.') about the ways in which humans act and their needs, since he knows all of the possible ways they could act. I would think that Open Theists would want to give more credit to God's predictive knowledge than the statement above suggests.
(I am NOT an Open Theist)