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The Open View of the Future is a theological point of view that affirms with Scripture the ability of God to change his mind when circumstances warrant, that the future is not completely settled in every last detail as of yet, but in fact consists of both certainties as well as real possibilities.

Openness theology, based on the three-fold witness of Scripture, Reason, and Experience, says that the future is not fixed, settled, or certain, but even in the mind of God is partly fixed and partly open. A real departure from what traditional theism has insisted omniscience entails, though certainly not the practical piety of Christians down through the ages, the Open view would not be drawing so much fire if it were very easily defeated scripturally and logically.

With some proponents among 19th century Methodists, most notably L.D. McCabe and Adam Clarke, and Stone-Campbellites, along with the noted 20th century Pentecostal dispensationalist theologian Finis J. Dake, as well as other practical theologians of today, all of whom held to the same description of omniscience, human choice, and the future, what is now known as Open Theism or the Open View of the Future is, to say the very least, rocking the world of classical theology these days.

Whether one agrees with the conclusions of Open View Theism or not, moral integrity requires that one at the very least be fully acquainted with precisely what Openness believers actually believe and teach before one comes to a conclusion about it. With that purpose in mind, we have provided the links below.

   


Charles Finney
John Westley
Audio Sermons
Open View Theism
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