"There are two of me," sings Amy Grant on her song, "Shadows," from her 1988 album, Lead Me On, my favorite album by her, "one does the right thing, one cannot see." The apostle Paul admits the same truth regarding every born-again believer: "Now if I do what I do not want to do," meaning the "me" that has been awakened / revived / resurrected / regenerated by …
We claim that God knows all that can be known. Open Theists and Process Theists agree and suggest that, since future events have not yet occurred, God cannot know future events and, so, there is nothing for Him to know. That conclusion presupposes, even if inadvertently, that God can only know what materializes. They then argue that God can know what He can (is able to) bring into future-history and accomplish …
"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist" is a quote from the 1995 movie by Bryan Singer called The Usual Suspects and is an old adage from responses to the Enlightenment-era philosophers and advocates of Higher Criticism of the Bible regarding the Devil. This "A Case for the Devil" is to advocate for his personal existence and to argue against…