God Is Omniscient: God’s Middle Knowledge

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Imagine that Laura is a doctor. Laura chose to become a doctor because her mother developed Lou Gehrig’s disease, and she had to learn how to care for her mother. That sparked Laura’s passion for medicine.  But what if Laura’s mother had never developed the disease? Would Laura still have become a doctor?  And is that something God could know? That is, does God know what people would have (not just could
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God Is Omniscient: Introduction

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In the last hundred years, human knowledge has exploded. Currently, it doubles every thirteen months, and it may soon double every twelve hours! We know more about the universe now than we ever have before, and a year from now we’ll know double that much!  Long gone are the days of having “Renaissance” men like Leonardo DaVinci
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God Is Omnipresent

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The ancients thought their gods were limited to certain places. A god was in this tree or city, or only had power over that mountain or river. Outside of his or her particular domain, the god was powerless.  By contrast, in Biblical thought, God is omnipresent.  That means that, unlike creatures (or pagan gods and goddesses), God is not limited by physical space. Instead,
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The Divisions of Systematic Theology

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When we voted on a theme for the last national conference, the choices came down to “Ephesians: Verse-by-Verse” and “Systematic Theology.”  Ephesians won by a nose.  I’ve always been a systematic theology guy. I have well over fifty such theologies in my office and more at home. I like thinking about the big picture and trying to understand how it all fits together. I believe coherence is
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