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| | Theism |
 | | Theism is the belief in a god or gods. | | | Classical theism affirms the existence of one god, and ascribes to this god certain attributes, e.g. | | | Theism, against each of the views described above, affirms both the existence of a transcendent God and that that God is involved in Creation. |
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http://www.theism.info
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| | Theism |
| | Theism is a philosophically or theologically reasoned understanding of reality that affirms that the source and continuing ground of all things is in God; that the meaning and fulfillment of all things lie in their relation to God; and that God intends to realize that meaning and fulfillment. | | | Theism is, literally, belief in the existence of God. | | | Historically, theism so understood represents a reasoned articulation of the understanding of God characteristic of the Jewish, Christian, and, to some extent, Islamic faiths. |
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http://mb-soft.com/believe/text/theism.htm
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| | Open theism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Proponents of the classical view argue that open theism diminishes God by limiting God's attributes, which is contrary to the beliefs of many of the world religions. | | | The writers in favor of free-will theism differentiate their views from those of Roman Catholicism, Lutheranism, Arminianism, Eastern Orthodoxy, neo-orthodoxy, and Islam, all of which—differently from one another, but similarly over against open theism—assert that God has a certain knowledge of all aspects of the future. | | | Open theism is an alternative to some classical ideas about God, Classical Theism, stemming from a single crucial point of difference: Open theism asserts that the future exists partly in terms of possibilities rather than certainties. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_theism
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| | Jain Theism |
| | Theism, as we have seen, basically means belief in God, and where God is believed. | | | Theism and even the place of God in it, is a logical pursuit in the Western Theology - God is proved and then accepted. | | | But the term "Theism" in its widest sense and literally meaning means "belief in God". |
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http://www.meta-religion.com/World_Religions/Jainism/jain_theism.htm
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| | Process Theism |
| | Process theism does not deny that God is in some respects eternal, immutable, and impassible, but it contradicts the classical view by insisting that God is in some respects temporal, mutable, and passible. | | | According to traditional theism, the totality of non-divine entities is a multiplicity in need of grounding in a primordial unifying activity — the “pure act” (actus purus) of existing that is God. | | | Implicit in traditional theism's doctrine of creation are the ideas that God's creative act and God's knowledge of the world are non-temporal. |
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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/process-theism
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| | Stephen Hawking's Cosmology and Theism |
| | According to this causal version of nonclassical theism, God actually causes the universe to begin to exist but there is some possible world in which God does not exist and in which there is a universe that begins uncaused. | | | It is central to classical theism and deism that God is the cause of the universe. | | | This tenet is inconsistent with acausal theism, since according to acausal theism the universe is not created by God but instead came into existence uncaused in accordance with a probabilistic law. |
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http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/quentin_smith/hawking.html
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| | Open Theism |
| | Classical theism is charged with subjecting the Bible to theological ‘control beliefs’, such as God’s immutability, and not allowing the Bible to speak for itself. | | | The God of Open Theism is a poor substitute for the God of the Bible, of whom his people can say "I am poor and needy, yet the Lord thinks about me" (Psalm 40:17). | | | For Open Theism, this relationship with mankind extends to the preaching of the Gospel: God is not willing that any should perish, yet some do perish, so He therefore cannot know the number of the saved. |
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http://www.backfreechurch.co.uk/Studies/open_theism.htm
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| | What is open theism? |
| | Open theism, also called openness and the open view, is a theological position dealing with human free will and its relationship to God and the nature of the future. | | | They claim biblical support for their position by citing scripture where God changes His mind (Exodus 32:14), is surprised (Isaiah 5:3—7), and tests people to see what they will do (Genesis 22:12). | | | It is the teaching that God has granted to humanity free will and that in order for the free will to be truly free, the future free will choices of individuals cannot be known ahead of time by God. |
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http://www.carm.org/open/intro.htm
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| | The Justification of Theism |
| | That is available: God raised Christ from the dead to signify his acceptance of Christ's atoning sacrifice, to give his stamp of approval to his teaching, to take back Christ to Heaven where he belongs, and thereby to found a church to draw all men to himself. | | | The defender of theism has of course to rebut arguments from the atheist. | | | To so many men it has seemed at different moments of their lives that they were aware of God and His guidance. |
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http://www.leaderu.com/truth/3truth09.html
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| | Challies Dot Com: Open Theism Archives |
| | Put simply, open theism is a doctrine that teaches that God does not fully know the future, for he cannot see what humans will do with the free will He gives them. | | | Challenges to the Church - Open Theism (06.27.05) This is the first in a series of articles that will examine various doctrinal and societal challenges the evangelical church must face early in the 21st Century. | | | While it continues to be a minority position, it is gaining wider acceptance and several popular Christian authors are teaching it or teaching principles derived from it, even while denying their belief in it. |
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http://www.challies.com/archives/cat_open_theism.php
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| | Pastoral Implications of Open Theism |
| | Open Theism's revisioning of the nature of the future and of God erodes the very heart of the Christian faith by undermining faith in Jesus Christ. | | | Proponents of Open Theism regard the "status of petitionary prayer within this model to be one of its most attractive features."[26] Prayer is seen as a means of influencing God to the degree of moving Him to reverse His own plans. | | | The Bible is filled with prayers that exude great confidence in God to do all that He has promised He will do and bold petitions for God to specifically and directly intervene by causing people to change their intended course of action. |
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http://www.founders.org/FJ46/article2_fr.html
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| | Does God know the future?
An overview of open theism - (BP) |
| | Classical theism affirms that God is unchanging in His being, character, purposes and promises. | | | Open theism, however, rejects some of the classical views of God's attributes, specifically the changelessness of God and the divine foreknowledge of human choices. | | | Although advocates of open theism do not agree among themselves on every aspect of their revision of the historic doctrine of God, five key elements characterize the understanding of God in open theism. |
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http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=16266
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| | Open Theism |
| | Open Theism claims to believe in God’s omniscience by arguing that the future is unknowable, therefore God knows everything that is possible to be known. | | | The primary failure of Open Theism is that it is an attempt to understand an infinite God with a finite mind. | | | Another common verse in Open Theism is Genesis 22:12 (NIV), “‘Do not lay a hand on the boy,’ He said. |
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http://www.allaboutgod.com/open-theism.htm
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| | Reformation21 » Worldviews -- Not a Bare Theism but a Christian Theism |
| | Christianity is a worldview that is truly theist -- that is, focused on the being of God as the ground of all things and the glory of God as the true end of all things -- but which also sees redemption in Christ as the great dynamic of this present age. | | | The Pharisees in Luke 7 were this way: they were happy for the sinful woman to go to hell for the glory of God's justice, but they were appalled that she might instead soil the streets of heaven. | | | All these are good theism, but I am afraid they are not very good Christianity and compare poorly with the example of Christ's kingdom as presented in the Gospels. |
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http://www.reformation21.org/Reformation_21_Blog/Reformation_21_Blog/58?vobId=893&pm=114
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| | Absolute Chris: Open Theism Garbage |
| | However, people who are against open theism presume that 'declaring the end from the beginning' refers to God somehow predicting what created beings will do before they do it---when there is nothing explicit in that verse to warrant the interpretation of the verse as meaning that God is predicting every action of every *created* being. | | | The problem with many Fundamentalists who are against open theism is that they try to pass off theological premises as if they were the same as purely lexical criteria for interpreting a Bible verse (or a group of verses). | | | Many Fundamentalists claim that whenever a Bible verse refers to God as 'repenting' of some tenative course of action and replacing it with another course of action ---that somehow that Bible verse should be interpreted as being a figure of speech /not to be taken at face value. |
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http://cmatera.typepad.com/weblog/2005/09/open_theism_gar.html
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| | An Introduction to the Open Theism Controversy |
| | John 6:64, 70-71 states that the divine knowledge that Judas would betray Christ was foreknown from all eternity. | | | Because the doctrine of progressive revelation is especially pertinent to the doctrine of God, it is problematic that the open theist position draws from the Old Testament for its primary base of exegetical support. | | | If open theism is correct, then believers will lose confidence in God’s ability to wisely answer prayer since He does not know the future. |
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http://www.spiritandtruth.org/teaching/documents/articles/13/13-contents.htm
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| | A Day with Fisher Humphreys, April 19, 2005: Open Theism |
| | Nevertheless, taken as a package, open theism is a new proposal about God, a fact that its authors acknowledge, and they argue that Protestants of all people should understand that sometimes the church’s tradition needs to be reformed. | | | Open theism has antecedents in Arminianism, in the theology of John Wesley, in holiness and Pentecostal churches, and in individual writers such as Emil Brunner, C. Lewis, and Leonard Hodgson. | | | They affirm that the sovereign God has sovereignly decided to create a universe of free human beings with whom God desires to enter into the kind of relationships of love that are possible only with free persons. |
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http://www.mercer.edu/baptiststudies/conferences/humphreys2005/opentheism.htm
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| | The VOICE - October 1999 |
| | I believe that a case for the divinity of Christ can be made apart from the traditional supernatural framework of theism that defined Jesus as the incarnation of that external God who entered this world by way of a miraculous birth and departed by way of a cosmic ascension. | | | Thesis #1: Theism as a way of defining God is dead. | | | Throughout western history a subterranean minority voice has always been part of Christianity which has never spoken of God in supernatural or theistic terms, as a superparent, or a divine Mr. |
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http://www.dioceseofnewark.org/vox31099.html
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| | Part 1, Chapter 2, Systematic Theology -- Charles Hodge |
| | Theism is the doctrine of an extra-mundane, personal God, the creator, preserver, and governor of the world. | | | 3vo; and Dr. John Tulloch's (Principal of St. Mary's College, St. Andrew's) Theism; The Witness of Reason and Nature to an All-Wise and Beneficient Creator, may also be mentioned. | | | Newton's First Letter to Bentley, quoted by Tulloch, Theism, edit. |
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http://www.dabar.org/Theology/Hodge/HodgeV1/P1_C02.htm
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| | Open season on open theism by Steve Hays |
| | If open theism is true, then the Bible must, in some measure be false, and that might just as well extend to those portions of narrative theology or prophetic optatives which form the Scriptural case for open theism. | | | But according to open theism, God is, himself, in time, and not a given totality. | | | Theological view claiming that some of the traditional attributes ascribed to God by classical theism should be either rejected or reinterpreted. |
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http://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/articles/onsite/openseason.html
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| | GARY E. GILLEY 0001 |
| | Open theism takes all the scriptural evidence for the omnipotency, sovereignty, control and foreknowledge of God, strains it through the grid of personal freedom, producing an image of God barely recognizable by previous generations of Christians. | | | If God's inability to know the future is the core doctrine of open theism, then God's lack of sovereign power and control over the universe is the foundation of, or better, heart of openism. | | | At this very moment, according to open theism, not even God knows whether his purposes will be fulfilled. |
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http://www.ondoctrine.com/2gly0001.htm
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| | The Prosblogion: Four Versions of Open Theism |
| | Open theism has been much-discussed in philosophy of religion and theology circles since the 1995 publication of Pinnock, et al.'s The Openness of God. | | | Open theism has been much-discussed in philosophy of religion and theology circles since the 1995 publication of Pinnock, et al.'s The Openness of God. | | | I think his view can be maintained as full universalism and full evangelicalism, but you have to say things most universalists don't accept. |
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http://prosblogion.ektopos.com/archives/2006/02/four_versions_o.html
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| | Southern prof in middle of growing open theism debate - (BP) |
| | One of the bigger implications, he asserts, is the compromise to the doctrine of the atonement -- the belief that Christ died for future sinners. | | | But Wellum asserts that open theism does in fact undermine "any kind of guarantee that either the human authors will freely write precisely what God wanted written, or that what God predicts will in fact come to pass. | | | Ware, though, asserts that all his arguments against open theism apply to it and it alone. |
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http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?Id=14006
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| | OPEN THEISM, A new View of God for a More practical Christianity |
| | Open View Theism is essentially the belief that Because of God's highest attribute, love, He leaves the future partly "open" to the free agents He has created. | | | This view of God allows for Christians to believe in God in such a manner as they already live out in their devotional lives. | | | But the Partially-Settled View (Open View Theism) does not detract from God's knowledge for He still knows whatever is settled perfectly. |
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http://stu.westga.edu/~cbost1/openviewtheism.html
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| | Marginal Revolution: Theism versus Evolution |
| | All Religion for this reason is inherently pseudoscientific and obtrusive to science. | | | It's not a question of choosing between God and evolution -- it's a question of choosing between faith and reason, religion and science. | | | Indeed, the largest Christian sect, Cathoicism, even says that there is no conflict between the scientific view of evolution and their faith doctrines. |
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http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2005/06/theism_versus_e.html
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| | open theism |
| | The theological movement known as open theism is shaking the church today, challenging the doctrines of God's sovereignty, foreknowledge, and providence. | | | In recent years the movement known as open theism has claimed to be a more biblical and more practical alternative to the traditional view. | | | In this book, Bruce Ware carefully and systematically refutes both those claims, showing that the traditional view better handles the biblical evidence and the issues of Christian living, while better preserving the glory of God. |
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http://www.jude3.net/open_theism.htm
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| | Open theism |
| | Open theism, also known as free will theism and openness, is the teaching that God does not know all things. | | | That is, He does not know the free will choices that people will make in the future because God either chooses not to know or because the future isn't knowable. | | | Things you might hear the God of open theism say |
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http://www.carm.org/open.htm
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| | Open Theism Information Site |
| | Openness Theology (commonly referred to as Open Theism and Free Will Theism) connects with the spirituality of many Christians throughout the history of the church especially when it comes to prayer. | | | After reading my The God Who Risks, Polkinghorne wrote to me saying that he only disagreed with me on one item: he said that God would never override a human’s freewill. | | | directory Directory of "open theism friendly" churches, pastors, scholars and leaders of Christian organizations. |
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http://www.opentheism.info
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| | Foreknowledge & Open Theism |
| | This is a list, by category, of Scriptural verses used by Open Theists to support their position that God does not know all things. | | | One of the leading spokesman of open theism, Clark Pinnock, in describing how libertarian freedom trumps God's omniscience says, "Decisions not yet made do not exist anywhere to be known even by God. | | | Evangelical Theological Society rejects 'open theism,' affirms God's foreknowledge By Russell D. Moore |
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http://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/articles/topic/foreknowledge.html
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| | Glossary Definition: Theism |
| | For this reason, theism proclaims a dualistic relation between God and the world, wherein God is a being who controls events from outside of the human world. | | | The main question theism raises is whether God should be seen only as | | | (Theism: Longer definition) Theism states that the existence and continuance of the universe is owed to one supreme Being, who is distinct from Creation. |
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http://www.pbs.org/faithandreason/theogloss/theism-body.html
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| | Welcome to Sean's Blog: Open Theism |
| | It certainly doesn't arise easily out of classical theism, but I think it can arise farily easily out of scripture. | | | It does not arise easily or unforcedly out of natural biblical exegesis or classical theism (God = omniscient, omnipotent, transcendent i.e. | | | Sanders argues that classical theism is something of a corruption of the biblical God. |
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http://seandoherty.blogs.com/welcome_to_seans_blog/2005/06/open_theism.html
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| | pleaseconvinceme.com: Theism |
| | While not a proof that God exists, belief has a real impact on our world! | | | 'But if both positions are possible, why should I even consider believing in God (the position of theism)?' | | | The Probability of Theism - Reasoning the Nature of God |
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http://www.pleaseconvinceme.com/module_single.php?moduleName=Theism&moduleID=85
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| | The Skeptical Theism Website |
| | The Miracle of Theism: Arguments For and Against the Existence of God | | | Does God Exist?: The Debate Between Theists and Atheists (with J. Moreland) | | | The Anthropic Coincidences, Evil and the Disconfirmation of Theism |
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http://www.freeinquiry.com/skeptic/theism
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| | Theism on the Web |
| | Jordan Howard Sobel, Logic and Theism: Arguments for and against Beliefs in God, 2004 | | | Nevertheless, because so many of the arguments and concepts are similar, we group here together many web resources for theism by analogy to those for dualism. | | | Jitse M. van der Meer, The Struggle Between Christian Theism, Metaphysical Naturalism And Relativism |
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http://www.newdualism.org/webtheism.htm
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| | Process Theology, Process Theism |
| | Ogden argued that the "new theism" of process thought, with its world-affirming emphasis, expresses the relevance of Christian faith to secular man, who needs an ultimate ground for his "ineradicable confidence" in the final worth of human existence. | | | In opposition to classical theism, then, Hartshorne develops his "neoclassical" theism in which perfection is understood to mean that God is unsurpassable in social relatedness. | | | Cobb showed how Whiteheadian philosophy can be the basis of a new Christian natural theology, a theology which by philosophical means demonstrates that the peculiar vision of the Christian community of faith illuminates the general experience of mankind. |
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http://mb-soft.com/believe/txn/process.htm
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| | Cognitive Theism |
| | It explains why there was something rather than nothing, it enables access to truth, it provides an ontological basis for values which can be embodied by human beings, and it explains why the world is intelligible. | | | Professor Torrance concluded that academia is rent between the mutually incompatible fideisms of naturalism and creative anti-realism. | | | Christian Theism's explanatory power should not be underestimated. |
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http://www.theisticscience.org/philosophy/torrance.htm
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| | New Theism |
| | While theism is logically distinct from a simple dualism, the philosophical issues are very similar as I mentioned previously. | | | The ideas of 'generalised dualism' or 'discrete degrees' may be applied to the possible understanding of the dualism of the divine and nature within a fully-fledged theism. | | | A philosophical archive for the constructive study of ontological dualism: www.newdualism.org. |
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http://www.newdualism.org/newtheism.htm
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| | Open Theism Discussion Board |
| | To help you find your way around the forum and it's features, please view the help documentation. | | | If this is your visit to the Open Theism Discussion Board you will need to register before you will be allowed to post on the forum, but you are free to browse the forums by selecting from the listing below. |
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