Greg Boyd: Is God to Blame?

[@ChaLy-r4d]

If the results of prayer or the authority of Jesus are so hit and miss to be no different than randomness how significant can they be?

[@dfromcool]

Thanks so much for posting this! I wasn't able to make it to Fresno,

[@chamomiletea9562]

I do believe this and have had experiences is my own life which affirm this world view. I am perhaps an Anabaptist Christian even though there are no standing churches in my area.

[@jasensargent6176]

I think that is just the channel name. Im not sure if the preacher is an anabaptist.

[@EE-zd6xh]

@@jasensargent6176 Yes, he is although the church he founded/pastors Woodland Hills in Minnesota is non-denom.

[@dominiclapinta8537]

Yeah, but Jesus wasnt traditional in His day, that is, to those who got God wrong. Been reading the book... FINALLY, more people are getting it. I personally look back to satan, the tree, and adam and eve. For the answer to the problem of evil. I dont erase those in my mind and insert God. I look to the source of where and why it was allowed. And since the Scriptures tell us that God is not a God where evil dwells with, then the problem of evil is not a God source.

[@fcastellanos57]

This is an old video from Greg. About love and free will, I want to ask him if God Loves by choice or if God loves because that is His nature. I would say God loves because that is His nature. And also, is God free? Or does He have free will? God cannot sin or hate in the same sense as humans hate. So, to love does not necessitate the possibility to do otherwise. God wants us to accept Him because we have seen His goodness and also we know the consequences of disobeying His call, Love comes later, since Love is a fruit of the Spirit. No one comes to God loving Him but submitting to Him because of what God has shown us in Jesus Christ. Yes, we make the decision to follow Jesus not because we love Him but because what He has promised to us and the consequences of rejecting this offering.

[@Copperline828]

I go for the God is free position. No way to know for sure but when reading the old testament I see a God who learns new things and has new experiences. It changes Him. In order to change you must be Free.

[@simflier8298]

I thought I was getting it but Im still confused. We know so many people that needed miracles for sickness and still died with prayer chains going. If God could stop the sun like in Joshua 10:12-14, why couldnt He just simply perform a supernatural miracle out of mercy all the time? Why do so many variables have to be completed? How do you explain covering all the bases yet they still dont receive. Not every miracle performed by Jesus was done because of their faith. He also showed mercy. My only rest and hope is that there's heaven when we die. Otherwise it seems like its been hit or miss.

[@joshuab2437]

Obey the Law of Christ, live completely free of sin, and then YHWH will do miracles when you ask, and He will answer your prayers.

[@inTruthbyGrace]

@@joshuab2437 oh really? Is that what Jesus says to those He heals? "come back when you quit sinning and I'll see what I can do"?? Or have you ever read what Paul says about tribulation and infirmity? and who is YHWH? Jesus never said that name (John 17:6) was He lying? He said Eli and Father and Theos (God) but never ever ever YHWH, that name was not used by Him, a single apostle, or the the early church, ever... so where are you getting your info?

[@zach2980]

All dinosaurs were vegetarians? 😂 Even my 4 year old daughter gave me “the look” at this concept. Although I appreciate his highlighting of Luther’s vile views, a man who I hear quoted quite a lot to this day. All else was equivalent to ruminations on fairies at the bottom of the garden. Atheism simplies this theodicy drastically.

[@Anonymouslives]

Matthew 28:18 ‘And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.’ Clearly satan does NOT have all power on earth, The resurrected Christ unequivocally states as fact HE has it! Boyd also does NOT seem to remember that it was The Lord who flooded the earth, it was The Lord who destroyed sodom and Gomorrah, that The Lord brought judgement on Israel against the Assyrians, Babylonians and Romans. Boyd seems to make a bigger satan and a smaller God. However we want to philosophize things, it is God ultimately who has all power, all knowledge and is in control of all things.