I was raised in an arminian free will tradition and made the private jump to open theism at age 20 when arminian doublespeak no longer made sense. this was before hearing the term open theism, or knowing that anyone discussed the topic.
The clincher was the fact that the biblical authors all espouse free will and genuine relationship with God. Its comforting to me that normal christians have always practiced open theism at a grassroots level, cheerfully ignoring the convoluted systematic theologies of controlling elites.
Bizarrely, reading the Dune series by Herbert influenced my change of thought. He helped me concieve of the future as a cloud of undetermined possibilites, similar to the way particles behave at a quantum level. If the future is known in it’s definite particulars, then it is either the present or the past.
God is Open 
Hi Chris,
Really enjoy the blog, please keep it going!
I was raised in an arminian free will tradition and made the private jump to open theism at age 20 when arminian doublespeak no longer made sense. this was before hearing the term open theism, or knowing that anyone discussed the topic.
The clincher was the fact that the biblical authors all espouse free will and genuine relationship with God. Its comforting to me that normal christians have always practiced open theism at a grassroots level, cheerfully ignoring the convoluted systematic theologies of controlling elites.
Bizarrely, reading the Dune series by Herbert influenced my change of thought. He helped me concieve of the future as a cloud of undetermined possibilites, similar to the way particles behave at a quantum level. If the future is known in it’s definite particulars, then it is either the present or the past.