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Pinnock, Sanders and Boyd all argue that evangelicalism is a big enough tent to include open theism, with Pinnock simply saying, "There is room for us."

I fully agree.

The Southern Baptist Convention has twice rejected open theism. The revised Baptist Faith and Message, passed in 2000, says that God's "perfect knowledge extends to all things, past, present, and future, including the future decisions of His free creatures." In 1999 convention messengers passed a resolution with similar language that was presented by Southern Seminary President R. Albert Mohler Jr.

The soundness of Southern Baptists emerges. I suppose we're just not imaginative enough to believe that God inspired books of prophecy to be written prior to their fulfillment if God did not know and plan the very precise and unusual details of their fulfillment from the foundations of the world.

It's actually difficult for me to imagine how the open theists can even read the Bible. Entire portions would simply disappear in the confusion. I suspect these people are theologians of the same variety as the Jesus Seminar blasphemers.