Open Theism: Theological view claiming that some of the traditional attributes ascribed to God by classical theism should be either rejected or reinterpreted. Advocates typically reject the claim that God is timelessly eternal in favor of seeing God as everlasting, and they believe that though God’s essential character is immutable, God changes in some ways so as to respond appropriately to a changing creation. Most controversially, open theists typically hold that God’s foreknowledge is limited, because of the limitations he has placed upon himself in giving humans free will. Open theists argue that their position is more consistent with the biblical picture of God than is classical theism, which they claim distorted the biblical picture because of Greek philosophical concepts of perfection. Critics charge that open theism does not do justice to divine sovereignty. Open theism has some similaties to process theology, but the differences are significant: methodologically, open theists are committed to a high view of biblical authority; and substantively, they accept the concept of God as a personal agent as well as the miraculous events of the Bible, which are typically rejected by process theologians. Open theists, unlike process theologians, have no particular reason to challenge the traditional conceptual scheme of substances that have properties, some of them essential.1
1 C. Stephen Evans, Pocket Dictionary of Apologetics & Philosophy of Religion (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2002), p. 85-86.
The Bible has always been in question and the facts mentioned in it are more often questioned. There are people who believe in the existence of God while there are some who do not, both the sect of the people have their own beliefs. This is indeed a good explanation about the term “Theism”, which is often misunderstood.