26 Хитоси Очиаи. Открытый Бог, открытое многообразие OPEN GOD, OPEN MANIFOLD Hitoshi Ochiai God regrets. God regrets that which he has wrought when it does not comply with his will. God cannot carry out his original intentions counter to the free will of his creations, including Man. The future of the world is determined by its relationship not just with God’s will but with the will of his creations, starting with Man. God opens the future of the world not just to himself but to his creations, starting with Man. This idea of an “open God” is called “Open Theism” and was the view of God arrived at around the end of the 20th century by the largest Christian group in the United States, the evangelicals.(1) God is open. God cannot determine the future of the world by his will alone. This open theology conflicts head on with the traditional, closed theology of God that considered him the omnipotent and the final arbiter of the future of the world. However, the traditional creed of Christianity, that God became incarnate as a man, was hung on the cross to die in suffering, and was resurrected three days later, and that we humans too will be resurrected after death, seems to assume the traditional theology that God is omnipotent. For example, the Nicene Creed, on which the Christian creed is based, starts with a profession of faith that God is all-powerful, and then professes the incarnation of God, the passion of God, and the resurrection of God, as well as the resurrection of mankind. Open theology denies the profession of omnipotence at the start of the Nicene Creed, so must show that it is itself conformable with the other parts of the creed: namely, the incarnation and passion of God and the resurrection of the dead. Whether open theology can be logically consistent with these fundamental creeds of Christianity is the focus of this paper. Therefore this paper will map the open God onto an open manifold. By considering the open manifold as an image of the open God, we can show that the incarnation of the open God and the resurrection of mankind sans flesh also have images in the manifold, and demonstrate that there is a logical consistency in the open God and incarnation and resurrection. By considering the open manifold without boundaries as the image of the open God, the compact manifold as the image of the incarnation of God, and the open manifold with boundaries as the image of the resurrection of the dead, we can map a logically consistent relationship between the open God and incarnation / resurrection in the form of the mutual relationship among the manifolds. The Open God: the Open Manifold without Boundaries God regrets. I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created … for I regret that I have made them. (Genesis 6:7) God regrets that his creation, Man, does not comply with his will. This is the prelude to Noah’s flood. However, God sometimes reconsiders the disaster that he threatens.
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