My reaction to Open Theism

My response to Open Theism is based upon its proposition that: God is not timeless, but rather God is ‘passible’ or ‘moved’.

Does God change in time? God is “changing in relation to us” (Openness of God), but rather “I the LORD do not change.“ (Malachi 3:6), and “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever“ (Hebrews 13:8). The Open Theism statement has God changing, but rather it is the relation that changes with regard to us, based on our sin nature. The relation changes, not God. (Seems finicky, but it is important!) 

But what about God’s emotive responses? Open Theism reacts to a misunderstanding, thinking that God being unchanging and impassible requires God to be without passions or emotions. Rather, ”God is always active, always dynamic, always relational. … He cannot change because he cannot possibly be any more loving, or any more just, or any more good. God cares for us, but it is not a care subject to spasms or fluctuations of intensity. His kindness is not capable of being diminished or augmented” (DeYoung). 

So we impact him and his emotions? “God… lets what we do impact him” (Openness of God). No, God cannot be moved, “Emotions do no not just happen to him, such that he is forced to act in a certain way in order to make himself happier or change his mood from bad to good. God is completely free” (DeYoung).  He DOES feel differently toward different things, but he is the unchanging God, always righteous, good, happy, just loving, etc. He cannot be affected, nor suffer. This is why Jesus became a man, so that he could share in the suffering, thus being the perfect sacrifice and a merciful high priest (Hebrews 2).    

From what I understand, science supports this. Time cannot exist apart from matter, and God is not made of matter, thus He is without time, and cannot change, since change requires a succession of states within time. I do not hold to this argument as my foundation, but it makes sense to me.