“In C.S.Lewis’ Narnia Chronicles, Aslan, the fierce but loving lion,represents Christ the ‘wild, not tame lion, both good and fearsome. ‘People who have not been in Narnia sometimes think a thing cannot be good and terrible at the same time.’That same basic false assumption was the starting point for the heresy of Open Theism. New-model theologians  (Pinnock, Boyd,et al) begin with the assumption that the God of the Bible could not be good and terrible at the same time, so they set out to divest Him of whatever attributes they didn’t like. Like Socinians and liberals (processists) who preceded them, they are on a misguided quest to make God ‘good’ according to humanistic, earthbound definition of ‘good’, devising a deity of their own making. In the final book of Narnia series, a wicked ape drapes a lion skin over a witless jackass and pretends it to be Aslan, a sinister and dangerous pretense leading countless Narnians astray. The deity of Open theism is like the jackass in an ill-fitting lion’s skin,l eading many sincere seekers away from the glorious Son of God of Scripture. God is both good and fearsome (’Consider the kindness and sternness/severity of God’-Ro.11:22).His wrath is just as real as His love, His fur as real as His fangs, His cuddliness as real as His claws.”

-John MacArthur

(From:  Bound Only Once  Canon Press ©2001))