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- Mon Dec 05, 2016 3:09 pm
- Forum: Calvinism, Arminianism & Open Theism
- Topic: Predestination
- Replies: 15
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Re: Predestination
Yeah I think it makes sense to say he knows all things, but that we have a free will also. However, to throw something else out there: Did God not know where Adam and Eve were in the Garden after they ate from the Tree of Knowledge? When he asked them, "where are you?" Does he anthropomorphize himse...
- Mon Dec 05, 2016 2:02 pm
- Forum: Calvinism, Arminianism & Open Theism
- Topic: Predestination
- Replies: 15
- Views: 15774
Re: Predestination
I wouldn't say foreknowledge makes something inevitable. I don't think that applies to God. He does not coerce. God just knows how people will react to him, his grace, or to what fruit of his spirit/his word is being displayed at any particular time, and what amount of witnessing(through his spirit)...
- Mon Dec 05, 2016 1:47 pm
- Forum: Calvinism, Arminianism & Open Theism
- Topic: Predestination
- Replies: 15
- Views: 15774
Re: Predestination
Word in Blue/Bold is the greek word. Foreknow, verb, προγινώσκω (proginosko): ① to know beforehand or in advance, have foreknowledge (of): “since they have known about me for a long time, if they are willing to testify, that I lived as a Pharisee according to the strictest sect of our religion.” (A...
- Sat Dec 03, 2016 3:13 pm
- Forum: Calvinism, Arminianism & Open Theism
- Topic: Predestination
- Replies: 15
- Views: 15774
Re: Predestination
Yeah I did the Lemma morph search on that Greek word and noticed that verse as well It seems the situation on the understanding of predestination/foreknowledge is unclear not perfectly understood at best The fruit of hard line predestiners/foreknowledgers seems to indicate as well something may be w...
- Fri Dec 02, 2016 11:35 pm
- Forum: Calvinism, Arminianism & Open Theism
- Topic: Predestination
- Replies: 15
- Views: 15774
Re: Predestination
“God has not rejected His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel?” (Romans 11:2, NASB95)
Those whom he foreknew must be those who become conformed the the image of Christ, it seems.
Those whom he foreknew must be those who become conformed the the image of Christ, it seems.
- Fri Dec 02, 2016 11:18 pm
- Forum: Calvinism, Arminianism & Open Theism
- Topic: Predestination
- Replies: 15
- Views: 15774
Re: Predestination
“to do whatever Your hand and Your purpose pre-appointed to occur.” (Acts 4:28, NASB95) “For those whom He foreknew, He also pre-appointed to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren;” (Romans 8:29, NASB95) “and these whom He pre-appointed , He...
- Fri Dec 02, 2016 8:10 pm
- Forum: Calvinism, Arminianism & Open Theism
- Topic: Predestination
- Replies: 15
- Views: 15774
Re: Predestination
Good word study. I was listening to another message by Zac Poonen on Jude where he was talking about how Jude, paraphrase, "was making effort/trying to write to the church about their common salvation, maybe like a book like Romans" "when a more important/urgent need came up to encourage them to ear...
- Fri Dec 02, 2016 10:06 am
- Forum: Calvinism, Arminianism & Open Theism
- Topic: Predestination
- Replies: 15
- Views: 15774
Predestination
"God does not predestine people to heaven or hell. God predestines people to be holy. To be blameless. To be conformed to the image of Christ. No where in the Bible does God say he predestines people to heaven. That may be the outcome. But that's not what the destination says on the "train-ticket"....
- Tue Nov 01, 2016 10:07 pm
- Forum: Anthropology, Hamartiology, Soteriology
- Topic: Hold to repentance
- Replies: 42
- Views: 33811
Re: Hold to repentance
Not that my opinion matters... but for 2 cents... Hey I just go with the early father's who were 1-3 generations from the apostles and other disciples and witnesses I don't think it's a heaven or hell issue... I don't know for sure Of a truth, I perceive that God is no respecter of persons, but in e...
- Tue Nov 01, 2016 7:33 pm
- Forum: Anthropology, Hamartiology, Soteriology
- Topic: Hold to repentance
- Replies: 42
- Views: 33811
Re: Hold to repentance
That's a false doctrine.