Many people claim to believe in predestination, but with the qualification that God "knew" who would choose him and who wouldn't, so those were the ones he chose to save. First off, this idea seeks to play with a PC God, one who delivers out judgement to the unworthy, but redemption to the worthy. This has too high a view of man (all sinned and fallen short of God's glory) and too low a view of God (his Will dependent on our choice). Outside of that issue, the word "foreknew" always gave me a bit of a hangup. I knew that my salvation was not dependent on my choice to accept God or not (and thank heaven for that!). In a technical sense the choice was mine, but by the very definition I don't put too much stock in my "choice" (one cannot resisist the irrisistable after all).
It wasn't until my Junior year Theology class that it was explained why I was having such a quandry. the word used for "knew" or "knowing" means knowledge, but in the "Biblical sense" (i.e. Adam "knew" his wife and she conceived). Fore, obviously means prior to, or before. For those God foreknew, he also predestined. For those God chose to love, he also predestined. Thank God his choice didn't depend on mine.
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heck to the yes
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