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FOREKNOWLEDGE noun awareness of something before it happens or exists You're missing the point. "Fore" means before, but it doesn't mean that God exists within any before-and-after context where the things of God and the things of this world exist on the same timeline. Unlike this world God...

Haha! So goes the discussion...but in God's reality--the only reality, Time is simply the [created] means by which God incrementally reveals His preconceived will from start to finish, "but each one in his own order." "Then come the end" (of time). "It is finished." "Seven days and then He...

You are not hearing even yourself. If God knew us (past tense), it is because we were (past tense) available for Him to know us then (past tense). It's all past tense--except our knowing and it being revealed to us. If you don't yet know it...perhaps a little longer.

That is not how it works. Here is how it actually works: Jeremiah 1:5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.” Psalm 139:15-16 When my bones were being formed, carefully put together in my mother's womb, when...

UNDERSTANDING FREEWILL: Regarding the issue of "freewill", the confusion is due to our not clearly understanding the context difference between time and eternity, leaving most to believe that freewill is relative to our living in time. It's not, but is instead relative to eternity. Why is that...

Thanks for joining in. But the greater issue that freewill only fits into, is understanding eternity vs. time and the terminology used to describe their interface. In other words, if we only consider the matter from our timeline perspective, we only have the smaller half of the information.

Such a thing can only exist on a timeline. But good, that's you considering the matter from your own perspective. But the issue is not limited to the timeline perspective of mankind, because the idea of "freewill" comes from God...because here on this timeline we are at least seemingly given a...

Your thinking and guessing (your words) shows that you are relying on your understanding. And refusing to consider what is beyond your understanding, is a self-imposed limitation. One last question...walk with me: How does eternity fit into time? PS, @Wrangler please feel free to join in.

The point is, there is no such thing as "foreknowledge." But if you are not able to comprehend this "same yesterday, today, and forever" truth--never mind. You're not ready.

No, that's backwards. God does not "foreknow" the matters of men in their times according to the ways of this world, but it is rather man and the world that only know what they know according to this world, which is only a small and limited part of the greater whole and complete knowledge of God...

Yes, the emphasis really should be to understand and respect that we have but one unity and it is being our own part(s) of Him, which is the very thing that makes us One--one new man in Christ, but otherwise a body of many (different) members.

It is best to consider past, present, and future tense with a grain of salt. It is better as followers of Christ to begin to consider all things as God does: "the same yesterday, today, and forever" (by the renewing of our mind).

I do get your point... I suppose it is the result of our nature and being weak in the flesh that sees our being different members of the same body competitively and with rivalry. Too many Martha's. :(

The call is not to surrender to each other, but rather to surrender to God and the only actual unity that is His.

This is another defining point of Paul's comment, saying, "but each one in his own order"...which only eludes to all that his comment entails. In other words, yes, each generation, and yes, those of old and those of these times following the coming of Christ each are spoken to--as it is with...

The difference that God wants us to understand is that not having created us in His own omnipresent setting, but in this setting where if a change of presence is to occur, one needs to go or take that action--we must change, and be willing to leave behind this lesser world. Another way to look...

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"Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened." Matthew 7:7-8

God gave His reason for creating humans in the beginning by creating man in His own image, saying, "the man should not be alone." Which was not fully elaborated or clear until the idea of a Bride and Groom and the marriage of Christ with the Church was said to be "as Christ is head of the...

While much of that is true, it should be noted as only being a partial list, and yet [Christianity] could be defined even more simply, as follows: Christianity by its simplest definition means: A follower of Christ (which does not assume that one is saved merely by following, but requires...