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God's foreknowledge knows what is to come, as = what will happen next., regarding everything that has ever happened or will happen next.

This does not mean God causes it...it only means that God knows the beginning from the end of all things, all situations.
= Foreknowledge.

John Calvin could never understand this at all, and created a demonic theology that has God choosing some for hell and creating evil that breaks all the Law and Commandments.

Now, God, does not exist in TIME, as God has no beginning and no end.... but we do exist in time as God created us to exist within a time frame that starts and will stop.....and this Earth and much that is written in the Bible, is created to happen "in Time", and that is happening all the time.

TIME = where we exist as spiritual beings in an Earth Suit.... has a Beginning, and an Ending. Hebrews 9:27 suggests that your death has an appointed time.

God's Foreknowledge... saw all that would happen when He Created Lucifer and Man, knowing that Lucifer would end up on the Earth and so would Adam.
God's Foreknowledge, prepared for the eventual fall of man, by taking full responsibility for the fall of man. And that is the CROSS of CHRIST.
God knowing that Adam would rebel, is not God causing Adam to rebel. God knowing that Satan was a murderer from the beginning and the Father of Lies is not God causing Him to be so.
God knowing you would be reading this Thread and deciding what you think about it, is your free will choice, and not God causing you to do it.

Jesus is : 1 Timothy 3:16. on the Cross, dying for the sin of the world........taking full responsibility for Creation, and the Fall.
This is : REDEMPTION.... .Salvation.
This does not mean that God caused the fall.......it means that God created man, and understood that giving man divine free will (We are made in God's image).... would lead to a situation that He would have to resolved as Jesus on the Cross.
God knew from the beginning ...FOREKNOWLEDGE..... that He would send His Only Begotten Son to die on the Cross to resolve the fall of us all., so, The Word became one of us to save all of us who will come to the Cross and receive "the Gift of Salvation".

Before you were born, God knew you would be born. But God didnt cause your parent to produce you, Yet He KNEW you would arrive, and He KNEW if you are going to trust in Christ or not. = Foreknowledge. Which is to know all= BEFORE it happens.

Now, the entire bible, is God's account of all of that is happening, and including what is Yet to come.

Why is the bible here?
To show you The Love of God, The Righteousness of God, the Omnipotence of God and the Beautiful Salvation of God that is The Cross of Christ.
And , to prove God's existence based on the Bible showing you what is going to happen before you lived and what will happen next, after you are gone from this earth.
The Holy Bible is the only book that can do this, perfectly.

See all that?
That is PROPHECY......and all of God Foreknowledge as Prophecy.... is actually the pages of the Bible coming to pass, and God did it this way to Prove the Truth of His word..... and prove His Eternal Existence., = and give us a way to go to heaven, as this WAY is found in the Bible. John 14:6

John 14:6 : is the only "Way" to heaven.
 
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