For Pete's sake, it states it right there - WHOM HE DID PREDESTINATE. What is your problem, are you so anti-Calvinist that it blinds you?
God's foreknowledge of the future, of all who would be saved, was in His mind. He is sovereign, knows all, so why would you limit his knowledge of anyone. He had a specific design of every single organism, down to the DNA, and allowed for sin to distort each and every cell or every organism and knew exactly what would prevail. Christ died for our sins before we were born. Can you grasp that? No. What do believe, that He didn't know the sins of the future generations or how it would all pan out? His plan is precise. Nobody can mess up His perfect plan. His foreknowledge contains all history up to this point and beyond to the New Heaven and New Earth. Otherwise, prophesy could never pan out as it has with hair-splitting accuracy. We can't conceive what God does as He does for several reasons: He is omniscient and we aren't. But also, He lives outside of our time domain, in a spiritual realm that we cannot understand. He is not confined to time as we know it so it is hard for us to understand. Calvin was wrong btw, he tried to explain how salvation works by putting God into a box. That was high minded, beyond his ability and ours. TULIP is flawed. Nevertheless, it is not totally false, there are parts of it that are true. Predestination is Biblical, it's just mysterious and we should leave it at that.
TULIP is flawed. Nevertheless, it is not totally false, there are parts of it that are true.
There of course are some true parts; however, the modern OSAS version foreknowing is a direct degenerate descendant of flawed predestination doctrine.
For Pete's sake, it states it right there - WHOM HE DID PREDESTINATE. What is your problem, are you so anti-Calvinist that it blinds you?
God did not
predetermine who He would dwell in, but only
what whom He dwells in would be conformed to: whom He
predestinated to be conformed to the image of His dear Son.
Who is foreknown, but whom He foreknew is predestinated to be conformed to
what, by commandment of God:
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Seeing only
whom is predestined, without being
predestined to what, is the error of OSAS today, which I do not believe Calvin intended, when he made up a flawed teaching of who is predestined, rather than
what is predestined for them He foreknew.
His flaw of predestination
of who comes from His flaw teaching of
how God foreknows who.
God's foreknowing is not predetermining who would and who would not, but is by the omniscience of the Word to have already watched and seen all things come to pass from high above all heavens: the timeless place of God's omnipotence and being.
Properly understanding
how God foreknow who, leads to properly understand
what He predestines for whosoever that believes from the heart.
God's foreknowledge of the future, of all who would be saved, was in His mind.
How it came to be in His mind is the mystery of the Word that was in the beginning with God and was God,
seeing all things from on high come to pass, even as they came to pass in heaven and earth.
The flaw is the carnal mind thinking God predetermined who would be saved, by
making that determination in His mind alone: God doesn't just
think things to come to pass.
He already knows the end, because He has already watched the end, and so foreknew it from the beginning, not because He already
prethinked the end: We are not just the
imagination of God's mind being made into reality.
We are not the video of God mind's made flesh, no more than Jesus Christ was created n the mind of 'Jehovah' and then made flesh.
He foreknows and so foresees, as the Scripture says (Gal 3:8), because He
has seen and watched all things come to pass:
Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.
And so the Word being with God from the beginning, is
how God foreknew and foresaw who would and who would not: Not because He
predetermined who in His mind.
Predestination is Biblical, it's just mysterious and we should leave it at that.
It is not predestination of Scripture that is at all mysterious: What all believers are predestined to be conformed to by commandment of Scripture, which is the image of His dear Son, and is His righteousness and true holiness. There is no mystery about that, except of course for the
mystery of iniquity, with them that say they believe Him, yet do not believe they must obey Him even as He is righteous, and thus be conformed to His image.
The mystery from the beginning of the foundation of the world, is
how God foreknew all things in creation from beginning to end,
at the beginning of it all:
Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.
The testimony of Jesus Christ is all things
He has already seen in all creation from beginning to end, and so God with Him in the beginning foreknew it all: The Word
scoped it all out as it came to pass.
For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
Because He has seen all things already come to pass,
while yet even watching at this time, His testimony of all things from beginning to the end, is therefore the spirit of prophecy, which He has written in Scripture for us to read and believe as true. He knows it is true,
because He saw it happen even as it happens.
He has not written in Scripture
all His testimony of all things He has already seen, because that would be those books the world itself could not contain. He has however written for us in Scripture by prophecy, all things needed for believers to answer His predestinated call to be saints and obtain eternal salvation.
And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
Our brethren in Christ that are now in heaven, now know all things from beginning to end, because they now have all the testimony Christ which He saw from beginning to end from on high:
For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
And the rebuke of Scripture for us today on earth is not to fall into worshipping knowledge, as the Gnostics of old, not even all knowledge, but only to worship God, for knowledge in part is with us now, and all knowledge shall be for us having all the testimony of Jesus Christ, but without God Himself living within us, we are nothing:
And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
God did not
predetermine who He would dwell in, but only
what whom He dwells in would be conformed to: whom He
predestinated to be conformed to the image of His dear Son.
