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| There's nothing you can do; God's decree and foreknowledge need no reconciling. |
December
5, 2013
https://www.facebook.com/sing.f.lau/posts/10201105434853489
A theologian demanded: “How does one reconcile God’s decree and foreknowledge?”
A
student of God's word responded: What
a weird, impudent question!
Why
do you even need to reconcile God's infinitely wise actions? You are assuming
that they are contradictory... and need reconciling!!! What blasphemous
thought, or what confusion, otherwise!
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(Brett Noll made many comments... but has deleted them all.)
Sing
F Lau
Tell
us what is your definition of God's foreknowledge.
Sing
F Lau
Why
answer your question when you can't tell me how you use the term "God's
foreknowledge"? I fear your idea of God's foreknowledge is anti-biblical.
And that's the reason for your question!
Your
last question betrays that fable! It is an imbecilic idea that God's creatures
affected God's decree. The same idea that God's activities need reconciling.
No,
it is God's decrees that affected God's creatures!
Rom
8:29 "For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed
to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many
brethren."
1Pe
1:2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through
sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of
Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
Sing
F Lau
Let
me spell out for you what you did not want to say:
You
understand "God's foreknowledge" as God's knowledge of His creature
beforehand.
The
Scriptures usage of "God's foreknowledge" as God's act of setting His
electing love upon His creature before time.
Your wrong understanding gives rise to your misguided rhetorical question!!!
Sing
F Lau
God
foreknew PERSONS... WHOM WHOM WHOM... not things or actions about them.
Elementary!
Sing
F Lau
You
take "God's foreknowledge" as His knowing beforehand what will
happen in the future and that as the basis of His predestination. That's a
fable foreign to the Scriptures. The
object of foreknowledge is PEOPLE, the elect.
Linda
Lancaster
God
knows everything, past, present and future SIng.
Sing
F Lau
That's
true, but that's not the point.
Did He predestinate you based on what He knew about you beforehand??? Don't be woolly! Woolliness is not a virtue!
Charles
Page
What
Brett is propagating is really foolish and he doesn't see it. There can be no
grace from god by what he says (he is related by blood kin to John MacArthur
and worships kin folk)
If
you fail to distinguish a man from his actions then you have a God who loves
good men and hates bad men. What is worse this idea did not proceed from God
but from man! The man who devises this belief is an enemy of God. He asserts
himself as sovereign over deity!
The
love of God is the mind behind election. It is an unconditional election. Man
is not loved because he is a saint nor a sinner but a person with nothing but a
personal name. He is neither saint nor sinner. There is the fact of sin in the
picture and for that reason Christ was the lamb slain from before the
foundations of the world was laid.
But what Brett's family want to do is define the elect after their own likeness. They are good and God has to love good people therefore people of faith are the ones God will elect. <LOL> God really pokes fun at that argument by loving Jacob and hating Esau! Jacob by his own admission before Pharoah was a dispicable man and that is something I don't hear MacA or his Johnson saying.
Charles
Page
Brett,
MacArthur says this: "The Bible affirms human responsibility right
alongside the doctrine of divine sovereignty. Moreover, the offer of mercy in
the gospel is extended to all alike. Isaiah 55:1 and Revelation 22:17 call
"whosoever will" to be … See more
Charles
Page
So,
MacArthur is saying they are still saved though they sin willfully and not by
compulsion? That would be consistent with unconditional election!
An
act of mercy would mean that he shows mercy on even the willful sinner who is
elect? correct?
Charles
Page
so
MacA doesn't require evidence of saving faith to be elect? correct?
Charles
Page
trying
to do! I did it, and successfully! like a skilled provocateur!
Sing
F Lau
Brett
Noll is joined to his idols! <LOL>
Sing
F Lau
Why
don't you stick to the subject...
tell
us why you need to reconcile God's decree and foreknowledge?
