And when you foreknow his design, will you let him overcome?
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Precisely how it will be distributed it is impossible to foreknow.
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First, the short answer to the question whether God can foreknow contingent events is no.
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We are not wholly certain as to whether or not God chooses to foreknow events of sin.
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Whom God did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son.
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In short, if one can foreknow what a comparison will reveal, telepathy before the comparison is unproven.
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Whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate, to be conformed to the image of his Son.
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Besides, how came it to pass that this prophet did not foreknow his own death at the first?
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For my calling or duty may lead me into the presence of those, that I may foreknow will sin.
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He was a predictor, using his occult gift of second sight to foreknow events and tell The Leader about them.
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The essence of religion lies in the power of man to foreknow and to point out the way in which mankind must walk.
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But God could not foreknow, say some, how a free moral agent would act, unless he had first determined how he should act!
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For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn.
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Paul believed that God can choose, foreknow, and predestine an elect people to final salvation even though individual members can fall away due to unbelief (cf. Romans 11). Some elect may apostatize, perhaps even most, but never all.Paul and Apostasy, 209; on Romans 8:28-11:36 see Oropeza Jews, Gentiles, and the Opponents of Paul, 171-199.
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William Lane Craig states that the question subdivides into two: # If God foreknows the occurrence of some event E, does E happen necessarily? # If some event E is contingent, how can God foreknow E’s occurrence? However, this kind of argument fails to recognize its use of the modal fallacy. It is possible to show that the first premise of arguments like these is fallacious.
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I neither believe nor disbelieve the > qualities which many attribute to Him; before theologians' and philosophers' > definitions and lucubrations of this ineffable and inscrutable being I find > myself smiling. Faced with the conviction of seeing myself confronting the > supreme Problem, which confused voices seek to explain to me, I cannot but > reply: ‘It could be’; but the God that I foreknow is far more grand, far > more good: Plus Supra!...I believe in (revelation); but not in revelation or > revelations which each religion or religions claim to possess. Examining > them impartially, comparing them and scrutinizing them, one cannot avoid > discerning the human 'fingernail' and the stamp of the time in which they > were written... No, let us not make God in our image, poor inhabitants that > we are of a distant planet lost in infinite space.
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