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There are plenty to be had. I've got a used one I don't use anymore.

That isn't what he is claiming. He believes only Christ is foreknown.

Speculation makes for a weak case as well.

You believe God predestined Jesus to be conformed to Himself?

Your whole post wreaked of pride. Do what you will with what I shared.

Wrong. Read the text. Whom He foreknew are the same as those being conformed to the image of His Son.

Yes, as odd as that may sound. I can't explain how that works, but I believe that is what scripture teaches.

Jesus isn't the only One foreknown of God. Read Romans 8:29. God isn't conforming Jesus to the image of Himself. He is taking those whom He foreknew in Christ and conforming them to the image of His Son.

What has this got to do with anything I wrote?

You're missing the point. It isn't that God isn't omniscient. He is. But knowledge biblically isn't factual knowledge, but experiential knowledge. It's the difference between knowing about something through the intellect and knowing something through experiencing it. Before I met my wife in...

I said nothing about saving ourselves. I said biblical knowledge isn't intellectual knowledge, but experiential knowledge. Thus, foreknowledge is not what God knows about, but who He has intimate experience of. Those for whom such foreknowledge is present, these are in Christ.

Not at all. He believes foreknowledge is what God knows and not who God knows.

We were chosen in Him before the foundation of the world. You can try to wiggle around the verse, but it says what it says. And you can try to say knowledge isn't intimacy, but it also is what it is.

Biblical knowing has nothing to do with conscious knowledge. It has to do with intimate relationship. Example...Adam knew His wife. Example...eternal life is knowing God. Thus, foreknowledge has nothing to do with God's awareness of future events. It is concerning relationship established...

I had a vision on Patmos. John got the good vision. I got this one.

No. It was actually a sculpture of the 2 of you playing with fire or something.

I saw your portrait with Moses.

You should know...you were there.

Romans 6:17 speaks of new covenant believers...they obeyed from the heart the form of doctrine which was delivered to them.

He wants a higher horse.