The confusion is your Calvinism. You believe God saw you in his mind choosing God before your parents even existed, before Adam sinned ect and predestinated you in his mind to cause you to believe after you were born ,after you sinned ,sent you partial regeneration of some sort ,enabling you to make a choice which you said yes and the rest is history. This is not biblical. Its nonsense that came from Augustine.
Lordship salvation vs. "easy believism"
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You’re talking about knowing (γινωσκω) I am talking about foreknowledge ( προγινωσκω).
Not at all the same thing.
Why are you obsessed with the assumption of what you know God must know ? It doesn't do anything for man . Its his perspective. It doesn't help us unless you believe knowing is causative?
Believing that God has perfect foreknowledge and knowledge is not Calvinistic.
If you think that, you don’t understa
Are you sure about that?
Presuming you know even 25% of Gods ways , thoughts, attributes is hubris in the extreme.
1 John 2:18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
Yes, we can learn a lot from 1 John about the Tribulation period, where salvation is indeed not just believing, but you also need to obey the commandments.
So if you don't subscribe to the pre-trib rapture of the Body of Christ, his instructions contained in 1 John, regarding how to be righteous will be very relevant information.
It’s the difference between a God who is forced to react all the time based on the cards that fate has dealt Him, and a God that knows all things and therefore is perfect in knowledge and wisdom and works all things after the council of His own will.
How does God give prophecy if He doesn’t have a perfect foreknowledge of the future?
So its just about your thoughts on God's perspective ? Thats ok . So you agree from our perspective it doesn't do anything?
1 John 2:18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
Yes, we can learn a lot from 1 John about the Tribulation period, where salvation is indeed not just believing, but you also need to obey the commandments.
So if you don't subscribe to the pre-trib rapture of the Body of Christ, his instructions contained in 1 John, regarding how to be righteous will be very relevant information.
the epistles of John are not just for the tribulation period. They are relevant in every era of Christianity.
Again what does that do for us ? We could establish this is God's sign and know this is not the devil for example. it confirms his reality and position. A test of prophet is this standard for example .
God’s knowledge is of no benefit to us? That’s a strangethought. My phone is about to die, but I’ll respond later
Depends on your view of the rapture and the tribulation. Would you agree that scripture is needed for all periods ?