Predestination is misunderstood...

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PaulThomson

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I knew when I answered there was a chance that you might construe my words to mean something other than what I intended or mean. Despite that, I answered anyway. Doubtful I will again.
Grace and peace.
Please clarify your belief then. Which part of my mirroring was wrong and why? I am trying to understand your actual beliefs. If you have communicated imperfectly, you have the option of clarifying.
 

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20 for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything.
1 John 2 20 But you have been anointed by the Holy One and you have all knowledge.
Are Christians exhaustively omniscient regarding the past, present and future then?
 

FollowerofShiloh

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Yes there is a correct teaching thay makes everything fit,

But all we see here is confusion.

The fact that God was letting Adam and Eve walk free before the fall in innocence, and the fact that God was letting them be, does not stop God from being all knowing, @Genez and @Dino246 and @HeIsHere accuse of me heresy.

Simply put Adam and Eve where free, walking in eden with God, in his present time. The fact God didn't know what Adam and Eve had done,

Does not stop God from being all knowing. It just mean they where free

So when your ready to discuss genesis 3 correctly,.let me know.
But God knew they would throw away that freedom so before God ever created Adam and Eve, He already created the Plan to Save them through Jesus.
 

PaulThomson

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How could he pay for all your sins 2000 years ago?

If he does not know all things? You could not be saved.

Now multiply that times billions upon billions of sins of the entire world...

grace and peace ...........
If God imputed to Jesus absolute evil, and handed Jesus over to be treated by men and demons as if He were absolute evil, with God's utter abandonment, there would be no sin that could deserve more suffering and torment than Jesus experienced. Jesus' payment was of perfect quality during His abandonment, not quantity.
 

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1 John 2 20 But you have been anointed by the Holy One and you have all knowledge.
Are Christians exhaustively omniscient regarding the past, present and future then?
Do you know what the Garden of Eden looked like?
Do you know how the Flood of Noah looked like?
Do you know how it looked like when Enoch and Elijah were caught up to God?
Did you see the Tower of Babel?

You have no idea about the majority of the Bible.
You are so limited in knowledge you can't even fix your own problems or add one extra day to your life.
 

PaulThomson

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We live in 2024, everything in the Bible has been fully explained by our forbears.
It is foolish to think everything true in the bible has been already explained to us by our forebears. That attitude is why the Pharisees hated and rejected Jesus.

It is why Paul said "If any man think that he knows any thing, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know. 1 Cor. 8:2

The more we know, the more we know we don't know. It is these who know very little who think they know everything.
 

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Do you know what the Garden of Eden looked like?
Do you know how the Flood of Noah looked like?
Do you know how it looked like when Enoch and Elijah were caught up to God?
Did you see the Tower of Babel?

You have no idea about the majority of the Bible.
You are so limited in knowledge you can't even fix your own problems or add one extra day to your life.
My point is obviously that citing the Bible saying, "God knows all things" does not prove that God exhaustively knows past, present and future, if citing the Bible saying "You know all things" doesn't mean we exhaustively know all the past, present and future.
 

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But God knew they would throw away that freedom so before God ever created Adam and Eve, He already created the Plan to Save them through Jesus.
God only needed to know it was possible to prepare provision in advance for the possibility. Preparing in advance does not imply fereknowing with certainty.
 
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But God knew they would throw away that freedom so before God ever created Adam and Eve, He already created the Plan to Save them through Jesus.
They where predestined with God before the fall, they Got predestined in a different way after the fall.

Do you realise your sayin God created man to sin.

God saw everything that he created and it was good remember.

Adam and also could of eaten from the tree of life and live for ever.

God blocked the tree of life from them after the
But God knew they would throw away that freedom so before God ever created Adam and Eve, He already created the Plan to Save them through Jesus.
They where predestined with God before the fall, they Got predestined in a different way after the fall.

Do you realise your sayin God created man to sin.

God saw everything that he created and it was good remember.

Adam and Eve, also could of eaten from the tree of life and lived for ever.
22 And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

Look again God says and now man has become like us.

Hes not saying I knew this would happen is he.

Then he states let's block the tree of before they eat of it.

Obviously he didn't know if they would eat of the tree at this stage, because they where in his present time, ( get it man)..

So then he drove them out of the garden .

And then he became all knowing of what they would do and what they wouldn't do.

And.then he set the plan to save them, no doubt
 

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Many Calvinists know of the grief of being a sinner that does take place after regeneration.
But that does not mean we needed regeneration first to be saved.

To know one is a sinner does not require regeneration to know.
The flesh and sinning not even a spiritual issue.
That is where Calvinists have been missing the point.

In contrast to knowing one is a sinner it takes regeneration to be grieved over knowing one is a sinner.
That kind of grieving takes place after regeneration.

So far, Calvinists have been failing to make the distinction between the two states of being.

Any unbeliever can know he is a sinner and turn to Christ to save him.
But that person can not come close to knowing the kind of grieving one has about being a sinner once he is regenerated and the Holy Spirit begins His working on you.

Calvinists confuse the two. Thus thinking one can not turn to Christ unless first regenerated.

grace and peace .....
Jesus said unless a man is born again he can not see the Kingdom of God let alone choose it.

The centre of the issue is whether man is spiritually dead as Scripture confirms and if what God said in Genesis 2:17 is true, then the question must be asked, what can dead men do?
 

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They where predestined with God before the fall, they Got predestined in a different way after the fall.

Do you realise your sayin God created man to sin.

God saw everything that he created and it was good remember.

Adam and also could of eaten from the tree of life and live for ever.

God blocked the tree of life from them after the

They where predestined with God before the fall, they Got predestined in a different way after the fall.

Do you realise your sayin God created man to sin.

God saw everything that he created and it was good remember.

Adam and Eve, also could of eaten from the tree of life and lived for ever.
22 And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

Look again God says and now man has become like us.

Hes not saying I knew this would happen is he.

Then he states let's block the tree of before they eat of it.

Obviously he didn't know if they would eat of the tree at this stage, because they where in his present time, ( get it man)..

So then he drove them out of the garden .

And then he became all knowing of what they would do and what they wouldn't do.

And.then he set the plan to save them, no doubt
Everyone whom God has chosen unto salvation was predestined before he foundation of the world (Eph 1:4-6) and given grace before time began (2 Tim 1:9).
 

FollowerofShiloh

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My point is obviously that citing the Bible saying, "God knows all things" does not prove that God exhaustively knows past, present and future, if citing the Bible saying "You know all things" doesn't mean we exhaustively know all the past, present and future.
It's inspired by God to say that. If you don't believe it's the same as calling God a liar.
 
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Everyone whom God has chosen unto salvation was predestined before he foundation of the world (Eph 1:4-6) and given grace before time began (2 Tim 1:9).
This could mean other things to 😊

So in other words your saying you where chosen before you where born.



Ephesians 1:4-6

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4 For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love 5 he[a] predestined us for adoption to sonship[b] through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will— 6 to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves.

It says he chose you to be holy in his sight, it doesn't say je chose you to be saved before you where born.

And us was not speaking to you when this was said.
 
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You still want us to guess what it is you want us to see.
It will not works because you need to try to pull that off with baby Christians who do not yet know Bible doctrine.

You are taking the position of a coward. You want to gather around you ignorant believers to back you up.

Teach it as you see it.

You are hoping some will assume the same erroneous thinking you have, and in effect, vindicate your false doctrine.

Teach us what you believe Genesis 3 is telling us, please?

Use chapter and verse.

Stop playing coy. That is no way to teach the word of God.

grace and truth......
I'm still waiting for you to acknowledge genesis 3
 

maxamir

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This could mean other things to 😊

So in other words your saying you where chosen before you where born.



Ephesians 1:4-6

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4 For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love 5 he[a] predestined us for adoption to sonship[b] through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will— 6 to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves.

It says he chose you to be holy in his sight, it doesn't say je chose you to be saved before you where born.

And us was not speaking to you when this was said.
God who is eternal and timeless, decreed all things before the foundation of the world. It's really quite simple but here are some further verse for you to reflect upon.

41 Bible Verses about election, to salvation
 

FollowerofShiloh

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well is it only because God is all knowing he knows what you will do next.

I mean don't you want to know how he knows.
Luke 12:7 tells us God knows "every hair" on your body.
Job 14:5 tells us God knows how many days and months we will live

A little bit of BIBLE knowledge from READING and it doesn't take a genius to know God KNOWS Everything.
He knows when you will sin, how you will sin, and if you will repent of them.

He clearly knew Adam would sin.
 
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Luke 12:7 tells us God knows "every hair" on your body.
Job 14:5 tells us God knows how many days and months we will live

A little bit of BIBLE knowledge from READING and it doesn't take a genius to know God KNOWS Everything.
He knows when you will sin, how you will sin, and if you will repent of them.

He clearly knew Adam would sin.
Oh come on son the fact he knows every hair on your head is because he's your father.

I ain't saying hes not all knowing am i.

What being said is before the fall he simply chose not to know what you would do next before you did it.

Why well the fact that he does know now is because he had imprisoned his will in you.

Because he loves you tho.

But obviously he would rather you where in the garden free to choose and free to wander.

And free to be trusted.

And free not to be watched.

But the fact is son we have billions of bastards in the world who could also make you fall.
 

FollowerofShiloh

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Oh come on son the fact he knows every hair on your head is because he's your father.

I ain't saying hes not all knowing am i.

What being said is before the fall he simply chose not to know what you would do next before you did it.

Why well the fact that he does know now is because he had imprisoned his will in you.

Because he loves you tho.

But obviously he would rather you where in the garden free to choose and free to wander.

And free to be trusted.

And free not to be watched.

But the fact is son we have billions of bastards in the world who could also make you fall.
There's no reason for God not knowing everything. He knew Satan would fall and why He made it so Jesus would save us.
You obviously do not know who God is!