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your interpretation is confusion. This debate could not have ever happen unless the scriptures clearly stated that God knew the future of anything. The prophesies of mankind should be proof enough that means choices are foreordained.

Men are predestined when they follow prophesy to the letter. Jesus also followed prophesy when he was sold out by Judas.. The devil also was predestined to enter Judas to fulfil that prophesy. These types of facts can't be ignored.

God does explain that He is the author of evil too.Isaiah 45-7, I make peace and create evil. Judges 3-12 God strengthened an evil king against Israel. Isaiah 54-16, I have created the waster to destroy.

If humanizing God includes being friends with Him then count me in. Jesus said that the spirit would be able to teach us the mysteries of God that Jesus started to teach in the testaments. I hope that prayer actually works when you ask God something and expect answers. This creates a dynamic...

I think that a breakdown of events might just answer this seemingly complex question. Does God know the future. I know that Peter didn't want to believe what Jesus said to him about his three time denial. Not only did Jesus know what Peter would do, He knew what the crowds would say and do in...

The idea of predestination is from God's perspective of us. From our perspective, we are making our own decisions. The mistake that we make is that any decision we make could alter what God has planned for you to do before you did it. This does not make us puppets, it just means that each of...

If we have been forgiven of our sins and now we are being taught by Him how to love people, we should not be guessing what to do with our lives. God asks us to love everywhere we go as that is the basis of Jesus' teaching. At some point in your life you realize what the Bible message is and...

Why did God allow evil in this world unless He knew that we had something really important for us to experience. Jesus gave us the answer to this in His parable of the prodigal son, Luke 15-11 to the chapters end. Since this is representative of someone who was lost in the world but forgiven...

If someone believes that it is they who make their own choice for God should consider Romans 9-9 to the end of the chapter. This chapter is dealing with mans questions as how could it be fair that God has made His choices beforehand-meaning Gods choosing who He will have. All the while people...

Out of the mouths of babes can come the most magnificent revelations. It seems that someone here has gotten a hold on some truth. Thank God that I didn't have to be the one to tell him Studyman.

I see the Bible as progressive revelation. It started introducing conditional love ending in unconditional forgiveness by grace. Being freed from the curse part of the old laws and replacing it with repentance and grace is the greatest part of the new. People have been trying to add info...

Sounds like the gifts of the spirit to me, just like in the upper room. Kundalini and spaghetti is much better.

Consider the law of keeping the Sabbath holy. NT Christians think its a fine day to go to church, go out to a restaurant, then maybe hit up the football game on TV. I'm not trying to be sarcastic but any of this would be forbidden in the OT. If you made a sandwich, picked up sticks for a...

The volume of the ten commandments was not erased. Only the death penalty was removed. That is the mystery as revealed in Ephesian Chapter three,vs4 , whereby when you read you may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ. Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as...

My starting this thread was to let people know that God is in control of everything and for us not to be afraid of the outcome of things. The final outcome of things is not clear to us, but with the assurance that all activities under the sun have an ultimate positive outcome. If evil has also...

When Peter denied Christ three times did He know what Peter would probably do or did He definitely know. What about prophecy. Isn't it definite actions of men written years in advance to actual deeds. How about Jesus knowing what the devil would do with Judas as he fulfilled God's...

Can anyone here show me where in the Bible is the idea of free wii. Everything about scripture indicates that God knows and plans everything. It makes sense that God plans everything since He knows all.

Paul baptised with water for time but later gave this up. He told us that the real power of God was the baptism of fire which is the holy spirit. That spirit is the source of God knowledge and the power by which miracles are done. The water baptism was just a formality parable which Jesus did...