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1 | What exactly is predestination? | 1 Thess 5:17 | Aspiring Overseer | 49742 | ||
God knows what choices we will make, but this does not negate our requirement to choose. Christians continue to make those choices throughout their lives; praying always for wisdom; working out their salvation in accordance with the will of God and thereby proving themselves to be His disciples. Limiting salvation to only a predetermined few is inconsistent with God's master plan of free will. Keep praying for God's help and God will lead you to a Christian for the answers. |
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2 | What exactly is predestination? | 1 Thess 5:17 | Lionstrong | 49803 | ||
Dear Aspiring, As you said, God knows what choices we will make. He is omniscient, and is therefore ignorant of nothing. He knows that many will take the broad path to destruction while few will find the narrow to life. Even though that "few" will be more than is humanly possible to count, it will still be few, relative to the number of those who will be lost. And if God is not ignorant of all the choices men will make, then is it possible that someone will choose contrary to his knowledge? So if God knows that a man will choose to remain in his rebellion, then how can that man choose otherwise? If he makes a choice other than the one God knew he would make, then God was ignorant of that choice and is no longer omniscient. But God is omniscient. Therefore all choices have been eternally known and cannot be changed. Therefore the number of the "few" who will be saved has been fixed from eternity, and will not increase nor diminish. Peace, |
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