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NASB | Isaiah 43:7 Everyone who is called by My name, And whom I have created for My glory, Whom I have formed, even whom I have made." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Isaiah 43:7 Everyone who is called by My Name, Whom I have created for My glory, Whom I have formed, even whom I have made." |
Bible Question:
Thanks Doc, Have you ever thought, though, (put on your best thinkin' cap) if God choose before the foundations of the world, did He do this randomly, or possibly He may have done His chosing based on something else. We know it certainly was not "forknowledge" as some think, so what was it? I have been pondering this for years. I am firmly calvinistic (have some questions though on limited atonement).Seems to me that if things were decided upon "before (key word) the foundations of the world, then there is more to this than scriptures are willing to tell us. Your thoughts? Psalm 25 |
Bible Answer: Ps. 25 - When I was one and twenty, I knew almost every thing; now that I am two and seventy, I know almost nothing! If there is any mark by which the wisdom of man may be measured, it is likely the realization that one knows very little indeed. Speculation about anything is almost always folly, and speculation that would presume to go beyond what the Holy Spirit of God has revealed to humankind is among all other human endeavors the folly of follies. Scriptures are, to use your terminology, "willing to tell us" ALL that God is willing to reveal about Himself. And all, I submit to you, that we need to know in order to be reborn in Christ. Hence, I have no patience with speculators, whoever they may be, because the wisdom of the world's wisest mortals is not going to add one jot or tittle of knowledge about God. Better by far to rejoice and give thanks to Him for revealing the precious truths that He has revealed than to struggle with questions the answers to which God has chosen to reserve within His province alone. "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts" (Isaiah 55:8,9). ..... Being a Calvinist doesn't answer all questions. Being an Arminian doesn't answer them either. In short, there is no theological (including soteriological) system that can answer certain questions of predestination and election; and anyone who claims to know the answers is traveling in deep and turbulent waters well outside the limits of his mortal tether. It does me a world of good to keep my focus clear on who I am and who God is by reading the concluding chapters of Job, beginning at Chapter 37. ..... So, in keeping with the guideliness of SBF, let's try to keep away from speculation. It edifies no one. --Hank |