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AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Thessalonians 5:17 be unceasing and persistent in prayer; |
Subject: What exactly is predestination? |
Bible Note: 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, |