Subject: Is God subject to change? |
Bible Note: Dear NC, Did God fore-ordain the sinful actions of men? Based upon God's Holy Word, yes I do believe God fore-ordains EVERYTHING. It is His creation and does with it whatsoever pleases Him. I'm sorry, but, your read on Acts 4 is not reasonable. You wrote "I believe that the determination of God to do something, even the predesting of things is based on His foreknowledge. By that I mean I believe foreknowledge precedes any predesting.(see Rom. 8:29 for example)" That would mean that God knew what He was going to do, so, He pre-ordained that He would do it. Which means His knowing was pre-ordained....and around and around and around! God knew that Jesus would be crucified because He fore ordained that Jesus would be crucified. You can't have God looking into the future and discovering what would happen and then say He made it happen before He looked into the future. It just does'nt make sense that way. Whats wrong with simply accepting what the verse says, which is that the wicked actions ot those responsible for the crucifixion carried out God's plan even though they thought they were doing it for their own evil reasons. Same with Josephs brothers and the Assyrians. John |