Not knowing the future does not preclude Him from not knowing His plans for it. If He has determined something and decided He will not be swayed then it is settled. Just because not all things are settled that doesn't mean nothing is.
- Do you believe He is unable to see that which does not exist?
- You have made it that He must be able to see the future which is putting a limit upon Him.
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You're definitely reading into that one. "That" is not a word used to refer to persons, it is used to refer to things. If Jesus had meant people He would have said, "...who..," as He did in the next clause.
No it doesn't. It simply says that those who are His sheep hear His voice, He knows them and they follow Him.
Did you mean v26? [Jesus]"But you do not believe, because you are not of My sheep, as I said to you."[/Jesus]
This only tells us that because they rejected Him they did not believe Him. There is no implication or inference that they were elected to not believe.
The election of the Body is like the predestination of a plane. The plane is decidedly going to a specific destination, chosen beforehand. Those who choose board the plane are not predestined beforehand. They are only going to that destination on that plane if they are on board that plane when it takes off, but they have to choose of their own accord to board the plane.
Where does it appear with regard to individuals?
Because you refuse to see it, by choosing to only see what you believe and thus you read it into all the verses that contradict it and even into those that make no mention of it one way or another.
Because you say it is impossible for Him to work His will without knowing the future exhaustively or definitively.
I have the mind of Christ, according to Scripture. But that's irrelevant. If we can understand the concept of God outside of time so too could those to whom He spoke during Biblical times. He would not have needed to "dumb it down."I don't understand how God's mind works. Do you?
So God said He would destroy them, and then did not, but He didn't change His mind?
So why do you claim He is unable to do His will without full knowledge of the future? Why do you deny He is free to create something new?
And a man who is dead to sin cannot choose to live in it again.
But man is free to choose to accept His gift of Life, even if He cannot choose to make himself alive.
I agree.
I agree.
Do you mean "etc," as in "et cetera"?
Are you sure of that?
