The Highway Forums General Discussion Theology Discussion Forum God's Foreknowledge

sb_and_reformed,<br><br>You wrote:<blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr>[color:"blue"]When you stop and thimk about how, even for babies who die, <span style="background-color:yellow;">God knows and ordains</span> the events that happen in people's lives,</font><hr></blockquote><p>Without addressing why you wrote this statement in the order in which it appears, perhaps all of your questions can be answered if I would simply rearrange what you wrote in their proper theological/biblical order? <br><br>Thus it should read thusly: [color:blue]When you stop and think about how, even for babies who die, God <span style="background-color:yellow;">ordains and knows</span> the events that happen in people's lives,</font color=blue>. The point is that "foreknowledge" is the consequence of God's foreordination. He knows because He has foreordained all things. In one infinitesimal moment in God's intuition, He planned every minuscule detail and event that would ever occur. His "knowledge" (foreknowledge) of everything is therefore infinite, infallible and immovable.<br><br>So, taking one of your several questions:<blockquote>But do you think God knows what would happen in our lives, say, if God had led us to take a different career or if we had lived somewhere else?</blockquote>we can and must say that God would certainly know what would happen in this situation because it would never happen if He hadn't decreed exactly every detail.<br><br>Does this help? [img]http://www.the-highway.com/w3timages/icons/grin.gif" alt="grin" title="grin[/img]<br><br>In His Grace,