The Highway Forums General Discussion Theology Discussion Forum Election & the Love of God

In Rom 8:29, predestination follows foreknowledge which follows foreordination (vs. 28) as already explained more than once. CONTEXT, context, context. Secondly, and much to your consternation, the same word can have different meanings. One cannot read Scripture nor any written material with a "psycho-statistical-mean' hermeneutic... that's just plain silliness. How you can actually understand anything you read, if you use the same mindset as you espouse for reading the Bible, is beyond comprehension.

Now, which verse are you going to choose to prove your contention that foreknowledge determines foreordination?

1. Romans 8:29: "For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son," (with the allowance of this text ripped out of its immediate context)

OR

2. Acts 2:23: "Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken,..."

OR

You can opt for the view that denies the divine inspiration of Scripture which then allows contradictions, errors and myth to exist which would explain the above apparent contradiction.