Rmc
Hebrews 11 is the faith chapter and that is great all by itself......
This thread however is about the children given from The Father to The Son.
Try and address that idea.
1 jn 2 dealing with propitiation is also a good topic and yet that also is not the topic of this thread.
It looks like you are still not understanding biblical propitiation yet.....perhaps we can have a thread or two on it.
Yes......you are raising issues....now your dispensation of grace idea......not the focus here.
Focus on the children given by the Father.....
The children given to the Son are those whom God Foreknew would recieve Christ and therefore were Predestinated to be conformed to the image of the Son.
Romans 8:29-31
29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
Now the word for foreknow in the Greek is "proegnO" He Before Knew" and therefore "proOrisen" He Before Seizes."
Thayer gives the word foreknow as "proginosko" which means to have knowledge before hand, to foreknow, of those whom God elected to salvation to predestinate. Again He had knowledge of beforehand, that is knowledge of them before He chose them.
He knew them that would be totally knew them and thus seized or Predestined them and those were given to Christ based on the choice He knew they would make. He Knew everything about them before the foundation of the world.
Ephesians 1:3-5,
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:
4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
Confirms those who are Christ are those who were chosen before the Foundation of the world that is chosen as Romans 8 says by God's Foreknowledge. How do we know that because both say we were predestinated.
Why were we predestinated because He knew us totally and without doubt knew everything about us even to the Choice we would make about salvation.
Christ was sent as the appeasing sacrifice for sin so that those who choose not to believe would have no argument that God didn't give them a chance.
How do we know that God knew us everything about us,
2 Timothy 2:19 Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
He knew every person who would call upon Christ. Paul said "The Lord knoweth them that are his." He "egno" Knew. Thayer uses "ginosko " to learn to know, get a knowledge of perceive, feel, to become known, to know, understand, perceive, have knowledge of to understand, to know, Jewish idiom for intimacy between a man and a women. To become acquainted, to know.
He knew all about those He chose and gave to Christ because of His omniscience He knew us before the foundation of the world and chose us to be adopted and conformed to Christ.
Notice it wasn't a random selection as some teach, He Foreknew that knew all about us and the sin we would sin and yet He knew too that we would Call upon His Name and Believe on the Son for salvation and thus we were predestinated.