Ben, Do you think context can affect the meaning and use of a word, God so loved the world..God destroyed the world of the ungodly in Noah;s day. Same word different context. Can you find the word foreknowledge used more of events , rather than persons?
You think God is unable to love the people that he judges? you don't think that the invitation given to the people by Noah was a good faith invitation? Noah was lying to them? Or God just wanted Noah to take on a 120 year carpentry project to kill time?
To say that we need to find foreknowledge of events and things is to look for something that isn't a highlight of Scripture in the first place. God's Word is concerned primarily with people and does not focus on being a fortune teller. Not surprisingly, there are none that have nothing to do with people. There are some that are speaking of events.
1 Peter 1:19-21 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: Who verily
was foreordained (
προγινώσκω proginṓskō verb) before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.
Here is an event that was foreknown. That Jesus would be crucified.
Revelation 13:8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
Acts 2:23 Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and
foreknowledge (
πρόγνωσις prognosis feminine noun) of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
The events of the cross were preplanned events.
Acts 26:1-5 Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. Then Paul stretched forth the hand, and answered for himself: I think myself happy, king Agrippa, because I shall answer for myself this day before thee touching all the things whereof I am accused of the Jews: Especially
because I know thee to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews: wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently. My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among mine own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews;
Which knew (προγινώσκω proginṓskō verb) me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
Here Paul says that all the Jews had knowledge of what person he was and the events of his past. They were his teachers and classmates in synagogue.
Have you ever done any research on the roots of this word. it is a simple word to break down.
προγινώσκω proginṓskō, prog-in-oce'-ko
from G4253
προ (a primary preposition; "fore", i.e. in front of, prior to
) and G1097
γινώσκω (a prolonged form of a primary verb; to "know"); to know beforehand, i.e. foresee
You probably don't need to look ate the preposition. it is self explanatory. If you look at the root word, it will help to give you a better understanding of the words use.
since there are over 200 uses of that one tense, I will not list them here.
I will also say that even in the physical relationship sense, there is application of the definition in information. it sounds a little odd but it is far more discreet. Mary said that she has no knowledge of any man. it conveys the meaning without going into detail. It is also an accurate representation of the concept. I will finish with that because I have no desire to explain in any greater detail.
There is no use of the words in question that cannot be understood with the definition of knowledge of information rather than relationship. There are times when the reformed definition can be overlaid because the topics are related. that does not make it the right way to study.
