I don't know if you are a Calvinist. Do you hold to reformed theology?
Anyway, most Calvinists staunchly oppose the idea of God looking down the corridors of time and then predestining something to happen. The problem is when it comes to Adam's sin, and God having planned to send a redeemer "before the foundation of the world", Calvinists are put into a box because if they reject the idea that God saw Adam would sin and then preemptively created a redemption plan, by necessity they have to accept that God caused Adam to sin, which of course they deny, but it is the logical conclusion to their theology.
I have often been called a Calvinist, but I may be alone in my views regarding this. I absolutely believe that God "looked down the corridors of time" and that it did indeed play a role in who He chose. I do not, however, believe that He chose based on foreseen faith. I believe that this is what He saw when He looked down:
The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand,
and seek God. They are all gone aside, they are
all together become filthy:
there is none that doeth good, no, not one. - Psalms 14:2-3
I believe that God's knowledge that the whole world would willingly reject Him played a role in how He chose who He would call:
For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. Where
is the wise? where
is the scribe? where
is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God,
it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. For ye see your
calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble,
are called: But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world
to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world
to confound the things which are mighty; And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen,
yea, and things which are not,
to bring to nought things that are: That no flesh should glory in his presence. But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. -1 Corinthians 1:18-31
I believe that God's plan of salvation was a direct response to the world's willful ignorance of Him. The preaching of the cross is only "the power of God" to "them which are called", and God doesn't call everyone. He only calls those who He predestinated to be conformed to Christ:
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. 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. -Romans 8:29-30
God chose who He would call in such a way as to perfectly display both His wrath and His mercy towards a willingly ignorant world:
What if God, willing to shew
his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles? - Romans 9:22-24
Again, I may very well be alone in this view.
