James_Newman
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One thing I hate about Calvinism is that it limits God's power. They say God is not able to predestinate without first limiting the freewill of man. I say God is able to predestinate and do it through the freewill of man.
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yada means "was aware"Blammo said:Let's stick with this verse.
No, I do not agree that Jesus "intimately loved" their wickedness.
I do agree that he was aware of it.
1st...we never say God is not able.James_Newman said:One thing I hate about Calvinism is that it limits God's power. They say God is not able to predestinate without first limiting the freewill of man. I say God is able to predestinate and do it through the freewill of man.
Jarthur001 said:yada means "was aware"
eido means to know 1st hand...or "see"
Ginosko is a one on one...getting to know...or knowing intimately. As I said in the OP..this gives the right meaning, in that it means to know in a personal way. It is more then just yada...and even more then eido. It is very personal.
Foreknow = proginoskoBlammo said:I'll take.... uh.. um..... shell number three!!! (ginosko, the word we were talking about)
Jarthur001 said:Foreknow = proginosko
pro...ginosko
pro = before
ginosko = to become acquainted with....or / sexual ways.
Blammo said:So, in conclusion, foreknow means foreknow. Great!!!
Now we can get back to the English. (I foreknew it was okay to stick with the English.)
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:
Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
GordonSlocum said:I have just finished listening to Dr. Jerry Vines preach a very good sermon on the issue concerning Calvinism’s.
I would have to say He and I believe exactly alike. I could not find one single areas of his delivery I would change.
The message is a pod cast and was delivered on Oct. 8 2006 at First Baptist Church Woodstock - here is the web address should you desire to check it out:
http://www.fbcw.org/images/topbar.jpg
Actually I don't think I have heard such a clear fare presentation of this issue as it is given by Dr. Vines.
Gordon
If God foreknows (as used by freewillers) before God predestined, this is hyper-Calvinism other then God is not in control. In this view, what God sees will happen, God must make happen, or what He saw was not really the end of things. God is limited and controlled by what man does. If God changes things in this view God would be changing what He foreknow would happen. If God did this changing, why did He not know about the change? God must do as He saw “done” in the future, or God did not really see the end.
Jarthur001 said:So far we have really only talked about the meaning of the word. This took a few pages, but the meaning is clear.
right.James_Newman said:Clear as mud.
Foreknow = proginosko
pro...ginosko
pro = before
ginosko = to become acquainted with having a relationship with....or...it could also mean in sexual ways. But it does not have to mean this the last idea
Jarthur001 said:Indeed. Foreknow is the right word to use.
But it is not to be used as ...
yada ..... "was aware"
eido ...." know 1st hand, or see"
God did not just know about what we would do and elect based on this...which is what is said by freewillers. But God knew us intimately and predestinate us, because ...and get this...>>>>He choose us. God did it. Not us.
James_Newman said:Could it be used as yada, as in,
Genesis 4:1 And Adam knew(yada) Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bore Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
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