Would you care to show scripture that supports this? Show me in scripture where it says God's foreknowledge is the result of his absolute decree.
”Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.”
Please note this Scripture uses the past participle of the verb, ‘to know.’
Also note the time of this knowledge: eternity. He knows the works He has decreed in eternity, before creation.
These decrees are the positive volition of His all-wise, omnipotent and most holy will. They are executed in time. The decrees executed in time are foreknown of God because He decreed them in eternity.
God's eternal decrees will, with infallible certainty, take place in the time, manner and by the means decreed.
Example of an eternal decree:
“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.”
Jesus, the Lamb of God, was not literally slain from the foundation of the world. Yet because God’s eternal decrees are absolute and infallible in their execution and outcome, the Holy Spirit could, without exaggeration, consider Him already slain. His destiny was certain.
An earthly example is found in the phrase, “Dead man walking.” The man walking to the gas chamber is not yet dead, but is considered as such because his destiny is certain.
Another biblical example of the Holy Spirit declaring the certainty of an event before it happens is found in Romans 8:29-30:
“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.”
Although Christians living today are not yet glorified, God considers them as such. Why? Because His eternal decrees are immutable, absolute and infallibly certain to happen.
God predestinates unto salvation those whom He foreknows. The verse does not say ‘He predestinates those whom He foreknows will believe when presented the Gospel.’
His foreknowledge in the context of these verses concerns election unto salvation. Those He elects are foreknown by Him because His decree to elect certain sinners, as well as the means of infallibly executing that decree, are the works of God…..decreed in eternity.
Those He chooses for salvation are also those whom He calls. Those whom He calls are those whom He justifies.
Paul omits faith as the cause of justification on purpose because the calling of the Elect is effectual to the producing of faith. Faith is the work of God, not man.
Those same ones are glorified. Paul has omitted sanctification, good works, perseverance, obedience, etc. because he understands that in the decree of Election God infallibly supplies the means to achieve the desired end......i.e., glorification.
Thus,
”Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.”
Another example of His eternal decree: "Let there be Winman."
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