[Gargantua]

Predestination, in this instance, is a very human term used to express that which God knew from the beginning. That God knew before He made the world who among us would eventually be believers doesn't change the fact that it was through our faith alone (as an exercise of our free will) in God's Grace through Jesus that we are saved.

The Christians who object to the fact of "Predestination" are mistaking it to mean that we really didn't have a choice. In fact, we did. God just knew before we were born which choice we would make.

With love in Him,
G.

[RnMomof7]

Predestination, in this instance, is a very human term used to express that which God knew from the beginning. That God knew before He made the world who among us would eventually be believers doesn't change the fact that it was through our faith alone (as an exercise of our free will) in God's Grace through Jesus that we are saved.

The question asked here is often is ...... "is not that very foreknowlege predestination?"

If God foreknew who would come to Him and who would not , and He did not change the circumstances or give the extra grace to the lost did not His inaction predestinate them to Hell? Does God not know exactkly what it would take for each and every one of us to "Come"?

We do love Him because He loved us first:>)

[drstevej]

Acts 13:48 "When the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and honored the word of the Lord; and all who were appointed for eternal life believed."

Another one of those pesky verses that reverses the expected order of things.