[Frapster]

If I stand at the finish-line of a 40 yard dash and am able then to relate to each participant what went on through the course of the race does that imply in any fashion that I have determined the outcome of the race once the race is over?

Let me ask you a question and I would like you to answer it hypothetically. Will you do that for me? I'll ask the question once you choose. ;-)

[stuartcr]

Only if you were the all-powerful, and all-knowing God.

My answer will not be very prompt, as I am leaving for the day. I will attempt to hypothetically answer it later, or tomorrow.....as I have no choice in the matter.

[RnMomof7]

If I stand at the finish-line of a 40 yard dash and am able then to relate to each participant what went on through the course of the race does that imply in any fashion that I have determined the outcome of the race once the race is over?

So then salvation goes to the swift and the smart

Rom 9:16 So then [it is] not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.

Jam 1:18   Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.