Somehow I can't see God as a bookie.
The better question xman, is God the potter and are we the clay. That is the way election is explained in Scripture. Not a horse race where God uses his omniscience to pick the winner in the Trifecta.
Does God know everything without exception or does God not know everything without exception.
It's that simple.
Somehow I can't see God as a bookie.
The better question xman, is God the potter and are we the clay. That is the way election is explained in Scripture. Not a horse race where God uses his omniscience to pick the winner in the Trifecta.
"In his sight all things are open and manifest, his knowledge is infinite, infallible, and independent upon the creature, so as nothing is to him contingent, or uncertain." (Westminster Confession, II:2)
"God the great Creator of all things doth uphold, direct, dispose, and govern all creatures, actions, and things, from the greatest even to the least, by his most wise and holy providence, according to his infallible foreknowledge, and the free and immutable counsel of his own will, to the praise of the glory of his wisdom, power, justice, goodness, and mercy. Although, in relation to the foreknowledge and decree of God, the first Cause, all things come to pass immutably, and infallibly; yet, by the same providence, he ordereth them to fall out, according to the nature of second causes, either necessarily, freely, or contingently." (Westminster Confession, V:1,2)
It's that simple.
Third (and obvious, according to the numerous Biblical references to God's continual disappointment with man) choice is that God can know whatever he chooses, but when he delegates (via free will), he chooses not to peek at the answers.
There is absolutely no other way that and omnicient and omnipotent God could ever be disappointed in man's otherwise foreseen or foreseeable actions.
Seems that I am a Calvinist in the mold of C.H.Spurgeon; but obviously not in the mold of the GRPL.
Hendryx is nothing more than your stereo-typical hyper-Calvinist elitist.