To: Forest Keeper; MarkBsnr
Then for all we know Mary could have been God's 15th choice to bear His Son? No, because God knows our hearts and choices before they are made. In His foreknowledge, He knew Mary would be the person she was and was therefore the only candidate for the role. There is a difference between foreknowledge and predestination.
If God can handle the whole universe, I am sure He can handle our choices without having to make any of them for us.
11,348 posted on
11/24/2007 7:28:26 PM PST by
kosta50
(Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
To: kosta50; Forest Keeper; MarkBsnr
No, because God knows our hearts and choices before they are made. In His foreknowledge, He knew Mary would be the person she was and was therefore the only candidate for the role. There is a difference between foreknowledge and predestination.
So Mary's "free will" is a joke? There never was a chance that she would refuse?
11,360 posted on
11/25/2007 12:24:55 PM PST by
OLD REGGIE
(I am most likely a Biblical Unitarian? Let me be perfectly clear. I know nothing.)
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