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To: Forest Keeper; kosta50; HarleyD; Kolokotronis; annalex; jo kus; Cronos
Kosta...

From your perspective doesn't God look down that "corridor of time" and see who those people are who will fall away? Why would they be saved in the first place if God knows tomorrow they will fall away?

2,630 posted on 02/14/2006 8:22:37 AM PST by HarleyD ("Man's steps are ordained by the LORD, How then can man understand his way?" Prov 20:24)
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To: HarleyD; Kolokotronis; Forest Keeper; annalex; jo kus; Cronos
From your perspective doesn't God look down that "corridor of time" and see who those people are who will fall away?

He does not wait for tomorrow. He sees where your choices have taken you (in your future). In other words He knows -- by seeing the begining and the end of times -- what choices you freely make and where these choices take you.

Omniscience does not equal predestination.

2,636 posted on 02/14/2006 9:13:41 AM PST by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: HarleyD; kosta50

"From your perspective doesn't God look down that "corridor of time" and see who those people are who will fall away? Why would they be saved in the first place if God knows tomorrow they will fall away?"

God doesn't look down a corridor of time. What is time to God? This is an anthropomorphism, just like "pre" destination. It can only have meaning for us but tells us nothing about God or what God "sees".


2,653 posted on 02/14/2006 6:00:42 PM PST by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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