No, FK, you said "This [God] knew from the beginning." My question is what beginning? If it is the beginning of the Creation, then He didn't know us before that. If it implies some other beginning, then eternity is not eternal, but subject to time. Therefore to say God knew from the beginning is incorrect; rather, God knows us for all eternity more properly expresses timlessness of God; the word beginning in not timless.
No, FK, you said "This [God] knew from the beginning." My question is what beginning? If it is the beginning of the Creation, then He didn't know us before that. If it implies some other beginning, then eternity is not eternal, but subject to time. Therefore to say God knew from the beginning is incorrect; rather, God knows us for all eternity more properly expresses timlessness of God; the word beginning in not timeless.
OK, fine. :) Since "beginning" can be associated with the point of creation, I shouldn't have said it that way. I believe predestination occurs before the Biblical "beginning", so yes, I would say that He knew us for all eternity. I'll try to be more careful. :)