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To: kosta50; Forest Keeper; wmfights; HarleyD; blue-duncan; Frumanchu; P-Marlowe; xzins; irishtenor; ...
First, don't quote St. Paul to me, please, because he alone is not Christianity.

The Eastern Orthodox Bible must be very short, considering it dismisses much of the OT and now all of Paul.

Christianity-lite.

do not offer me the Westminster Confession

I didn't. I offered you Scripture. But I can understand your getting the two confused since every word of the WCF is founded on God's word.

So, not everything is predestined and set in stone.

At the moment of creation, did God foreknow all that was to be, even the course corrections of men and their outcomes?

Or is He just making it up as He goes along?

"Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure" -- Isaiah 46:10


"That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been" -- Ecclesiastes 3:15


9,888 posted on 10/25/2007 6:16:05 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
The Eastern Orthodox Bible must be very short, considering it dismisses much of the OT and now all of Paul.

Don't quote Isaiah because Isaiah never existed. And don't quote Solomon because Solomon never existed. And don't quote John because John was misquoted. And don't quote.... period.

9,892 posted on 10/25/2007 7:19:29 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg; Forest Keeper; wmfights; HarleyD; blue-duncan; P-Marlowe; xzins
The Eastern Orthodox Bible must be very short, considering it dismisses much of the OT and now all of Paul

They dismiss neither the OT nor St. Paul. They dismiss Judaic and Protestant interpretations of them.

Christianity-lite

Coming from a Protestant...that's amazing.

I offered you Scripture. But I can understand your getting the two confused since every word of the WCF is founded on God's word

You offer me cherry-picked verses from the scriptures, with Protestant interpretation attached. The LDS quote quote scriptures too.

At the moment of creation, did God foreknow all that was to be...

I would say He foreknew BEFORE the moment of creation. He knew from all eternity. But foreknowledge is not the same as predestination; certainly not the same as double-predestionation of the Reformed.

...even the course corrections of men and their outcomes? Or is He just making it up as He goes along?

God can handle an infinite number of possibilities. It is just as likely that His plan has an infinite number of solutions—all leading to the same end. Just because we can't conceive of it doesn't mean He is boxed in with one and only plan.

9,908 posted on 10/26/2007 5:59:49 AM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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