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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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To: kosta50; Dr. Eckleburg; P-Marlowe; blue-duncan
But foreknowledge is not the same as predestination; certainly not the same as double-predestionation of the Reformed.

Wrong...IF, the foreknower is also the one who does the actual creating.

IF I know how the Sistine Chapel painting turns out, AND I'm also the one who paints it, then there is certainty about everything.

9,910 posted on 10/26/2007 6:10:44 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain. True support of the troops means praying for US to WIN the war!)
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