I affirm that God’s predetermination and foreknowledge are coextensive; therefore, God foreknows what He predetermines and predetermines what He foreknows; moreover, the distinction between predestining something to happen a certain way and predestining to allow some human freedom to affect outcomes are both within the scope of the biblical meaning of predestination and/or foreknowledge and compatible with and demonstrative of sovereignty so long as He made the decision freely, thereby being a part of His plan rather than contrary to His plan, which He did in fact do.
I disaffirm that God’s infallible foreknowledge or predetermination caused man to sin or spend eternity in hell; further, that foreknowledge or predetermination eliminates real free choices of man in salvation and the first sin. Further, that God’s foreknowledge of events, which makes certain their coming to pass, means that he was the efficient cause or in any way the direct cause of every event to come to pass or that comes to pass, although, He is the ultimate cause. Moreover, that foreknowledge is the same as causation because epistemology (study of knowledge) deals with foreknowledge and etiology (study of cause) deals with causation, and to conflate the two is a fallacious confusion of categories. Afortiori, the scripture ties salvation to God’s foreknowledge on more than one occasion (Romans 8:29; 1 Peter 1:2).
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