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	Foreknow; Foreknowledge (International Standard Bible Encyclopedia) :: Bible Tools
		Jesus asserts a foreknowledge by God of that which is hidden from the Son (Mark 13:32), and James asserts that all God's works are foreknown by Him (Acts 15:18).
		Since, therefore, the Divine foreknowledge is quite as inconsistent with this view of freedom as is the Divine foreordination, the view of those who regard God as a mere onlooker on the course of future events which are supposed to be entirely independent of His purpose and control, does not help matters in the least.
		While, therefore, the foreknowledge of God in the sense of prescience is asserted in the New Testament, this is not the meaning of the term when used to translate the Greek words proginoskein and prognosis.
	bibletools.org /index.cfm/fuseaction/Def.show/RTD/ISBE/ID/3518 (3470 words)

	C.D. COLE VOLUME #1- THE FOREKNOWLEDGE OF GOD
		The word foreknowledge as used in the Bible can hardly be made to refer to a quality or attribute of the Divine nature.
		The word "foreknowledge" is not in the Old Testament, but the word "know" occurs often, and frequently means to love or choose or ordain.
		To be exact and critical, the writer believes that, although divine foreknowledge is close akin to and associated with such words as election, predestination, and foreordination, it has a distinct meaning of its own.
	www.homestead.com /sglblibrary/files/DEFDOCT1/DEFDOC1.11.htm (1839 words)

	Foreknowledge and Election (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The primary is "foreknowledge", the secondary is "foreordination".
		To discover which of these two viewpoints, foreknowledge or Election, is the correct one, we need only to ask ourselves which of these two seems to be the least "fair", and we have the correct one.
		Foreknowledge assumes that man's will is free with regard to his ability to accept Christ and submit to God's law.
	www.smallings.com /LitEng/Essays/Foreknowledge.html (2426 words)

	The Foreknowledge of God
		It is impossible to distinguish between the foreknowledge of God with reference to such a plan of redemption and the will that originated it.
		I submit that God can and does possess foreknowledge and that this foreknowledge does not preclude or negate the freedom of choice on the part of man. In the first place, God's foreknowledge is plainly set forth in the scriptures.
		Foreknowledge does not equate to Calvinism, but foreknowledge is a biblical teaching.
	www.bibletruths.net /Archives/BTAR231.htm (1827 words)

	Foreknow, Foreknowledge - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
		Nothing future is hidden from Yahweh (Isaiah 41:22; 42:9; 43:9-13; 44:6-8; 46:10; Daniel 2:22; Amos 3:7), and this foreknowledge embraces the entire course of man's life (Psalms 31:15 (Hebrew 16); Psalms 39:5 (Hebrew 6); Psalms 139:4-6,16; Job 14:5).
		These passages from Isa show that it is from the occurrence of events in accordance with Yahweh's prediction that the Prophet will prove his foreknowledge; and that in contrast with the worshippers of idols which are taken by surprise, Israel is warned of the future by the omniscient Yahweh.
		On the relation of foreknowledge and foreordination, and the meaning of prognosis, see K. Muller, Die gottliche Zuvorsehung und Erwahlung, 37, 81; Pfleiderer, Paulinismus2, 268; Urchristentum, 289; Gcnnrich, Studien zur Paulinischen Heilsordnung, S. K., 1898, 377; and on the meaning of proginoskein in Romans 8:29 see especially pp.
	studylight.org /enc/isb/view.cgi?number=T3518 (3281 words)

	DOCTRINE OF FOREKNOWLEDGE, ELECTION, AND PREDESTINATION
		Foreknowledge is God's eternal foresight by which He anticipated all who would be positive and believe in Christ (Rom.8:29 "For whom He foreknew, He also predestined"; 11:2 "God has not rejected His people [Israel] whom He foreknew").
		Foreknowledge enables God to anticipate all things and initiate a perfect, foolproof plan for the objects of His foreknowledge, election and predestination.
		Foreknowledge logically preceded election and predestination, as the natural reading of Rom.8:29,30 suggests (we recognize that since God is eternal, these functions always were before or with Him, but his plan is explained to us in sequential terms to communicate to us; see also 1Pet.1:1,2).
	www.versebyverse.org /doctrine/foreknow.html (1174 words)

	How Does God Know the Future?
		The predictive model of divine foreknowledge holds that God knows the future by prediction, by calculating the way that the world is going to be on the basis of the way that the world is now.
		An alternative defense of divine foreknowledge, however, is to reject the predictive model of divine foreknowledge and instead advance an observational model.
		On the observational model of divine foreknowledge, it doesn’t matter whether or not determinism is true, because God’s knowledge of the future is based not on predicting how the world will be in the future but on seeing how the world is in the future.
	www.philosophyofreligion.info /howdoesgodknowthefuture.html (671 words)

	Foreknowledge and Free Will
		Ordinary foreknowledge does not threaten to necessitate the future because it does not require that when I know p it is not possible that my belief is false.
		There is an important disanalogy between a Frankfurt case and infallible foreknowledge that supports the intuition that an agent retains alternate possibilities even when her act is infallibly foreknown.
		These theorists reject divine timelessness and immutability, along with infallible foreknowledge, arguing that not only should foreknowledge be rejected because of its fatalist consequences, the view of a God who takes risks is more faithful to Scripture than the classical notion of an essentially omniscient and foreknowing deity.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/free-will-foreknowledge (8485 words)

	The Foreknowledge of GOD by AW Pink
		There are two things concerning the Foreknowledge of God about which many are in ignorance: the meaning of the term, its Scriptural scope.
		False theology makes God's foreknowledge of our believing the cause of His election to salvation; whereas, God's election is the cause, and our believing in Christ is the effect.
		The fact is that foreknowledge is never used in Scripture in connection with events or actions; instead, it always has reference to persons.
	www.albatrus.org /english/theology/sovereignty/foreknowledge_of_god.htm (2131 words)

	Foreknowledge of God
		Divine foreknowledge is the knowledge of a Heavenly Father, not knowledge of a metaphysical abstraction.
		Anyone seeking to understand divine foreknowledge must begin by recognizing that scripture does not directly address the question as it has been formulated in philosophy and theology, where the emphasis is on the content and logic of knowledge.
		Maimonides argues that though it is logically impossible for human foreknowledge of one's actions to be compatible with freedom, God's foreknowledge, which is of a different and mysterious kind, is compatible with freedom.
	www.lightplanet.com /mormons/basic/godhead/foreknowledge.html (642 words)

	God's Foreknowledge and Free-Will
		That may be necessary in regard of God’s foreknowledge, which is merely accidental in regard of the natural disposition of the immediate causes which do actually produce it; contingent in its own nature, and in regard of us, but fixed in the knowledge of God.
		Indeed, if we deny God’s foreknowledge of the voluntary actions of men, we must strike ourselves off from the belief of scripture predictions that yet remain unaccomplished, and will be brought about by the voluntary engagements of men, as the ruin of antichrist, andc.
		And thus the foreknowledge of God takes not away the liberty of man’s will, no more than a foreknowledge that we have of any man’s actions takes away his liberty.
	www.mbrem.com /calvinism/foreknowcharnock.htm (3597 words)

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		The word foreknowledge does not appear in the Old Testament, but when the word, "know" is used in connection with God, it means to "choose" or "set favor upon" or "acknowledge” It is those whom he chose or set his favor upon.
		Faith cannot be the cause of foreknowledge as foreknowledge is before predestination, and faith is the effect of predestination.
		Let us look some scripture on foreknowledge and it will be very clear to you that the word foreknowledge refers to the persons and not to their works.
	www.sounddoctrine.net /Nick/foreknowledge.htm (5008 words)

	Freedom and Foreknowledge
		The argument from foreknowledge is an argument that divine omniscience, or more specifically divine foreknowledge, is inconsistent with human freedom.
		One possible concern with the argument from foreknowledge is that it appears to equivocate between different senses of "possible".
		The argument from foreknowledge purports to demonstrate that divine omniscience is inconsistent with future human freedom.
	www.philosophyofreligion.info /freedomandforeknowledge.html (920 words)

	The Reformed Faith Part 4
		But he tries to destroy the force of these words by saying that election is based on foreknowledge, that God looks down the broad avenue of the future and sees those who will respond to His gracious offer, and so elects them.
		The Arminian cannot consistently hold to the foreknowledge of God and yet deny the doctrines of election and predestination.
		The Arminian has no alternative but to deny the foreknowledge of God - and then he has only a limited, ignorant, finite God who in reality is not God at all in the true sense of that word.
	www.reformed.org /calvinism/trf/part_4.html (390 words)

	Foreknowledge
		He is dealing with the matter of Foreknowledge, and Foreknowledge belongs to the realm of the infinite.
		Foreknowledge is in the realm of the supernatural.
		Since I am only finite, and Foreknowledge is in the realm of the infinite, it is beyond my capacity and my ability, even by the aid of the Holy Spirit of God, to have or to possess such knowledge as that.
	www.biblebelievers.net /Calvinism/kjcfknow.htm (3141 words)

	FOREKNOWLEDGE - Holman Bible Dictionary on StudyLight.org
		Foreknowledge and God's Will In the Bible, God's foreknowledge of people is not primarily a reference to His intellect, but to His kind will by which He sets people apart to Himself.
		While Romans 8:29-30 are key verses in any discussion of God's foreknowledge, it is perhaps more correct to interpret these verses in terms of the doctrine of assurance rather than of predestination.
		Directed to Christians experiencing persecution because of their faith in Jesus, 1 Peter's reference to the foreknowledge of God was intended to bring assurance that their existence is part of God's will and plan and that they have a sure and certain hope that is not tied to changing circumstances or events.
	www.studylight.org /dic/hbd/view.cgi?number=T2099 (1112 words)

	Foreknowledge, Romans 8:28-30 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		I want to examine foreknowledge beginning with a more general examination of the topic and then moving to a more specific treatment of the concept as it is used in our text.
		God's foreknowledge is like the experience of a gardener who can look out on his freshly planted field in the early spring and foreknow what sort of plants will be growing in each row of his garden even though no plants are visible.
		The foreknowledge of Romans 8:29 is proactive, not passive.
	capo.org /cpc/os1.htm (2285 words)

	God's Foreknowledge - Act or Attribute?
		· God's decrees are based on his foreknowledge: election on foreseen faith, and reprobation on foreseen resistance to grace.
		Foreknowledge - prognosis - used only of divine foreknowledge; an aspect of divine omniscience (Eph 1:5, 11; Gal.
		Robert Haldane: AFaith cannot be the cause of foreknowledge because, foreknowledge is always before predestination and predestination is the effect of faith.@
	www.soundofgrace.com /dec97/frnoldg.htm (2551 words)

	Exegetical Study of God’s Foreknowledge
		Traditionally, the debate over the meaning of God’s foreknowledge is a consequence of the debate between Calvinists and Arminians over predestination, particularly as it relates to the doctrine of election.
		In Biblical usage, the two concepts [foreknowledge and predestination] are sequential only in that foreknowledge points to initiating cause, namely, God’s love in His choice, while predestination points to the willing act which determines the destiny or outcome.
		It should be noted that if certainty of outcome is inconsistent with freedom, divine foreknowledge, as the Arminian understands that term, presents as much difficulty for human freedom as does divine foreordination.
	bartolucci.8m.com /news5.htm (1455 words)

	The Foreknowledge of God (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Some have spoken disparagingly of the doctrine of foreknowledge and have intimated that, in their opinion, it was not of much importance whether one believed it or not.
		When the Arminian is confronted with the argument from the foreknowledge of God, he has to admit the certainty or fixity of future events.
		To deny God the perfections of foreknowledge and immutability is to represent Him as a disappointed and unhappy being who is often checkmated and defeated by His creatures.
	www.mbrem.com /calvinism/bchapt6.htm (1702 words)

	4. The Foreknowledge of God
		What is meant by "foreknowledge?" "To know beforehand," is the ready reply of many.
		But we must not jump at conclusions, nor must we turn to Webster’s dictionary as the final court of appeal, for it is not a matter of the etymology of the term employed.
		Now what has just been said on "flesh," the "world," immortality, applies with equal force to the terms know and "foreknow." Instead of imagining that these words signify no more than a simple cognition, the different passages in which they occur require to be carefully weighed.
	www.pbministries.org /books/pink/Attributes/attrib_04.htm (2010 words)

	Scientific Foreknowledge (?)
		Moreover, it is most instructive to note that these alleged cases of scientific foreknowledge come, almost without exception, from the sections of the Bible that are written in poetry (Job, Psalms, Proverbs, and the Prophets) and are thus filled with poetic imagery.
		Another such case can be found in Job 38:7 where we are told that "the morning stars sang together." this is often alleged to be scientific foreknowledge of the fact that light is emitted in waves which have tonal quality even though they cannot be heard by human ears.
		This is alleged to be scientific foreknowledge of the gulf-streams in the ocean.
	www.korrnet.org /lcoc/news/00n0524.htm (1152 words)

	Foreknowledge, Predestination, Election
		I Peter 1: "Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ." Now election is based on foreknowledge.
		That foreknowledge determines the election or choice is clear from 1 Peter 1:2 and predestination is the bringing to pass of election." That is true.
		On the basis of His foreknowledge, the Bible is silent, except for the fact that it is by grace.
	www.wayoflife.org /fbns/foreknowledge.htm (5872 words)

	Observations on the Divine Attributes: His Eternal Wisdom and Foreknowledge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This foreknowledge of God is not conjectural and uncertain (for then it would not be foreknowledge), but most sure and infallible, so that whatever He foreknows to be future shall necessarily and undoubtedly come to pass.
		The influence which the Divine foreknowledge has on the certain futurition of the things foreknown does not render the intervention of second causes needless, nor destroy the nature of the things themselves.
		God's foreknowledge, taken abstractedly, is not the sole cause of beings and events, but His will and foreknowledge together.
	www.graceonlinelibrary.org /etc/printer-friendly.asp?ID=314 (314 words)

	FOREKNOWLEDGE
		One of the students mentioned that he thought that if foreknowledge was involved, then the game was fixed and it isn't fun playing a game that is fixed, even if you are the winner.
		Foreknowledge is not always used in relation to salvation.
		Foreknowledge is the crux of the issue it would seem.
	www.open.org /mrdsnts/d05400.htm (2359 words)

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