[b]Swinny89 wrote:[/b] [quote]you know.... i think this all may be a misunderstanding on the definition of predestination. my mother and youth paster believe in \"predestination\" but not reallly.... they call it that, but i think they mean predestination in the boundarys of foreknowledge. what is your definition of predestination?[/quote] We use terms like \"predestination\" and \"foreknowledge\" to explain in human terms what we cannot comprehend. God isn\'t bound by this thing we call \"time\"-He exists outside of it. The fact that God is infinite proves this since time is a finite concept (it is theoretically possible to have an infinite amount of time, but it still has it\'s limitations). We can\'t comprehend existence outside of time because everything we see and everything we can experience (in this life) is bound by it. There is no past, present, or future (these are all expressions of time) with God-He sees all of time as a whole. The term \"foreknowledge\" is really a human way of trying to comprehend God\'s infinity. \"Predestination\" goes along with this. God knows every choice we are going to make infinity before we make it (speaking in human terms). So for all practical purposes, it is set in stone outside of time because of God being infinite. With foreknowledge comes predestination. and without predestination there is no foreknowledge.

Post edited by: Silent_K, at: 2007/07/18 09:44