Omniscience

To me, the “elect of God” (Mat 24:24: Rom 8:33; Col 3:12; Tit 1:1) are those whom God knows are going to “choose life” (Deu 30:19) and receive the Lord Jesus; and this before the “foundation of the world” (Eph 1:4), even from the eternal past. He chose us before we chose Him, because He foreknew of our receiving Christ into our lives (Jhn 1:12).

Therefore, those whom He foreknew would choose Him, He “predestinated unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will” (Eph 1:5, 11). These are those whom He “called,” “justified,” and “glorified” (Rom 8:30).

My perspective is that mankind was called to salvation when God sent His Son, but He knew only “few” would choose to believe in Him” (Mat 7:13, 14), and that it would be worth it (Luk 15:7). Remember, God is not a “respecter of persons” (Acts 10:34; Mat 22:16; Luk 20:21; Rom 2:11; Gal 2:6; Eph 6:9; Col 3:25; 1Pe 1:17), thus the answer that God chooses whom He will and will not save is absented of Scriptural support!
 
God created time and thus stands outside of time and its constraints. This is as true whether one uses astronomy to track stellar motions into the past toward the big bang, or whether one uses Genesis to examine origins (in fact the first day is not a bad general description of the big bang).

While man experiences time moment by moment from past thru present and into future, God experiences all times in parallel.

We have before, now, and after. God IS.

Think of time as a parade, with man on the sideline. Man only remembers what has past, experiences what is in front of him and anticipates what follows. While God is like looking down on the whole parade from high above. He experiences the whole at all times.

If you analyze man's life from man's viewpoint, you see a series of choices that determine the final destination. This illustrates man's free will.

God sees all man's choices as a whole and thus knows the path and destination of each man. This illustrates predestination. At no time did God's knowledge of any man's path restrict the choices man had in following that path. (Predestination does not preclude free-will).
 
God created time and thus stands outside of time and its constraints. This is as true whether one uses astronomy to track stellar motions into the past toward the big bang, or whether one uses Genesis to examine origins (in fact the first day is not a bad general description of the big bang).

While man experiences time moment by moment from past thru present and into future, God experiences all times in parallel.

We have before, now, and after. God IS.

Think of time as a parade, with man on the sideline. Man only remembers what has past, experiences what is in front of him and anticipates what follows. While God is like looking down on the whole parade from high above. He experiences the whole at all times.

If you analyze man's life from man's viewpoint, you see a series of choices that determine the final destination. This illustrates man's free will.

God sees all man's choices as a whole and thus knows the path and destination of each man. This illustrates predestination. At no time did God's knowledge of any man's path restrict the choices man had in following that path. (Predestination does not preclude free-will).
Hi, and appreciate the input!
 
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