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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of foreknow.

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  • As Dr. James White explains in this video below, for the Arminian, the phrase foreknew in Romans 8: 29, namely "those whom He foreknew He predestined" is translated to mean "those whose actions of faith God foresaw - on the basis of those actions of faith, He predestined" .... reading that boat-load of theology into that verb is a classic example of eisegesis.

    Reformation Theology 2009

  • What does the word "foreknew" mean in the New Testament?

    Reformation Theology 2009

  • What does the word "foreknew" mean in the New Testament?

    Reformation Theology 2009

  • For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren; and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified.

    Recovering From Religious Abuse Jack Watts 2011

  • For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren; and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified.

    Recovering From Religious Abuse Jack Watts 2011

  • For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren; and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified.

    Recovering From Religious Abuse Jack Watts 2011

  • For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren; and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified.

    Recovering From Religious Abuse Jack Watts 2011

  • Yet no one can deny that God foreknew what end man was to have before he created him, and consequently foreknew because he so ordained by his decree… God not only foresaw the fall of the first man, and in him the ruin of his descendants, but also meted it out in accordance with his own decision.

    Why I am not a Calvinist « Anglican Samizdat 2009

  • God hath not cast away his people, which he foreknew.

    Archive 2009-05-01 2009

  • This results in what I've sometimes called the "bored view of God", in which God spends eternity doing what God always knew God would do, with no surprises, no genuine decisions, and in one sense no freedom, since God will presumably always do what God perfectly foreknew God would do.

    Watching Jacob Grow Young On LOST James F. McGrath 2009

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