The scriptures are filled with evidence of the omniscience of God. In everyday vernacular we are talking about the all-knowing nature of God. Consider the following verse: Acts 2:23 him, being delivered up by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye by the hand of lawless men did crucify and slay:. Here Peter is preaching on the day of Pentecost and tells the people that the crucifixion of Jesus was foreknown by God.
A reasonable question arises. How long before it happened did God know that it would take place? It would have been long enough had He known a week or a month before it happened. However consider Isaiah 53 which prophetically describes the crucifixion more than 700 years before it took place. We also see from Psalm 22 another description of this event spoken of by David more than 1000 years prior to the event. If more proof is needed we can go back to Genesis 3 and read of the prediction of this event when man was cast out of the garden.
We said all that to show from the scriptures the foreknowledge of God. Because God knew before creation that man would sin He made a plan for man's redemption. Jesus was crucified to make redemption available to us according to the foreknowledge of God. Praise God!
Why Does It Matter?
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He remembers what the squall was, but his mom and dad never even had a
clue. Not even when the event took place. There is nothing quite like the
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4 years ago
3 comments:
Dear Josiah,
AMEN!
Christian
Josiah, It is awesome in the real sense, to try to grasp the nature of God. Knowing all things--omniscience. We have only a tiny inkling of why, when we ponder on the idea of parents and children. Why do we choose to have children? Many different reasons of course.
Dear Josiah,
As I was pondering the Omniscience of God, I remembered these Scriptures:
Isaiah 55:6-11
I Corinthians 1:20-31
God knows.
Christian
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