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Your correct those are scriptures that God is omniscient (all knowing). Like I said, scriptures are interpreted differently.
Hey JoJoe, I have been doing the election V.S Foreknowledge thing for years, been through all those scriptures you gave over and over.
I am sorry, your doing a fine Job, and to get you to see how God works, it would take ripping apart some ideas you have picked up through the years from others. A big task, for sure.
I'll give you a bit on it. If your interest, then go study it and ask God yourself. You can ask me also.
God Knows, because God causes:
So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
(Isa 55:11)
From the Ass and colt tied up Jesus had sent for, to Revelation, if God speaks something, it's coming to pass. This is not God knowing, this is God speaking and causing. He upholds all things by the Word of His power.
What God knows Now:
Hair on your head, number of stars (He should he made them) Number of flies in your house. (I counted two in mine) God's ability to gain immediate knowledge on anything is apparent in scriptures.
What does God not know
Keep in mind, God is not tracking everything. Lots of things happen, that the Lord is not aware of, or even cares to know. Things that get his attention, he check it out.
And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;
I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not,
I will know.
(Gen 18:20-21)
Study out cries, cry in scripture:
God hears the cry of things, in this case the cry of sin from Sodom. God said he would go and look to see if the sin was matching the cry He heard in heaven.
God knows the heart:
The scripture you posted, God knows all things about the heart, our intentions, our true thinkings. We can't con God or BS him. It's the heart of man that God knows about a man.
1Ch_28:9 And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the
LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.
Psa_44:21 Shall not God search this out?
for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
Jer_17:10 I the LORD search the heart,
I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
God gives to us according to our heart and ways. Not some foreknowledge, or some predestination. By what we do, and the condition of our heart. The heart can change on God for good or bad. This is what God looks at though.
The good news is...............
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
(Jer 29:11)
God is not harboring foreknowledge that your not going to make it. He believes you will and only thinks the best of everyone.
Abraham:
For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
(Gen 18:19)
How does God know Abraham will? He personally knew Abraham. Not some foreknowledge, not some predestination.
He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none. Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground? And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it: And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.
(Luk 13:6-9)
Notice Jesus did not say that by some foreknowledge He knew the tree would make it or not make it. It was according to the tree's heart if the tree was going to make it.
Notice the tree was given help, though it did not produce fruit, hoping it would make it?
How does God know what we will be doing in the future if He only knows our heart and what we have done?
This is also told to us in scripture, but I gave you more than enough to digest.
JoJoe, My hope for you is that you avoid the confused doctrines of men, and stick to the eternal Word only. Even I find from time to time some doctrine I just believed stuck in me, and it irritates me. Even from my own camp, but I need scripture to back up everything.
Blessings JoJoe.
Mike
