What does God foreordain?
Here's a question that has puzzled me for awhile: What does God foreordain?
(Note: Foreordain is another word for predestine. My definition - to determine/will the outcome of an event before it happens).
With the recent posts about God's sovereignty as well as the discussion I had with Truitt and Diesel at Slidell, I feel like this is a relevant topic.
So, does God foreordain:
A) Nothing at all? A Christian holding this view would need to explain God's interaction with the universe. Take weather, for example. If weather is not foreordained, how does it occur? Does God decide the current weather in the present moment? Or does God not have control over weather?
B) Prophetic events only? I ask in response: what makes prophetic events special so that they are the only things that God ordains? Does God allow creation to exist 'as is' and intervene only during significant moments in history?
C) Salvation? Believers holding this idea must explain how this idea harmonizes with human responsibility.
And there are other questions. Would God predestine some to salvation, but still give the non-elect the opportunity to be saved? Then I would ask: why would God have two tiers of believers - the elect and the 'lucky'?
Even more bone-chilling: If salvation is predetermined, but not everyone is saved, does it then follow that some are predestined to spend eternity in Hell? If so, then why would God do that?
D) Everything that matters to God? In this case, I would ask: what is a biblical definition of occurrences that 'matter to God'? Or, perhaps a better question to ask is: what does God not care about?
E) All events? Well then, are people no more than robots? How does one holding this view explain evil? If God's providence extends over all events, can humans make any real choices?
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