But since God's knowledge is certain and not liable to error, the person in question cannot help acting as God long foreknew he would act, and hence his act is not the result of his free will.
And if God does know, the man cannot but choose as God foreknew he would choose, and what becomes of his freedom?
If man is bound to act as God foreknewhe would act, divine knowledge is saved, man's freedom lost.
Out of the tribe of Issachar came two hundred, who foreknew what was to come hereafter, [3] but of armed men twenty thousand.
These words of Josephus concerning the tribe of Issachar, who foreknew what was to come hereafter," are best paraphrased by the parallel text.
Or if God had chosen to prevent this, to render it absolutely impossible, by the creation of no beings who he foreknew would rebel against him, this might have contracted his moral empire into the most insignificant limits.
Why did he not leave all such uncreated, and call into existence only such as he foreknew would obey his law, and become like himself in purity and bliss?
It is a terrible decree, I grant; yet no man shall be able to deny but that God foreknew what end man should have ere he created him, and therefore foreknew because he had so ordained by his decree.
Moreover, if He who foreknew what would be in the power of our wills did not foreknow nothing, but something, assuredly, even though He did foreknow, there is something in the power of our wills.
Prayers, also, are of avail to procure those things which He foreknew that He would grant to those who offered them; and with justice have rewards been appointed for good deeds, and punishments for sins.
For a man does not therefore sin because God foreknew that he would sin.
Neither let us be afraid lest, after all, we do not do by will that which we do by will, because He, whose foreknowledge is infallible, foreknew that we would do it.
That God foreknew that the first man would sin, and that He at the same time foresaw how large a multitude of godly persons would by His grace be translated to the fellowship of the angels.
For he who foreknew this did not foreknow nothing.
It is not the case, therefore, that because God foreknew what would be in the power of our wills, there is for that reason nothing in the power of our wills.
But we affirm that, if God foreknew it, this volition would certainly and without fail occur in this very Judas.
His plan, as he foreknewit would be, is a grand success.
Is there proof that God foreknew the end from the beginning?
His disciples also falsely pretended, that he foreknew and foretold every thing that happened to him.
The disciples of Jesus, not being able to adduce any thing respecting him that was obviously manifest, falsely assert that he foreknew all things; and have written other things of a similar kind respecting lum.
And he foreknewall the remorse he was to shrug away, after the squandering of so much pride and love.
But He neither foreknewnor pre-ordained that He would do anything except what He does.
Whom He foreknewand predestined to be made conformable to the image of His Son.
Whom He foreknew He also predestinated to be made conformable to the image of His Son, that He might be the first born of many brethren.
He adds that God made man male and female before sin, because He foreknew the mode of generation which would take place after sin, which He foresaw.
In this sense we say that this conditional is true and necessary: "If God foreknew that this would happen, it will happen.
The decree, I admit, is dreadful; and yet it is impossible to deny that God foreknew what the end of man was to be before he made him, and foreknew because he had so ordained by his decree.
The certainty of future events which God foreknew could have had its ground only in his decree, since he alone existed to be the ground and explanation of this certainty.
This view that Jesus existed before creation only ideally in the divine mind, means simply that God foreknew him and his coming.
But before the arrival of that time in which He has willed the occurrence of what He foreknew and arranged before all time, we say, It will happen when God wills.
The Lord foreknew that after 360 years more of living with the kings of earth, and endeavoring to gain dominion over them, the Roman Catholic Church would be unrepentant.
And if it be still urged that, as God foreknew how men would use their freedom, He need not have created those who would habitually use it wrongly; in other words, there might be no wicked men in the world, the answer is obvious.
We showed in the last chapter that the Creator designed the universe; in other words, that when he created it, He foreknew its future history.
So when the Creator originated the universe, if He foreknew the results of His action, it would be to design those results, as the word is here used.
It is true God foreknew that some would not believe on his Son and be redeemed, and he foreknew that others would.
It is an awful decree, I confess but no one can deny that God foreknew the future final fate of man before he created him, and that he did foreknow it because it was appointed by his own decree.
To illustrate this point:--I know that I act; and hence, I conclude that God foreknew that I would act.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "foreknew" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
