I am constantly amazed at how I share things and people don’t hear. A student asked what kind of books for a book report. I waited and eventually another student piped up and answered correctly. I turned around and asked, “How did you know that?” She said, “I was listening.” In all classes I have two types of students. One type will keep asking how and what to do no matter how many times I explain it. The other type will be halfway done by that time. Within a few days I can tell which type of student most will be. You could call it foreknowledge on my part but it is foreknowledge based on observing how they behave.
Does God know ahead of time who will be saved? If I can figure out how students will do with a fair degree of accuracy, God, with perfect knowledge, would obviously be able to do even better. Is this predestination? Maybe. Is it free will? Maybe.
I don’t plan to take a chance on it. Remember Pascal’s gamble. If you bet on God being who the Bible claims He is and you are wrong you lose nothing. If you bet on no God and you are wrong you gain nothing.
Place your bets. And don’t forget to hand in your homework.
homo unius libri
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