God knows the end from the beginning....or does He?

[EastCoastRemnant]

Brothers, I'm noticing your sandles are a might dusty....

If you guys keep entertaining these scoffers, this thread will be 44 pages long... and no closer to a common understanding. Take Pauls advice when he was with the Greeks...

 

[Kira Light]

Brothers, I'm noticing your sandles are a might dusty....

If you guys keep entertaining these scoffers, this thread will be 44 pages long... and no closer to a common understanding. Take Pauls advice when he was with the Greeks...

I wonder if this analogy applies to a thread on a message board. Especially when you will just go on and talk to the exact same people in other threads.

 

[Stryder06]

Brothers, I'm noticing your sandles are a might dusty....

If you guys keep entertaining these scoffers, this thread will be 44 pages long... and no closer to a common understanding. Take Pauls advice when he was with the Greeks...

 

[Pythons]

A rhetorical question and he then went on to debate which is not allowed by forum rules.

How about a follow through with that question then....
...Perhaps you could help me understand the real meaning.

A) It appears that SDA's admit that God indeed knows the end from the beginning.

B) It appears that SDA's admit that God, through the Prophets was explicit that God would provide Salvation.

C) It appears that SDA's admit that Jesus spoke of Himself as already having Salvation within Himself.

If God knows the end from the beginning AND communicated one part of that knowledge to us through the explicit teachings of the Bible then the only question that remains is one of interpretation.

Given that Ellen White interpreted the Bible to teach that Jesus actually could have lost His salvation and eternally ceased to exist - the question naturally becomes what authority or ability Ellen White had so that her interpretation outweighs everyone else who has read the Bible and reached the clear understanding that Christ was eternally the Christ and as such could do nothing at all but suffer and die for humanity.

 

[tall73]

Lol, DL, you can rest easy, my wife has not been on staff for over a year.

 

[tall73]

That's based on your perception because your knowledge of the outcome is only based on the past.

If you had a choice to wear a white shirt or a blue shirt to work this morning, you picked the blue shirt. God already knew the outcome. Is God's knowledge based on your choice? Did you actually have a choice this morning or God predestined you to do so?

I had a choice. God knew it.

Jesus had choices. But God knew how they would go AND predicted them.

Since He knew it would be successful, it is not risk.


And actually I wore some ugly brown pattern shirt because I was out of laundry! But God knew I would!

 

[tall73]

A) It appears that SDA's admit that God indeed knows the end from the beginning.

Based on DL's previous round of posts, and his declining to comment on whether he is an open theist, I am not sure he does believe God knows the future. Perhaps he can clarify.

 

[Sophia7]

Lol, DL, you can rest easy, my wife has not been on staff for over a year.

It's been almost two years since I resigned.

 

[JohnMarsten]

Brothers, I'm noticing your sandles are a might dusty....

If you guys keep entertaining these scoffers, this thread will be 44 pages long... and no closer to a common understanding. Take Pauls advice when he was with the Greeks...

was this comment written in the spirit of love?

 

[tall73]

Rom 1:2 which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,
Rom 1:3 concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh


Did God promise it DL?

Tit 1:2 in hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began
Tit 1:3 and at the proper time manifested in his word through the preaching with which I have been entrusted by the command of God our Savior

Did God promise DL?

 

[tall73]

OntheDL, do you believe the promises of God?

Act 13:29 And when they had carried out all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree and laid him in a tomb.
Act 13:30 But God raised him from the dead,
Act 13:31 and for many days he appeared to those who had come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses to the people.
Act 13:32 And we bring you the good news that what God promised to the fathers,
Act 13:33 this he has fulfilled to us their children by raising Jesus, as also it is written in the second Psalm, "'You are my Son, today I have begotten you.'

 

[tall73]

OntheDL, do you believe God's promises?

Act 13:23 Of this man's offspring God has brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus, as he promised.

 

[EastCoastRemnant]

was this comment written in the spirit of love?

It was counsel to stop an endless debate that is not glorifying God...

 

[tall73]

What doesn't glorify God is that folks here are saying He could fail in what He promised.

 

[EastCoastRemnant]

What doesn't glorify God is that folks here are saying He could fail in what He promised.

He also promised salvation for all... is that going to happen?

Nobody here believes He would have failed for He was implicitly obedient to His Father... the fact that He had human nature and had the choice of disobedience is the point.

 

[tall73]

He also promised salvation for all... is that going to happen?

Can you please cite your text?

 

[tall73]

Nobody here believes He would have failed for He was implicitly obedient to His Father... the fact that He had human nature and had the choice of disobedience is the point.

If God promised it and foresaw it then there was no risk of failure. Ellen White's statement talks about the risk the pre-incarnate Christ took by coming here.

Now if God promised it and they knew it would work, how can you call that risk?

 

[tall73]

Nobody here believes He would have failed

Nobody here believes this statement then?

Then as the glories of the eternal home burst upon our enraptured senses we shall remember that Jesus left all this for us, that He not only became an exile from the heavenly courts, but for us took the risk of failure and eternal loss. {DA 131.2}

I think you have hit on something. I don't think the folks here truly believe the statement she made.

 

[tall73]

He not only became an exile from the heavenly courts, but for us took the risk of failure and eternal loss. {DA 131.2}


Tit 1:2 hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began



Which one is right?

 

[EastCoastRemnant]

Can you please cite your text?

Romans 5:18
Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.