I am also irritated by the debates of “foreknowledge” versus “predestination”. We totally depraved human beings-never perfected in our faith, only forgiven in it-are attempting to get our limited minds around the knowledge and action of God, the omnipotent, omniscient, eternal, unchanging, all-loving God. It never seems to occur to any of us mentally centered and omnisciently-challenged lovers of Jesus to consider the “both/neither” response.
The “knowledge and action” of God may well be indivisible. This combination of both exists at a level of perfection that is only mystery to the rest of us. To parse them like they were a legal technicality diminishes God and our faith in him. Just because we cannot get our brains around true free will in creation and true divine control of creation doesn’t limit God, just us. Perhaps we can describe another attribute of God as “omni-paradoxical”, in other words, because we don’t get it does not mean God don’t get it. Aren’t you happy to be picked?
-Peter Hofstra, Opiner
