Les Feldick Bible Study

What did God know about believers before He created the world?

God, in His foreknowledge, knew the believer before anything was ever created, and chose us in Christ before the foundations of the world. He also knew where the believer would be in the Body of Christ. This choosing rests on His foreknowledge.

Les teaches that before anything was created, God knew the believer and where He would be in God's Body of Christ. This connects to predestination and foreknowledge: God chose us in Christ before anything was ever created, and believers were chosen before the foundations of the world. Les also sets against this the verses that whosoever will may come, that Christ tasted death for every man, and Paul's statement in 2 Corinthians 5 that if He died for all, then all were dead—meaning the whole human race, every man, woman, and child born into Adam's family. He says these two facets or doctrines cannot be reconciled because they are beyond us.

Romans 8:30

Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.