When did God plan our redemption, and with what knowledge?

Les teaches that redemption is through His blood, bringing forgiveness of sins, not because we merited it but according to His grace. This is beyond human comprehension: God did all this before we even came on the scene, with foreknowledge that we would one day be His, be in Him, be redeemed, and be forgiven. Redemption is not a Pauline invention; it comes all the way up from the Garden of Eden. God placed Adam and Eve there, and they were His and fellowshiped with Him daily. But sin came in, and He lost them because He could not fellowship with them in their sin. He went into the Garden asking, “Where art thou?” not because He did not know where they were, but to show they were now separated from Him. Adam should have answered, “We’re lost.”