God’s Foreknowledge

 

 

Some believe that God can know

If He really wants to know

But He turns off his foreknowledge

And chooses not to know.

 

“God knows all that can be known”

This I read some time ago

So that God is limited in matters

That even God can never know.

 

For example, God did not know

That Adam and Eve would have fallen,

If so, why would he have placed

That tree in the midst of Eden?

 

Right in the focus of their mind

To harass them every day,

“Surely, God felt they would survive,”

This is what some say?

 

I find this particularly silly

And I hope that you do too

For if God wanted a world of robots

This would have been easy to do.

 

But to my mind, He did not,

That’s why He gave us choice

So that when presented with a situation

We would listen to His voice.   

 

The Bible shows in Holy Writ

That God is all knowing and all wise,

Nothing’s outside of His knowledge

No matter how cleverly disguised.

Well, why did He ask Adam

To declare where He was hiding?

Would God not have prior known

Even if Adam was lying?

 

God wanted Adam to own up

To the fact that he had disobeyed

And the punishment that would result

Commencing that very day.

 

God’s foreknowledge was not turned off

Nor was He unaware of the present,

A string of consequences had been set in train

Hence the course of unfolding events.

 

Still evident to our very day

As our world grapples with the fall out,

That sin has been the cause of all this

There are still many that doubt.

 

God’s foreknowledge is not on off,

This could never be a fact

For, how would an all-knowing all-wise God

Be able to accomplish that?

 

So, the mere fact that God knows all

Implies that all is already known

And this matter of a divine reality

Is certainly without our zone.

 

 

This says to my simple mind

That God knows the passage of time

Whether it be past, present or future,

All is contained in God’s mind.

 

It was God that created time’s line

He knows every single event,

It matters not its relative significance,

To God all of time is the present.

 

 

Time’s history is already written

And to God’s mind is already history,

To us much of history is in the future

But the present is our reality.

 

We often worry about the past

And we attempt to change the future

But the reality of the present presents

A quite overwhelming picture.

 

Concerning God’s foreknowledge

What is it you believe?

I adjure you, believe on the Lord Jesus

And “so great salvation” receive.

 

Stewart Russell © May 5, 2022