Grace and Peace,
I am fairly new to Reformed Theology and have been writing for the past month or so a refutation to arminian arguments.
Can anyone help to write a logical and rational refutation to the foreknowledge argument?:
(1) In Romans 8:29-30, and everywhere else, God's election and predestination is based on His Foreknowledge.
(2) By the way, which one comes first? Foreknowledge, election, predestination etc.?
(3) Concerning Judas:
On John 6:37,39,44 Jesus says only those that come to Him are those that the Father gives Him. Then Jesus says in John 10:27-29 that His sheep hears His voice and follows Him and that no one will take His sheep from His hands.
The difficulty I'm having concerns Judas and the following verses:
Can Jesus lose any person God gives Him according to John 18:9 and 17:12? How about losing Judas? Wasn't he one of the elect?
In Christ,
Nathan
I am fairly new to Reformed Theology and have been writing for the past month or so a refutation to arminian arguments.
Can anyone help to write a logical and rational refutation to the foreknowledge argument?:
(1) In Romans 8:29-30, and everywhere else, God's election and predestination is based on His Foreknowledge.
(2) By the way, which one comes first? Foreknowledge, election, predestination etc.?
(3) Concerning Judas:
On John 6:37,39,44 Jesus says only those that come to Him are those that the Father gives Him. Then Jesus says in John 10:27-29 that His sheep hears His voice and follows Him and that no one will take His sheep from His hands.
The difficulty I'm having concerns Judas and the following verses:
Can Jesus lose any person God gives Him according to John 18:9 and 17:12? How about losing Judas? Wasn't he one of the elect?
In Christ,
Nathan