I was considering the "God is outside of time"/"God sees the whole timeline at once" line of argumentation that predominantly is used by free willers. They like this in order to say that although God knows all of our future actions, His knowledge is merely descriptive, not determinately prescriptive. Thus all of our free will actions are genuinely free, we can choose to believe or not believe, etc. God merely "sees" our future free will actions from the perspective of His being "ahead" of us on the timeline.
To my knowledge, viewing God's foreknowledge in this way is not scripturally supported. I would think that God speaks unto us the proper perspective that He wants us to have.
Thus, He says, "before the foundation of the world," not "after the destruction of the world."
He says "from the beginning," not "after the ending."
He says "before time began," not "after time ended."
He says "Before the twins had done anything," not "after the twins had done everything."
Finally, He says "before they spring into being, I announce them to you," rather than "after I already witnessed them fully sprung into being, I descriptively forewarn you of them."
God seemingly goes to great pains to make sure we understand Him to be communicating a sure decree, not a description of events He merely knows about because He sees the whole timeline at once, and can speak to us now much like a time traveller from the future could.
Just my thoughts.
To my knowledge, viewing God's foreknowledge in this way is not scripturally supported. I would think that God speaks unto us the proper perspective that He wants us to have.
Thus, He says, "before the foundation of the world," not "after the destruction of the world."
He says "from the beginning," not "after the ending."
He says "before time began," not "after time ended."
He says "Before the twins had done anything," not "after the twins had done everything."
Finally, He says "before they spring into being, I announce them to you," rather than "after I already witnessed them fully sprung into being, I descriptively forewarn you of them."
God seemingly goes to great pains to make sure we understand Him to be communicating a sure decree, not a description of events He merely knows about because He sees the whole timeline at once, and can speak to us now much like a time traveller from the future could.
Just my thoughts.