John 3:16-18 is not about God's universal love (there is no such thing).

When does God know you? After ye are known of God...

Galatians 4
8 Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
9 But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?

God naive? Nonsense, but He’s never experienced life in a human body until Jesus became flesh.

Could you explain the Galatians passage? Thanks.

Did God know you before salvation? Use Scripture not emotional thoughts of who God must be.

God is perfect in knowledge. Allow Scripture to define what this means not man made definitions. Please don’t use Isaiah 46:10 either. People take this way out of context.

you don't like naive - you okay with ignorant, oblivious, uneducated, simple . . ? needing to be instructed?
i'll check some other thesauruses for 'not omniscient' and 'having no idea who if anyone He's looking for while He leaves the 99'

God is never taken by surprise at our decisions for He knows us better than we know ourselves. Plus, He knows exactly what to do with whatever choice we make. If you do this, then I’ll do this...the OT is full of these statements.

Here's a cut and paste... for brevity foreknowledge is different from predestination.

Foreknowledge is an attribute of God's omniscience. Primarily, foreknowledge had to do with persons and places, and predestination is centered in God's purposes. Foreknowledge contains ONE element, that is, knowing what is going to happen before it takes place. In relation to people and places, it does not contain the element of bringing it to pass or making it happen. Predestination, on the other hand, is different from foreknowledge in that it contains TWO elements: One is the prediction (His omniscience) and the other is the act of God (His omnipotence) to bring it to pass. The confusion begins when one inserts meanings into a word which it does not contain.

God revealed himself to Moses and not to all, that is fine but this is not something to do with salvation.

Good verse to those who respond to the gospel truth! They that believe will be save and to those that reject the truth, those who believe not even when they told so was to them the preaching is foolishness!

Scripture please? Psalm 139 does not say this, btw. Plus, exceptions never make the rule.

no, i probably couldn't.

but it's intimately related to this:

and this:

as well as 1 Corinthians 2:16 & 8:3, Psalm 91:14 & Romans 8:29. also it contains marriage-language, which introduces about 200 more passages, and it certainly doesn't say omniscient God was ignorant of you before you revealed yourself to Him.

you said He knows us better than we know ourselves and that He's "never taken by surprise" by our decisions -- so when was your first decision? He knew you before that. did you kick, from within your mother's belly? it didn't surprise Him.

is your god not also your Creator?

Genesis 2:7 is Adam, and the number of hairs on one’s head is knowledge to be known by God.

God knew Lazarus, but did not know the rich man in hell. His name had been blotted out of the book of life. It’s as if he never existed in God’s eyes.

The word world is Kosmos and means whole order of things......end of thread and story!

Exactly, World is World, not just Israel, which.... does not cancel out or diminishing divine election, duuurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Or does it?

If so why?

Interesting dialect.