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If you think God doesn’t foreknow who will be saved until they are saved, that is only consistent in open theism.

I think it makes a huge difference to know an all wise, all knowing God rather than a God who can’t see everything, including the future, and is limited in knowledge by our free choices. Your position only makes sense within the paradigm of open theism. So when you said you are not an open...

We do not base our understanding of God on what we think would be beneficial to us. We did not create God for our benefit or pleasure. He created us for His Good Pleasure.

Foreknowledge is always useful. knowledge, if it is coupled with righteousness and holiness, God is perfect in wisdom, knowledge, foreknowledge, and discretion.

I think comparing the fact that God knows a person will be saved and how He will use them and what He will call them to with God knowing you will stub your toe or what tie you’ll wear is a bad comparison.

Yes. And what we think is beneficial to us is not how we are to base our understanding of God and His attributes.

Are you versed in Koine Greek tenses? Because those verses are not destructive to any Christian who rightly understands them.

Good response. In addition, our understanding of God should not be conditioned by what we think is beneficial to us. And if God didn’t have all knowledge, how could He be all wise? How could He be infallible in understanding?

Yes. All scripture is inspired by God and profitable for all believers

It’s not all about us, is it?

God’s knowledge is of no benefit to us? That’s a strangethought. My phone is about to die, but I’ll respond later

the epistles of John are not just for the tribulation period. They are relevant in every era of Christianity.

How does God give prophecy if He doesn’t have a perfect foreknowledge of the future?

It’s the difference between a God who is forced to react all the time based on the cards that fate has dealt Him, and a God that knows all things and therefore is perfect in knowledge and wisdom and works all things after the council of His own will.

Presuming that God doesn’t have perfect foreknowledge is baffling.

Who told you the Gospel was about us?

If you think that, you don’t understa Are you sure about that?

Believing that God has perfect foreknowledge and knowledge is not Calvinistic.

You’re talking about knowing (γινωσκω) I am talking about foreknowledge ( προγινωσκω). Not at all the same thing.

I’m not talking about man and what man can do. I’m talking about what God can do. You are still focusing on man. I am focusing on God. You keep talking about man’s choice, while I am talking about the power and glory of God. I’m not saying that God’s knowledge limits our freedom. But...