To foreknow is to “forelove.” For a reason known only to God he bestows his love on some.
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To foreknow is to “forelove.” For a reason known only to God he bestows his love on some.
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Others, whom God did not choose to forelove and ordain to be saved, were deliberately passed over, and were therefore doomed to destruction; based entirely on God's mysterious, secret will.
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[...] that these people never had covenantal relations with him; the Good Shepherd did not know them as his sheep, and they did not know him (John 10:14). Thus, to foreknow is to forelove.
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Calvinists generally claim that in these instances God's foreknowledge should be understood as His “forelove.”
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