godslove
May 30th, 2007, 06:50 PM
Foreknow
Does this word really have anything to do with peering into the future. I think it is wise to see how this word and its close relatives are actually used in the Scriptures. As you will see it means know before, as in knowing that person in the past. Of course this was and still is too strong for some, even those who are well learned. (the word represented by the # 4267 is from the following words represented by the #s 4253 and 1097 which bears out what I am saying.)
Acts 26:5 Which knew <4267> me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
Romans 8:29 For whom he did foreknow <4267>, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
Romans 11:2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew <4267>. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying,
1 Peter 1:20 Who verily was foreordained <4267> before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
2 Peter 3:17 Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before <4267>, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.
Acts 2:23 Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge <4268> of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
1 Peter 1:2 Elect according to the foreknowledge <4268> of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
Romans 3:25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past <4266>, through the forbearance of God;
Here is Strong’s definitions. I think that he should of dropped the ie and forgot the supposition and the implications and just give us what the word means. I believe that if you go with what the Scriptures say, you will agree…God bless.
4267. proginwskw proginosko prog-in-oce’-ko; from 4253 and 1097; to know beforehand, i.e. foresee:— foreknow (ordain), know (before).
4253. pro pro pro; a primary preposition; "fore," i.e. in front of, prior (figuratively, superior) to:— above, ago, before, or ever. In comparison it retains the same significations.
1097. ginwskw ginosko ghin-oce’-ko; a prolonged form of a primary verb; to "know" (absolutely) in a great variety of applications and with many implications (as follow, with others not thus clearly expressed):— allow, be aware (of), feel, (have) know(-ledge), perceived, be resolved, can speak, be sure, understand.
Does this word really have anything to do with peering into the future. I think it is wise to see how this word and its close relatives are actually used in the Scriptures. As you will see it means know before, as in knowing that person in the past. Of course this was and still is too strong for some, even those who are well learned. (the word represented by the # 4267 is from the following words represented by the #s 4253 and 1097 which bears out what I am saying.)
Acts 26:5 Which knew <4267> me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
Romans 8:29 For whom he did foreknow <4267>, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
Romans 11:2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew <4267>. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying,
1 Peter 1:20 Who verily was foreordained <4267> before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
2 Peter 3:17 Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before <4267>, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.
Acts 2:23 Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge <4268> of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
1 Peter 1:2 Elect according to the foreknowledge <4268> of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
Romans 3:25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past <4266>, through the forbearance of God;
Here is Strong’s definitions. I think that he should of dropped the ie and forgot the supposition and the implications and just give us what the word means. I believe that if you go with what the Scriptures say, you will agree…God bless.
4267. proginwskw proginosko prog-in-oce’-ko; from 4253 and 1097; to know beforehand, i.e. foresee:— foreknow (ordain), know (before).
4253. pro pro pro; a primary preposition; "fore," i.e. in front of, prior (figuratively, superior) to:— above, ago, before, or ever. In comparison it retains the same significations.
1097. ginwskw ginosko ghin-oce’-ko; a prolonged form of a primary verb; to "know" (absolutely) in a great variety of applications and with many implications (as follow, with others not thus clearly expressed):— allow, be aware (of), feel, (have) know(-ledge), perceived, be resolved, can speak, be sure, understand.