The Apostle Paul knew that his teaching on predestination was going to cause some people

to scratch their heads and in fact, object.

In Romans chapter 9, Paul anticipated that they would call it unfair.

They say it's not fair that God from all eternity without a view to what we do makes his decision.

And so the very fact that that's the objection he anticipates that gives me great comfort

that the Apostle Paul was the first one who had to deal with his doctrine of predestination

and being challenged on the grounds that it was unfair.

The idea of predestination rubs many people the wrong way.

God chooses who will be saved and we don't have it, he says the matter.

Well Paul's letter to the Romans says pretty clearly that God has chosen those whom he will

save.

Today I'm renewing your mind, Dr. R. R. C. Sproul continues a series on the Westminster

Confession of Faith.

Let's continue now with our study of chapter 3 of the Westminster Confession.

As we look at the first part of section 2, let me read it for you, it reads as follows.

Although God knows whatsoever may or can come to pass upon all supposed conditions yet

to have the not to create anything because he foresawed his future or as that which would

come to pass upon such conditions.

Now another way of saying this is that God knows all contingencies but knows nothing contingently

or to look at it even from a simpler perspective.

If you would take the average Christian and ask them does God know the future up until

this dreadful movement of open theism that's plaguing the church in our day?

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