This is Stand to Reason's hashtag STRASK podcast.

Greg Kokels here with me, Amy Hall, to look at your questions and to answer them.

Yes.

And this first question comes from average Permian enjoyer.

Hmm.

Since God had a plan from all eternity to redeem a people for himself, why do we say that someone

was saved on a particular date or moment in time?

How do we mentally reconcile this date where we are saved with God setting us apart from our mother's womb?

I actually don't see the problem.

God decides to set us apart from our mother's womb to accomplish a particular end that will happen

at a point in time. So I'm out of food. I make a plan. My plan is to go get groceries at Costco

after this show today. Well, since I'm

determined in this plan, and let's just say it's fixed and inviolable, it still makes sense,

will make sense for me to say when I was at Costco at 6.30 p.m., I bought groceries, even though I had decided

earlier in the day for a certainty that I would do it. The action is time-stamped, and I became a

Christian, or I prayed the prayer, however you want to characterize it, September 28, 1973.

That's when I became a Christian.

If I had died before I had put my trust in Christ, I would have been lost.

I put my trust in Christ because of a purpose God had from time immemorial, but that happened at a point

in time, and I identified that time with a date. I don't understand the problem. I understand

why the question is being raised, but I don't see why it's a problem. God could decide something

a long time ago that doesn't happen until sometime in the future,

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