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May 28, 2025

Does Galatians 1:15 Teach Predestination and Election to Eternal Life?

Called, Choose, Chosen, Election, eternal life, foreknowledge, Galatians 1:15, Jeremiah 1:5, Knew, Know, predestination, Purpose, Romans 8:17-18, service

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are answering a question about Galatians 1:15. Is this a verse teaching election and/or predestination? If so, what kind of predestination is it talking about? Is this about eternal life, service, task or purpose? Please listen each weekday to the Grace in Focus podcast!

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October 24, 2024

What Is the Golden Chain in Romans 8:28? Does God Elect People to Eternal Life?

1 Peter 1:2, Abiding, Assurance, Called, Calvinism, Election, foreknowledge, Glorified, Golden Chain, heir, Joint-heir, Justified, Romans 8:17-39, Romans 8:28

Welcome to Grace in Focus radio. Today, Bob Wilkin and Mike Lii are looking again at election, this time from Romans 8:28. What is the so-called “Golden Chain”? The word predestined; what is it referring to? Listen and be challenged by today’s episode of the Grace in Focus podcast!

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January 27, 2023

Who Are the Elect in 1 Peter 1:1-2 and in Romans 8:28-30? Are We to Understand the “Elect” in 1 Peter the Same as the “Predestined” in Romans 8?

1 Peter 1:1-2, Elect, foreknowledge, glory, Inherit, Predestined, Rom 8:17, Romans 8:28-30, Suffering

Welcome to Grace in Focus radio. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates take up a question about election and predestination. What does the Bible say and mean about them–are they the same or different? What does serving and suffering have to do with these two words? Listen to this Grace in Focus episode. You may find some good answers to some old and difficult questions!

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Does Free Grace Theology Believe in Middle Knowledge?

August 1, 2022 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - foreknowledge, middle knowledge, open theism

The following question was put on the GES Facebook page: Your recent post [that mentioned middle knowledge] leaves me wanting to know what your view is on God’s omniscience? Do you hold to simple foreknowledge, divine decrees, open theism, or middle knowledge (obviously not)? Or is there something between Calvinism and Arminianism? Free Grace Theology

Plans for the Wicked (Proverbs 16:4)

May 14, 2021 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - foreknowledge, Proverbs, providence, wicked, wisdom

Question What are your thoughts on this verse? The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil (Prov 16:4). Answer I think of that verse in light of God’s foreknowledge and His providence over creation. As you probably know, Christians disagree over those subjects, and I’ve written

Foreknowledge Without Foreordination (1 Sam 23:10-13)

August 19, 2020 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - doctrine of God, foreknowledge, middle knowledge, predestination, simple foreknowledge, theology

God is omniscient. That is, God knows everything that could be, would be, has been, is, and will be. But how does God know the future? Upon what does His knowledge depend? Some people (e.g., Calvinists) claim that God’s foreknowledge depends upon His foreordination. For example, Lewis Sperry Chafer said, “Nothing could be foreknown as

God Is Omniscient: God’s Middle Knowledge

September 11, 2019 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - foreknowledge, middle knowledge, molinism, omniscience, systematic theology

Imagine that Laura is a doctor. Laura chose to become a doctor because her mother developed Lou Gehrig’s disease, and she had to learn how to care for her mother. That sparked Laura’s passion for medicine. But what if Laura’s mother had never developed the disease? Would Laura still have become a doctor? And is

God Is Omniscient: God’s Foreknowledge

September 6, 2019 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - foreknowledge, omniscience, systematic theology

God knows everything that is possible to know. But one question that has been hotly debated—is it possible for God to know the future? That is, does God have foreknowledge? What does the Bible say? First, it says that God can make declarations about the future because He knows the goals that He wants to