Foreknowledge

On Foreknowledge and Free Will

April 25, 2015 By EO Leave a Comment

Leo the Great (440-461) Sermon 67 (On the Passion, XVI.: delivered on the Sunday.) I. The contemplation of the prophecies of Christ’s suffering are a great source of pious delight The minds of the faithful, beloved, ought indeed always to be occupied with wonder at God’s works and their reasoning faculties devoted particularly to those […]

On Foreknowledge and Freewill

April 25, 2015 By EO Leave a Comment

Calvinists suggest that God’s foreknowledge is based on His decretal plan and/or knowledge of causal relations rather then based on the future. The Early Church Fathers disagree. (H/T SEA) Diodore of Tarsus (circa 390) This text [Romans 8:29-30] does not take away our free will. It uses the word foreknew before predestined. Now it is […]

“No doctrine concerning the divine and saving mysteries of the faith, however trivial, may be taught without the backing of the holy Scriptures. We must not let ourselves be drawn aside by mere persuasion and cleverness of speech. Do not even give absolute belief to me, the one who tells you these things, unless you receive proof from the divine Scriptures of what I teach. For the faith that brings us salvation acquires its force, not from fallible reasonings, but from what can be proved out of the holy Scriptures.” Cyril of Jerusalem (ca. 313-386)