In Scripture, God’s foreknowledge is not merely His knowing of events before they happen — though He does foresee all things. It is a relational, intimate, choosing knowledge. When Paul writes "For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son" (Romans 8:29), he does not mean God passively saw who would believe; he means God set His covenant love upon them beforehand. "You only have I known of all the families of the earth" (Amos 3:2) — God knew Israel relationally, not just informationally. Foreknowledge in this biblical sense is therefore inseparable from election: God’s prior choosing love, set on persons before the foundation of the world.
Knowledge of a thing before it happens; prescience.
Knowledge of a thing before it happens; prescience. The foreknowledge of God is a branch of His omniscience, and is an essential attribute of His nature.
Modern interpretations, particularly in Arminian theology, often reduce God's foreknowledge to simple prescience—a pa...
Modern interpretations, particularly in Arminian theology, often reduce God's foreknowledge to simple prescience—a passive observation of future events. This strips the term of its biblical weight, which connects foreknowledge with God's active and loving choice in election and predestination.