FOREKNOWLEDGE OF GOD, C. H. Cayce Sometime last year Elder A. J. Webb, of Lawrenceville, Ga. sent us an article clipped from a county paper there, which was signed W. B. McDonald, on the foreknowledge of God. The gentleman denied that God foreknows all things, and his main reason is that God did not want to foreknow all things. Well, if his reason be true, and there is one thing which God did not foreknow because He did not want to foreknow it, we would like to know how God found out that He did not want to foreknow that thing. Hence, it is clearly seen that the gentleman admits the very thing he is trying to deny.
“Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure.”— Isaiah 46:9, 10.
In this text the Lord declares that He declared the end from the beginning. As He did declare the end from the beginning, He must have known from the beginning everything that would transpire unto the end. And He says, “My counsel shall stand.” He could not have known that His counsel should, or would, stand, unless He knew everything that would have a tendency to prevent His counsel standing, and that He had power to overcome it.
If He did not know everything that would transpire unto the end, He could not have known but what something might transpire which He could not control. But as He knew nothing could transpire which He could not control, He therefore knew everything that would transpire. Again, He said, “I will do all my pleasure.” If He did not know everything that would transpire, He did not know but what something might transpire which would prevent Him doing some of His pleasure. But He knew that He would do all His pleasure. Therefore, He knew everything that would transpire. This text is enough to forever settle the fact that God foreknew all things, no matter how much some other passages may seem to contradict that point. The Primitive Baptist, March 2, 1015.