God does not personally do everything that is done in all acts and events, nor has He known, elected, chosen, or predestined all the acts and events from all eternity past."
Hi Ian, this is just one of the comments from your post.
Isa 46:10 Declaring the end from the beginning,
And from ancient times things that are not yet done,
Saying, "My counsel shall stand,
And I will do all My pleasure,'
How is it possible for this to be true if God does not know everything? He has "declared the end," so for that to be as He has declared it everything must go according to His will to that exact end point. He knows "things that are not yet done."
Eph 1:10 as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.
v. 11 In Him we have obtained an inheritance, having been
predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of his will,
Anybody can take a Bible and say what they think it all means. But it takes the Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ indwelling to understand the spirit of the words.
1Co 2:10 But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.
v. 11 For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.
v. 12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.
v. 13 These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches but which the Holy[4] Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
v. 14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
mercy, peace and love
Kat