Bob Warren’s “God’s Heart Commentary” is a four-part series which covers challenging theological issues regarding God’s sovereignty and free will. God’s Heart as It Relates to Foreknowledge-Predestination is the first in the series and covers the topic from the standpoint of the full counsel of God’s Word.
Warren seeks not to color the Word with the opinions of men, but rather seeks to view each verse pertaining to foreknowledge and predestination in the context of all 66 books of Scripture. He allows words to retain their plain and clear meaning, eliminating any need to yield to mystery in an attempt to justify a contradictory mindset. His text asserts that any reading of God’s Word that is inconsistent with an honest, loving God—as defined repeatedly in his Word—is both misleading to the reader and in violation of truth.
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“We can conclude, therefore, that New Testament believers are predestined, not to salvation from eternity past, but to blessings at the time they are born anew after repenting and believing while depraved.” (Page 35)
“According to Ephesians 2:3, all persons are born spiritually dead to God, separated from God” (Page 62)
“The object lesson is that a proper view of God’s heart is the ultimate treasure.” (Page 16)
“Arminius’ error was failing to realize that predestination and election cannot point to God having selected certain persons to salvation from eternity past by means of an eternal decree—which, ironically, was also Calvin’s Achilles heel.” (Page 47)
“Due to the impossibility of God foreknowing His decrees because of their eternalness, for Him to have predestined or elected individuals to salvation by means of an eternal decree is nonsensical.” (Page 25)
Bob Warren founded The Hill BASIC Training ministry in Kentucky in the late 1970s, which produces Christian curriculum and teaching resources.