{"id":382,"date":"2008-07-02T06:00:44","date_gmt":"2008-07-02T12:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1002things.com\/?p=382"},"modified":"2022-03-22T07:59:28","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T13:59:28","slug":"romans-829","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=382","title":{"rendered":"Romans 8:29"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span id=\"en-NKJV-28146\" class=\"text Rom-8-29\"><sup class=\"versenum\">29\u00a0<\/sup>For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>God&#8217;s foreknowledge marks out the persons, His predestination determines His purposes and acts on their behalf.<\/h3>\n<h3>Predestinate = mark out beforehand \u2014 not because of our faith but as a result of God&#8217;s eternal purpose in Christ.<\/h3>\n<h3>Conform \u2014 not merely external appearance, but the very nature.<\/h3>\n<h3>Image \u2014 more than resemblance, but representation and manifestation<\/h3>\n<h3>Firstborn \u2014 not birth but priority, dignity, supremacy<\/h3>\n<h3 align=\"justify\">God knew us (not just about us) in eternity past \u2014 that&#8217;s foreknowledge. He predestined (marked us out) to take on the nature of His Son.<\/h3>\n<h3 align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #009900;\">Predestination is to be distinguished from foreknowledge here, in that God&#8217;s foreknowledge has special reference to the <em>person<\/em> foreknown, while predestination has reference rather to <em>that to which<\/em> the\u00a0 person foreknown is predestinated. \u2014 Stam, page 208.<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>29\u00a0For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. God&#8217;s foreknowledge marks out the persons, His predestination determines His purposes and acts on their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=382\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-verse-study"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6569,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions\/6569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}