2) Does God elect or just foreknow? - Classical Christianit…

2) Does God elect or just foreknow?
- Classical Christianity affirms God is eternal (outside time). Eternity here doesn’t mean “faster time,” but a timeless “all-at-once” knowing. God does not move from past to future; all times are present to Him. This means:
- God’s knowing is not a temporal prediction; it’s an immediate vision of our whole history.
- Knowledge, as such, does not cause the thing known. On the timeless view (Boethius/Aquinas), we can say: God knows our free choices because we freely make them (in His eternal present). His knowing doesn’t force them.