Verses on the God you are called to Believe in...

1. Miscellaneous Verses
   
   1. Prov. 16:4, "The Lord has made everything for its own purpose, even the wicked for the day of evil."
   2. Rom. 9:22-23, "What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction? ²³And He did so in order that He might make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory."
2.  God Foreknows - Top
   
   1. Proginosko, 
   2. Acts 2:38, "this Man, delivered up by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you nailed to a cross by the hands of godless men and put Him to death."
   3. 1 Pet. 1:1-2, "Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who reside as aliens, scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, who are chosen ²according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by the sanctifying work of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with His blood: May grace and peace be yours in fullest measure."
   4. 1 Pet. 1:20, "For He [Christ] was foreknown before the foundation of the world, but has appeared in these last times for the sake of you."
      
      1. KJV says, "Who verily was foreordained before the .... "
      2. If God looked into the future to see what choice would be made, then who did He foreknow the death of Christ?  Was it simply something that God looked to see if it would happen or not?  If so, then God is not sovereign.