Election according to God's foreknowledge does not do away with faith in any way. Remember, we are not saved by "faith", we are saved by "grace" through faith. That is a big difference. I find this to be one of the easiest things to understand in all scripture, yet more people will fight over it, only because they do not understand it. The Lord knew from eternity what you, and every one ever born on this planet what they would do after hearing the Gospel. Armed with this knowledge the Lord called, and saved those to be his elect, knowing full well they would come. The Lord does not forbid anyone from not coming to him for salvation, but he knows they will not. Every human being on planet earth have the same opportunity to be saved, if they so choose. The Lord is so sure of those who would come, he saved them, and called them before the creation of the world. He even raised them up when thy were still sinners, before they ever exercised faith to access grace by which they are saved.
Eph 2:4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us,
Eph 2:5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—
Eph 2:6 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
First, we are missing the scripture that God foreknew who would pick to get saved and not get saved. We have a scripture that say or at least hints at that before the foundation of the World, we were predestined to be in Christ Jesus.
That does not say what your saying it says. I am talking about "Before the foundation of the World"
We have a few that say "From the foundation of the world"
You would also need a scripture that Man is around before the body is formed. We do have a couple that indicate the spirit is made when the body is first formed.
You are describing some form of Pentoastal Armainian doctrine.
However, you don't even believe what you just typed to me. Once you actually think about it, you will realize it don't make sense.
This is the problem with reliegion and just believing things we hear others say.
I'll explain more and with scripture later, it's late.
You can't believe in "Foreknowledge" You have to be Calvinist.
God makes the spirit of man (Before the foundation of the World) God knows that spirit won't accept Jesus as God sees the end, from the begging. Yet, God makes the spirit anyway and puts it in man whom is on their way to hell.
That is election, that is not foreknowledge.
If I know putting a dry towel on my stove and turning on the burners will catch it fire, yet do it anyway knowing what will happen is not my great and wonderful foreknowledge.
It's me causing a fire.
The only other thing you could believe is God makes all the people with no thought or purpose, then looks in the crystal ball at each one and determines what will happen to each one. Something else outside of God is making that choice, and God just picks up on it.
However, it's written what we choose is recorded, to bare record in heaven and in earth. It's recorded for a reason, and not beause God already knew else he would not have to record it.
Think about it........... You have to be calvinist, and man does not have free will. To know something, and yet set the conditions and place knowing is not foreknowledge, it's causing.
My hope is you catch this in scriptures and save me posting 50 of them.
Be blessed.