RW>         However, this predestination is based on God's
 RW> foreknowledge.  ROMANS 8:28-30 would indicate this.  So it
 RW> seems to be, not that God -forces- people to be saved, but that
 RW> He knows from the beginning that they will be.
But did God know which individuals would be saved or that a group of people 
would be saved?  The references to God wanting "all men" to be saved would 
seem to preclude the former.  Read Jeremiah 3:19-20 and see if that changes 
your thinking on foreknowledge.  Also helpful are Genesis 22:12 and Exodus 
32:9-14.
Robby
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