foreknowledge, according to this view, is little more than the ability to peer into the future and observe what His creatures will do. But 1 Peter 1:20 says of Christ that “He was foreknown before the foundation of the world” as the Lamb of God, unblemished and spotless, who would shed His blood as the price of His people’s redemption. That’s not talking about something God foresaw as a passive observer. It’s describing the plan of salvation, which He sovereignly ordained before the foundation of