Berean Todd said:
No, but apparantly you have lost it, because what you are trying to tell us is that the Bible, God's breathed out Word, is trying to tell us on this point "God foreknew God, but was manifest ..." That is stupid and nonsensical. The verse before talked about Christ's blood, the verse after talks about our salvation through faith, the verse in the middle is obviously talking about the work of the cross.
no, it is not obviously talking about that at all.
1 Peter 1
17If you address as Father the One who impartially judges according to each one's work, conduct yourselves in fear during the time of your stay on earth;
18knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers,
19but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ.
20For He was foreknown before the foundation of the world, but has appeared in these last times for the sake of you
21who through Him are believers in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.
22Since you have in obedience to the truth purified your souls for a sincere love of the brethren, fervently love one another from the heart,
23for you have been born again not of seed which is perishable but imperishable, that is, through the living and enduing word of God.
i quoted both verses before 20 and after to give us some context on what Peter is stating. Peter begins by stating that if we address the Father as God then we should conduct ourselves in fear (respect) while on the earth (verse 17).
he then states in verse 18 that we also ought to do this because we were redeemed with somethijng much more valuable than gold or silver, and in verse 19 he declares that it was the blood of Christ. now in verse 20 he expands on who Christ is, this is made clear by the phrase "for HE was foreknown". thus, he is speaking about the person, not about an event. an event is not a person, which is what "He" denotes. thus, Peter declares that Christ was foreknown from before the foundation of the world, echoing what Christ uttered when he said "glorify me father with the glory i had with you before the foundation of the world" in John 17:5.
in the latter part of verse 20 Peter states that although Christ was from before the beginning of the world, he was only revealed in "these last times" and that for us. in verse 21 Peter expands on who we are in Christ, namely believers in God who raised Christ from the dead and glorified him. verse 22 goes back to the original point of how we ought to conduct ourselves and appeals to our obedience first in the truth, purifying our souls and how we ought to love our brothers based on that. verse 23 gives yet another reason for doing this in that we have been born again now of that which is perishable, but that which is imperishable.