Foreseen = God saw through the corridors of time who would believe and chose those individuals based on their “foreseen faith.” (Classical Arminian) Foreordain = God set his love on certain unconditionally pre-selected individuals before the world began (“foreloved”) and effectually works to change their hearts so that they want to come to Him for salvation. (Calvinist)
Leighton Flowers, "Proginosko- To 2016/01/07/foreknew-foreKnow Beforehand, https://soteriology101.com/seen-or-foreordained-or-formerly-known/
"KNOW"- ginosko- 1- to arrive at a knowledge of someone or something, know, know about, make acquaintance of
2- to acquire information through some means, learn (of), ascertain, find out
3- to grasp the significance or meaning of something, understand, comprehend
4- to be aware of something, perceive, notice, realize
5- to have sexual intercourse with, have sex/marital relations with
6- to have come to the knowledge of, have come to know, know
7- to indicate that one does know, acknowledge, recognize
*This verb is variously nuanced in contexts relating to familiarity acquired through experience or association with a person or thing.
"FOREKNEW"- proginosko-w/ "pro" being a preposition meaning "before"
1- to know beforehand or in advance, have foreknowledge
2- choose beforehand- Romans 8:29, 11:2, 1 Peter 1:20 & Acts 26:5 are specified, along with general references to Romans 9-11. Do these instances mean "to choose beforehand" or "to foreordain?"
BDAG, 199-201.
William Lane Craig writes, “It is sometimes suggested that ‘foreknow’ with regard to the elect means ‘choose in advance,” so that foreknowledge and unconditional election to salvation become synonymous. But again there is no linguistic evidence in support of this suggestion. Out of the 770 cases of yada (‘to know’) in the Old Testament, the 660 instances of ginosko (‘to know’) in the Septuagint, and the 220 in the New Testament, the term never carries the sense of ‘choose’ or ‘elect.’”
-William Lane Craig, The Only Wise God: The Compatibility of Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom (Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2000), 34.
"What we say about future events being foretold, we do not say it as though they come about by fatal necessity.” -Justin Martyr (100-165AD)
Quote of Justin Martyr in Walter A. Elwell and Barry J. Beitzel, Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1988), 808.
W.T. Moore- "Our conclusion therefore is that in the latter passage as well as in the former the apostle is referring to a long line of worthy saints whom God, under former dispensations, had acknowledged or approved, and having approved them, He marked them out, called them, justified them and made them glorious." "To sum up the whole case, this foreknowledge of God is simply his acknowledgment of real historic characters whose faithfulness in the past is referred to as proof that even now all who love God will secure his help and final victory provided they continue in the grace which God has so abundantly provided."
W.T. Moore, Ph.D. President of The Bible College of Missouri.