If I were to ask myself that question, I would answer myself that they should not be used interchangeably. To illustrate:
Father: Son, when you started going down this path, I knew that these bad things would be the result.
Son: So you planned for me to go through these hard times?
Father: What!? That doesn't make sense. It sounds like you're using foreknowledge and plan interchangeably. What I know will happen, and what I would prefer to have happen, aren't necessarily the same things.
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If I were to ask myself that question, I would answer myself that they should not be used interchangeably. To illustrate:
Father: Son, when you started going down this path, I knew that these bad things would be the result.
Son: So you planned for me to go through these hard times?
Father: What!? That doesn't make sense. It sounds like you're using foreknowledge and plan interchangeably. What I know will happen, and what I would prefer to have happen, aren't necessarily the same things.
I agree, knowing and planning are two different things entirely. However, in God's mind they are possibly just one...
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