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Q&A: Acts 13:48 — 'appointed to eternal life' and the election/free will question

Why God's Wrath is Good 00:44:20 – 00:47:57

Viewer asks about the Calvinist proof text in Acts 13:48.

Acts 13:48: 'as many as were appointed to eternal life believed.' Mike agrees with Calvinists that this text refers to individual divine appointment. However, he does not conclude that it entails full Calvinism, because he sees no contradiction between individual election and genuine human free will. He references middle knowledge (Molinism) as one way of harmonizing God's sovereign foreknowledge and human libertarian freedom: God knew all counterfactuals and actualized a world in which His elect would freely believe.
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Ron, that statement in Acts 13:48 is not explicit as you suggested it might be because Paul couldn't list only the God fearers since it is clear from the context that this referred to the Gentiles tha
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Why God's Wrath is Good @ 00:44:20

2019-08-07

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