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acts 2:
23Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
24Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
Notice how in this place, the scripture uses the words determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God.
This is the only place in scripture where the word determinate is used and its the greek word:
horizō:
to define
a) to mark out the boundaries or limits (of any place or thing)
b) to determine, appoint
1) that which has been determined, acc. to appointment, decree
2) to ordain, determine, appoint
Websters says :
Having defined limits; not uncertain or arbitrary; fixed; established; definite.[Websters]
5. Conclusive; decisive; positive.[Websters]
6. Determined or resolved upon.[Websters]
7. Of determined purpose; resolute.[Websters]
Now here in the text in acts 2 it is used in connection with and preceding the word Foreknowledge.
Many today admit that Gods foreknowledge covers everything, but denies that He has definitely fixed the affairs of all things or that all things are not predestinated.
That thinking is in opposition however to scriptures such as the one being considered and these:
acts 17:
26And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
eph 1:
11In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
With these in view, it appears certain that the biblical teaching is that His fixed determination [purpose or counsel] precedes His Foreknowledge, and or so closely integrated that His determinate counsel is used first.
This also should now dispel the false notion that Gods Foreknowledge is what He observes His creatures do, or doing or will do.
Its more associated with what He has determined to do.
23Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
24Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
Notice how in this place, the scripture uses the words determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God.
This is the only place in scripture where the word determinate is used and its the greek word:
horizō:
to define
a) to mark out the boundaries or limits (of any place or thing)
b) to determine, appoint
1) that which has been determined, acc. to appointment, decree
2) to ordain, determine, appoint
Websters says :
Having defined limits; not uncertain or arbitrary; fixed; established; definite.[Websters]
5. Conclusive; decisive; positive.[Websters]
6. Determined or resolved upon.[Websters]
7. Of determined purpose; resolute.[Websters]
Now here in the text in acts 2 it is used in connection with and preceding the word Foreknowledge.
Many today admit that Gods foreknowledge covers everything, but denies that He has definitely fixed the affairs of all things or that all things are not predestinated.
That thinking is in opposition however to scriptures such as the one being considered and these:
acts 17:
26And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
eph 1:
11In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
With these in view, it appears certain that the biblical teaching is that His fixed determination [purpose or counsel] precedes His Foreknowledge, and or so closely integrated that His determinate counsel is used first.
This also should now dispel the false notion that Gods Foreknowledge is what He observes His creatures do, or doing or will do.
Its more associated with what He has determined to do.