Ordained for salvation does not mean predestined

Ran the Man · Mar 5, 2019

the word ordained means " approved or fit for". Those who were approved for / fit for salvation (because they had faith and repented) entered in.
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The word ”ordain” is a translation from the Greek verb tasso (Strong’s 5021) – and the middle voice of this word is tetagmenoi (it’s not necessary to view this word as a perfect passive participle) – and ”includes no idea of preordination or predestination of any kind” according to Adam Clark (Commentary on Acts 13:48). The word simply means “disposed” (to set in position), and therefore the verse could be translated “as many as were disposed (or who set themselves in such a disposition)to eternal life believed”. Their disposition to receive the gospel is contrasted with the disposition of the Jews just two verse before, and the Jews had chosen another path.

As many as were ordained to eternal life believed, but they were not FORCED Acts 13:48

Reformed1689 · Mar 6, 2019

Ran the Man said: ↑

the word ordained means " approved or fit for". Those who were approved for / fit for salvation (because they had faith and repented) entered in.
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The word ”ordain” is a translation from the Greek verb tasso (Strong’s 5021) – and the middle voice of this word is tetagmenoi (it’s not necessary to view this word as a perfect passive participle) – and ”includes no idea of preordination or predestination of any kind” according to Adam Clark (Commentary on Acts 13:48). The word simply means “disposed” (to set in position), and therefore the verse could be translated “as many as were disposed (or who set themselves in such a disposition)to eternal life believed”. Their disposition to receive the gospel is contrasted with the disposition of the Jews just two verse before, and the Jews had chosen another path.

As many as were ordained to eternal life believed, but they were not FORCED Acts 13:48
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Interesting to note is that when used in the book of Acts, Luke, EVERY TIME, uses it with the sense of appointed. They were appointed to eternal life. It does not have the sense of disposed as an inclination. Poor exegesis.

Pastor_Bob · Mar 6, 2019

davidtaylorjr said: ↑

Interesting to note is that when used in the book of Acts, Luke, EVERY TIME, uses it with the sense of appointed. They were appointed to eternal life. It does not have the sense of disposed as an inclination. Poor exegesis.
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Consider how Calvinist James Oliver Buswell, Jr. exegetes this passage:

Actually, the words of Acts 13:48-49 do not necessarily have any reference whatever to the doctrine of God's eternal decree of election. The passive participle tetagmenoi may simply mean "ready," and we might well read, "As many as were prepared for eternal life, believed." Commenting on this word, Alford says, "The meaning of this word must be determined by the context. The Jews had judged themselves unworthy of eternal life (v. 46)"; the Gentiles, "as many s were disposed to eternal life," believed. To find in this text preordination to life asserted is to force both the word and the context to a meaning which they do not contain.
A Systematic Theology of the Christian Religion, Volume II - pgs 152-53
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