Calvinist Proof-Texts
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Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of
God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain.” (Acts 2:23)
Did God
Predestine Jesus to be Killed?
“Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own
prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God” (1
Thessalonians 2:15)
“But now ye seek to kill me.... Ye do the deeds of your
father.... If God were your Father, ye would love me.... Ye are of your father
the devil.” (John 8:40, 41, 42, 44)
“....this One given to you by the
before-determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you having taken by lawless
hands, having crucified Him, you put Him to death.” (Acts 2:23; Green's Literal
Translation)
Commentary: “For God so loved the world, that he
gave his only begotten Son” (John 3:16). God gave the gift of His
Son. This was predetermined. The murder itself was not God’s predetermined
plan. Greek scholar, Christopher Wordsworth wrote, “God decreed the salvation
of the World by Christ, but He did not command or approve the means by which
that consummation was brought about.”(The New Testament of our Lord and
Saviour Jesus Christ: in the Original Greek, with Notes and Introductions,
Volume 2, p. 57). Thankfully, God was able to make Satan’s act of hatred
work against him.
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