The Highway Forums General Discussion Theology Discussion Forum Question on Acts 13:48

The Arminians and other "free-will" religions may choose to adopt the middle voice of tetagmenoi but they do so without warrant, as White is quoted to have said. If one looks at the standard Greek lexicons, e.g., BAG (Bauer, Arndt, and Gingrich) they all take this word as perfect passive (confirmed in The Analytical Greek Lexicon Revised 1978 Edition) and thus understand it to mean, to have been 'appointed, assigned, etc.'. It certainly does not contradict any other Scripture but in fact upholds and agrees with many others.

It is rather amusing that an Arminian/semi-Pelagian would spend much time on trying to bend this text to say what it does not say in order to establish the doctrine of "free-will" when there are other texts which would be more profitable to that end. Of course, their entire system is based upon a denial of the biblical God and the setting forth of the autonomy of man.

"In the beginning, God created man in His own image. And, ever since that time man has been trying to return the favor."

In His grace,