Dear Go Share Your Faith, Thanks for sharing your...

2009-11-10T20:38:55.969-05:00

Dear Go Share Your Faith,

Thanks for sharing your thougths. Here's an example of where I am coming from:

Luke 2:49 But 1 he replied, 2 “Why were you looking for me? 3 Didn’t you know that I must be in my Father’s house?”

Ok so 'know' is pluperfect. Now it could be a pluperfect of action or a pluperfect of existing state. But how to tell the difference? What if all we had was:

Didn’t you know that I must be in my Father’s house?”

One might conclude it's a pluperfect of existing state; what's important is that they knew. But put back into it's context:

But 1 he replied, 2 “Why were you looking for me? 3 Didn’t you know that I must be in my Father’s house?”

What's important is that they knew just before they were looking. It would not do to say they knew in the distant past, but no longer do. The fact that the action took place in the narrative has explanitory significance.

OK, back to Acts 13:48. The fact that they were ordained to eternal life helps explain why they believed. But an event happening within the context is the best candidate to provide such an explanation. If it's not an event happening in the context (if it's simply background info.) then it doesn't have the explainitory power an event just prior to their belief that lead to their belief would have.

Predestination in and of itself doesn't explain why they believed right then and there. God predestines some to believe very early in life and some on their death bed. But an event in the context could provide an explination as to why they believed.

God be with you,
Dan

Hmm....I read your assertion and I read your passa...

2009-11-10T13:09:06.684-05:00

Hmm....I read your assertion and I read your passages to prove it and I don't think you were successful in making your case..

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