Was Jesus delivered up to be crucified by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God?
Yes. Acts 2:23 says Jesus was delivered up to be crucified by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God. The same counsel language appears in Ephesians, where God works all things according to His own will, indicating divine predetermination and the Trinity's determinate meeting of minds.
Les teaches that Acts 2:23 refers to Jesus being delivered up to be crucified by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God. He links this to Ephesians verse 11, where believers are predestinated according to God's purpose, who works all things after the counsel of His own will. He emphasizes the same word "counsel" in both passages, explaining that God has predetermined everything. Les then asks what a counsel is—a meeting of the minds, plural—and identifies that determinate meeting of minds as the Trinity.
Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
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When did God's determinate counsel and foreknowledge about Christ take place?
Acts 2:23 teaches that God's determinate counsel and foreknowledge concerning Christ took place in eternity past, before anything was ever called into being.