2:22-23 What does "him being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God" mean?
2:22-23 What does "him being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God" mean?
Foreknowledge means that God knows the end from the beginning in all things, He has a clear and full knowledge of events before they come to pass. He saw ahead that He would have to send a Saviour to redeem mankind from Adam's fall and He predetermined a plan for mankind's redemption involving the sacrificial death of His only Son, Jesus (CP Gen 3:14-15; Isa 53:1-12; Mt 26:24 (also Lu 22:22); Jn 19:11; Ac 3:17-18; 4:26-28; 13:27-29; Rev 13:8).
God predetermined that Jesus would die an atoning death for the sins of everyone who ever lived as part of His pre-ordained plan of salvation. (Atoning means reconciling; being restored to divine favour through conversion).
In His atoning death Jesus reconciled repentant sinners to God (CP Jn 3:16; Ro 3:21-26; 5:10-11; 2Cor 5:17-21; He 2:9-17).
The sign that God had permitted Jesus' death was His raising Him up from the dead (CP Ac 2:22-36). See also comments on Mt 27:24-25; Lu 13:25, Jn 19:11; 1Th 2:14-15.