Are You Appointed to Eternal Life?

"When the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord; and as many as had been appointed to eternal life believed."

-Acts 13:48 NASB

"After the detailed account of Paul's sermon in Pisidian Antioch, we are told that many Gentiles 'honored the word of the Lord; and all who were appointed for eternal life believed' (13:48). An excellent exercise is to discover all the ways Acts, or even the entire New Testament, speaks of conversion and of converts--and then use all those locutions in our own speech. For our ways of talking about such matters both reflect and shape the way we think of such matters. There is no biblical passage that speaks of 'accepting Jesus as your personal Savior' (though the notion itself is not entirely wrong). So why do many adopt this expression, and never speak in the terms of verse 48? (D.A. Carson, For the Love of God, Vol.1, July 27)"