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    predestination


    1. predestination and – as a consequence of it – that of the


    2. predestination was assimilated by J


    3. Calvinism and its belief in predestination


    4. America was colonized predominantly by Protestants, many of them believers in predestination


    5. Predestination divides humanity into saints and sinners, those destined to go to heaven and those bound for hell


    6. Once predestination could become a provable fact, the whole structure of history would lurch in another and less predictable direction


    7. or predestination took place before the foundation of the world


    8. predestination even though the Word of God attests to its validity


    9. The word predestination means that God foreordained or


    10. In verses 21 through 24, we see the predestination of God with regard

    11. However, predestination is a biblical doctrine of the Word of God


    12. 8:29-30) Predestination is the plan of God for all


    13. God is in control and predestination proves that


    14. predestination promises to work out all things for the believer’s good


    15. It’s predestination in all it’s shining glory


    16. Predestination is one of the thorniest and most controversial Bible doctrines that exist in the


    17. according to their own individual predestination, and not dictated


    18. into your place of predestination


    19. This is NOT the same as saying there are such things as fate or predestination or destiny because in my opinion there are not


    20. “So what is this, a predestination paradox?” Afu asked, scratching the back of his

    21. Adopted Children range from predestination to what God’s Word—the final


    22. He was a young student in Paris at the time and got caught up in the theological debate about predestination which was in vogue during that era


    23. In a blinding moment of insight he understood that he didn’t know about such things as predestination and that all he had was “right now” to love God and that is what he was going to do


    24. This is something unnatural to the essence of the human, to his true predestination in life


    25. This suggestion is akin to suggesting that God validates the predisposition of predestination in the course of every human action and event


    26. Secondly, parapsychology, including astrology, future and fortune telling can encourage and propagate the belief that all experiences are predestined (predestination) and/ or predicated on arbitrary fate, such as being accidentally or willfully hit by a truck, which may or may not have been under the control of the person injured and the driver of the truck


    27. If we wish to walk in front of a truck this is a choice we make and we will be hit, so this incident for the walker is predicated on choice and not fate, but for the driver this can be considered ‘bad luck’ rather than fate which is a word that means one’s destiny or predestination


    28. But this event is ‘bad luck’ for the pedestrian, rather than the individual’s predetermination and predestination


    29. predestination, the millennium, and countless other


    30. view on predestination, the millennium, and countless other differences in what is

    31. Augustine's view on predestination, the millennium, and countless other differences in


    32. Many who say they are orthodox do not believe in once saved always saved, infant baptism, Augustine's view on predestination, the millennium, and countless other differences in what is traditional and orthodox


    33. One observes, however, that zealous Calvinists are often indifferent to the moral credibility of their doctrines, because it is thought that predestination will secure the 'faith, of the elect, and the honest moral difficulties of the non-elect are of no consequence to any one


    34. The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the more people he is connected with and the more power he has over others, the more evident is the predestination and inevitability of his every action


    35. There is no difference, here below, at least, in predestination


    36. Throughout there was a strange bitterness; an absence of consolatory gentleness; stern allusions to Calvinistic doctrines—election, predestination, reprobation—were frequent; and each reference to these points sounded like a sentence pronounced for doom


    37. And really one is forced to believe in predestination : I had not gone a hundred steps in the direction of mother's lodging when I came across the man I was looking for


    38. But when a man from his infancy up to his thirtieth year lives on the shoulders of other men, promising to do, when he finishes his studies, something very useful, which nobody has ever asked him for, and then for the rest of his life lives in the same way, promising only to do presently something which nobody asks him to do, this would not be a true division of labour, but, as it really is, only the violation by a strong man of the labour of others; the same appropriation of other men's labour by a strong man, which formerly Theology called Divine predestination; Philosophy, Inevitable Conditions of Life; and now Scientific Science, the Organic Division of Labour


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    Synonyms for "predestination"

    foreordination predestination predetermination preordination forecast prediction intention fate fortune decree kismet providence lot karma

    "predestination" definitions

    previous determination as if by destiny or fate


    (theology) being determined in advance; especially the doctrine (usually associated with Calvin) that God has foreordained every event throughout eternity (including the final salvation of mankind)