[prē-dĕśtə-nā́shən]
(n.)The act of predestining or the condition of being predestined.
(n.)The doctrine that God has foreordained all things, especially that God…
(n.)Destiny; fate.
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Predestination is a religious concept, which involves the relationship between God and his creation. The religious character of predestination distinguishes it from other ideas about determinism and ...
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Predestination (Latin præ, destinare), taken in its widest meaning, is every Divine decree by which God, owing to His infallible prescience of the future, has appointed and ordained from eternity all events occurring in time, especially those which directly proceed from, or at least are influenced by, man's free will.
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Calvinism: Predestination and Responsibility ... How can you preach the Gospel if you believe in predestination? ... One is called "predestination". If justification does not require our consent either to establish or maintain, that seems to mean that God decides who is going to be saved. Anyone that he justifies will end up saved.
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Predestination, The Calvinist Corner ... If you're a Christian, you've heard of predestination. You must have because the Bible uses the word and teaches the idea. But what is predestination? How does free will fit in? What about man's sinfulness and God's sovereignty?
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Glossary of Religion and Philosophy - predestination ... Double Predestination is the idea that God has chosen some for eternal salvation in heaven and others for eternal damnation in hell.
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Online version of Calvin's "Treatises on the Eternal Predestination of God the Secret Providence of God ... Eternal Predestination ... PART ONE: The Eternal Predestination of God  ...
www.reformed.org/documents/calvin/calvin_predestination... www.reformed.org/documents/calvin/calvin_predestination.html
The text below is from the chapter on predestination. The emphasis on this doctrine (which was also held by Luther) became one of the distinctive marks of Calvinism. ... The discussion of predestination---a subject of itself rather intricate---is made very perplexed, and therefore dangerous, by human curiosity,
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An logical and biblical explanation of the doctrine of "double predestination" ... The "Double" of Predestination ... The Bible does not contain the doctrine of double predestination, although in a few isolated passages it seems to come close to it. The Bible teaches that all salvation is based on the eternal Election of God...
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