Predestination
31predestination — noun Date: 14th century 1. the act of predestinating ; the state of being predestinated 2. the doctrine that God in consequence of his foreknowledge of all events infallibly guides those who are destined for salvation …
32predestination — noun /pɹi.dɛs.tɪˈneɪ.ʃen/ a) The doctrine that everything has been foreordained by a God, especially that certain people have been elected for salvation, with others destined for reprobation. b) destiny or fate. See Also: determinism …
33predestination — The doctrine that some people are born already selected for salvation or damnation, which they cannot avoid even by good deeds in this life. For Augustine it is a divine mystery that God in His perfect justice makes the apparently gratuitous… …
34predestination — Synonyms and related words: absolute certainty, absoluteness, assurance, assuredness, certain knowledge, certainness, certainty, certitude, dead certainty, decree, definiteness, destiny, determinacy, determinateness, doom, fate, foredestiny,… …
35PREDESTINATION — the eternal decree which in particular foreordains certain of the human family to life everlasting and others to death everlasting, or the theological dogma which teaches these. See ELECTION, THE DOCTRINE OF …
36predestination — I (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A forecast] Syn. prediction, intention, predetermination; see forecast . 2. [Fate] Syn. doom, fortune, decree; see destiny 1 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. predetermination, fate, God s plan, God s design, God s will,… …
37predestination — pre|des|ti|na|tion [prıˌdestıˈneıʃən, ˌpri:des ] n [U] the belief that God has decided everything that will happen and that people cannot change this …
38predestination — pre|des|ti|na|tion [ pri,destı neıʃn ] noun uncount 1. ) the belief that people have no control over events because God or another force has arranged everything that is going to happen 2. ) the belief that God decided at the beginning of time who …
39predestination — pre·des·ti·na·tion || prɪË‚destɪ neɪʃn n. act of determining in advance; doctrine that God has fore ordained the fate of person (especially pertaining to salvation or damnation); fate, lot, destiny …
40Predestination — The divine decree by which some human beings are infallibily guided to salvation and others to destruction …
