Predestination Definition

prē-dĕstə-nāshən
noun
The doctrine that.
Webster's New World
The act of predestining or the condition of being predestined.
American Heritage
The doctrine that God has foreordained all things, especially that God has elected certain souls to eternal salvation.
American Heritage
The divine decree foreordaining all souls to either salvation or damnation.
American Heritage
A predestinating or being predestinated; destiny; fate.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Predestination

  • Middle English, from Old French predestination, from Late Latin praedestinatio.

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Predestination Sentence Examples

  • In 1634 he published his Traite de la predestination, in which he tried to mitigate the harsh features of predestination by his "Universalismus hypotheticus."

  • He did not minutely analyse the doctrine of predestination as Luther, Calvin and Zwingli did, contenting himself with the summary "Our Salvation is of God, our perdition of ourselves."

  • Nor, in Molina's view, does his doctrine of free-will exclude predestination.

  • He denied that foreknowledge or predestination as temporal relations could be properly predicated of God as eternal; he described sin and its consequences as negations, neither caused by nor known to God; he maintained that as evil is only a stage in the development of good, there will ultimately be a universal return to God.

  • While retained in the creeds of several denominations, in the public teaching of the churches the doctrine of predestination has lost its place and power.

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