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(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)
In another way, the effect of predestination may be considered in general.
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Objection 1: It seems that predestination does place something in the predestined.
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I believe in the doctrines of foreknowledge and predestination, as thus expounded.
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Therefore it seems the foreknowledge of merits is the cause of predestination.
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Therefore the book of life is not the same thing as predestination.
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This circumstance wears the look of almost a predetermination to accept defeat.
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The actual facts had little to do with the predetermination of the members.
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Most fundamentally: there was no presumption of innocence; instead, a predetermination of guilt.
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Foreknowledge and predetermination on his part are impossible, according to Renouvier.
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Some momentary paroxysm prompted the deed; there could have been no preparation, no predetermination.
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A merciless preordination had stacked the cards against him again.
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Spontaneous generation seems almost as great a puzzle as preordination.
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Was it not preordination?
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Your conclusion that all speculation about preordination is idle waste of time is the only wise one; but how difficult it is not to speculate!
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1: This argument shows that predestination is not furthered by the prayers of the saints, as regards the preordination.
Usage of foreordination in anglès
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Again, we must not confound the foreknowledge of God with His foreordination.
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The doctrine of foreknowledge does not imply the truth of foreordination.
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To Rena's argument of divine foreordination Warwick attached no weight whatever.
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Within the next five minutes radiant Belle was an unconscious embodiment of foreordination to Roger.
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A man's election to salvation depended on God's foreordination.
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His foreordination is based upon His foreknowledge.
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Jonas Jotham expounded the orthodox Congregational faith, including predestination, foreordination, and all creation, and in the other Rev.
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At this time Truedale believed he firmly accepted the principle of foreordination, or whatever one chose to call it.
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Calvinism stressed the doctrine of foreordination, that certain ones, "the elect," had been foreordained to be saved.
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Perhaps they thought foreordination hadn't done much for me, and they had best get me used to sulphur gradually.
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He doth not say, they shall be, but he hath done it, that is, in and according to the foreordination of God.
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And in this belief Mrs. Hill rested securely, but nevertheless did not fail to concoct several feminine artifices for the helping on of foreordination.
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It was translated into Welsh, and is worthy an attentive perusal, especially by those who cannot see the difference between God's foreknowledge and his foreordination.
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Foreordination is a cause antedating an event.
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Again, we must not confound the foreknowledge of God with His foreordination.
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The doctrine of foreknowledge does not imply the truth of foreordination.