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Predestination synonyms

prē-dĕs'tə-nā'shən

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foreknowledge
Knowing beforehand, prescience, foresight, precognition
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predetermination
Something that has been decided in advance.
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decree
An authoritative order having the force of law.
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prediction
A statement of what will happen in the future.
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intention
The definition of intention is a determination or plan to do a specific thing.
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destiny (related)
That to which any person or thing is destined; a predetermined state; a condition foreordained by the Divine or by human will; fate; lot; doom.
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fortune
Good luck.
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foreordainment
Fate
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doom
Death.
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forecast (related)
An estimation of a future condition.
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determinism
(Ethics) The doctrine that all actions are determined by the current state and immutable laws of the universe, with no possibility of choice.
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fatalism
The belief that all events are determined by fate and, therefore, inevitable
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fate
Death; destruction; doom
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foredoom
(Archaic) A sentence or judgment in advance; destiny
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necessarianism
(Philosophy, metaphysics, theology) An extreme form of determinism that holds that all phenomena, including the will, are subject to immutable rules of cause and effect; necessitarianism.
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preordination
The state or process of things being preordained.
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kismet
Fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny.
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lot
A separate portion; a number of things taken collectively.
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portion
A section or quantity within a larger thing; a part of a whole.
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certain (related)
A certain indefinite number; certain ones (of)
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transubstantiation (related)
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reprobation (related)
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arminianism (related)
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doctrine (related)
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infallibility (related)
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religious-truth (related)
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kenosis (related)
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  • 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."

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

  • 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.

  • Founded by a bishop of Ypres on the doctrine of predestination, Louis and growing by persecution, it had speedily recruited xiv.

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

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