Predestination Synonyms

prē-dĕstə-nāshən
A forecast
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. prediction
  2. intention
  3. predetermination

Words Related to Predestination

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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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