Predestination is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PREDESTINATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of predestinating
• (in Christian theology) the doctrine that God has ordained all that will happen, especially with regard to the salvation of some and not others. It has been particularly associated with the teachings of St Augustine of Hippo and of Calvin.
• The act of predestinating.
• The purpose of Good from eternity respecting all events; especially, the preordination of men to everlasting happiness or misery. See Calvinism.
• previous determination as if by destiny or fate
• (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)
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the act of predestinating; the state of being predestinated

Words related to PREDESTINATION

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Words that contain PREDESTINATION

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How to use PREDESTINATION in a sentence

• Gottschalk, a German bishop who preached the doctrine of twofold predestination, sentenced by the Council of Quincy to be flogged and suffer perpetual imprisonment.
• His views of predestination, grace, and Providence all radiate from the central principle of the majesty of God and the littleness of man.
• It was then that the monk Gottschalk revived the question of predestination, which had slumbered since the time of Saint Augustine.
• Both grace and predestination tended to undermine the system of penance then universally accepted.
• I had never talked with a Wesleyan before, and we used to have little debates about predestination, for I was then a strong Calvinist.
• Divine providence pervades the minutest concerns of life, and predestination is taught in its most naked form.
• Prayer, too, is only a foreseen action of man which, together with its results, is embraced in the eternal Predestination of God.
• If there is any danger at all of this kind, I think it is to be found in giving what he says on election and predestination a wrong interpretation.
• And he was definitely driven mad by logic, by the ugly and alien logic of predestination.
• It would have been easy, in the Calvinistic seventeenth century, to fall into the bottomless pit of predestination.
• The Mahommedan doctrine of predestination is well known.
• It affirms the free will of man in opposition to a fatal predestination.
• With the Baptists he remained quiet about three months, and then began to quarrel with his instructors as to their doctrine of predestination.
• Secondly, predestination may be considered as regards its temporal effect, which is some gratuitous gift of God.
• Consequently, by reason of human nature alone can predestination be attributed to Christ.
• And thus predestination belongs to Christ by reason of His human nature, as stated above.
• In this manner predestination is not befitting either to Christ or to any other man, by reason of human nature.
• For eternal predestination covers not only that which is to be accomplished in time, but also the mode and order in which it is to be accomplished in time.
• Thou hadst asked about fate, predestination and will.
• Fate and predestination consist in the necessary and indispensable relationships which exist in the realities of things.
• Such is the epitome of the explanation of fate and predestination.
• Predestination insists on the necessity of good works.
• Mysterious crisis through which all love must pass and in which the Ideal is in danger! Therein is the predestination of Creation.
• A very striking instance of this is the question of Predestination and Free-will.
• He became a champion of arbitrary grace and arbitrary predestination to perdition.
• But as the occasion of these events was the warm dispute kindled in the United Provinces concerning Grace and Predestination, we must resume things a little higher.
• The Grand Council reported to the States, that the whole dispute was about some obscure questions concerning Grace and Predestination.
• The XXXIst, to Gerard Vossius, and XXXIIId, to John Utengobard, treat of Predestination and Grace, according to the Arminian system.
• If there is no time to have the predestination, there can be half of all that there is when there is all they have.
• Marianne? Marianne on the edge of this Lake at an hour when there was no one at the Bois? Vaudrey believed neither in superstitions nor in predestination.
• Like all human affairs, success is partly a matter of predestination and partly of free will.
• If the idea of necessary causation ever forced itself upon his mind, he at once gave it the form of predestination.
• I must tell you also of a branch of the Presbyterian church which separated from the old church on the question of predestination and infant damnation.

Similar words containing DESTINA without suffix tion and without prefix pre

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