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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)
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- The whole difficulty lies in the acts of free agents being certain; yet certainty is required for foreknowledge as well as for foreordination. The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination
- The tenet of universal foreordination takes from us this "coigne of vantage," and lands us in dynamic Pantheism. The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election
- The Biblical logic says that God's foreordination does not deprive man of freedom or responsibility.
- From his poetry of mourning for friends, we can comprehend that it is time that can explain YiMin's tragic foreordination.
- His choice of the plan, or His making certain that the creation should be on this order, we call His foreordination or His predestination. The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination
- If a distinction be desired the word "foreordination" can perhaps better be used where the thing spoken of is an event in history or in nature, while The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination
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- Foreknowledge is not foreordination, predestination, or even predetermination (though these can be a result of foreknowledge).
- The Socinians and Unitarians, while not so evangelical as the Arminians, are at this point more consistent; for after rejecting the foreordination of The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination
- Firstly, the Scriptures affirm that Christ's redemptive work on earth was the culmination of God's planning and foreordination - which in its inception predated the foundation of the world.