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Definition of Predestinating

Predestinating
Predestinate Pre*des"ti*nate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Predestinated; p. pr. & vb. n. Predestinating.] [Cf. Predestine.] To predetermine or foreordain; to appoint or ordain beforehand by an unchangeable purpose or decree; to pre["e]lect. Whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son. --Rom. viii. 29. Syn: To predetermine; foreordain; preordain; decree; predestine; foredoom.

Meaning of Predestinating from wikipedia

- bounds. Under the topic of the doctrine of God (theology proper), the predestinating decision of God cannot be contingent upon anything outside of himself...
- say one thing: He wills all men to be saved, is so said that all the predestinated may be understood by it, because every kind of men is among them." Speaking...
- being blessed in the greatness and fullness of God the Father, and predestinated before the beginning of time, that it should be always for an enduring...
- been created for one or other of these ends, we say that he has been predestinated to life or to death." Calvin believed that God's absolute decree was...
- subject, because they deem it "incongruous that ... some should be predestinated to salvation, and others to destruction". However, Calvin ****erted that...
- that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according...
- "Moira is not a god, because otherwise the will of the god would be predestinated. Compare Kismet in Muslim religion." Aeschylus. Prometheus Bound, Lines...
- foreshadowing, in Ishmael's words, "providing the sometimes madly merry and predestinated craft with a living and ever accompanying prophecy of whatever shattered...
- did predestinate [to be] conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them...
- been created for one or other of these ends, we say that he has been predestinated to life or to death." Alexander & Johnson 2016, p. 204: "It should be...