What is predestination or predetermination?

(pridɛstɪneɪʃən , pridɛs- ) uncountable noun. If you believe in predestination, you believe that people have no control over events because everything has already been decided by a power such as God or fate. Synonyms: fate, destiny, predetermination, election [theology] More Synonyms of predestination.

What is the difference between predestined and preordained?

As nouns the difference between predestination and preordination. is that predestination is predestination while preordination is the state or process of things being preordained.

How is fatalism and determinism the same?

Determinists generally agree that human actions affect the future but that human action is itself determined by a causal chain of prior events. Their view does not accentuate a “submission” to fate or destiny, whereas fatalists stress an acceptance of future events as inevitable.

What does it mean to believe in predestination?

predestination, in Christianity, the doctrine that God has eternally chosen those whom he intends to save.