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  2. Predestination - Wikipedia

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    Predestination, in theology, is the doctrine that all events have been willed by God, usually with reference to the eventual fate of the individual soul. [1] Explanations of predestination often seek to address the paradox of free will, whereby God's omniscience seems incompatible with human free will.

  3. Predestination in Calvinism - Wikipedia

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    Predestination is a doctrine in Calvinism dealing with the question of the control that God exercises over the world. In the words of the Westminster Confession of Faith , God "freely and unchangeably ordained whatsoever comes to pass."

  4. Predeterminism - Wikipedia

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    Predestination asserts that a supremely powerful being has, in advance, fixed all events and outcomes in the universe; it is a famous doctrine of the Calvinists in Christian theology. Likewise, the doctrine of fatalism already explicitly attributes all events and outcomes to the will of a (vaguer) higher power such as fate or destiny.

  5. Temporal paradox - Wikipedia

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    A bootstrap paradox, also known as an information loop, an information paradox, [6] an ontological paradox, [7] or a "predestination paradox" is a paradox of time travel that occurs when any event, such as an action, information, an object, or a person, ultimately causes itself, as a consequence of either retrocausality or time travel. [8] [9 ...

  6. Corporate election - Wikipedia

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    Predestination encompasses what will happen to God's people (all genuine believers in union with Christ). [56] Paul uses the word predestination in five of its six occurrences in the New Testament. [57] For Paul, predestination has emphasis on Christians corporately and on the future and final goals God has prepared for those in union with ...

  7. Predestination (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Predestination is the Christian doctrine that all events have been willed by God, usually with reference to the eventual fate of the individual soul (see predestination in Catholicism and predestination in Calvinism). Predestination may also refer to: Predestination in Islam; Predestination, a 2014 Australian film

  8. Argument from free will - Wikipedia

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    If it is now necessary that C, then C cannot be otherwise (this is the definition of “necessary”). That is, there are no actual "possibilities" due to predestination. If you cannot do otherwise when you act, you do not act freely (Principle of Alternate Possibilities) Therefore, when you do an act, you will not do it freely.

  9. Destiny - Wikipedia

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    In Neil Gaiman's graphic novel series The Sandman, destiny is one of the Endless, depicted as a blind man carrying a book that contains all the past and all the future: "Destiny is the oldest of the Endless; in the Beginning was the Word, and it was traced by hand on the first page of his book, before ever it was spoken aloud." [12]