0 the belief that people have no control over events because these things are controlled by God or by fate
1 the belief that events in life are decided in advance by God or by fate and cannot be changed
Whatever their differences over predestination they employed the same arguments to support toleration, arguments turning on biblical hermeneutics.
This is usually expressed in the doctrines of divine sovereignty, providence and predestination.
Many pursued their tasks, in science as well, without bothering much with the limits or non-limits of predestination and free will.
Without this step, there remains an element of teleology, or predestination, in the way that chemistry ' discovers ' life with unusual efficiency.
A great deal is made of whether predestination is to be understood as part of divine providence, or as part of salvation.
The divine predestination of some to salvation would appear to entail the divine reprobation of the rest.
But at the centre of the case against him were a series of articles relating to the doctrine of predestination.
In essence, the absorption of the kinetic energy of a falling body through the power dissipation is the predestination of the electrorheological shock absorber.
