Definitions
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- noun anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny
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Examples
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I have not noticed nearly as much of an effective witness that leads to others coming to Christ in predestinationist congregations as those that embrace both God's sovereignty and free will.
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For a while now, I've been coming closer to that point myself, as I have realized that some of the things that are used to support predestinationist positions can just as easily be used to say more accurately
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Over the holidays I confessed to my father-in-law that I am starting to come to grips with the fact that the predestinationist doctrines I was taught in the church that I got saved in have actually hurt me dearly as a Christian.
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For under the predestinationist model, the damned may cry out to God and say "how dare you claim to desire that none should perish, and then deny us any path that would lead to our salvation?"
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I've lost track of the number of people I've met or been told about who have turned their predestinationist views on election into a source of pride and arrogance, rather than humility and grace.
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A lot of Protestants took Augustine’s philosophy and ran with it he was also a predestinationist, so I would be a little surprised if modern creationists had much problem with that.
Report on the 2005 Creation Mega Conference, Conclusion - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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