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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
predestine .
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Examples
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For your information ma'am, the recognized scientific community has confirmed many times that there is no genetic marker that predestines an individual to be homosexual.
Gay soldier: Obama's 'don't ask' pledge a reprinted IOU 2010
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Ironically, however, he at the same time also subscribed to the view that God predestines our fate even before we are born.
Printing: Divine Will and Human Freedom -- Part I. Divine Predestination: How Far Real? 2010
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Ironically, however, he at the same time also subscribed to the view that God predestines our fate even before we are born.
Divine Will and Human Freedom -- Part I. Divine Predestination: How Far Real? 2010
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To me, the problematic medieval bulls imply either (a) that God doesn't love most of humanity and predestines them to damnation -- a very Calvinist view -- or else (b) they are too exclusivist in their language to fully explain the reality.
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They owed even more to a theological perspective that claimed to represent human affairs from God's perspective, including the absolute will by which He predestines individuals for salvation or eternal perdition.
Blaise Pascal Clarke, Desmond 2007
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“God predestines no one to go to hell; for this, a willful turning away from God a mortal sin is necessary, and persistence in it until theend.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Ann Coulter, Christian Chauvinist: 2007
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I love "Leda and the Swan" as a teaching poem; it's devastating, especially the implication that the violence of the rape prefigures and almost predestines the violence of the Trojan War.
Archive 2007-01-01 Bardiac 2007
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Provincial Letters, summarizes the Augustinian position as follows: God predestines some human beings for salvation and saves them by ˜means that are certain and infallible™ (II, 262).
Blaise Pascal Clarke, Desmond 2007
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Matthew 7:13-14 God predestines no one to go to hell; for this, a willful turning away from God a mortal sin is necessary, and persistence in it until the end.
Archive 2006-12-01 Fr Timothy Matkin 2006
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Matthew 7:13-14 God predestines no one to go to hell; for this, a willful turning away from God a mortal sin is necessary, and persistence in it until the end.
Last Things: Heaven and Hell Fr Timothy Matkin 2006
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