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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
preordain .
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Their view on this doctrine can be summed up thus: God preordains everything that happens on earth, including what man wills and does, and what befalls man, good or bad.
Divine Will and Human Freedom -- Part I. Divine Predestination: How Far Real? 2010
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Their view on this doctrine can be summed up thus: God preordains everything that happens on earth, including what man wills and does, and what befalls man, good or bad.
Printing: Divine Will and Human Freedom -- Part I. Divine Predestination: How Far Real? 2010
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Allowing DI flacks to operate in this fashion simply preordains the result.
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For then life itself takes on a new purpose, becoming more holy in heart, mind, and deeds, which in turn preordains the perspective that worldly things ought to be taken.
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The whole project of the Fourth Meditation would appear to suggest that Descartes is committed to the view that human beings can do something other than what God preordains.
Descartes' Modal Metaphysics Cunning, David 2006
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But it is still unclear if the appeal to divine incomprehensibility is supposed to help us to accept that God preordains everything and that there is a freedom that conflicts with divine preordination, or if it is supposed to help us to accept that there is a kind of freedom that is consistent with divine preordination but is still freedom.
Descartes' Modal Metaphysics Cunning, David 2006
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By this they mean that God bestows grace on someone, and also preordains that he will bestow it, because he foreknows that such a one will make good use of it, just as a king gives a horse to a soldier because he knows that he will use it well.
Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas 1954
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Thus predestination preordains all men to salvation.
Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas 1954
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An inflexible internal necessity turns man's will whithersoever God preordains.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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But on the other hand it was just as possible to find Biblical statements indicating clearly that God preordains how a person shall behave in a given case.
A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy Isaac Husik 1907
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