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selected ("foreordained") particular people to fulfill certain missions ("callings") during their mortal lives. For example, prophets were foreordained to be...

Calvinists emphasise the active nature of God's decree to choose those foreordained to eternal wrath, yet at the same time the passive nature of that foreordination...

priesthood were foreordained to that calling, and Jesus was foreordained to enact the atonement. However, all such persons foreordained retain their agency...

Predestination of course logically holds that some are foreordained to death as truly as others are foreordained to life. The very terms “elect” and “election”...

states that John the Apostle is the author of Revelation and that he was foreordained by God to write it.[non-primary source needed] Doctrine and Covenants...

nature of things and the totality that embraces all existence; then the foreordained might and necessity of the future; then fire and the principle of aether;...

joins with me in a different joy". In other poems he wrote: "Alas, I'm foreordained to suffer, loving deep a heartless lass....Would I could know if there...

development for humanity, the Book of Mormon instead portrays the fall as a foreordained step in God's plan of salvation, necessary to securing human agency,...

substitutionary role in the redemption of humankind. He is believed to have been "foreordained before the foundation of the world" and sent by God "to deal with sin"...

with determinism. On this doctrine events throughout eternity have been foreordained by some supernatural power in a causal sequence. See for example Hooft...

of reacting in a manner so carefully foreseen as to seem practically foreordained." Harrison's Reports named the film as a "first-rate thriller" that is...

etymology is less likely.) It is often used to refer to one's divinely foreordained spouse or soulmate, who is called one's basherte (female) or basherter...

interacts with humans rather than a Stoic or Gnostic God who unilaterally foreordained every event (yet Stoics still claimed to teach free will). Patristics...

that the protagonist's efforts will fail, giving the work an air of foreordained tragedy. The story proper begins with Avis Everhard, a daughter of a...

elements possesses a personified virtue (德; dé), which indicates the foreordained destiny (運; yùn) of a dynasty; hence the cyclic succession of the elements...

the Bahá’í Faith wrote, concerning the Bahá’í Revelation, "The time foreordained unto the peoples and kindreds of the earth is now come. The promises...

2012 – via USCode.House.gov. Perry, Dan W. (March 1936). "Oklahoma, A Foreordained Commonwealth". Chronicles of Oklahoma. 14 (1). Oklahoma Historical Society:...

Chapter 3 affirms the Calvinist doctrine of predestination: that God foreordained who would be among the elect (and therefore saved), while he passed by...

have pre-existed or (according to non-Trinitarian interpretations) been foreordained,[citation needed] before Abraham. "Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before...

Tales of Two People is a collection of short stories and novelettes by Anthony Hope, the author better known as the writer of The Prisoner of Zenda. It...