preordination
Destiny set beforehand
Preordination is the act of determining or decreeing something in advance, especially by divine will.
In theological contexts, it refers to God's foreordaining of events or fates before they occur: Calvin's doctrine of preordination holds that salvation is predetermined.
More loosely, any advance arrangement or inevitable outcome: The preordination of the committee's decision was obvious to everyone.
Predetermined course of events
- fatePredetermined course of events
- kismetPreordained future outcome
- foreordainedDecided in advance unavoidably
- predestinedDecided in advance
inevitable · inescapable · inexorable · doom · fatalism · determinism · necessity · unavoidable
Divinely predetermined fate
- divine decreeGod's official pronouncement
- electionOrganized public voting
- CalvinismPredestinarian Protestant theology
- foreknowledgeAwareness of future events
providence · sovereignty · grace · omniscience · salvation · reprobation · eschatology · divine will
Foretelling of future events
- oracleAuthoritative wisdom source
- divinationForetelling through mystical means
- foretellingAnnouncing future events
- prognosticationForetelling future events
prescience · precognition · augury · omen · harbinger · soothsaying · clairvoyance · seer
destiny
Predetermined course of events
- fatePredetermined course of events
- kismetPreordained future outcome
- foreordainedDecided in advance unavoidably
predestined · inevitable · inescapable · inexorable · doom · fatalism · determinism · necessity · unavoidable · fixed
predestination
Divinely predetermined fate
- divine decreeGod's official pronouncement
- electionOrganized public voting
- CalvinismPredestinarian Protestant theology
foreknowledge · providence · sovereignty · grace · omniscience · salvation · reprobation · eschatology · divine will · supralapsarianism
prophecy
Foretelling of future events
- oracleAuthoritative wisdom source
- divinationForetelling through mystical means
- foretellingAnnouncing future events
prognostication · prescience · precognition · augury · omen · harbinger · soothsaying · clairvoyance · seer · visionary
- fatalismdestiny, doom, inevitability, kismet, predestination
- predestinationpredestination, foreordination, election, foreknowledge, the elect
preordinationfree will
Autonomous choice capacity
self-determination · autonomy · human agency · volition · choice
preordinationcontingency
Uncertain possible event
indeterminacy · chance · randomness · uncertainty · happenstance