His choice of the plan, or His making certain that the creation should be on this order, we call His foreordination or His predestination. ❋ Unknown (1959)
If a distinction be desired the word "foreordination" can perhaps better be used where the thing spoken of is an event in history or in nature, while ❋ Unknown (1959)
"foreordination" are here mentioned, and the one as the cause of the other. ❋ Unknown (1871)
Bush, George W., as heeder of invisible bugles, 64; Oedipal complexity of, 64-66; goading laughter of, 66; as frustrated dilettante, 66; as lover of backfiring cars, 66; blessedness of, 66; foreordination of, 128 ❋ Unknown (2005)
In the third century B.C. Cleanthes, for example, argued that foreordination by Providence does not imply that an action not performed is not possible. ❋ BERNARD BEROFSKY (1968)
The Arminian doctrine, in rejecting foreordination, rejects the theistic basis for foreknowledge. ❋ Unknown (1959)
Foreknowledge must not be confused with foreordination. ❋ Unknown (1959)
Had Napoleon's foresight been perfect and his control of events absolute, his plan — or we may say, his foreordination — would have extended to every act of every soldier who made that march. ❋ Unknown (1959)
The whole difficulty lies in the acts of free agents being certain; yet certainty is required for foreknowledge as well as for foreordination. ❋ Unknown (1959)
And to others it is an axiom that the free acts of a free agent cannot be certain and under the control of God, so they deny the foreordination, or even the foreknowledge, of such acts. ❋ Unknown (1959)
The Arminian arguments, if valid, would disprove both foreknowledge and foreordination. ❋ Unknown (1959)
Foreknowledge presupposes foreordination, but is not itself foreordination. ❋ Unknown (1959)
The Socinians and Unitarians, while not so evangelical as the Arminians, are at this point more consistent; for after rejecting the foreordination of ❋ Unknown (1959)
Hence the certainty that the divine administration rests on the foreordination of God extending to all events both great and small. ❋ Unknown (1959)
Yet unless Arminianism denies the foreknowledge of God, it stands defenseless before the logical consistency of Calvinism; for foreknowledge implies certainty and certainty implies foreordination. ❋ Unknown (1959)
Thus the eternal purpose is represented as an act of sovereign predestination or foreordination, and unconditioned by any subsequent fact or change in time. ❋ Unknown (1959)
Throughout this book the terms "predestination" and "foreordination" are used as exact synonyms, the choice being deterrained only by taste. ❋ Unknown (1959)
The Arminian objection against foreordination bears with equal force against the foreknowledge of God. ❋ Unknown (1959)
