Elect vs Predestination - What's the difference?
elect | predestination |
One chosen or set apart.
(uncountable, theology) In Calvinist theology, one foreordained to Heaven. In other Christian theologies, someone chosen by God for salvation.
* Bible, Isaiah xlii. 1
* Bible, Luke xviii. 7
To choose or make a decision (to do something)
To choose (a candidate) in an election
(used only after the noun) Who has been elected in a specified post, but has not yet entered office.
* 1811 , Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility , chapter 16
Chosen; taken by preference from among two or more.
* Spenser
* Bible, 1 Timothy v. 21
(theology) The doctrine that everything has been foreordained by a God, especially that certain people have been elected for salvation, and sometimes also that others are destined for reprobation.
Destiny or fate.
As nouns the difference between elect and predestination
is that elect is one chosen or set apart while predestination is predestination.As a verb elect
is to choose or make a decision (to do something).As an adjective elect
is (used only after the noun) who has been elected in a specified post, but has not yet entered office.elect
English
Noun
(en-noun)- Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect , in whom my soul delighteth.
- Shall not God avenge his won elect ?
Antonyms
* reprobateVerb
(en verb)Adjective
(-)- He is the President-elect .
- She began almost to feel a dislike of Edward; and it ended, as every feeling must end with her, by carrying back her thoughts to Willoughby, whose manners formed a contrast sufficiently striking to those of his brother elect .
- colours quaint elect
- the elect angels