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Foreordained vs Predestination - What's the difference?

foreordained | predestination |

As a verb foreordained

is past tense of foreordain.

As a noun predestination is

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.

foreordained

English

Verb

(head)
  • (foreordain)

    • foreordain

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To predestine or preordain.
  • *2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 308:
  • *:God has made the decision before all time, so some are foreordained to be saved through grace – a predestined group of the elect.

    • predestination

    English

    (wikipedia predestination)

    Noun

    (-)
  • (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.

    • Related terms

    * determinism