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Predestination vs Preordination - What's the difference?

predestination | preordination |

As nouns the difference between predestination and preordination

is that 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 while preordination is the state or process of things being preordained.

As an adjective preordination is

before ordination.

predestination

English

(wikipedia predestination)

Noun

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  • (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

    preordination

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The state or process of things being preordained.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=September 24, author=Ginia Bellafante, title=Fearing a Future They’ve Seen, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=In the years since 9/11, producers have found rich thematic material in the arguments for and against preordination , resulting in series like “The Sarah Connor Chronicles,” “Lost” and now “FlashForward,” which begins in such a spirit of bracing suspense that I am challenged to recall another pilot that lured me so quickly into addiction. }}

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Before ordination.