What is Predestination?

Question

Please use the bible to help me with this.

Answer 1

I can explain what it means when spoke of in philosophy of religion. Predestination means that a god decides what will happen before the actual act or event occurs. For instance, with predestination god not only knew that you were going to ask "what is predestination" on July 10, 2006,.he decided that you would ask that question at this certain moment before you were born and before all of creation. Predestination basically means that god has a plan that was decided long before any of us were born. Some think predestination applies to everything some may say it only applies to where it is necessary for god's plan to work out. I could go into a discussion of how predestination conflicts or doesn't with free will...the various views are rather interesting...but that's wasn't part of your question.

Answer 2

It is fate, your destiny or some one Else's destiny.Like it was always Christ's predestination to die on the cross if you believe in that sort of thing. The recently found testaments of Judas seem to support this as Christ tells Judas that it is his fate/predestination to hand him over to the authorities and therefore begin the sequence of events which would see Christ crucified and Judas hang himself.

Answer 3

See the reference below...
http://www.biblestudy.org/question/predest.html

Predestination (also known as KISMET or FATE) is the theory that all things are planned in advance, and is in direct conflict with the philosophy of FREE WILL (i.e. that man determines his own fate through CHOICE)

Answer 4

Predestination is not a precise term, you have to know what a particular person means by it

It ranges from Kismet, a fatalistic determination by God Muslims would believe to less fatalistic Christian views.

In the case of Christians, it means God being sovereign and man having a free but sin affected willl both at the same time. Each Christian view accepts some form of predestination but they differ in their understanding of it. Since predestination is a Bibleical term Chirstians have to come to terms with some form of it.

The Christian views general vary on their view of man as spiritually dead, sick or well before being saved. These all have a few variations and there is an additional non neoorthodox view that God does not know what will happen called openness theology and does not know the future at all, fullfilling prophesies using his omnipotents bot not knowing the choices of people ahead of time. I do not see openness theology in the scriptures

The Augustinian reformed view is that man naturally is prone to sin and God extends mercy to whom He chooses. This is more than just knowing ahead of time but causing salvationas well. In this view God is at the blazing center of salvation.
The usual orthodox reformed view is that Man was a free will but radically corrupted by sin (helpless and dead in a sense since it is incapable of adding to its own salvation) and God has a will and there is a confluence of both being true. Man does not have it within himself to purely worship God, love truth in the higherst form or come to Christ unaided and is in a sense spiritually dead. The usual orthodoc reformed view is infralapsarianism which ways God does not directly cause evil but steps back and lets people sink. In Exodus it goes back n forth....God harded Pharoahs heart, Pharoah harded Phaoahs heart God harded Pharoahs heart, Pharoah harded Phaoahs heart God harded Pharoahs heart, Pharoah harded Phaoahs heart

The usual Arminian view is that man is spiritually sick and although cannot save himself God knows who will respond and God doea 99% of the work, the perosn doing the last 1%
In this view predestimation is God knowing who might chose salvation and God is a hopeful God with regard to each person but no guarantee of success in reaching any particular person

The worst position in my opiniion is the liberal view that Man is basically good, espoused popularly and even by the moview Superman Returns for example. Jesus died fro us while we were yet sinners not while we were basically good and the liberal position is a serious misunderstanding of New Testament Theology

Answer 5

It goes like this: God is omniscient (he knows everything, including what has happened in the past and what will happen in the future).
If this is true then he must know of all of us, whether we will go to heaven or to hell, right? He will have known that even before we were born. Which means that he let´s us be born even knowing that we are doomed. So, there is no free will and it is useless to try to be a good, just person if our final destiny after death is already known, or pre-DESTINED?

Answer 6

A good example, I think, would be Judas Iscariot's betrayal of Jesus.
Secondly, the masses of Jews screaming for Christ's crucifixion.
Too early to look up verses, though, sorry.

p.s. I don't believe in what the person wrote below about Jesus telling Judas he had to betray him. I think that comes from the controversial 'Judas texts' which were found recently.

Answer 7

God knowing all things