What is the true meaning of being predestined by God?

Answer 1

Predestined is Ordained. If God Ordains your life, then you are predestined.
Go where he send thee.

Answer 2

When someone is predestined by God, it means that God Himself chose that particular person to say or do whatever needs said or done in the name of God and His Son Jesus Christ.

Lets take the apostle Paul for instance. Before he became a Christian, his name was Saul. He hated Christians and killed Christians and didn't want anything to do with God and Christians at all. But God saw something special in him. He knew that Saul could be useful for God's people and useful to other people to believe in God and Jesus. God changed Saul's ways and He changed his name and so Saul then became Paul which then became the apostle Paul. He lived his life preaching and praising God's word for all his days on earth.

That is a good example of what predestined by God means.
Good luck and I hope I was some what helpful! May God Bless You!

Answer 3

The bible tells us that God foreknew us (those who will believe) before even the foundation of the earth (was made). Here's a for instance. I prayed for my dad for about ten years that he would come to know Jesus as his savior before he died. A week before my father died at age 91, he was still blaspheming God. I was in a panic, but I trusted that God would somehow answer my prayer.

Four days before my dad died, my sister asked him for the last time, do you want to accept Jesus as your savior? He said yes...and he really meant it. Now, God knew that, before the foundation of the earth, that my father would be saved. However, I didn't know that! God knows all things, sees all things, hears all things. And I praise Him for what He has done for me, and especially, the mercy He showed my father.

In that way....my dad was "predestined" to be saved. That means, God knows ahead of time what will happen.

Answer 4

You have a slight misconception, Love...You predestine yourself...you choose that which you want to know & experience of Self, where you'd best be able to do that, and when. God simply enjoys your adventure of such for what it is...your (His/Her) spirit growing & learning & being.

Answer 5

We are predestined to death because of sin, but the escape route has been prepared by the death of Jesus and therefore we have the option to choose life or death now.

Answer 6

Predestination and Free Will don't add up.
You can't possibly have both, it contradicts.

Check out : http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2005/1/15/article_02.htm

Answer 7

predestined means that God knew you before you were formed in your mother's womb.

Answer 8

The word itself tells you. If Websters' fails, look at Strongs' in the original language lexicon. Barring that, look at the Oxford English Dictionary - the humongous multi volume one. I've got no problem with the word. It just is.

Answer 9

Discussion of predestination usually involves consideration of whether God is omniscient, or eternal or atemporal (out of the flow of time in our universe). In terms of these ideas, God may see the past, present and future, so that God effectively knows the future. If God in some sense knows ahead of time what will happen, then events in the universe are effectively predetermined from God's point of view. This is not predestination in itself (although it does involve determinism). Predestination implies that God has determined in advance what the destiny of creatures will be.

Judaism may accept the possibility that God is atemporal; some forms of Jewish theology teach this virtually as a principle of faith, while other forms of Judaism do not. Jews may use the term omniscience, or preordination as a corollary of omniscience, but normally reject the idea of predestination as a completely foreign idea that has no place in their religion.

Islam traditionally has strong views of predestination similar to some found in Christianity. In Islam, Allah both knows and ordains whatever comes to pass. Muslims believe that God is literally atemporal, eternal and omniscient at the same time.

In philosophy, the relation between foreknowledge and predestination is a central part of Newcomb's paradox.

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Predestination in Christianity
The "doctrine of predestination" usually refers to Christian teaching concerning the ultimate implications of the predestination idea: the final destiny of men and of angels. As such, discussion of predestination concerns the extent to which salvation and damnation are the issue of God's decisions before time, and the extent to which these are matters decided by men and angels for themselves. The more immediate application of the doctrine of predestination concerns the extent to which people and nations are confined by God to particular roles, compared to how much they are makers of their own destiny. The term προορίσας ("predestination") is used in the New Testament (Ephesians 1:4-6 (ESV) for example), and the concept appears fully developed in other widely read Early Christian texts, such as the second-century Apocalypse of Peter. The development of the interpretations of predestination has varied throughout Christian theologies.

In terms of these ultimates, with creation as the ultimate beginning, and salvation as the ultimate end, a belief system has a doctrine of predestination if it teaches:

God's decision, assignment or declaration concerning the lot of people is conceived as occurring in some sense prior to the outcome, and
the decision is fully predictive of the outcome, and not merely probable.
There are numerous ways to describe the spectrum of beliefs concerning predestination, in Christian thinking. To some extent, this spectrum has analogies in other monotheistic religions, although in other religions the term predestination may not be used. For example, teaching on predestination may vary in terms of three considerations.

Is God's predestinating decision based on a knowledge of His own will, or does it arise from a knowledge of whatever will happen?
How particular is God's prior decision: is it concerned with particular persons and events, or is it limited to broad categories of people and things?
How free is God in effecting His part in the eventual outcome?
Furthermore, the same sort of considerations apply to the freedom of man's will.

Assuming that an individual had no choice in who, when and where to come into being: How are the choices of existence determined by what he is?
Assuming that not all possible choices are available to him: How capable is the individual to desire all choices available, in order to choose from among them?
How capable is an individual to put into effect what he desires?
With each additional consideration relevant to predestination, the spectrum of beliefs can be expanded to display the religious presuppositions upon which the various systems are organized. For this reason, predestination is of particular interest in discerning the principle upon which a belief system explains differences of status or condition between people, in life and in death.

Answer 10

God's eternal and immutable decree to choose from sinners whom He will save. The sovereign decree of God to choose. The foreknowledge of God, prior knowledge.