What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.
Predisposition is not predestination.
In one day I had altered my life; my life, therefore, was alterable. This simple axiom did not call out for exegesis; no, it entered my bloodstream directly, as powerful as heroin. I could feel it pump and surge, the way it brightened my veins to a kind of glass. I had wakened that morning to narrowness and predestination and now I was falling asleep in the storm of my own free will.
God is not pre or post anything. He is present to everything. . . . There is not predestination but destination, not predestiny but destiny. This follows from divine omniscience and eternity.
Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
I don't believe in predestination - except for genetic predilections.
Women have a predestination to suffering.
If there is Predestination, then God is the devil. by Remy, Ravensbruck concentration camp survivor
Some of the Fathers went so far as to esteem the love of music a sign of predestination, as a thing divine, and reserved for the felicities of heaven itself.
My conclusion on Freewill and predestination- they are identical.
[John] Calvin is often identified with his account of predestination. Yet that appears in the third book of his Institutes, not the first.
My faith, my hermeneutics does not demand that I correlate every verse. In other words, there are often verses that appear, I'm a John 3:16 Christian, I believe God so loved the world, I do believe that, and I believe that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish. But I also believe, you know, predestination from the foundation of the Earth. So to me, I'm able to hold tensions in my mind rather than having to explain them. To me, I don't fit in a real good box and I believe them both.
A man may be so bold of his predestination, that he forget his conversation.
To get rid of predestination we have been willing to degrade our God into a godling.
I don't believe in fate, as in, which I - as a Catholic, I think, sort of predestination. But I certainly believe in chance.
