foreordain

How To Use foreordain In A Sentence

• Abraham learned that God had selected and foreordained many spirits to specific missions in mortality.
• The noun, according to the same authority, denotes the act of decreeing or foreordaining events; the act of God, by which He hath from eternity unchangeably appointed or determined whatsoever comes to pass. The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election
• But it was equally unpleasant to drift aimlessly through the blackness of space, all the while abiding either the fortuity of happening upon errant matter or the slow, foreordained approach of death.
• foreordaining" them signifies His fixed purpose, flowing from this, to Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
• It was foreordained that the company would suffer a spectacular collapse.
• For so the Son of God was "foreknown" (so the Greek for "foreordained," 1Pe 1: 20) to be the sacrificial Lamb, not against, or without His will, but His will rested in the will of the Father; this includes self-conscious action; nay, even cheerful acquiescense. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
• ‘O Allah, I swear by Thy Greatness and Thy Glory, I meant not through my disobedience to transgress against Thee; for indeed I am not ignorant of Thee; but my fault is one Thou didst foreordain to me from eternity without beginning; 357 so do Thou pardon my transgression, for indeed I disobeyed Thee of my ignorance!’ The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• And they rejoice, he "has made all things for himself; yea, even the wricked for the day of evil;" and that he has, for his own glory, foreordained whatsoever comes to pass. Sermons on various important subjects of doctrine and practice
• The purchaser of stock, of course, who must always bear in mind that stocks are never foreordained to go up or down.
• So I don't think that you can, uh, foresee or foreordain any particular outcome, but I do think what we're all saying is that there is, at least in our experience, more of an openness to process, to bring people together to the table, that collaboration and collegiality. Archive 2007-01-14