From the beginning, its action is headed toward a foreordained conclusion.
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But it would be a mistake to assume survival is foreordained.
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It was not by any means an easy or foreordained decision.
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The fight may not be fair, but its outcome isn't foreordained.
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Even though the outcome was foreordained, it was still an emotional moment.
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Nor is a vote for Sanders meaningless, even if his loss is foreordained.
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Just because history is not foreordained does not mean it is random, however.
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That the conclusion of the novel is foreordained does nothing to diminish its tension.
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The problem with schematic stories isn't in the execution, it's that they feel foreordained.
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The meme that was foreordained to project me into celebrity had died a meek death.
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To be sure, it's not foreordained that such a faux scandal would sink his campaign.
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But the idea that there was nothing foreordained about Brexit could also be comforting and liberating.
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Still, a new arms race isn't foreordained — yet — and with enough common sense, we can avoid one.
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In his speculations about the foreordained limits of human legislation, Young hasn't identified the cause of gun violence.
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If he carries that over into the Singapore meeting with Kim Jong Un, the results will be foreordained, and bad.
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Moonves' attorney, Andrew Levander, released a statement Monday saying, "The conclusions of the CBS board were foreordained and are without merit,"
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But even if its defeat is foreordained, the Sanders campaign poses some risks to another Clinton eventually winning the White House.
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But if the outcome of the showdown on Capitol Hill at the moment appears foreordained, the ultimate verdict still is not.
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She would later write a biography of Franklin's nearly forgotten youngest sister, Jane, yet a career in history was hardly foreordained.
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It's arguably more painstaking to craft and takes careful planning to figure out precisely what foreordained logic to feed into the system.
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The Art of Collecting Just because an art event has been around for a long time doesn't mean its success was foreordained.
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As if her debut had foreordained as much, she developed something of a specialty as an 11th-hour substitute for indisposed singers.
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Warriors–Cavs III has been foreordained since last June, and the media have been trying to distract us with MVP talk for months.
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He is a walking, talking repudiation of everything they believe and, by extension, of a future they had come to see as foreordained.
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"The conclusions of the CBS board were foreordained and are without merit," Andrew Levander, a lawyer for Mr. Moonves, said in a statement.
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None of that is foreordained, but clearly the Fed would need to see good evidence, in the form of better employment data, before it goes ahead and hikes.
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Realist scholars like Michael Mandelbaum and critics of American power like Andrew Bacevich tell us that the failure of such "nation building" efforts was foreordained — and richly deserved.
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That much was foreordained, even if Ms. Merkel's center-right Christian Democrats and their Bavarian allies came in slightly below expectations, with roughly a third of the vote.
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Aster piles on the personal confrontations and emotional breakdowns, but compounds them with unnerving new hauntings, all the way up to an ending that feels foreordained, but still shattering.
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The father's single-mindedness is a product of memory: he witnessed Hurricane Camille, which wrecked the coast in 1969, and therefore understands Katrina as part of a foreordained sequence.
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But nothing is foreordained, and with good organization and a little luck, it's unquestionably possible that the kind of dire economic situation currently forecast by markets will be avoided.
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Jon killing her was a foreordained conclusion, so I'm glad the episode didn't draw it out for an hour and leave us less time to see what the world becomes next.
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It's true, but it was not foreordained, at least not for Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Fighter pilot vs.
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"The outcome was so strongly yearned for by Justice Scalia that I think you have to read that history as in the service of a foreordained jurisprudential result," Mr. Denniston said.
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Yet that foreordained matchup is in peril, because San Antonio finds itself fighting for its playoff life, trailing its best-of-seven series, three games to two, against the Oklahoma City Thunder.
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" (Suddenly, her novel's high school sports angle feels foreordained.) "I miss the intensity of journalism and the camaraderie of a busy office," she said, "but I am relishing this midlife career change.
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The booth was located to the immediate right of the West B entrance to the Convention Center, and so casting the space as Inferno's gate felt both foreordained and too clever by half.
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From a Democratic perspective that outcome would be preferable to a show trial, where the conclusion is not just foreordained, but announced beforehand by the Majority Leader after consulting with White House counsel.
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"There is nothing foreordained about our march toward a more just and peaceful future," Ms. Lynch said Monday, speaking to an interfaith group at the All Dulles Area Muslim Society Center in northern Virginia.
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Yet even in this age of TV abundance, it's a historical period and setting we seldom see, with the seemingly foreordained fate of the men doing little to soften the grueling nature of their ordeal.
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Michael Flynn's fall was foreordained, predictable by anyone with the time, patience and fundamental seriousness to take an unblinking look at his past, brimming as it was with accusations of shoddy stewardship and instances of rashness.
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Forest is a tech mogul, and his project is building a computer that uses the principle of determinism — that everything that happens is physically foreordained — to calculate the cause and outcome of any event in the universe.
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Plaintiffs opposing the travel ban may claim the president's proclamation targets "Muslim-majority populations" and that the results of the administration's worldwide review were "foreordained", but there is insufficient evidence that "religious animus" played a part the executive actions.
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Perhaps that is not a surprise, but it is worth stating, because through Mr Wang, Mr Xi now has even greater control of a vast and essential part of the Communist Party apparatus, something that is not foreordained for the ruler.
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This is the play Cory Booker is trying to execute, and Booker's campaign probably depends on its success — which is by no means foreordained, since the African-American vote is more conservative and Biden-friendly than the median white liberal.
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This time it feels like one more chapter in an all-out clash that has been fought for three years, hugely consequential yet of a piece with everything that has come before, with less suspense and an outcome seemingly foreordained.
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And this is yet another prequel with a foreordained conclusion and an opening — young human finds rusted-out car, is surprised to find it's a robot who can't speak but makes friends with it — that seems mighty familiar from Bay's first Transformers.
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But laws in place from a time when Republicans were more moderate will ultimately ensure that carbon pollution from coal-fired power plants is regulated — insufficient and late though it may be — and coal's foreordained death will hardly have been slowed at all.
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Such an outcome was not foreordained in India, a socially conservative nation of 1.3 billion people where the law has often been used for intimidation and where the government, a broadly right-wing Hindu national coalition, is not known for defending minority rights.
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Nor were the economic policies that have arguably harmed working class whites the most somehow a necessary extension of civil rights legislation: China's entry into the World Trade Organization, to choose one signal example, was not somehow foreordained when L.B.J. set pen to paper.
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The appeals court said Mattis' plan was not "foreordained" by Trump because it took into account a panel of military and medical experts, evidence from the implementation of the open service policy and "a reassessment of the priorities of the group that produced" the open service policy.
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The appeals court said Mattis's plan was not "foreordained" by Trump because it took into account a panel of military and medical experts, evidence from the implementation of the open service policy and "a reassessment of the priorities of the group that produced" the open service policy.
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After three Iron Man films, two Captain America films, and two Avengers films where they fight side-by-side, Steve and Tony's personalities are well-established, and their roles in this particular drama are foreordained: Captain America is a compulsive do-gooder who can't imagine asking permission to save lives.
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To argue that Sanders has qualities in common with Reagan is not to argue that he's necessarily the most electable Democrat, or that in nominating him the party wouldn't be taking a substantial risk — as Reagan really was a risky choice in 1980, and his victory by no means foreordained.
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Lynskey has been in a lot of films and on a lot of TV shows (including in a lengthy run on Two and a Half Men), but her career has never really reached the peak that seemed foreordained by her debut at age 16 in Peter Jackson's 1994 Heavenly Creatures, opposite Kate Winslet.
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As was widely reported, the outcome appears foreordained: the court will vote 5 to 4 to overturn a precedent that for 39 years has permitted public-employee unions to charge nonmembers a "fair-share" fee representing the portion of union dues that go to representing all employees in collective bargaining and grievance proceedings.
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I hope that his continued presence in the building, along with the memory of hers, might serve to remind those who work there, and who now hold the Constitution's future in their hands, of a time when not every decision was foreordained and ideology did not always reign supreme at the Supreme Court.
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" Fresh Market's securities filing, according to shareholders, "conceals how the Berrys and Apollo worked together throughout the sale process pursuant to an oral rollover agreement, how the outcome of the sale process was foreordained, and how the additional scenario analyses were created to accommodate a sole bidder that the board had been unwilling to confront.
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Then and there he foreknew and foreordained all human tears.
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Foreordination, an important doctrine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints (LDS Church), teaches that during the pre-mortal existence, God selected ("foreordained") particular people to fulfill certain missions ("callings") during their mortal lives. For example, prophets were foreordained to be the Lord's servants, all who receive the priesthood were foreordained to that calling, and Jesus Christ was foreordained to enact the atonement. Unlike predestination, foreordination allows for individual agency (the ability to choose whether to fulfil one's callings).
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They were not coeternal with him, yet they were foreknown, foreseen, and foreordained by him.
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) rejects the doctrine of predestination, but does believe in foreordination. Foreordination, an important doctrine of the LDS Church, teaches that during the pre-mortal existence, God selected ("foreordained") particular people to fulfill certain missions ("callings") during their mortal lives. For example, prophets were foreordained to be the Lord's servants (see Jeremiah 1:5), all who receive the priesthood were foreordained to that calling, and Jesus was foreordained to enact the atonement. The LDS Church teaches the doctrine of moral agency, the ability to choose and act for oneself, and decide whether to accept Christ's atonement.
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Those who are foreordained can reject the foreordination, either outright or by transgressing the laws of God and becoming unworthy to fulfill the call.
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf. > Very well, then! of that sort only are my readers, my true readers, my > readers foreordained: of what account are the rest?—The rest are merely > humanity.
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Reading those books was like doors opening. Don't forget > that the fundamentalist South was a closed, fixed society. The world was > made in six days; everything was foreordained and fixed in the universe. . . > .
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To those who argued that divination was superfluous as all events are foreordained, he replied that both divination and our behaviour under the warnings which it affords are included in the chain of causation.
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In February, 1666, Primo accompanied Zevi to Constantinople. After Zevi converted to Islam, Primo explained this apparent apostasy as having been foreordained in the Messianic role. Concerning the rest of his life not much is known.
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In addition, a person's calling through lineage or foreordination may be revealed by prophecy, and a person's faith and good works may identify him as one who was foreordained; thus, these categories are not mutually exclusive.
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143 and was foreordained to become a vampire. There was no possibility of altering its destiny.Perkowski, Jan L. Vampires, Dwarves, ad Witches among the Ontario Kashubs. Ottawa: National Museum of Canada, National Museum of Man, Canadian Centre for Folkloric Studies, 1972.
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Chapter 3 affirms the Reformed doctrine of predestination: that God foreordained who would be among the elect (and therefore saved), while he passed by those who would be damned for their sins. The confession states that from eternity God did "freely, and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass". By God's decree, "some men and angels are predestinated unto everlasting life; and others foreordained to everlasting death." Chapter 4 recounts the Genesis creation narrative and affirms that human beings were created in the image of God with immortal souls, having fellowship with God and dominion over other creatures.
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Development of Spanish American Independence 250px Political independence was not necessarily the foreordained outcome of the political turmoil in Spanish America. "There was little interest in outright independence."David Bushnell, "Wars of Independence: South America" in The Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture, vol. 5, p. 446.
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Thus election is conditional and faith is the condition. 4. This election is 'according to foreknowledge' (1 Peter 1:2), where 'foreknowledge' may mean ether prescience, foresight, or foreplanning—or a blending of all three. 5. For the elect God has 'foreordained' (KJV, 'predestinated') certain salvation blessings (Romans 8:29, 30, Ephesians 1:3-14). 6.
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Abraham 3:22–23. It is generally believed that those who were foreordained to the priesthood earned this right by valiancy or nobility in the pre-mortal life. It is by prophecy that a person's foreordination is thought to be revealed. Latter Day Saints, however, do not believe in predestination, and therefore believe that foreordination is a destiny, but not an immutable destiny.
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Simon and Joe have an argument, with Simon claiming that everything he does is foreordained. Joe disagrees, saying that his mother's death was an accident. Joe's grandmother informs him that there must be a plan should she die, as Rebecca never told anyone who Joe's father was, even in confidence. Joe decides his only hope is to find his real father.
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MacCulloch, p.238 Calvin's theology is best known for his doctrine of (double) predestination, which held that God had, from all eternity, providentially foreordained who would be saved (the elect) and likewise who would be damned (the reprobate). Predestination was not the dominant idea in Calvin's works, but it would seemingly become so for many of his Reformed successors.MacCulloch, p.
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On April 20, 1902, Evans became a counselor in the First Presidency to Joseph Smith III, the Prophet–President of the RLDS Church. Evans became distressed when Smith designated his son, Frederick M. Smith, as the foreordained successor to the church presidency in 1906.Roger D. Launius, “Pretender to the Throne? R. C. Evans and the Problem of Presidential Succession in the Reorganization”, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought vol. 30, no.
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In response, Augustine developed the concept that infants are baptized to remove Adam's original guilt (guilt resulting in eternal damnation). Inherited original sin was previously limited to physical death, moral weakness, and a sin propensity. Augustine taught that God foreordained (or predestined) newborn babies who were baptized by actively helping or causing the parents to reach the bishop for baptism while the baby lived. By baptism, these babies would be saved from damnation.
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According to LDS Church teachings, all people born on the earth lived with God the Father and Jesus Christ in a pre-mortal life. Adam and Eve were "among our Father's noblest children" and they were "foreordained" to be the parents of the human race. In the pre-mortal life, Adam was the archangel Michael. As Michael, Adam "led the forces of God against the armies of Lucifer" in the War in Heaven.
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The WCF uses different words for the act of God's election and reprobation: "predestinated" and "foreordained" respectively. This suggests that the two do not operate in the same way. The term "equal ultimacy" is sometimes used of the view that the two decrees are symmetrical: God works equally to keep the elect in heaven and the reprobate out of heaven. This view is sometimes erroneously referred to as "double predestination", on which see above.
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Omens and portents, he believed, are the natural symptoms of certain occurrences. There must be countless indications of the course of providence, for the most part unobserved, the meaning of only a few having become known to humanity. To those who argued that divination was superfluous as all events are foreordained, he replied that both divination and our behaviour under the warnings which it affords are included in the chain of causation.
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Omens, prophetic dreams and supernatural foresight figure prominently in Njáls saga. The role of fate and, especially, of fatalism is, however, a matter of scholarly contention. Halldór Laxness argued that the saga is primarily a book about the fatalism inherent in Norse paganism. In his view, the course of events is foreordained from the moment Hrútr sees the thieves' eyes in his niece and until the vengeance for Njáll's burning is completed to the southeast in Wales.
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Bashert (or beshert; Yiddish: ) means "destiny". It is often used to refer to one's divinely foreordained spouse or soulmate, who is called one's basherte (female) or basherter (male). It can also be used to express the seeming fate or destiny of an auspicious or important event, friendship, or happening. In modern usage, Jewish singles will say that they are looking for their bashert, meaning they are looking for that person who will complement them perfectly, and whom they will complement perfectly.
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Thus, the very origin of the conception of reality shows that > this conception essentially involves the notion of a COMMUNITY, without > definite limits, and capable of a definite increase of knowledge. (Peirce > 1868, CP 5.311). > Different minds may set out with the most antagonistic views, but the > progress of investigation carries them by a force outside of themselves to > one and the same conclusion. This activity of thought by which we are > carried, not where we wish, but to a foreordained goal, is like the > operation of destiny.
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John 8 is the eighth chapter in the Gospel of John in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It continues the account of Jesus' debate with the Pharisees after the Feast of Tabernacles, which began in the previous chapter. In verse 12, Jesus describes himself as "the light of the world" and verse 32 contains the well-known teaching "ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free". In verses 56–58, Jesus claims to have pre-existed (or, according to non-Trinitarian interpretations, been foreordained) before Abraham.
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Chapter 6 recounts the Fall of Man whereby humans committed original sin and became subject to total depravity. According to the confession, the consequence of the fall and sin is that sinners are guilty before God, under divine wrath and the curse of the law, and, ultimately, subject to spiritual death. The confession states that the fall and all other sins were foreordained by divine providence; however, the confession also teaches that sin "proceedeth only from the creature, and not from God". God cannot be the author of sin because he is entirely holy and righteous.
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Russell M. Nelson, "President Dieter F. Uchtdorf: A Family Man, a Man of Faith, a Man Foreordained", Ensign, July 2008. They fled East Germany and resettled in U.S.-occupied West Germany. His sisters accomplished this by jumping from a moving train that happened to pass through West Germany, while Dieter and his mother climbed a mountain to avoid Russian guard checkpoints. Uchtdorf started studying mechanical engineering at age 18 but later continued in business administration in Cologne and graduated from Institut pour l'Etude des Methodes de Direction de l'Entreprise (today the International Institute for Management Development) in Lausanne, Switzerland, with an MBA.
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One of the authors that provoked the writing of The Freedom of the Will was Daniel Whitby. Whitby was an Arminian minister of the Church of England who was known for his anti- Calvinist viewpoint and his statement that “It is better to deny prescience [foreknowledge] than liberty.”Discourse on the Five Points by Daniel Whitby It is this claim that Edwards attempts to answer in The Freedom of the Will. Edwards responded that a person may freely choose whatever seems good, but that whatever it is that seems good is based on an inherent predisposition that has been foreordained by God.
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According to the Warring States period political philosopher Zou Yan (c. 305–240 BCE), each of the five elements possesses a personified "virtue" (de ), which indicates the foreordained destiny (yun ) of a dynasty; accordingly, the cyclic succession of the elements also indicates dynastic transitions. Zou Yan claims that the Mandate of Heaven sanctions the legitimacy of a dynasty by sending self-manifesting auspicious signs in the ritual color (yellow, blue, white, red, and black) that matches the element of the new dynasty (Earth, Wood, Metal, Fire, and Water). From the Qin dynasty onward, most Chinese dynasties invoked the theory of the Five Elements to legitimize their reign.
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After the Supreme Court decision, most media outlets stated that the Capobiancos won the case, although some correctly noted that they did not gain custody, nor receive an order of adoption.Jonathan Stempel, Supreme Court rule for couple over baby girl's adoption, , June 25, 2013; Josh Voorhees, Justice Alito Just Wrote the Next Chapter in One of the Best RadioLab Episodes Ever , June 25, 2013. Some noted that even with the decision, the return of the child to the Capobiancos was not "foreordained" and that the case had to return to South Carolina state courts for additional hearings.Sam Spence, U.S. Supreme Court reverses S.C. court in Adoptive Couple v.
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The Hebrew Roots movement began emerging as a distinct phenomenon in the mid-1990s (1993–96). In 1997, Dean Cozzens of Open Church Ministries (Colorado Springs, CO) published a prophecy titled "The Hebrew Movement", which revealed that God had foreordained four major moves for the 20th century, Pentecostalism, Faith-healing, the Charismatic Movement and finally the Hebrew Roots Movement. In this prophecy, the Hebrew Roots Movement is the "final stage of empowerment" before Christ returns. Several Hebrew Roots ministries are now preferring to use the term Awakening instead of the term "movement" which has been used widely since the 1960s to define politically oriented movements.
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The inspiration for the new system was simply making it possible for the newly ascendant Willie Hoppe to be meaningfully challenged – his near-unassailability was hurting billiard tournament revenues, because the outcome was considered foreordained by many potential ticket-buyers. The system was expected to level the playing field in other ways, especially making it easier for skilled amateurs to enter the professional ranks. Well into the 1920s, Spinks was still a well-respected figure in the billiards industry, and wrote articles for publications such as Billiards Magazine, in which he sometimes focused on rather esoteric topics, as in his January 1923 piece on "Ventilation of Billiard Rooms" in an era when tobacco smoking was prevalent.
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Christians championed the concept of a relational God who interacts with humans rather than a Stoic or Gnostic God who unilaterally foreordained every event (yet Stoics still claimed to teach free will). Free Will Baptist scholar Ken Wilson argues that every early Christian author with extant writings who wrote on the topic prior to Augustine of Hippo (412) advanced human free choice rather than a deterministic God. According to Wilson, Augustine taught traditional free choice until 412, when he reverted to his earlier Manichaean and Stoic deterministic training when battling the Pelagians. Only a few Christians accepted Augustine's view of free will until the Protestant Reformation when both Luther and Calvin embraced Augustine's deterministic teachings wholeheartedly.
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In sociology, it describes a category of degraded moral consideration. In Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. Du Bois used the term "tertium quid" to refer to the identity of African Americans in a racist society, where non-white people are viewed as a devalued category between man and animal. :"The second thought streaming from the death (slave)-ship and the curving river is the thought of the older South, the sincere and passionate belief that somewhere between men and cattle, God created a tertium quid, and called it a Negro—a clownish, simple creature, at times even lovable within its limitations, but straitly foreordained to walk within the Veil."Du Bois, W.E.B. 1903.
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183 This brought, in its wake, a broad process of cultural change that lasted for the next 500 years. What had been formed by the unity of the classical world and Christianity, was now transplanted into Germanic tribal culture, thereby forming a new synthesis that became western European Christendom. The church had immense influence during this time due to the endless commitment and work of the clergy and the "powerful effect of the Christian belief system" amongst the people. Erigina was not a major theologian, but in 870, he wrote On the Division of Nature which foresaw the modern view of predestination denying that God has foreordained anyone to sin and damnation.
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The Book of Mormon states that John the Apostle is the author of Revelation and that he was foreordained by God to write it. Doctrine and Covenants, section 77, postulates answers to specific questions regarding the symbolism contained in the Book of Revelation. Topics include: the sea of glass, the four beasts and their appearance, the 24 elders, the book with seven seals, certain angels, the sealing of the 144,000, the little book eaten by John, and the two witnesses in Chapter 11. Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believe that the warning contained in Revelation 22:18–19 does not refer to the biblical canon as a whole.
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He also taught that God foreordained a universal salvation through the universal sacrifice of Christ offered to all alike, on condition of faith, so that on the part of God's will and desire, the grace is universal, but as regards the condition it is particular, or only for those who do not reject it which would thereby make it ineffective. The universal redemption scheme precedes the particular election scheme, and not vice versa. He reasons from the benevolence of God towards his creatures; the traditional Reformed presentation of predestination, he thought, improperly reasons from the result and makes facts interpret the decrees. Amyraut distinguished between objective grace which is offered to all, and subjective grace in the heart which is given only to the elect.
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In a similar fashion, Aristotle believed that creatures were arranged in a graded scale of perfection rising from plants on up to man—the scala naturae or Great Chain of Being.Mayr, The Growth of Biological Thought, pp 201-202; see also: Lovejoy, The Great Chain of Being He held that the level of a creature's perfection was reflected in its form, but not foreordained by that form. Yet another aspect of his biology divided souls into three groups: a vegetative soul, responsible for reproduction and growth; a sensitive soul, responsible for mobility and sensation; and a rational soul, capable of thought and reflection. He attributed only the first to plants, the first two to animals, and all three to humans.
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The Book of Mormon teaches that those ordained to the priesthood were "called and prepared from the foundation of the world according to the foreknowledge of God, on account of their exceeding faith and good works."Alma, While traditionally this is interpreted as foreordination of priesthood holders, some have interpreted this to mean the standard of worthiness was foreordained rather than the priesthood holders. The Book of Abraham teaches that in the pre- mortal existence God chose certain spirits that were noble and great to be rulers.Abraham "Joseph Smith taught that "Every man who has a calling to minister to the inhabitants of the world was ordained to that very purpose in the grand council of heaven before this world was.
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After both sides gave their opening statements at the beginning of negotiations proper, they quickly began agreeing on arms control measures that limited each country to 2,400 ballistic missiles and 1,320 MIRVs. Because many of the key points had already been agreed to before the Summit began, Kissinger likened the developments to a Kabuki play: "extremely stylized with a near-traditional script and a foreordained outcome". Dobrynin referred to these agreements as a "compromise" from the Soviet perspective, but noted that it "eliminated what in our view had been the principal deficiency of the SALT I agreement". The negotiations, which at times became extremely technical (Kissinger, for instance, noted a lengthy discussion of the implications of enlarging missile silos by 15%), slowed down as more contentious topics came up.
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The purpose of it is sensation, and that it generally provides in the colorfulness of its detail and in the flood of menace toward the end." Variety called the film "one of Alfred Hitchcock's better thrillers" which "combines technical and artistic skills in a manner that makes this an unusually good piece of murder mystery entertainment." Time called it "just possibly the second-most entertaining picture (after The 39 Steps) ever made by Alfred Hitchcock" and a film in which there is "never an instant ... when Director Hitchcock is not in minute and masterly control of his material." The reviewer also noted the "occasional studied lapses of taste and, more important, the eerie sense a Hitchcock audience has of reacting in a manner so carefully foreseen as to seem practically foreordained.
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Saturday's Warrior is a religious-themed musical written by Douglass Stewart and Lex de Azevedo about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). The musical tells the story of a group of children that are born into a Latter-day Saint family after making various promises in the premortal life. Two of the children, Jimmy and Julie, encounter personal struggles that help them rediscover and fulfill their foreordained missions in life. Although no explicit time frame is given in the dialogue, certain contextual clues (in particular, a song that references the Zero population growth movement) suggest that the story takes place in the then-current and then-recent period of the late 1960s or early '70s, similar to other religious musicals such as Godspell and Jesus Christ Superstar.
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Meredith's introduction also acts as a deliberate "spoiler" (the term did not yet exist at the time of writing). Before ever getting a chance to get to know Avis and Ernest, how they fell in love or how Avis became politically involved, the reader is already told that all their struggles and hopes would end in total failure and repression, and that both of them would be summarily executed. This gives all that follows the air of a foreordained tragedy. There is still left the consolation that a happy end would come for humanity as a whole – though hundreds of years too late for Avis and Ernest as individuals; the cruel oligarchy would fall, and the two will be vindicated and respected by posterity as pioneers and martyrs.
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We not only do not believe that any are foreordained to evil by the power of God, but even state with utter abhorrence that if there are those who want to believe so evil a thing, they are anathema. We also believe and confess to our benefit that in every good work it is not we who take the initiative and are then assisted through the mercy of God, but God himself first inspires in us both faith in him and love for him without any previous good works of our own that deserve reward, so that we may both faithfully seek the sacrament of baptism, and after baptism be able by his help to do what is pleasing to him. of describing their position and St Cassian as Semi-Pelagian is also rejected.In no sense is this a Pelagian or Semi-Pelagian position.
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Tesshin remarked that Ruì-Yīng may have been able to defeat him had he not lost a leg. ; :The founder of Hokuto Shinken, first mentioned in Fist of the North Star. He became an apprentice of Seito Gekken 2,000 years ago, learning its secrets of the Keiraku Hikō pressure points and blending it with the original Hokuto style. In order to fulfill his destiny as foreordained by the Hokuto Sōke priests, he killed the other disciples of Seito Gekken, including his lover Yahma (who it is later revealed actually committed suicide), and established the one successor rule for Hokuto Shinken so that its dangerous secrets would not fall into the wrong hands. However, Kenshiro’s battle with Yasaka reveals that there is more to the massacre than first thought, as Shuken had also been shown a vision of the future where the Seito Gekken style becomes nothing more than a weapon of war, and would be the cause of so many atrocities that Shuken felt that he had to destroy the style and seal away his own before it came to that.
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Everything is, in every respect, determined by this relation, and is consequently subject to the general order of the world. If his opponents objected that, if everything is determined by destiny, there is no individual responsibility, since what has been once foreordained must happen, come what may, Chrysippus replied that there is a distinction to be made between simple and complex predestination. Becoming ill may be fated whatever happens but, if a person's recovery is linked to consulting a doctor, then consulting the doctor is fated to occur together with that person's recovery, and this becomes a complex fact. referencing Cicero, On Fate, 28–9 All human actions – in fact, our destiny – are decided by our relation to things, or as Chrysippus put it, events are "co-fated" to occur: > The non-destruction of one's coat, he says, is not fated simply, but co- > fated with its being taken care of, and someone's being saved from his > enemies is co-fated with his fleeing those enemies; and having children is > co-fated with being willing to lie with a woman.
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