Muslim believe in predestination.
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Predestination
/pɹi.dɛs.tɪˈneɪ.ʃən/
Synonyms for "predestination" (68 found)
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Closest matches (14)
Noun(3 words)
absolute certaintyabsolutenessassuranceassurednesscertain knowledgecertainnesscertaintycertitudedead certaintydecreedefiniteness
Strong matches (20)
Noun(11 words)
destinydeterminismdeterministic frameworkdivine decreedivine foreordinationfatefate boundfate cycle conceptfate cycle theoryfatingforeknowledge
Verb(1 words)
Related words (34)
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Related word relations
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More general
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6 entriesAugustinian predestinationCalvinist predestinationcompatibilist predestinationhard determinismpsychological determinismscientific determinism
Collocations
5 entriesCalvinist predestinationdivine foreordinationdoctrine of predestinationpredestined fatetheological determinism
Inflections
1 entriesDerivations
6 entriesSample sentences
5 total sentences available.
Calvin put the eighth chapter of the Epistle to the Romans as the basis of his theory of predestination.
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Like Christianity and Judaism, Islam is a so-called Abrahamic religion. Muslims, as Islamic people are called, repudiate Christianity's Trinity which alludes to polytheism. Islam is strictly monotheistic as they believe that there is only One God, Allāh. Their sacred writings are in the Qur'an, divided into 114 suras, containing 6236 āyāt, verses. Muslims believe that the Qur'an is only perfect in the original Arabic because any translation would be deficient. Their main prophet is Muhammad, the messenger. Muslim eschatology includes bodily resurrection at the Day of Resurrection, Yawm al-Qiyāmah, when everyone will be judged for good or bad deeds. Trials and tribulation precede and coincide with al-Qiyāmah, the time of which no human knows. (I read somewhere too that in Islam, being in hell may be an impermanent condition.) Like other Abrahamicists, Muslims believe in angels. Muslims believe in predestination or divine preordainment. Muslims must pray 5 times during the day. The prayer rituals are called Ṣalāh. Like other religions, Islam has subdivisions, as the Sunni and Shia, the contention being the successor, Abu Bakr or Ali respectively, to Muhammad. (The Islamic religion's progression and overall ambiance are depicted in Frank Herbert's Dune series, which is set thousands of years from now in outer space. There is a desert planet called Arrakis.)
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He ended up believing in predestination.
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Closest matches include predetermination, preordination, absolute certainty, absoluteness, assurance.
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