prḗ-des-ti-nā ́shun (πρόθεσις, próthesis, πρόγνωσις, prógnōsis προορισμός, proorismós):
Predestination can be, and has sometimes been, regarded as a philosophical question rather than a Biblical one. It is with predestination as a Biblical question, however, that we are here mainly concerned. It is possible to urge, and it has been urged, that the philosophical question—whether all that occurs is foreordained—is not discussed and decided by Scripture. Theology, starting from God in its interpretation of all things, has arrived at universal foreordination by a species of deductive reasoning. But we must not argue the matter from any abstract principles, but deal with the actual facts as set forth in Scripture and as found, inductively, in the experience of man.
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Author: International Std. Bible Encyclopedia
Keywords: Predestination, Arminian, Arminianism, Foreknowledge, Preexistence, Pre existence, Wesleyanism, Wesleyan, Wesley, Foreordination, Foreordain, Foreordained
Source: James Orr (editor), The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, 5 volume set.
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