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the universe's spoiler alert, claiming your ending was written before you started reading
means The theological or philosophical doctrine that all events, especially the fate of each soul, have been determined in advance by God or some higher power.
from From Latin praedestinare, 'to determine beforehand,' built from prae- ('before') and destinare ('to make firm, establish, appoint') — the same destinare that gives us 'destiny' and 'destination.' Latin destinare itself traces back to a root meaning 'to make fast' or 'fix in place,' a cousin of 'stand' and 'stable,' so the word literally pictures your fate nailed down ahead of time. It entered English through Church Latin and Old French in the medieval period, when the question of whether God had already sorted the saved from the damned was very much a live and bitter debate.
- calvin's grip
- John Calvin made it Protestantism's spine in 1536
- the elect
- some believed salvation was decided before birth
- free will war
- clashed with Arminianism for centuries
- causal loop
- the 2014 film made it a time-travel paradox
- ancient roots
- Stoics called it fate woven by cosmic logic
calvinist theology — john calvin's 16th century doctrine that god predetermined all events and salvation, central to reformed christianity
augustine's doctrine — augustine of hippo's 5th century teaching that god foreknew and predestined the elect to salvation