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Decrees, Divine

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This is a brief cross-reference entry. For the full topic material click the following topic: Predestination.

The divine decrees are God's eternal purposes — the settled determinations by which he chooses, foreknows, and ordains the course of history and the destiny of his people before the foundation of the world. Scripture treats these decrees as the upstream cause of election, calling, and the unfolding plan worked out in Christ.

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