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What is predestination? how did it affect daily lives of people?

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predestination, in Christianity, is the doctrine that God has eternally chosen those whom he intends to save.

How did the belief in predestination affect a Puritan in everyday life?

Predestination is a word that means that the Puritans believed that God had already chosen who was going to Heaven before the people were even put on this earth, and they must live a perfect life in order to stay in God's good graces so they wouldn't upset God and he wouldn't basically change His mind and send them to hell.

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