John Calvin

Predestination is the Divine foreordaining or foreknowledge of all that will happen; with regard to the salvation of some and not others. It has been particularly associated with the teachings of John Calvin.

Predestination may sometimes be used to refer to other, materialistic, spiritualist, non-theistic or polytheistic ideas of destiny, fate or doom.

Such beliefs or philosophical systems may hold that any outcome is finally determined by the complex interaction of multiple, impersonal, equal forces, rather than the issue of a Creator’s conscious choice.

In a predestined universe the future is immutable and only God’s ordained set of events can possibly occur; in a non-predestined universe, the future is mutable.

Predestination may also take on a very literal meaning: pre-(before) and destiny, in a straightforward way indicating that some events seem bound to happen. The term, however, is often used to describe relationships instead of all events in general.

Finally, antithetical to determinism of any kind are theories of the cosmos that assert that any outcome is ultimately unpredictable. The chaos theory, the ludibrium of luck and chance have deterministic implications, as a logical consequence of the idea of predictability.

But predestination usually refers to a specifically religious type of determinism, especially as found in various monotheistic systems where omniscience is attributed to God, including Christianity and Islam.

To put it in a nut shell, this is a doctrine which states that all the events in every one’s life are predetermined by god. The free will is only an illusion. It was introduced by St. Augustine (354 to 430) to the early Christian church.