determine beforehand,” and in 1 Corinthians 2:7, where the word “destined” is used. Romans 8:29–30 spells out what is involved in predestination. Scripture links predestination to God’s plan for believers to be transformed into the image of Christ. “For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers” (8:29). Paul then detailed the process: “And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified;