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You call determinism predeterminism. It isn’t, they’re two different things. Predeterminusm is a Baptist interpretation of the doctrine of divine election, which exchanges the Israeli state law that a King must be anointed by the Prophet as well as being of the correct lineage. The Calvinist modern interpretation of this ancient stately doctrine is non Monarchial, and applies to the common wheel of hoi poloi ordinary church members. It’s an update to ye binary old Israelite Kingship law which Zion Baptists and their Southern Baptist brethren see as acceptable for a republican, non-king led country.Logical error. You think that if someone HAD to do something, that they had no choice? The fact that they chose what they chose is evidence enough that they could not have done otherwise. NOTHING happens, except whatever happens. Prove me wrong!
But you mislead yourself by your terminology. If predeterminism means that people "have to" do something, then you are trying to prove (but failing) that they had no choice. The fact is, that whatever God has spoken into fact, is SURE TO happen. There is no point in saying that someone could have done different. (The fact is that perhaps they SHOULD HAVE done different, and are morally responsible for not doing so. But to say that they could have is a matter of a different category from morals.)
How is "Determinism...the theory that the universe is just a giant lottery machine"? Are you admitting that every turn of the lottery is entirely caused, and that there is no such thing as truly random or chance?
By contrast, philosophical determinism is the simple denial of the statement “free will exists”, and is held by atheists who don’t think that anyone sleaze us capable of making their own decisions, having original thoughts, or engaging in quite a few human endeavors especially in the arts. Determinists don’t believe in civil ballots, for example.
The two are separate. A philosophical determinist who disbelieves in the existence of free will is a cynic. As for the baptists, I’m aware that their churches have fewer incense and candle holders than ye Greek Orthodoxs up the road, and that sometimes a Protestant church’s music seems a bit flatter and less symphonic than Gregorian plain chant, but the two opinions are separate from each other in fact.