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.
