Glossary Term
Risk: High- Approved rendering
- 揀選
- Transliteration
- gaan2 syun2
- Rejected alternatives
- 命運, 八字注定
Election
NEVER use 命運 (impersonal fate) or 八字注定 (baat3 zi6 zyu3 ding6, ‘fixed by one’s birth-chart’, referencing the still-common Cantonese practice of birth-time astrology). God’s election is a personal, gracious choice, not a fate calculable from a birth chart.
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