Glossary Term
Risk: High- Approved rendering
- 拣选
- Transliteration
- jiǎnxuǎn
- Rejected alternatives
- 天命, 命运, 缘分
Election
NEVER use 天命 (Mandate of Heaven) or 命运 (mìngyùn, impersonal fate) or 缘分 (yuánfèn, predestined fortuitous connection, a common folk-Buddhist concept). God’s election is a personal, gracious choice, not an impersonal cosmic assignment of destiny.
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