The puritans believed that god had chosen certain people to go to heaven. what is this belief known as?

The puritans believed that god had chosen certain people to go to heaven. This believed is known as predestination.

Predestination is actually a Calvinist belief, embraced by puritanism, that one is chosen by God prior to be born to be saved or to be d#mned.

Puritanism was a religious movement seeking for a reformation which emerged within the Church of England in the late 1500s.  

The Puritans believed that the Bible was God's true law.

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