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GCSE English Literature · key term
Making a selection through a chance process, sometimes believed to reveal God’s will.
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Paper 2
Choosing an outcome by a chance procedure, sometimes believed to reveal God’s will.
A chance-based method of choosing or deciding something. In Lantern Yard, the congregation believes that drawing lots will reveal God’s judgement.
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Making a selection by chance, sometimes with the belief that the result reveals God’s will. Lantern Yard uses this practice to judge Silas’s guilt.
Component 2
Revise: ContextDrawing lots means making a selection through a chance process which believers may understand as guided by God. It has biblical precedents: in Acts 1, the apostles use lots to choose Matthias to replace Judas.
Making a selection through a chance procedure, sometimes understood as revealing divine will. Lantern Yard uses this method to judge Silas.
Selecting an outcome by chance, sometimes with the belief that God directs the result.
