The Book of Life

The Book of Life is a scriptural metaphor for predestination.

The life referred to in the phrase, Book of Life, is primarily the life of glory in heaven.

In one sense, however, anyone in the state of grace is in the Book of Life, inasmuch as he has, at the moment, a claim to be inscribed there. And a man who rejects the state of grace by committing mortal sin is, at least temporarily, “blotted from the Book of Life.”