Do you believe in predetermined fate?

Question

like do u think god has a assigned date for everyones deaths???

Answer 1

Absolutely NOT!

That was the teaching of John Calvin.

I KNOW the future CAN be changed and start a new lifepath because I have done it myself.

1980 I was diagnosed with Muscular Dystrophy and given 6 months to live. I started directing ch'i into my weakened body; and a few months later I walked away from the wheelchair.

I believe God knows the future; but I also know the future can be changed by making wiser choices in life.

Answer 2

no.

consider the implications of predestination. If this doctrine were true, it would mean that God foreknew all that would result from his creating man—the deflection of Adam and Eve, the wars, the crime, the immorality, the oppression, the lying, the hypocrisy, the disease. By speaking the words, “Let us make man,” then, God deliberately would have been setting all this wickedness in motion! (Genesis 1:26) God’s placing before Adam and Eve the prospect of everlasting life would, therefore, have been a sham. So would the Bible’s invitation, “Let anyone that wishes take life’s water free.”—Revelation 22:17.

But the Bible says that Jehovah is a God “abundant in loving-kindness and truth.” (Exodus 34:6) He would never offer something he knew that it was impossible for one to obtain. Jesus Christ asked: “Who is the man among you whom his son asks for bread—he will not hand him a stone, will he? . . . Therefore, if you, although being wicked, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more so will your Father who is in the heavens give good things to those asking him?” (Matthew 7:9-11) Furthermore, if God long ago foreordained precisely who would gain eternal salvation and who would be eternally destroyed, why does the Bible say that “Jehovah . . . is patient with you because he does not desire any to be destroyed but desires all to attain to repentance”?—2 Peter 3:9.

Predestination, therefore, runs counter to what the Bible actually teaches about God. ‘But would not limiting God’s knowledge of the future undermine his almightiness?’ you might ask. Not at all. At Titus 1:2, for example, we learn that “God . . . cannot lie.” But does this undermine God’s almightiness? No, rather, it highlights God’s truthfulness.

The apostle Paul counseled Christians endowed with the gift of prophecy: “Gifts of the spirit of the prophets are to be controlled by the prophets. For God is a God, not of disorder, but of peace.” (1 Corinthians 14:32, 33) Such prophets would not speak out indiscriminately but would share their prophetic messages in an orderly way. To do this, self-control was needed. Certainly, then, God is also able to use his foreknowledge selectively, using it only when there is a reason or a purpose for doing so.—Compare Genesis 22:1, 12.

Answer 3

No. I believe with fate we are dealt a certain set of cards, but with free will, you decide how to play the hand.

Answer 4

Nope, predestination is nonsense. The universe is governed by odds and probabilities. If you don't believe that read up on quantum physics.

Answer 5

No. we have too much free will regarding murder, suicide and just doing stupid things, to think we have predetermined dates of death.

Answer 6

Predestined by genetics and environment, but not predetermined.

Answer 7

I believe in foreordination, not predestination. We each have something we are meant to do but if we don't, another will have the chance to do that instead, we always have a choice

Answer 8

Predestined yes, predetermined no.

Answer 9

I believe that the actions you take in life can lead you in different directions. The wrong actions lead in the wrong direction and vise versa

Answer 10

I believe God has a plan and he is in total control. The question for us is, will we serve his will?