What is your belief system?

Question

Do you believe in free will or destiny? Is life just the consquences and reaction of the decisions and actions we make in life or is it all predestined for us? I find destiny to be hard to believe. I don't believe that someone's destiny can be to live in poverty and then starve to death or to be raped, tortured and murdered. I want to believe in God and an afterlife, but with all the evil in the world, I don't know. Is God not able to intervene in our lives? Do we make our own choices and decisions and whatever happens to us is just the consequence? What about people who have terminal illnesses and get cured miraculously. or other people who survive near death? How come some people have wonderful lives, never knowing of misery or sorror, and others lives are the complete opposite? I may sound stupid, but I would like to know what other people think or believe.

Answer 1

I could never believe in destiny, if I did I wouldn't think I had the power to change my life. The power to change is an amazing thing, when things aren't good in your life you know that it is in your power to make the different. My beliefs regarding God are not found in any religion I have encountered. God to me is not there to make things perfect for us, in fact it would be wrong of him/her/it to do so. God wants us to live our own lives, to find our own destiny, to become our own people. God doesn't need our praise or adoration, God is beyond that, I mean really, what infinate being needs measly humans offering sacrifices etc. God to me is more like a permeating force in all things, not one that you can readily identify, but one that is always there. One that could perhaps give you inner strength, but isn't going to help you get a ninety on a test you didn't study for. The fact that some people have it better than others is just a fact of the human condition. We live in the world and society that we have created, it is a mingling of self determined destinies playing out, and this doesn't turn out well for all people all the time. As we grow and mature as a species hopefully there will be less sorrow and pain in the future, and more acceptance, selflessness, and love. Cheers!

Answer 2

1 Do you believe in free will or destiny?

2 Is life just the consequences and reaction of the decisions and actions we make in life or is it all predestined for us?

3 Is God not able to intervene in our lives?

4 Do we make our own choices and decisions and whatever happens to us is just the consequence?

5 What about people who have terminal illnesses and (seemingly) get cured miraculously?

6 How come some people have wonderful lives, never knowing of misery or sorrow, and others lives are the complete opposite?

A LOT TO PONDER AND WE ALL DO.. TO MUCH THINKING AND NO ACTION ON YOUR PART TO CHANGE WHAT YOU CAN WILL RESULT IN AN INSIGNIFICANT LIFE.

Answer 3

me....pagan.

I do believe in free will/destiny. As it is my actions that dictate the reactions of the world around me. If life was predestined for me, I would feel a little cheated. That's like being an actor in Disneyworld....given a script and told not to deviate from that script or face the waiver I signed that I would be fined 50,000 bucks for any change of line. Doing the same old same old, nothing new nothing different. No learning, no education, no challenge. If there is no challenge in life then what is the point of living it? Why should I be the stand in face for the character in someone else's story they all ready have written, what if I want to write my own book?

I happen to believe that all people have the capability to make their own choices in life. If I needed a nanny or a chaparone 24 hours aday, I think me and mom would still be attached by god's will. eww, wait that gave me a disturbing vision...me attached to mom, mom attached to granny, granny still attached to greatgranma who is supossed to be buried in a grave for some hundred years......*shiver* ack.

Anyways, if you want to believe in a god or an afterlife, by all means...please do so. If you don't then don't. There is no real person telling you you have to....other than the guilt of mom and dad brainwashing each child with the torment of hell for not doin' chores and such.

We all have a path we walk. Some goes straight, some deviate to the left...others wonder aimlessly in a circle until they discover they've been following their own footprints all this time.

Things happen, if you can explain them in a rational manner to explain it to your mind that's all ya' need to do then soothing comfort follows. In my belief structure, I happen to feel that any changes in the world around me do not come from outside forces but from me, myself....and those changes can be positive or negitive depending on how experienced I am with the stimuli around me.

you are not stupid....not unless you have an IQ of less than 60, I think is what the medical description states. I don't think there is one person on this planet that is stupid, perhaps they do stupid things, but they themselves are not stupid.

I do however have to contest your sentence about how some people have wonderful lives the whole way through. There is not one person anywhere that has never felt sorrow. Everyone has had to deal with disappointment and misery at least once in their life. It's not all flowers and bumblebees. Just remember 1 the grass is always greener....and 2 whatever you experience, positive or negitive, there is always someone somewhere who has it 10 times better/worse than you (that means for every 3 foot fish you catch your buddy has caught 10 and they were ten times as big)

Be proud of who you are and stand confident in yourself.

Answer 4

Consider the universal law of karma and reincarnation. It is the only thing that adquately explains why bad things happen to good people, why some people have wonderful lives, never knowing of misery or sorrow, etc. The universal law of karma and reincarnation is only mentioned in part in the Bible. (What you sow, so shall you reap.) Everyone is responsbile for his own actions (karma) and must live out the effects of the causes they put forth. God set up the system of cause and effect, so he has no reason to intervene. He gave us free will and with that we actually write our own destiny that we must live out in the next lifetime. Yet, he gives us as many opportunities as we need to reincarnate back into the physical plane, to give it another go and see if we can take the higher road in all things. Eventually we get tired of being knocked around and start searching for a higher meaning in life and for our true self and our true home. Eventually we get it right and ascend back into the kingdom of heaven, from whence we came.

Answer 5

We were definately all endowed with free will but time and unforeseen occurance befall us all. We reap what we sow--not always in the time frame that we might expect but ultimately our choices come back to us. Satan has been thrown down to earth and confined here along with his demons since 1914 and the misery that you see is a result of his anger at being locked out of heaven. You do not sound stupid at all. You are sighing and groaning over all the detestable things that are happening in this system of things and rightly so. God tells us in the Bible that he is looking for people, like you, who are doing just that because it means they have the right heart condition to get the blessings of paradise and everlasting life. Do not get discouraged. God is reaching out to you.

Answer 6

As with most things in life, they are best understood from a balanced perspective. I believe that we choose our destiny, but our choices are combined with everybody else's choice. For example, if i made a choice to go the store, and another person made a choice to rob that store at the same time, and i get shot, its not my fault that I got shot, it just happened because somebody else made a choice as well. Because we have free will, then a lot of our life will consist of the events occuring because of our individual choices, and the choices of others. There's a lot more that could be said about this topic, but I don't have time right now to finish it all.

Answer 7

nicely, a concept is something someone believes, be it authentic or pretend. believe it or no longer, there are those that believe that the earth is flat. (The Flat Earth Society) that's their "concept." therefore, all people who does no longer believe in a god is an atheist and that's easily one of their beliefs and area of their concept gadget...end of tale. As for the "attractiveness and reality" of your human being concept gadget, you're heavily inaccurate. I somewhat have heard that many human beings on acid journey an somewhat captivating reflects of coloration and severe emotional reports with profound effects. Tat does no longer make what they're doing good neither is it something I somewhat have any pastime in attempting. It easily doesn’t make their movements or their concept that their movements are ok...the reality. Your bible or the Quran or maybe with holly e book you subscribe too ought to carry you some type of convenience and also you'll locate some attractiveness in it truly is pages, yet that does no longer make all of it peaches and it easily does no longer make it authentic or the reality. This absurd idea that all and dissimilar's beliefs must be huge-spread as reality is assigning. in case you choose to concept a lie, that's your prerogative and that i have no good to ward off you from believing what you want. yet purely as I scoff on the acidheads and pot heads and alcoholics for waiting their lives and the adults that can’t differentiate between technology fiction and reality and spend countless hours an afternoon playing video games for an same reason, so too do i believe about those that would positioned faith in such an antiquated and ridiculous concept as god. ~~

Answer 8

I believe in cause and consequences, which by themselves are chaotic but once one's will/intention is involved one can make the causes and bring consequences to oneself, consiously or otherwise. I'm as Buddhist and i suggest you try Buddhism. It talks of Karma and afterlife but not the way you mentioned, definitely not 'destiny'.

Answer 9

I'm Catholic.

I believe you can change a bad destiny to good. God just wants some people to be able to rise above themselves even if they're doing terrible, to test their faith.

Read the Nicene Creed & the Apostles Creed.

Answer 10

We have the illusion of free will, that it to us it seems like what we are doing is of our own will, but in actuality God already knew it. And he already knows everything that will happen.

As a Muslim, we believe in divine Pre-Decree, not doing so is saying that you are greater than God, very bad sin.