I believe in both...the Bible says "our steps are ordered by God' but we also have free will...if we follow the life God ordained for us, I feel it will be better for us....God does not have to fix a life we choose for ourselves...he will "finish" in us what He started, but is under no obligation to finish in us what we start...... if we follow His will for us...he will give us the strength to face whatever comes our way....but alas, most of us think we have to choose our own way, and then get frustrated with God when he does not jump every time we ask him to bail us out of a mess we created.
2006-12-19 02:29:09
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answered by Lilliput1212 4
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Destiny is enevitable.
Water rises to its own level.
Sooner or later everyone rises to the level of their incompetence.
If you play with something long enough it will break.
Even randomists will agree there are only two ultiamte options. Ying or Yang.
Everything else is just a path which you can chose, but it ultimately leads to a Ying or Yang.
Relgion has the universe ruled by Good and Evil
Science has the universe ruled by postive and negative electrical charges
There is nothing inbetween. There is no Door #3, there is no straight ahead. There is left and right and no matter which way you take you eventually reach your destiny.
What would be different is the terrain, the adventure upon the way.
2006-12-19 10:38:54
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answered by Anonymous
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Neither.
I believe that at the instant of the big bang/inflationary era, all the natural principles of the universe took form. Since they are completely deterministic, that instant of formation contained everything we consider past, present, and future, all formed simultaneously. Time, as we perceive it, is only an illusion. My death is as set in stone as was my birth. All of the choices I have made, am making, and ever will make are already decided, but my perception has not caught up to them.
In short, destiny teaches that a deity set things up -- I don't believe in a deity. However, our choices were all made 12 billion to 15 billion years ago at the moment of formation.
2006-12-19 10:31:02
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answered by Anonymous
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I believe in free will - people make their own choices.
The fact that God knows what is going to happen has nothing to do with the fact that you still choose your destiny.
2006-12-19 10:23:59
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answered by jinenglish68 5
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Free will. 100%. Destiny, or it's close sibling, "predestination" has no place in my theology, or any Catholic theology.
2006-12-19 10:23:50
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answered by Anonymous
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2..You chose your destiny....God gave us this choice
2006-12-19 10:28:45
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answered by babo1dm 6
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There is no god
You make your own destiny
2006-12-19 10:23:40
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answered by Anonymous
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Freewill. Don't believe in predestination, otherwise we're just robots who pretend to live.
2006-12-19 10:27:10
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answered by Sick Puppy 7
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