2006-12-29 15:47:56 · 17 answers · asked by Greenfullmoon 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
No you control your own fate.
2006-12-30 01:50:24 · answer #1 · answered by anon4nw 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No I think there is a lifeline drawn for us that could be our fate if we do the right things for ourselves and others do for us as well. Like our parents? But that would be a little too complex to believe all is destiny and fate. There would be no reason for us to be here at all, we are then robots. We are born with a free will and there is a good and bad and right and wrong, I think we are born with G-D given talents and our souls, if we choose to be productive and timely we may achieve the goals set for us and the ones we make as well. Like our daily goals, or weekly but the long term goal is up to us to make it to that timeline without any big mistakes. How many times have you heard or read about people with potential and they screwed it up and threw it away. Then you read or hear about someone who made it on a fluke, maybe he took someone else place because the other guy missed his destiny. Life is too complicated that way to worry about it. Just smile and live your life and try not to worry. Happy New Year and push forward
2006-12-29 16:38:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christian (and reformed) theology states that both God is absolutely sovereign and that he gave his creatures free will. This is a quandry, how can they both be true? I believe that Carl Barth explained John Calvin by using the coin as an example. God's will is on one side and Man's free will is on the other. One coin, two sides. This is a complex idea that can really by understood correcty only by the mind of God.
I am presumptuously thinking of God's motivation for giving us free will. Would I value my child's love and attention if he or she were doomed to love me? Free choice presuposes the ability to turn away from the Creator. Eventually the universe will come to unity with the Creator. At the last day, "...every knee shall bow..." Choice and free will are at the boundaries of our life. A predetermined fate provides no motivation to do anything good or bad. Fate gives us no reason to get up in the morning. What would be the use? I like to be asked. I like to choose.
2006-12-29 16:12:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Depends on what you choose to believe.
During the Reformation Era in England, many people believed in predestination, or the idea that one's fate was determined before birth. These people believed that only the "chosen" few were saved, all others were destined to burn in Hell.
Kind of scary, huh?
In Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, modern-day Christianity, and Islam however, the belief is more or less that your actions on Earth determine your status in the next life.
So, depending on if you are a believer in nirvana, samsara, or just salvation, you can decide for yourself how ones fate is determined.
2006-12-29 15:56:12 · answer #4 · answered by SWFC 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not really because we all have the ability to make choices. Although, parts of our fate could be already determined. For example, if you are born into a royal family, you are most likely to become a royal person, although what kind of a royal person you are depends on the choices that we make.
2006-12-29 15:55:55 · answer #5 · answered by ♥iluvfoodnetwork♥ 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes and no. I do believe that God know our destiny on Earth ever since we were born but I too believe that we have the choice to determine our fate. It is an unsolved question.
2006-12-29 16:11:33 · answer #6 · answered by nARuTo fAN 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Cutting edge research into the bizarre world of quantum physics tends to suggest that fate is highly random. One of Einstein's famous sayings, when confronted with quantum physics, was "God does not play dice with the universe." Einstein was correct about many things, but in this regard, according to modern physicists like Stephen Hawking, Einstein was mistaken. Quantum indeterminacy in the real world is an established fact, without which you wouldn't be able to use the electronics in your computer, cell phone, or color TV.
2006-12-29 15:53:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
your fate is not determined before your born there might be a fate but as life goes you make different decisions that can change fate and make a new path
2006-12-29 15:59:43 · answer #8 · answered by Chi 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
there is fate until one makes a choice - after that, choice determines destiny, not fate
2006-12-29 15:52:37 · answer #9 · answered by -skrowzdm- 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think you will end up in the same place no matter how many different paths there are to get there. The journey can take many forms, which is where our free will takes place.
2006-12-29 16:07:48 · answer #10 · answered by chatter 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋