Some things feel destined to be. Like we were lead to the perfect place at the perfect time. Like we are meant to meet or connect with someone, or have a "soul mate," or a predetermined life path. Some call it God's plan for us. But every day we make hundreds of both small and large decisions that affect the outcome and circumstances of our lives. So that implies that our thoughts and actions influence and change our life paths ... we are destined to become something, but if we choose another path it takes us somewhere else. If you believe in only destiny, why try to change, or make your life the way you want it? But, is there not an inevitable path we've been chosen to walk? How do we balance the two seemingly conflicting viewpoints?
2007-02-02 21:29:16 · 14 answers · asked by LiliLuxx 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I believe in "free will" and logical consequences. Which means that I believe in Karma. (Our decisions and actions today affect our circumstances tomorrow. -my copyright, Uncle Wayne)
Fate is the opposite of Karma.
Fate and pre-destiny is an excuse for why we failed. It is not a reality, it is simply an imaginative way of blaming someone else or something else, instead of blaming ourselves for our mistakes.
2007-02-02 22:11:40 · answer #1 · answered by MrsOcultyThomas 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that the two are co-dependent much like chaos and order. Out of one the other emerges and so on and so on and so on. We are controlled by fate, but the choices we make with our free will changes our fate, but that new fate also changes what choices we can make. Similarly we cannot yet realize that something was fate or meant to be until after we have made free-will choices. Action is what is most important.
2016-05-23 22:40:47 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe in both. It's like how when water is given an obstacle, it was always flow around it; or no matter many paths to the summit, the view is always the same. life is like that.
it's also like cards. WE need to make the decisions to take the risks that determine what cards we're given back. when we get these cards - this is how fate. 100s of possible fates, yet since God is omniscient no matter what you choose it still serves the greater good and the path still leads to the summit. that doesn't mean u dont have free will - meditate on this.
so we do have destiny, but its UP TO US to determine our path in it. don't ever think u were born to do exactly something, 'cause someone could just as easily be born to do that, and then you take the path of another. will i be sinner or saint? if i choose to be a sinner, someone else will probably (through your own indirect actions) choose to be a saint.
now i'm confusing myself. but it makes sense, to me.
2007-02-02 21:46:42 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I did not believe in either theory the way you describe it. Free will does describe our day-to-day decisions, except for the ability to seek out God. We cannot do that. Neither is fate the equivalent of predestination, because God does not choose hell for the unregenerate. Rather, they are allowed to continue in their sins, making their free will, day-to-day decisions anyway they want, with the ultimate destination of hell -- on their own, courtesy of Adam's fall in the Garden of Eden. It is the saved who are predestined from before the foundations of the world to come to him through the action of the Holy Spirit in their hearts -- not as a result of any of their own doing. Nobody merits Heaven. Everyone is guilty.
2007-02-03 10:27:06 · answer #4 · answered by ccrider 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe in both.
Fate is what you have no control on; like it is my fate to die in an accident, to be born crippled, etc.
Free will is there when I can make the choice. Though Allah Has a plan for me and knows the choice I would make, I do not know this at the time of making the choice. So I am free.
Peace
2007-02-02 21:36:05 · answer #5 · answered by daliaadel 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe in free will because I can disobey. I believe that my Father God knows when I take my will away from Him and He turns me in the way I should go. But only because I ask Him to do so. This is why Jesus told us to pray, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. But we have to be sincere. As for balance, well Father God has never lied to me, why would there be conflict with someone I trust completely?
2007-02-02 21:43:54 · answer #6 · answered by martha d 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Neither. Fate implies a creator or a powerful being. Free will violates the Church-Turing Thesis. The Church-Turing Thesis is known to be true.
The universe is entirely computable, and it was not created.
2007-02-02 21:34:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fate is kinda like direction. If one lives a life of sin, their fate is hell-unless they "will" to change. The closer one is to their destination, the greater effort required to change. The sooner one desires (wills) to change the less effort needed.
2007-02-02 21:41:13 · answer #8 · answered by DATA DROID 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I really dont know,but I do believe in one thing call if Fate,Free Will or luck , everything happens for some higher reason.
2007-02-02 21:42:50 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you're religious free will HAS to exist othewise YOU have no sin and ALL BAD and GOOD is caused by God. So, there can be no damnation and no salvation. Salvation from what, GOD'S PROGRAM that MADE YOU DO SOMETHING AGAINST YOUR WILL. You were at fault for that!
2007-02-02 22:43:32 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋