Is it desntiy or our will?

Question

I think its a question asked many times but I dont know why I ask again?

Answer 1

destinity

Answer 2

--If you are talking God's direction for us , you need to know that there are false god's who have played havoc on the idea of control of man, or rather it appears that way because the chief perversion of God--Is indeed Satan.and he indeed can control people with weak wills thousands of time better than Hitler could even imagine!
Please note his control overly wayward Israel:& man today:

(Isaiah 65:11-12) “11 “But YOU men are those leaving Jehovah, those forgetting my holy mountain, those setting in order a table for the god of Good Luck and those filling up mixed wine for the god of Destiny. 12 And I will destine YOU men to the sword, and YOU will all of YOU bow down to being slaughtered; for the reason that I called, but YOU did not answer; I spoke, but YOU did not listen; and YOU kept doing what was bad in my eyes, and the thing in which I took no delight YOU chose.”” ---Please note a breakdown that might give you some light on the range of FATE:

*** rs p. 138 Fate **

Definition: An inevitable and often adverse outcome. Fatalism is the belief that all events are determined by the divine will or by some force greater than man, that every event must take place as it does because it has been predetermined. Not a Bible word or teaching.

Does everyone have a predetermined “time to die”?

This belief was popular among the Greeks and Romans. According to pagan Greek mythology, the Fates were three goddesses that spun the thread of life, determined its length, and cut it.

Ecclesiastes 3:1, 2 speaks of “a time to die.” But, showing that this is not a predetermined fixed moment for the individual, Ecclesiastes 7:17 counsels: “Do not be wicked overmuch, nor become foolish. Why should you die when it is not your time?” Proverbs 10:27 says: “The years themselves of the wicked ones will be cut short.” And Psalm 55:23 adds: “As for bloodguilty and deceitful men, they will not live out half their days.” What, then, does Ecclesiastes 3:1, 2 mean? It is simply discussing the continuous cycle of life and death in this imperfect system of things. There is a time when people are born and a time when they die—usually at not more than 70 or 80 years of age, but sometimes sooner and sometimes later.—Ps. 90:10; see also Ecclesiastes 9:11.

If each one’s moment and manner of death were already fixed at the time of birth or earlier, there would be no need to avoid dangerous situations or to care for one’s health, and safety precautions would not alter mortality rates. But do you believe that a battlefield during war is as safe as one’s home far away from the war zone? Do you care for your health or take your children to the doctor? Why do smokers die three to four years younger, on an average, than nonsmokers? Why are there fewer fatal accidents when automobile passengers wear seat belts and when drivers obey traffic laws? Obviously, taking precautions is beneficial.

Answer 3

A question everyone should struggle with (I imagine there to be a few religious zealots who just go by what they are told...). I have always the most impressive answer to be that of the Hindu religion, something to the affect of our destiny is that which we can see ourselves highest achieving.
It is really hard to get around the issue of freewill. And there are far greater arguments against freewill then just destiny. A physicalist might argue that we are all essentially just machines, albeit highly complicated machines; but they would argue that once science learns more, that we will be able to better able predict human behavior.
I think we need freewill. I don't think that life would be worth living without it. If it were all just a matter of destiny, why not just give up? I don't like that, I think it is our destiny to live according to our will.

Answer 4

Life is not destined to be one way or the other; it is all in the making. With every thing we do, and with every decision we make, we made it more like for things of certain particular nature to happened out of otherwise infinite possibilities.

There is no time future as such that would role into our present moment as the time present; everything in this world happens only once and for the first time in our observations; there is nothing preordained, predetermined and set to happen. If for example we toss a coin dice there are two possible outcomes, and if we choose a dice instead the number of outcomes will be different and they will increase in number.

The things we do in our live were not the things in store for us, there are the things made possible into our life due things we did before. In this sense destiny is not in the future but in out past; we are more like to do things that are one was or the other related to things we have already done. It is like building something; if we lay down circular foundations than it is very unlikely for us to erect a square building at the top of it. Our destiny is made in the present moments of our life; the things we do and the decisions we make, will make more things possible for us the role call of event in this world.

Now if we assume this to be true then we are free from the notions of destiny as something preset for us in the future, then we know that we have only our will power to choose from this or that. As they say if we keep doing what you have always done than you will get what you have always got. The things in stores of our past influence us in every conceivable way. We can over come these influences to use them for our own good as we see it in the time present by not letting our will subjugated by fallacious illusions of a preordained course of life; we can will our way though life, making life to be what we like it be now.

Answer 5

Determination

Answer 6

I think a little bit of both. If you really think about it, sometimes we make choices that we shouldn't, that's our will, but it still affects our destiny. But then other times we destiny has it's place in our lives.

Answer 7

Free will; free to believe or disbelieve in destiny. Free to believe or disbelieve in a higher power. As the song goes, "if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice..."

Answer 8

It's neither. Destiny doesn't really exist nor does free will.
We are pushed and shoved along our life path by forces and events over which we have no control. They are not directed specifically at us but, like flood waters, swirl all about us. Knocking us first one way and then another as we try to gain the other shore.

Answer 9

As all future events are the playing out of the now or totally random, once you know how - it is your will.

Answer 10

Our destiny is determined by the consequences of our choices.

Answer 11

Both. I think God presents us with options. It's up to us to make the right choice.