2007-04-25 03:23:02 · 19 answers · asked by maverick 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
There is no "destiny".
Ask Anakin Skywalker.
2007-04-25 03:26:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
If everything were predestined, I don't know how an individual would be blamed for anything.
For this reason, I don't believe everything was predestined. The Scripture talks about SOME things being predestined (like Peter denying Jesus 3 times, and other prophecies).
2007-04-25 03:27:52 · answer #2 · answered by Christian #3412 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Predestination and free will are wholly contradictory.
But why is an individual blamed for his actions? May be because a certain part of his life is predetermined like his date of birth, his parents, his gender, his place of birth, his social status, etc. But other things are within his control i.e. the decision about what choices to make in life, such as to lie or to tell the truth, to steal or not to steal, to cheat or not to cheat. It is a tricky subject. But when you are making a particular decision, you know in your heart that most of the time you are making the decision of your own free will and not because of some external force or some predestiny, you can easily decide at that moment in time, therefore you have free will.
And anyway, it feels too easy and too convenient to blame destiny for the choices you make and somehow doesn't feel right.
2007-04-25 03:33:47 · answer #3 · answered by wafer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not everything is predestined. God has given the humans free will to choose from the good and the evil. If one choose evil then he should be blamed for the misdeeds. Good has its reward with the Lord Almighty.
2007-04-27 08:47:31 · answer #4 · answered by arif anwar 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You kinda answere'd your own question. If everything was predestined then you would'nt have a choice of free will to do what you did that cause'd someone to blame you.
2007-04-25 03:39:51 · answer #5 · answered by EarthTone 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is predestined on the basis of present activities for the next.So if our activities matches to the manual given by the creator of this cosmos,then the future destiny will be good,other wise it has to faced.We can not blame for this on predestiny.Good luck.
2007-04-25 03:51:14 · answer #6 · answered by shravanjps 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing is predestined. We may select events in the soul level but choices are always ours.
2007-04-25 03:46:00 · answer #7 · answered by Weerapat P. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everything isn't predestined that's a lie.
2007-04-25 03:28:11 · answer #8 · answered by jackiedj8952 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing is predestined. We have complete freedom to make our own choices. The fact that God, seeing the fullness of time simultaneously from His viewpoint outside of time, has seen us make those choices from all eternity does not make our choices any less free. God is merely a viewer of our choices, not a dictator of them. His viewing your choices from His eternal perspective has no more bearing on the freedom of those choices than my viewing your choices from a temporal perspective.
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2007-04-25 03:41:13 · answer #9 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Logic. Use Logic. Predestination refers to the foreknowledge of God. Foreknowledge is not responsibility.
2007-04-25 03:29:57 · answer #10 · answered by hisgloryisgreat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing is predestined.
2007-04-25 03:26:33 · answer #11 · answered by Joseph F 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋