Everything happens for a reason (as in FAITH and DESTINY)?

Question

heres my question...if everything happens for a reason...and our life is already written down on some hypothetical book...would we still have freedom (since everything is predestined)

...and thinking that we do have freedom is actually part of our destiny??

...hence...would criminals be doing anything wrong...after all it was not there choice to commit the crime (since its already predestined)

Answer 1

Randomness is the constant, faith is a belief, destiny is a culmination of events, free will is a choice. Since randomness is the constant there is a decision process made by us as to which action or path we take. Fate *(alism) is really what you are alluding to in your last sentence and if you were fated to commit the crime then your fated to be punished for it.

Answer 2

yup... everything happens for a reason but doesn't mean our life is already written down. It's always in our hand to change our destiny. be sure!
maybe sometimes you'll think and say it doesn't work no matter how hard you try your hardest to get something. So here I can say, even those things which make you think like that might be a reason to let you help to get what you want...

always be positive.

Answer 3

My belief is that What we have acquired in this life has a lot to do with the previous lives especially the desires, and consequences of our actions past and present ( thinking in these lines )

This is why the happenings in this life seems to be predestined.

Now thinking in these lines of the first para, The life of the soul does not end with this life Soul cannot die, To see that It has no more human or any other birth in any form THE PRESENT LIFE HAS TO BE LIVED IN SUCH A WAY THAT NO UNFULFILLED DESIRES ARE REMAINING AND ALL OUR ACCUMULATED KARMA'S ARE NULLIFIED. This is when it can merge back into the supreme spirit.

Answer 4

I tend to wonder whether the "everything happens for a reason" story is because we are all meant to end up somewhere, and we can get to that 'somewhere' through a million different ways. The criminal, for example, may commit a crime and go to jail but this is only a gap in the road, and each decision that person makes is their own decision and will only 'swerve' the road in another direction. Ultimately, though, that person will still end up where they are suppose to - no matter how they got there.

Maybe thats one way of looking at it :)

Answer 5

This question has many variables, for example, people who lived a tough life don't always become criminals, or evil.
I think that our lives is like a map, where we have to make our own choices with every step we make. So we still have a small degree or freedom

Answer 6

its the ying and yang,,,,things which are
opposites are also exactly ? the same

destiny= free choice

its like light bending around the curve
of space,,,,light thinks its taken a journey but has
gone nowhere

Answer 7

there is two part
1. written body and Mind not free, already written.
2. U as an soul free.

find urself as soul

Answer 8

Human beings, as well as animals and inanimate events have the ability to break the chains of strict causality postulated by Determinism. We are thus free to influence our affairs and our destiny. In changing our future from what it would have been without the interaction triggered by our free will, we are changing the very universe of which we are an integral part. With the intervention of free will, our future, and thus the future of the universe, will follow a path different from the path it would have pursued without our intervention.

In addition to scientific considerations, common sense insists that Free Will exists. Who would deny that we have Free Will when we put one foot in front of the other and decide, of our own volition, of our own Free Will, to go for a walk or not go for a walk? It is clearly irrational to believe that a chain of causality at the time of the Big Bang determines if we go for a walk this afternoon, or not.

Answer 9

The philosophy you're proposing is faulty logic and not in accordance with Bible teachings. It would make the Bible's God of Love in to a God of puppets, a God of mechanical things only, a God of Evil.

It would mean that all effects down to chemical reactions would have to be predestined -- it is not in accord with reality.

Please see HP http://www.bythebible.page.tl/

direct link:
http://bythebible.page.tl/Predestination-Debunked.htm

Answer 10

I believe everything happens for a reason.

But I do not believe our lives are predestined.

I believe we have control over most things in our life. The "everything happens for a reason" concerns things that happen that you have no control over. (Like you are driving down the road and another car careens out of control and slams into you.)

Life is what you make it and what you believe. And we all have choices. Even if the criminal is "predestined" to commit crimes, he has that choice to make.

My grandfather always told me to work like everything I do depends on my efforts, then pray like everything I do depends on god. He said that is the only way to succeed.

As neither he, nor I, truly believe(d) in the pre-packaged god that the christian religion gives us, this philosophy seems to work for me.