Does anyone believe that everything happens for a reason?!?!?!?

Answer 1

If you have got faith in GOD and religion, definitely you believe. I feel so.
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Answer 2

Yes, I do. Now, it's not always because some outside source is responsible, but there's always a reason.

As an example, I used to teach Sunday School to the 12 year olds in my congregation, and one lesson was on how sometimes Satan can try to influence us to do bad things, but one point that was brought up by the lesson manual is that Satan isn't always responsible for every bad thing that happens. I used the example that if I got up onto the small table by my side and started jumping around, and fell off, it's not neccessarily Satan's fault - at my age, I should know better than to be jumping around on that small table like a wild man thinking nothing bad would happen. If I did do that and got hurt, it was definately for a reason (I wasn't being careful when I should have been), but it's not as a result of outside forces (such a reaction would be the direct result of my actions, and my actions alone; no one else made me do it).

Answer 3

Well, first off, I'm not going to look at this in a religious way. I don't think everything happens for a specific purpose. Like one of the other people said, "If I knock over a glass, it's because I'm clumsy." That's the kind of fate I believe in. Your past dictates what your future is going to be. Lets say the clumsy person that knocked over the glass falls down a staircase 10 years later. No, I don't think that them falling down the stairs fits into some whole master plan concerning the human race, their just still a clumsy person and are therefore *Destined* to fall down staircases.

Answer 4

Things happen because it was in the grand design. In a building a light fixture is added by an electrician, looks like they re pulling wires at random, but there is a master plan which may not be available to all. Nothing happens if it was not destined.

Answer 5

I'm a follower of Christ, and I don't believe things happen for a reason . . .I believe in a world created by a Creator, and set into motion by the Creator, and that allows for things to just happen. Storms, lunatics with guns and free will, and on and on.

Things happen, and there's no reason. Sometimes, things happen, and the Lord has a reason -- but we often can't tell one from another.

Godspeed.

Answer 6

May or may not be but trust humans to dig up,find or manufacture and give a reason,how so ever weird or illogical it may be.On the cosmic level,things happen due to or for innumerable reasons, which may or may not be fathomable. Then there is that 'cause and effect' theory,which tries to explain things but not always successfully.

Answer 7

Yes. What has happened without a reason?

Answer 8

Yes

Answer 9

Yes, absolutely! you are bound by your karma (law of cause and effect) to live the life you're living but you have the power to change the course of your destiny and decide who you want to be in your next birth or , who knows, in this very life!

Answer 10

Life is guided by the principles of Karma. Except that it is a sereies of accidents. Nothing is predecided or affected by extraneous forces.

Answer 11

I can't answer for anyone else, but it sure seems that when I am asking GOD to make my life meaningful, everything seems to fall into place. And when I look back on my life, events (good or bad) have happened to bring me exactly what I asked for in life.

Perhaps GOD takes our lives and our problems and gives them order and meaning?

IDK, but I've had some extraordinary things happen in my life that cannot be explained.