"...our free will is there to be able to accept our fate."
Is this some convoluted, wacko thinking or what ? Doesn't it say: Accept fate or reject fate according to your liking.... but leave off and completely ignore that if there truly is individual fate ones choice is moot either way ?
Give me a break.... Can anyone really be this illogical and not know it.. ?
Your comments are requested.
.
2007-11-13 18:30:00 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It might make sense if they had said that your free will allows you to accept OR REJECT something. But if you're not allowed to reject it , then there is no "free will".
Furthermore, it would not be "fate", if you can reject it; because fate implies that something will definitely happen regardless of how you feel about it.
Either way the complete statement only makes sense to a person who has no sense, and is amateurishly trying to create his own rules.
2007-11-14 01:02:43 · answer #1 · answered by big j 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes they really can be that illogical and not know it. It makes perfect sense to them. But then, if you had been talked to like that all of your life and told that is reality... don't think about it, just accept it as reality (and you actually did it), you would most likely see that it makes perfect sense too. Of course, I know you don't lol You don't have that circular logic that could make mickey mouse look like satan lol I guess they've been shut down for so long that they really don't see it.
2007-11-13 23:06:16 · answer #2 · answered by River 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Questions like this have been posted many times. I'll try to answer in the same way as I have answered in the past. We both know who George Washington was. If I were to ask you who George Washington was, I know your answer would be that George Washington was the first President of the United States. But, did I force you to make the right answer? -No. Could you have said that George Washington was the 15th. President of the United Stated? Yes. Could you have said that you don't know, or that you think he was the first astronaut to walk on the moon. Yes. You could have answered that way. I pretty well knew that you were going to give the right answer but in no way did I force you to give that answer. You had free choice. You could have given any answer you wanted to give. No one forced you to give the answer you gave. It was all left up to you. Our free will in life, and our free will in Christ, follow in the same manner. God knowing what our situation will be doesn't mean that we didn't have a choice in our situations. God knows the future---we don't. God knows what we will do, but God doesn't force us to do it. I don't even know yet know what I'll be eating for lunch two weeks from today. But God does. Just because God knows what I'll have for lunch two weeks from today doesn't mean He is forcing me to have something. God simply knows what MY decision will be. Maybe God knows us better than we know ourselves.
2007-11-13 19:11:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Does it mean that we can choose to not accept our fate?
And how do we know ahead of time what our fate is, so that we can make that choice?
2007-11-13 18:41:49 · answer #4 · answered by Daisy Indigo 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You have not even included the entire quote. "...our free will....".
Whatever. You are not trying to understand anything here. You just want to ridicule people. Well there you go. Mission complete. Why do you ask us for an opinion when you have already reached a conclusion? You just want others to join you in bashing someone else's opinion! The next time you want to call someone "wacko", please, find a mirror.
2007-11-14 19:55:23 · answer #5 · answered by TheNewCreationist 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't understand this. Fate and free will are total opposites. To me this phrase doesn't make any sense.
2007-11-13 18:38:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I thought it was rather clever of me. For anyone with a fatalistic propensity, it is exactly the way they think they think. XD
2007-11-15 17:59:36 · answer #7 · answered by Somewhat Enlightened, the Parrot of Truth 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It seems to be a poor way to say whatever they are saying.
Why do we "need" free will?
2007-11-13 18:40:06 · answer #8 · answered by aznfanatic 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you are right that that does not make sense but one slip does not make any one a wako.
2007-11-13 18:54:05 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's like saying, "You can do it your own way if it's done just how I say."
2007-11-13 18:34:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋