2007-12-19 04:33:37 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Things just happen with the passage of time. Your actions are the product of reaction and personal choice. "Destiny" is what people talk about when they are trying to make the course of their own lives seem more important and dramatic than it actually is.
2007-12-19 04:42:14 · answer #1 · answered by writersblock73 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are two points of view: very often people either believe in destiny or in free will. Those who believe in destiny do not believe in free will; it is a question of temperament, and it also depends upon the experience they had in their lives. Some people have worked and had some success and recognized it as the outcome of their work. Then they think, 'if there is anything it is free will. What we have done shows it: we have achieved results'. And there are others who have worked but did not succeed. In that case they begin to see that something is keeping them back from getting results, and then they think, 'There is something – destiny – which is holding us back'. Many think, 'It is a sort of laziness to be fatalist; after all it is a superstition'. And others think, 'Free will is just a name, a conception, an idea a person may have, but really it is all destiny'.
2007-12-19 12:56:10 · answer #2 · answered by SHIVA 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Tied together
The destiny is based on a persons choices(free-will) made or not made
2007-12-19 12:41:31 · answer #3 · answered by Maurice H 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Destiny would not be free will. The point is that we are not robots. We make decisions, and they have consequences. The outcome is diiferent according to which choices we make.
2007-12-19 12:38:36 · answer #4 · answered by Tasha 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe it is tied together.
Your free will determines the path you walk and a decision that you will make to God regarding everlasting life with him. The outcome of free will is already determined by God. He will be the Judge. Once you commit yourself for the last time, you will be destined to go to a certain place. Why not accept him in your heart because you love him?
God Bless!
2007-12-19 12:47:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Do we really have free will or does destiny influence our choices so, in the end, fate is still fulfilled?
2007-12-19 15:50:11 · answer #6 · answered by pammypanda1 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
~~~ rock ,,, "Destiny" is those things that you cannot change, regardless of your Freewill. Example: I will exert my freewill to become King of The World and have Peace on Earth,,, or become a scientist and cure cancer. Our dreams and desires are not always fulfilled. "Freewill" is having The Power to do as you wish, within the limitations of your Destiny. ~ Namaste`
2007-12-19 14:16:16 · answer #7 · answered by Sensei TeAloha 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Karma: destiny!
Change your karma: free will
Definitely tied together, or not...as you choose.
I am Sirius
2007-12-19 13:15:59 · answer #8 · answered by i am Sirius 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They are tied together.
We have free will to decide whatever we like and suffer and/or enjoy the outcome.
God, in His infinite wisdom, already knew the outcome of our choices and has destined our lives around those choices.
Hope that helps.
2007-12-19 12:38:57 · answer #9 · answered by gilliamichael 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
In order to answer the question, we must first define our terms. According to Noah Webster's 1828 Dictionary. Predestination is, "The act of decreeing or foreordaining events; the decree of God by which he hath, from eternity, unchangeably appointed or determined whatever comes to pass. It is used particularly in theology to denote the preordination of men to everlasting happiness or misery." Does this mean that since God predestines that people cannot make choices?
Free will is the ability to make choices according to your desire. Free will is of two theological viewpoints: Compatibilist and Libertarian. Compatibilism is the position that a person is only as free as his nature permits him to be free and that his sinfulness prevents him from feely choosing God (1 Cor. 2:14; Rom. 3:10-12; Rom. 6:14-20). Libertarian free will is the position that an unsaved sinner is still able to freely choose God in spite of his sinful nature (John 3:16; 3:36).
God's predestination does not mean that we cannot make free will choices. God predestines in and through our choices because God is all knowing and all powerful. He knows what we will do because he knows all things. He cannot not know all things. So, whatever you choose to do out of your own free volition is known. But his knowing doesn't mean you don't free choose.
An illustration would be that I could arrange for my child to choose ice cream over something else and not violate his free will. For instance, I could put a bowl of chocolate ice cream and a bowl of dirt and rocks in front of my child and I know exactly which one the child will choose to eat. But my knowing does not violate my child's free will.
2007-12-19 12:37:24 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋