Fate or Free Will?
By Daquin
@Daquin (46)
United States
April 18, 2007 10:16am CST
This is an age old topic that many still question today. Are our lives predestined or do we have free will?
Personally, I go with free will since I like to think I am in control of my own life, but please give your own interpretation. But, if you believe in fate, then do you also believe in Hell, Heaven, or something like those two things?
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@magikrose (5429)
• United States
18 Apr 07
Honestly I am with you on this. I believe in free will. Every one has there own brain and it is diffrent from the person next to you. We all have the ability to make decisions, whether it is the right one or the wrong one is up to us. The ability to make decisions is what seperates us from the animals.
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@revdauphinee (5703)
• United States
18 Apr 07
of cource we have free will God created us with it if he had not we would be nothing more than robots but we are not we are humans made in his imaGE!
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@revdauphinee (5703)
• United States
18 Apr 07
Gods power has no limits friend !
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@erminiasanjose (1588)
• Philippines
18 Apr 07
Nothing is predestined except the judgment of God that those who obey Him will go to heaven to live with Him forever and those who disobey will go to hell. It's up to us to choose and so we use free will to decide. It does not necessarily mean that a person has to believe in fate to believe in hell, heaven, etc.
@xParanoiax (6987)
• United States
18 Apr 07
Honestly, why can't fate and free will work together?
Like maybe before you even in the common sense of the word, existed you chose all what you wanted to do making it all "fated". Or at least you had some part of the decision of what's your 'fate'..you know?
I believe the afterlife's not exactly so simple as heaven and hell. Lets leave it at that.
@xParanoiax (6987)
• United States
19 Apr 07
Why wouldn't it be free will? If you already decided before you lived what you were going to do..every single descision..
If it was a joint descision with whatever created us, then it was still largely your choice.
It bends the rules a little bit, but that's still free will. If you go to pick up the wallet then decide differently -- it was because you already made that choice, technically the scenerio has already been done before you existed -- because you'd already done it.
Besides the definition of 'free will' (according to my thesaurus) is "Having the ability to choose." -- which works just fine with my theory, heh.
I suppose it largely depends on how far one's willing to go, thinking outside the box. Since time -- we still don't know everything about it, or how much of the spiritual corresponds with it. If before we exist, we must then exist outside of time..making it possible to plan out our lives.
But you know.._ that's my creative writer's mind just taking my "Why's" "Why not's" and "How could this be's" a few steps farther than I've seen others theorize.
@Daquin (46)
• United States
19 Apr 07
It does not work because free will is the ability to choose and predestination or Fate has choice being out of your hands. Fate, would assume that I could sit and do nothing and my purpose in life would still be fulfilled. Free will assumes that I have no purpose and I must make it for myself.
Good to see another Creative Writer here. Cheers.
@Daquin (46)
• United States
18 Apr 07
That is not true free will though. True free will means that you have complete control over you life. If I see a wallet on the ground then I can either pick it up or leave it. Both have various choices afterwards and both are regular decisions; however, whereas true free will would have me choose which to do, fate would determine that I was predestined to do either one with no possibility of the second.
@terilee79720 (3621)
• United States
18 Apr 07
I agree with you Daquin. This is an age old question with age old issues and beliefs. Controversial issues always end up being age old.
I believe we are 'predestined', but due to our gift of free will and bad teaching, we really screw things up. I believe it takes determination and a touch of guidance, and noticing that touch and acting upon it, to realize where our lives should lead us.
The act of free will and our inner misconception of 'how things are supposed to be' have led us down paths of evil and destruction. If we come to a point where we can be fortunate enough to recognize this and try our best to correct it through study and research, through having a personal relationship with our Creator, then we have a chance for redemption.
To think we are in control of our own lives is, for the most part, a positive thing, but when we look over our lives and realize the mess we have made and how we've 'missed the mark' so to speak, we reach for our Creator to set things right or at least lead us down a path of something better. Giving control to our Creator, being obedient to His Word and His Ways, is oftimes much better than trying to be in control of something we simply don't understand.
Fate is a large part of the predesitnation we so often fight against. It's why we end up with an altered sense of what's right or wrong. If someone denies the existence of Hell or Heaven, then they most likely deny the existence of God, Our Father and probably couldn't agree to the knowledge of who is actually in control.
I tend to believe that is called Evidence.
