Do you believe in DESTINY?
By lilmeowsy
@lilmeowsy (685)
Philippines
May 11, 2007 7:54am CST
I don't believe in DESTINY. I think it might be true but I know that I control my life and that I am the only one who can make changes to it. Other factors can affect my life and try to change it but I am still the one who can do something about it in the end. It's my life and no one can ever take control nor take than away from me. I believe that I am the architect of my future and with that thought, my dreams can come true...What do you think? ^^
3 responses
@reachravi (453)
• India
11 May 07
i do respect your thoughts but i do believe in destiny..maybe not always but yes i do feel that i was destined to be where i am today thats why inspite of circumtances being against me i am here today...there is definitely something called as destiny..
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@lilmeowsy (685)
• Philippines
11 May 07
Yes, I understand your opinion and how you feel. I didn't say that destiny is something that doesn't exist, I just said that maybe destiny can only be applicable in some cases and not in all situations. I have been destined to do some things and to be in some situations but I really hate the feeling that someone or something else is taking control of what I rightfully own, my life. Thanks anyways! ^^
@Hayley_N (525)
• Argentina
24 Jul 08
God has predestined all things before the foundation of the world. And, His eternal decree is not conditioned by any act of human will.
However, God's predestination does not preclude human responsibility. On contrary, our actions show forth what God has predestined before the foundation of the world.
Though man has the free will, however its bondage to sin. Man, by his fall into a state of sin, had wholly lost all ability of will to do any spiritual good accompanying salvation.
God has chosen some out of the human race to be saved through the finished work of Christ, thus inheriting eternal life. Others of the same human race are not chosen to eternal life and therefore foreordained to everlasting punishment.
In other words, God sovereignty ordains the eternal destiny of every human being—the lost as well as the saved.
In the case of the elect there is a divine intervention called regeneration. This is a sovereign work of God the Holy Spirit.
In the case of those who are not elect, however, there is no internal work of God. It is not God who makes them evil. They already are evil. In their case the Word of God only hardens them in their sin.
“For the children not yet being born, nor having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works but of Him who calls,…“Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated’. …Therefore He has mercy on whom He wills, and whom He wills He hardens…..Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?” Romans 9:11,12,18,21
@darkness01 (1300)
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11 May 07
I dont believe there is such a thing as destiny. People make their own way in this life and to suggest that something outside of your own decision making mindset is guiding you to meet a certain person or live your life a certain way is simply not true, not to me anyway.
