Is it all about choices or is it about fate?

We have free will. That said, to answer your question, everything in our life is written down in God's book. However, we don't get to read it. If we read the book of our lives, then our free will wouldn't look like free will any longer. Psalm 139, Jeremiah 1:5, Epesians 1:4, Exodus 32:32-33 Do not confuse God's book with the Book of Life. There are two books.

We always have a choice. Fortunately or unfortunately that choice was made before we got here. Course that is just my thoughts on the subject.

God gave us the freewill to choose. This world is a series of choices and whatever happens to our life depends on what choices we make.

I like to think it over and decide what is best for me and my family.

Even though some things are outside our control, I do think we have a choice in most of the things in our life

We have very different views/beliefs, @totobasso. But no matter, I have my opinions and you, yours. I completely respect your beliefs and have no interest in changing them in any way. Nothing prohibits me from considering things from a more religious point-of-view, even if I presently don't have what you would consider an affiliation with any type of religion. I neither fear nor fight the interesting possibilities that I admit I may be ignorant towards, or exploring the possibilities. I attended Catholic school for nine, count them NINE years! At the moment, I view the world through "agnostic scientific" tinted goggles, but I also know how little faith I have in much of modern scientific theory as well. If there is a God I don't believe I would find a deity from which the image of man was created per se. I tend to think of God as the beautiful harmony between elements of nature. The precise relationship that allows atoms to form is such a wonderful, magnificent concept to understand in a seeming never-ending degree of depth but in perfect synchronization with every other element of the universe we occupy, and are actually a small portion of in every way imaginable! There I could see God. I believe that it has been written that God has given us free-will, according to Christianity thus one would assume that we have full control of our own (and indirectly other's) fate - which kind of make's it not "fate" if it's changeable, right?! But God CAN change things and according to scripture, HAS intervened when he felt it was relevant. So he also can change our outcome, (a.k.a. our fate!) We are also told that God knows how everything will turn out, or our individual and cumulative fates. This seems logically paradoxical...How could we have free-will (mostly), yet God knows our fate and every decision before we even make them? Is free-will an illusion? That would imply that determinism prevails. Hmmm.... Sure, one could simply say God is omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient per the Holy Bible, so he can do whatever he choses and however he so chooses to do it, anywhere he likes! But I like to look at it from a scientific perspective. Yes, that's right, I'm going to use science to explain how a supernatural God could make such seemingly incompatible statements! Maybe I can manage to become ostracized from both the religious and scientific communities in one single reply! It's quite simple really, though I doubt it's as easy to convey from my mind to another's. The universe has three-dimensions of space and one of time (cumulatively referred to as space-time) If God created the universe, then he clearly exists outside of the universe, as well as it's fundamental constituents....space and time. So if space and time are properties of the universe, then "before" it was created there was neither space nor time (with an emphasis on the latter.) Ergo the universe, be it a creation of God or not, must have always existed, since always and related words are measurements of TIME! And it always will. From the vantage point of God, there is technically "time" in our universe, but not in the familiar form that involves "motion". It effectively could be called static or motionless, as if time were but another spatial-dimension, yet all space and all time are visible from that perspective simultaneously. Ergo God can quite easily see all. Furthermore, whatever completely free-will decisions that we decide to make are just that, free-will decisions, BUT since God exists outside of the universe, and therefore time, he can easily see what all of our free-will decisions are (or from our perspective - were, are and will one day be - but past, present and future are only meaningful when compared relative to a particular point in....TIME!) Therefore we freely can make choices, yet God can easily see what choice that we "will be making" or technically "already have made" from his point of view! So yes, one doesn't have to believe in something to show that it scientifically makes sense or is at least feasible. They only need to overcome their stubborn reluctance to demonstrate that some things can be theoretically shown to be logically valid even if they disagree with them. So from that perspective, yes the existence of "fate" is pretty much the most reasonable conclusion that one could arrive at. But you also have and will have chosen you're fate under your own fully conscious volition! I have a little bit more complex of a viewpoint, myself, which boils down to a pretty similar idea, it simply does not involve the God portion of the explanation. Suffice it to say, it ultimately ends up with the same conclusion...just nobody that is "up there" or whatever, that sees and knows the ultimate outcome(s)....(Necessarily?!)

Thankyou for your post, I libe this topic and could talk about it for hours. I guess I think paths are lead out for us, but we can choose what path we take if that makes any sence. So I could have a good path and a bad path - but only I can choose weather to work toward the good path we to settle for less.