Seniors ~ Do you Believe in Fate?
Asking Seniors, but anyone can answer. Thanks.
Asking Seniors, but anyone can answer. Thanks.
Hannah's Grandpa
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No, i thing Fate is a cop out, and I don't believe in predestination, I do believe that God work in our lives for good, but His name is not Fate.
Peapie
Hi Wick! Yes I have looked up fate and destiny and they are the same basically in the dictionary. I assume most faiths have something like this written...but that is only an assumption. I believe that we do have a fate or destiny that was ordained by God, before we were even made. A good life full of good things at God is good. But we also live in a fallen world with an evil one in control and we also have our own will with which we make decisions that may lead us down a path that will take us in a different direction that God had not intended. I do believe that God does Discipline his children which means( to teach), just as we good parents discipline our children. I do not believe that the terrible things that happen to good people are God's doing. With all this in mine I will point to The Bible, Psalms 139: 13-16 and for the ease of understanding I will quote the New International Version:
13. For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am so fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
Hope this was useful.
Anonymous
Yes I do . If it were not for fate ( and I belive God creates our fate ) I would not be sitting where I am sitting right now. I was headed in a totally different direction and no matter how much I'd go to take a left something pulled me right . I'd be writing a book w/ a full explanation but yes ...it has been fate.
Wrong number
I believe in fate to a degree. But looking back over life I can see oppurtunities which were intended to be our fate but we passed them by. Why were they passed by? We were too busy following our own lead instead of the lead of God - the author of fate.
Ya Ya Vegas
No-I think-I believe in destiny being an accumulation of our actions and interactions with others moving us forward in life. If that makes any sense. Fate I have a hard time defining. But that is what makes your questions challenging.