Is The Future Pre-ordained?

Description: What is our destiny?

Newest Review: ... a century ago most people had a faith and believed in God, now in the year of 2009 90%+ of the population reject the idea of God in favour of belief in theories of the big bang and evolution, others with an idea that humans can fix our own problems. Others without a hope - how sad, what is the point in life if this is all there is? Again, please note that this is just my opinion based on my ... more

... Bible knowledge and my beliefs in God. Right now, people have lost faith in government, in fact have turned against it. There is now no belief that we are looked after by the leaders that govern our own country and the planet! No belief in God and no be...more

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Is The Future Pre-ordained?: Free choice wins! (616 words)
by - written on 06/08/09 (Very useful, 36 readings)
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No - I don't believe so. I believe in God and I believe he has a purpose, all of which is made clear in the Bible. Fate or destiny as understood by us does not exist in my opinion. We were created with free choice, hence we make something of ourselves or we don't, by good or bad life choices. We know when we make a bad choice and we normally try to learn from that through our choices and experiences. While we are alive we have free choice, but we know without doubt that in this world, in this condition, that we will die. We as humans cannot change that, we are weak without the power to control our own body as it ages over a lifespan of 70 to 100 ... Read the complete review

What Will Be Will Be...Or Will It? (1832 words)
by - written on 21/12/08 (Very useful, 373 readings)
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I actually suggested this topic for inclusion at "Speaker's Corner" as it's something I've thought about a lot over the years, and especially since I became a Christian back in the early 1980's. When I was growing up I had a favourite aunt (God rest her soul) who always used the old Scot's expression "If it be fir yi it'll no pass yi by". A literal translation (for all you Sassenachs out there) is that if something is meant to happen in your life then there's no escaping it, good or bad, no matter what course of action you might take. In other words, she believed that our lives were all laid out for us before we even exited our mother's ... Read the complete review

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