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Destiny !

Destiny in our hands or God's !!! If God's, why bother creating ???

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Permalink Reply by hiba on May 7, 2009 at 8:55pm: I don't know weather you agree with me or not when I say that god has created us free ??ie;we have the choice to choose between what is good and what is evil in the lack of goodness,because we are the servent of god,we have to obey all what we are told to do by god,but we cannot manage our distiny because it is in his controll.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Atila Paton on May 8, 2009 at 12:43am: I believe we are quite free, destiny in our hands if you will. Some choices turn out to be great, others are awful, the point is to learn from all of them.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by ♥ Sabine ♥ on May 12, 2009 at 1:53am: Ever since I was a child I have heard about God and Destiny. God I was told is an omnipotent supreme power who watches everyone and rewards or punishes everyone's deeds. A man can always make his choice of Good and Bad. Depending on what choices he makes, he goes to Heaven as a reward of Good choices or to Hell as a punishment for Bad choices. Destiny was on other hand meant that (the same) God has decided the paths of our life. Whatever happens is just his wish. Earlier these two facts seemed to bother me a lot. I just couldn't understand if everything what I do was God's wish, why should I be punished for it. He could have used me better!
That was almost 15 years ago. As I grew up, slowly I started following the "hybrid" way that's followed by most of us. If I made a good choice, I felt good, feeling I'm making my way to heaven. If I made a bad choice, blamed it on destiny.

Things went on as they were, until I got hold of Scott Adams' The Dilbert Future. In his book Adams talked about 'Affirmations' (Which he read in another book). Affirmations are as weird as they appear.

This was something different from everything that I had known. It made me to think a bit more; What if there is no God or Destiny. There is no one watching us and we are free to do whatever we want to. Even if we make Bad choices there's no one to punish except other people in the world. Whatever happens in our life is a result of everyone wanting something. Our decisions/choices/actions are affected by the people around us.
Assume everyone in this world is a variable that keeps on changing its value. A value represents the variable's current state. whatever we do or think affects everyone else or the, actions and thought of others determine our destiny.

Linking this theory with affirmations, when I write the same thing again and again, thinking of what I want, keeping it as specific as possible, visualizing it in my mind, I am just forcing other people(variables) to change so that I can achieve my desired state. What I believe, is that it certainly matters how desperately you want to achieve your goal. The more desperate and focused you are while writing, the more force you put on other variables, and the faster you should get results.

Infact, from what I said earlier, As we assumed that every person is a variable that keeps on changing its value. If you can concentrate hard and long enough to change all other variables to a new value, a new value that completely changes their thoughts.

Whatever I have said are just my random thoughts and as I let my mind wander more another question pops up in my mind. Earlier I wondered what if there is no God or Destiny, now I think, if our thoughts and actions affect everything happening in this world, with so many people believing that there is a God, we might have created a real God. Someone with all those supreme powers to do anything. Still worse, with everyday we think that things are not coming our way and the God (that we created) is being unfair to us, we might be forcing Him to be more unfair, turning him into a devil that does good to no one, who's unfair, unjust, merciless to everyone.

This all gets me back to my childhood, with just one thought, have faith in God, always remember that He is your friend and He will be. The more you doubt Him the less He'll help you out. With this I now have a new image of God in my mind. He has no interest in rewarding or punishing me. He's a friend who'll always help me out no matter how difficult the situation is, and as long as I believe in Him, He'll always be on my side.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Clauds on May 27, 2009 at 10:54am: just want to share my thoughts..

just like you, I have asked this myself... but then I have realized that it is also in my power to fulfill his purpose in my life.

God has a plan for each one of us. He has created us in his own image. He loves us and would always want to the best for us. All things that is happening in our lives was our choice not his.. So, if something is wrong in our lives then no one is to be blamed but US, ourselves. but God as always, he comforts and lovingly guides us back to him during those weak moments and then molds us to be the best.

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