Do you believe in fate?

lealdragon
Mon, 15 Jan 2007 01:51:59 +0000

Yes and no.

I believe it depends on which perspective, ours or God’s. From OUR perspective, there is no fate. We have free will. However, our higher selves (souls) programmed certain influences. Our response to those influences is based on our free will, and then lead to new opportunities for decisions and on and on. It’s like our higher self enrolled us in a certain curriculum in Earth School, and this entire lifetime is a semester in a school in which we are supposed to learn certain lessons. If we fail to learn a particular lesson, that’s ok because we will learn a different lesson instead. But we WILL learn something. To use an analogy: Our higher self enrolled us in Love, Forgiveness, and Humility. Maybe we flunk at Humility but do well in Forgiveness. Well then next lifetime we’ll just have to retake the class in Humility. It’s like we have a given set of parameters but have a lot of wiggle room within those parameters.

So, because we have free will, there is no fate other than some loosely laid parameters. What seems like fate is us perceiving the carefully laid out parameters set forth by our higher selves. Our higher self might plan for us to meet our future spouse, and that WILL happen because it is part of the curriculum! There is no avoiding it! But we still have free will as to how we respond when it happens.

However, from GOD’s perspective, there IS fate, because God already knows all our possible choices and outcomes.

That’s my opinion for what it’s worth.