Who or What Weaves Our Fate?
Can we choose our destiny, or is it already chosen for us?
FATEIs It Selected For Us?
• To what level?• Do we make up is as we go
along• Do we have to?• Or can we plan ahead?• To what extent?
Do We Control It?• Do we have any say?• Can we fight it?• Who chooses it? Is it God,
our family, our friends, our leaders?
Is it selected for us?
Does someone or something greater choose our destiny?
Justinian I, Emperor of Byzantium,
He thought that…• The fate we live out on
earth was chosen for us by an almighty power
• fate is a path, and to stray from that path earned you eternal damnation
• Fate must be accepted, for it is indestructible and unalterable
John Calvin
Saw fate as• everyone and everything was well
thought out and planned by God– "There is not one little blade of grass,
there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.” – John Calvin
• God "freely and unchangeably ordaining whatsoever comes to pass.”
• God's foreknowledge of the way in which they will either freely reject Christ or freely accept him, and if it came to reject, he made their fate one of eternal damnation
Pope Benedict XVI
He believes…• That God
If our fate is preordained…
Can we fight it, can we change our fates?
Examples…
• Quotes• People• Berlin wall• Guy in china in front of tank, fought fate, died.
His fate was to live there, and he fought it and it killed him
• Slaves running away
Do we make our own fate?
Do we create it as we go along, or do the decisions we make now generate
our fate for the later years?
Come the End
So, here we are. We are born, and we will die. But we have all of our lives to draw our own lines in the sand, and to take the path untrodden.
A Tree of FateWe spend our lifeDealing with strife
While climbing up a treeA tree unique to meThe trunk is the base
A fact we must come to faceIt may not be carved in stone
But it is unalterable, and we must walk it aloneBut then we come to a place where the trunk will split
And one branch may be litOr you may not know which to choose
And all you can think about is what you have to loseHowever the choice may not always be quick
The route you will take, is solely your pickSometimes the branch may break
Sometimes the branch may be fakeSometimes the branch isn’t really a branch after all
Sometimes the branch is so frail, you’re forced to crawlYou’ve been mislead
And that could wind you up deadFor the branch may be weak
So we must think, before we speakThe branch may be small
But we have to take a leap of faith, and pray we don’t fallFor each branch
Is a chance
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