Are our lives determined by fate or by the acts of our free will?

It’s how fate works. You are control of your life; it is not in control of you. Fate is what will come to you in life, and free will is what you choose to do with it. You may not get what you want in life, but you will always get what you choose.

Are our lives already predestined?

No, Our lives are not predestined by God, but our lives respond to our understanding. More you understand the ways of life, more you align your life closer to the natural process of life. God has nothing to do with our lives.

Are fate and free will mutually exclusive?

Exercise of free will in the past becomes our fate in the present. In a broader sense, free will and fate are not separate; they are in fact one as they are both grounded on the exercise of free will.

Can free will and predestination coexist?

Predestination has been considered not inevitably contradictory to free will. Sometimes both are held together as paradoxical, yet complementary, aspects of truth; but more classically, free will is understood not as freedom of choice but as voluntary necessity.

What is the difference between free will and predestination?

Predestination, in Christian theology, is the doctrine that all events have been willed by God, usually with reference to the eventual fate of the individual soul. Explanations of predestination often seek to address the “paradox of free will”, whereby God’s omniscience seems incompatible with human free will.

What is Opposite of fate?

fatenoun. Antonyms: freedom, choice, free will. Synonyms: necessity, orlay, destiny, lot, doom, fortune, predestination.

Does the Bible say we are predestined?

Ephesians 1:11-12 11 In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, 12 so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory.