To be or not to be...

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Jase

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Is destiny real or can we change our own paths?🤔
 

Live4Him3

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Is destiny real or can we change our own paths?🤔
We can definitely change our own paths...whether for the better or for the worse.

For the better would be repentance or moving closer towards God.

For the worse would be to be froward or to be moving away from God.

You know, as in to (toward) or fro (froward).

Anyhow, there are examples of both in the Bible.
 

Lynx

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Is destiny real or can we change our own paths?🤔
Calvinist: "You know, I'm starting to feel like I'm DESTINED to punch you right in the jaw!"

Armenian: "Oh yeah? Well just whatever you CHOOSE to do, buddy!"
 

Lynx

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We all have choices to make and those choices affect us and those around us. To believe in inescapable destiny is a lazy way of living, because it denies our own responsibility to make beneficial choices.

"But God knows the end from the beginning. But God is in control of the whole world. But God directs our paths. But, but, but..."

The king may rule the nation, but that does not relieve the shopkeeper of helping people he knows. Some things the king has left for us to do... or to not do, as we choose.
 

Willow

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I really need sleep or a few days off. I thought that last word to this thread was pants,lol. Between the heat and creepy guy at work been a looooonnng week.
 

Lynx

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I really need sleep or a few days off. I thought that last word to this thread was pants,lol. Between the heat and creepy guy at work been a looooonnng week.
We'd better be able to change our own. You only get somebody to change them for you when you are very young or very old.