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People who think they are in control of their lives are deceived. You have what appears to be a "free will" to choose the direction of your life, but many times our plans do not work perfectly. We have in mind what we want to do, but how do you know the thought to do something was self-generated? How do you know for sure when you come to a fork in the road and your choice to go this way was not in fact influenced by God or the Devil? A person thinks their own thoughts are self-generated. If there were no God or Satan or contact with other people and outside information, then they would be. And btw, this "free will" you think you have is not so free.Are you saying that you do not believe in free will?
Armenians tout "free will" and that we chose God first, but without God's grace and enabling us to do so, we could not. We are all slaves to either God or Satan. So, if there was free will, then at death, you could go anywhere you wanted to freely, you would not be subject to any punishment and hence just will yourself to eternal bliss. You are free to have ice cream today or wear red socks, but you are not free to sin. The wages of sin is death unless you are forgiven, but if not, you are subject to destruction.
I chose to marry a person whom I thought was the one that I would be with for life , but that was not my destiny.
I chose to be a musician and wanted to be one for life -- I did it for about 12 years and so that was not my destiny.
I chose to live in California, at a young age when the weather and beaches and being a music capital seemed like the place for me -- I' m in Texas now.
What a person thinks is good for them and the choices he makes don't always work out nor are they good for him either. It's funny, we mess up because many times we don't know what's best for us - that's life.
If it is in God's will and He knows what's best, then it will be. When I was younger, I didn't have a clue of what was God's will and still, the only destiny I'm certain of is heaven. But as far as what I'm going to be doing next year, I have can guess that it would look similar to what this last year looked like, but the spiritual, natural forces are beyond my control.
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