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Monday, July 14, 2008
Whose Will?
I have always been fascinated by the idea of free will vs. God's will. The age old question is, how much control do we
have over our lives? Do we have any control over our lives?
When we talk about God's will
most people conjure up thoughts of suffering and burden. I believe that a lot of this comes from the Biblical story of Job.
In that story, God puts Job through tremendous trials and tribulations in order to test his devotion and thus win a bet with
Satan. But do we really believe that God's will is for us to suffer, even to grow spiritually?
Free will denotes the ability of people to make choices and take actions of their own accord, without interference, whether
for seemingly good or bad. In religious lore, it is this free will that God granted humankind and thus gave people the ability
to choose good or bad. However, the question must be raised, if God granted free will, is it really free?
Is there room for both free and God's will to operate cooperatively and co-dependantly? Do we make our life choices but
are limited by our circumstances? Is life predetermined and every action pre-recorded in some celestial record book, thus
explaining divination as glimpses of this book?
The debate began when Adam and Eve defied God
or when our ancestors first crawled out of the sea and chose to walk on land, but either way, it continues till today. Free
will or God's will, or some hybrid.
We pray to God for deliverance and salvation, we look
to guardian angels for protection, we pray to loved ones passed for support and guidance. As a people we willingly seek the
interjection of the divine in times of difficulty. Is this free will, asking for the support and believing in something greater
than us? Or does this limit free will, when an otherworldly entity interferes in our life?
It
has been stated that we all have a spark of divinity in us and that we are all divine, our souls being a piece of God. If
this is so, then is there any difference between free will and God's will?
3:13 pm est
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