Destiny is defined as an event or course of events that will inevitably happen in the future. Although there is a debate on whether destiny exists in real life, the gods in The Odyssey influence the humans’ destinies. Along with them, certain prophets can tell the future as if it is indeed inevitable. A reader would think that the future is inevitable in The Odyssey because everything predicted comes true. In real life I believe that the future is not set and only God knows what is going to happen.
This further reinforces that we have no choice or influence on our lives and the events that happen, so therefore God will know the ethical decisions we will make as he has already predestined them in our lives. Hard determinism is the teaching that denies humanity has free will and believes that all actions have a prior cause. It removes moral responsibility for our actions. Hard determinists would therefore agree with the statement above, and will believe that God does infact know what ethical decisions we will make as he has already perceived it. This idea links to predestination in the fact that it believes everything in the universe- even human action- has a cause which precedes it.
The rational mind states otherwise. It is what we say in our hearts that allow us to think that God does exist. In Samuel Clarke’s Cosmological Argument it is clearly argued that something has existed for all of eternity. Nothing was ever created without a cause therefore this is a contradiction. Yet if anything is made and there is no cause at all for it, is to say that something is affected when it is affected by nothing or at all affected.
Upon the success of our experiment much depends, not only as regards our own welfare, but as regards the welfare of mankind. If we fail, the cause of free self-government throughout the world will rock to its foundations, and therefore our responsibility is heavy, to ourselves, to the world as it is to-day, and to the generations yet unborn. There is no good reason why we should fear the future, but there is every reason why we should face it seriously, neither
If God were to exist, then there would then be a purpose and a meaning to life. If God does not exist, then there is no purpose, and thus no meaning in life. Regardless of whether our lives do have meaning or not, media today stresses ideas and steps to take to make our lives more meaningful. So we continue to seek out what is meaningful, and how to make our lives more meaningful on a regular basis, and thus the question seems to be forever relevant even though it has been dismissed by modern philosophy. Once Wolf concedes that there is a meaning to life, she begins to analyze what it means to have a meaningful life.
Certainly no one wants to go to Hell. So, the Puritans tried to better their lives, and go by rules or "resolutions." They believed if they followed these resolutions, even though God predetermined their fate, they could live a life of good and maybe prove they are meant to go to Heaven. One of the many detailed resolutions they had to follow was "To think much, on all occasions, of my own dying and of the common circumstances which attend death." I certainly would be frightened to think
Henceforth, nothing happens by chance except for everthing happens intentionally. Through the occasions God demonstrates his anger or prize. Moreover, they trusted that they are God's picked individuals and that they are a sparkling case for whatever is left of the world. Consequently, they needed to make a model religious government in America. Nobody could know regardless of whether he is predestinated for salvation, yet when one complies with God's will and succeeds throughout his life he most likely is.
Pascal informs the reader that they must accept this wager; that they cannot deny to take a side. This forces the reader to choose one way or another, and takes away any chance to argue against both sides. The wager that Pascal presents is that one must either accept the existence of god, or accept that no god exists. He then informs the reader that if you wager that god does in fact exist, and this is in fact the correct guess, then one will gain all eternal bliss possible. If one wagers that god does not exist, and one wagers incorrectly, then one is sentenced to eternal hellfire and damnation.
Only people can do that. Eventually, God's side will always win and he obviously is on the side of those seeking the truth through the scientific method. 2. All religions follow the same pattern of promising a wonderful imaginary afterlife if the follower behaves in a particular way which can be completely contradictory to another religion. The follower of each religion is taught to believe he is right
If every person found it pertinent to question life in general, there would be no advances made in the modern world. Life as we know it would just plateau. Whether or not we know the exact principles of time and the definition of time does not change the fact that time would continue to progress normally. The same goes for knowing the origin of life. In the end, people would still be born and people would still die whether or not they knew if “Brahma was born of Vishnu or if they are both eternal.” At the end of the day, knowing the answers to some of life’s most pressing questions would, ironically, not change the way most people lived their