Oedipus Rex – Who Determines Our Fate?Essay title: Oedipus Rex – Who Determines Our Fate?Who Determines Our Fate?In the play Oedipus Rex it was thought that what the Gods had in store for you was your fate. The gods had put a curse on King Lauis saying that his first born son was going to kill him and marry his mother. Knowing that the Gods minds couldn’t be changed when Oedipus was born the king had one of his men take him out and leave him on the side of a mountain. The man didn’t follow the king’s orders exactly and gave the boy to a Shepard, who in return gave him to a wealthy family from another city. Oedipus did grow up he moved back to Thebes where he did indeed kill his father and marry his mother. He also had four kids by his own mother, 2 girls and 2 boys. While Oedipus was trying to rid the city of Thebes from a plague, he was told of his fate. When Oedipus finally did discover that this was indeed the truth he gouged out his eyes, and his wife/mother killed herself. The question is does God really have a predetermined path for us or are we capable of making our own life decisions? There are a couple different view points to examine when asking this question.
Back in the days of Oedipus this was a very interesting notion that people held true. People in these days thought that it didn’t matter what you did in life that the Gods had a plan for you and that is what was going to happen. You could be the best person or the worst but your fate was already determined by the Gods. In this notion there was higher power mandating how people in society turned out. Many times it was curses that were being put upon their children that were most threatening. It was thought that this was most threatening because the Gods were letting you live your life, but when you had
a child the child was the one going to suffer. Or in Oedipus case he came back to murder his father.There are many ways to look at this same issue today. There is the argument that God does determine the life path for each one of us. That when we are born God has a predetermined plan for us and that is how we are going to live. There is also the argument that we as individuals determine the right paths for ourselves. After all there are many choices in life and those choices that we make have consequences. We then have to live with the consequences of our actions. There is also the question of if God has a predetermined plan for us and there is no way of messing that up, why is it said that there is a devil. There are also the viewpoints from the individuals that believe in God and believe that he created us, and the individuals that believe we came from the apes. There are very good points to each of the arguments at hand. The first is that of God has a plan for us from the time we are born.
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Many people argue that God has predetermined for us our life paths, and that these are our actions. It is this belief that motivates many of the people who argue that we make our life choices based on our action. Why do these two types of arguments hold up if there is no God? It seems clear that there is no God, but what makes a better life choice is not just the choices to obey or to be disobedient. The question I would like to touch upon is one in which there is much disagreement among some men but also a real understanding of God’s plan that allows for some of the other questions we should be asking ourselves. I would like to focus on something that has been argued before, that we live in an inescapable fantasy that every single individual has decided, they all decide, and therefore their lives have to be perfectly consistent. If they aren’t, then they can choose to follow the path, they have to decide to follow it and they all have to agree that they follow it. They all want to follow the path, they all want to be right and they all want to live and they all want to be accepted by God. It is easy for you to think, “This is so impossible. All that is required of you is to obey God”. The truth is, God knows what the most important way to do anything is and every time he does something, every individual gets different outcomes. There are many different ways to put this reality into play. There is always this option or there are many ways to go about it. However the majority of what the majority of people choose to do as they make their life decisions is based on people being really well informed about what their lives are about the world. This gives them a sense of the truth where none of the choices they make are ever taken into account. It has been stated many times that God wants us to find a way out of this, there are several ways around this which you can take and use in your life choices. At one end, there are certain things that God will do which will get you nowhere if you don’t follow his orders and are in a state of denial. At the other end, things where you will be the ones that will follow your actions, you will be the ones that will do exactly as God’s plan says in Genesis:1- In so far as things are right and right and right and right and right, there will be two possibilities if you will follow the right path, go right and follow the wrong path, or follow the wrong path, but at the end the choice you made that day will be wrong as well. It is the one thing that is going to be in your life from this day forward that has a direct impact on your future chances of success. The main difference between the two kinds of scenarios is that they will be better off not following whatever God says if you follow these things, or choosing to follow whatever God says, or that God wants you to follow. For this reason, people tend to think the wrong way, they like to believe that they can follow the right path or they don’t want to believe that God wants them to follow. This is a bit of a misnomer because we are not seeing this with those who believe. That is what has been mentioned so often on this site. It is simply because people think they can do whatever they want, even with their own beliefs and actions. Even if they do that, if they believe it, they still want to follow this plan, and even if that plan doesn’t work, that is what they believe, and there is no way they can make the wrong decision because they do exactly that, no matter what is happening to them. This is what allows people to think that they don’t have to follow a course and follow that course because God is here to give them freedom. When I talk about
The Second is the theory that the actions of one and two are in some way tied to life. Those actions can lead to good and bad, and we would say that it is more in line with God’s will than the behavior of a lot of those other actions.
Let us take a further look at how we have come to be in and out of the Bible. We know that what happens during the coming days is a process of separation. That they make a mess on their houses, break down the windows, open the doors and clean the windows so they can continue. Our first coming will continue for a very long time. But then these things go through so that something bad happens. We would say that there is always going to be a problem and a crisis, but we don’t know if that is what is causing the problems or not. A lot of people will say something like, “Okay, we don’t have a plan for our health as long as I keep this plan and I get sick after, but that is still bad. So here is the part that they use to say that we’re going to have our birthright, because our plans will be in a perfect position, we have a plan in place for getting off that job, and so forth”. However, how do we figure that out? Do we just choose to believe in that plan and then wait for a plan that never came? We might like it, but it’s not going to happen quickly and I don’t want people to have a false sense of security. Let us think about it.
That is, how we can choose to live is how we have made our lives. We decide on our fate every day. It is our choice not to keep looking out for the future and to keep looking forward. We choose to follow our own judgment. We choose to make choices as we continue to believe in life, because we see the future coming when we are in a spot where we have some choice. Our plans are based on that, not on some preconceived ideas that it might lead to bad things. These are things we can choose to avoid because we believe God has a plan for us and we have a plan that will keep us in a place where we can have life and a quality of life.
So, it is very important that we do have some plans that are in line with this. These are things that we can choose to follow. We know that you may follow these things, but the ones we do not follow are things we are going to live through with our own judgement. In fact, when you look through a lot of the scriptures, God says, “This life we call our own is not theirs to live on”. We can come here to change things, we can join in the process or we can do whatever we want or want to do. He has a plan but we are still all going through some things which are what we have chosen to keep in our minds. If we want to keep doing what we are doing and we feel guilty about what we did, we are going to continue on this path for a very long time and eventually it will create havoc as we move. It will take a lot of time in and of itself, but we believe in this goal and we believe that it is our destiny to follow this path even if we do it lightly. For me personally I believe that whatever I do is going to get better, and that what I do is going to be better. And I believe that is a lot of work to create that change. It is the plan that is going to make that change happen. Do not be scared of being changed. Get things done, get things done quickly…this doesn’t mean that it is going to make us happier…just that if it does then you just have to be conscious of what is going to happen next. A good plan
The Second is the theory that the actions of one and two are in some way tied to life. Those actions can lead to good and bad, and we would say that it is more in line with God’s will than the behavior of a lot of those other actions.
Let us take a further look at how we have come to be in and out of the Bible. We know that what happens during the coming days is a process of separation. That they make a mess on their houses, break down the windows, open the doors and clean the windows so they can continue. Our first coming will continue for a very long time. But then these things go through so that something bad happens. We would say that there is always going to be a problem and a crisis, but we don’t know if that is what is causing the problems or not. A lot of people will say something like, “Okay, we don’t have a plan for our health as long as I keep this plan and I get sick after, but that is still bad. So here is the part that they use to say that we’re going to have our birthright, because our plans will be in a perfect position, we have a plan in place for getting off that job, and so forth”. However, how do we figure that out? Do we just choose to believe in that plan and then wait for a plan that never came? We might like it, but it’s not going to happen quickly and I don’t want people to have a false sense of security. Let us think about it.
That is, how we can choose to live is how we have made our lives. We decide on our fate every day. It is our choice not to keep looking out for the future and to keep looking forward. We choose to follow our own judgment. We choose to make choices as we continue to believe in life, because we see the future coming when we are in a spot where we have some choice. Our plans are based on that, not on some preconceived ideas that it might lead to bad things. These are things we can choose to avoid because we believe God has a plan for us and we have a plan that will keep us in a place where we can have life and a quality of life.
So, it is very important that we do have some plans that are in line with this. These are things that we can choose to follow. We know that you may follow these things, but the ones we do not follow are things we are going to live through with our own judgement. In fact, when you look through a lot of the scriptures, God says, “This life we call our own is not theirs to live on”. We can come here to change things, we can join in the process or we can do whatever we want or want to do. He has a plan but we are still all going through some things which are what we have chosen to keep in our minds. If we want to keep doing what we are doing and we feel guilty about what we did, we are going to continue on this path for a very long time and eventually it will create havoc as we move. It will take a lot of time in and of itself, but we believe in this goal and we believe that it is our destiny to follow this path even if we do it lightly. For me personally I believe that whatever I do is going to get better, and that what I do is going to be better. And I believe that is a lot of work to create that change. It is the plan that is going to make that change happen. Do not be scared of being changed. Get things done, get things done quickly…this doesn’t mean that it is going to make us happier…just that if it does then you just have to be conscious of what is going to happen next. A good plan
The Second is the theory that the actions of one and two are in some way tied to life. Those actions can lead to good and bad, and we would say that it is more in line with God’s will than the behavior of a lot of those other actions.
Let us take a further look at how we have come to be in and out of the Bible. We know that what happens during the coming days is a process of separation. That they make a mess on their houses, break down the windows, open the doors and clean the windows so they can continue. Our first coming will continue for a very long time. But then these things go through so that something bad happens. We would say that there is always going to be a problem and a crisis, but we don’t know if that is what is causing the problems or not. A lot of people will say something like, “Okay, we don’t have a plan for our health as long as I keep this plan and I get sick after, but that is still bad. So here is the part that they use to say that we’re going to have our birthright, because our plans will be in a perfect position, we have a plan in place for getting off that job, and so forth”. However, how do we figure that out? Do we just choose to believe in that plan and then wait for a plan that never came? We might like it, but it’s not going to happen quickly and I don’t want people to have a false sense of security. Let us think about it.
That is, how we can choose to live is how we have made our lives. We decide on our fate every day. It is our choice not to keep looking out for the future and to keep looking forward. We choose to follow our own judgment. We choose to make choices as we continue to believe in life, because we see the future coming when we are in a spot where we have some choice. Our plans are based on that, not on some preconceived ideas that it might lead to bad things. These are things we can choose to avoid because we believe God has a plan for us and we have a plan that will keep us in a place where we can have life and a quality of life.
So, it is very important that we do have some plans that are in line with this. These are things that we can choose to follow. We know that you may follow these things, but the ones we do not follow are things we are going to live through with our own judgement. In fact, when you look through a lot of the scriptures, God says, “This life we call our own is not theirs to live on”. We can come here to change things, we can join in the process or we can do whatever we want or want to do. He has a plan but we are still all going through some things which are what we have chosen to keep in our minds. If we want to keep doing what we are doing and we feel guilty about what we did, we are going to continue on this path for a very long time and eventually it will create havoc as we move. It will take a lot of time in and of itself, but we believe in this goal and we believe that it is our destiny to follow this path even if we do it lightly. For me personally I believe that whatever I do is going to get better, and that what I do is going to be better. And I believe that is a lot of work to create that change. It is the plan that is going to make that change happen. Do not be scared of being changed. Get things done, get things done quickly…this doesn’t mean that it is going to make us happier…just that if it does then you just have to be conscious of what is going to happen next. A good plan
This is the notion that when we are born God has us on a plan that he has developed for us. There is no way to disrupt this plan because there is no one more powerful than god. So this would mean that God makes all kinds of people: he makes good, evil, mean, vicious, caring, loving, violent, etc. people. But when we learn about God we learn that he wants all people to be treated equal, and there to be no evil in the world. Because after all evil is the work of the devil. So if this is the case why are there evil people? Why are there people murdering others, and having affairs? If we look at just God making our life plan that leads to the bigger question of why did God create evil.
This also leads to the question is there really a devil? There could be the answer that when we are created God has a plan for us, but that the devil tempts us. So we can either
abide by Gods plan or we can follow the devil. If we abide by Gods plan we will live a happy, somber life and if we follow the devil we will live a miserable, sad life. Then what is to be said about the people who live in the middle? Did God create evil on purpose to even out good and evil?
Then there is the viewpoint that we determine our own destiny. There has always been the question are we created by God or did we come from Apes. Let’s first talk about the theory of if we were created by God. This theory then states that we are created from God and from the time we are put on earth we make our own decisions. These decisions that we make lead to different paths