nurabela:

A man is what he thinks. Hence every one is truly responsible to himself or herself. We are truly the architects of our destiny. No game of chance. However, predestination may not be totally ruled out considering the fact the God and probably other unseen forces interfere in the affairs of men. The bottom line is that man has the power to fashion his own destiny. Exercise your freedom of choice now!

So you can post? But i agree with you.

sirabbey:

[b]To the best of my knowledge, there is destiny or predestination as the case maybe but both are subject to the choices made by the person in question. One can be destined to be great in life but end up a nonentity by the poor choices he made a good example is Samson in the bible who though destined to save the israel nation from the philistines Judges 13:5 ended up a prisoner of the same philistines due to his reckless way of life and choices. On the other hand is Jabez, whose  own mother condemned to a life sorrow but dust himself up, challenged the status quo and ended up a most honourable individual in his lifetime I Chron 4:9-10.

What am saying in essence is that destiny is at the mercy of the choices we made. if you are going to Kaduna for instance to visit your grannies but on getting to the car park joined a bus (choice) going to Enugu. no matter how much you wish or shout in the bus, you will end up in Enugu, because by your choice you have joined yourself to a predestination-which is Enugu in this case despite your setting out to reach Kaduna.

Saying there is no predestination is denying the obvious or living in denial but saying we are helpless in the sight of predestination is equating life on this terrestial plane to that of robots- which definitely is not the case.
In summary by our own choice we chose our destiny and by our own choices we can change our destiny either for good or for bad.  [/b]

cold:

Interesting angle to the discourse but then again it begs the question;how do you know you're making the right choices to set you on the path to your destiny?As a christian you may be inclined to say 'seek the face of God' but how do you explain the issue of choices to someone outside your faith?

freeman9ja:

Well, If anyone believes in destiny, that means he or she is trying to say God almighty is unjust
for making some people born into rich while othesr born into poverty

zstranger:

@OP:NO, we are not in charge of our lives. We are always, at one point or the other, under the invincible influence of parents, spouses, alcohol, our bosses, Government, and the Wiccan Mother Goddess aka Awon Iya mi Osoromoniga.

Koolking:

good and bad are in our hands. rationals being chose good as the ultimate. the bottomline is, whatever the nature destined you to be that's just what you''ll be irrespective of working hard or not. inadvertently, situation spurs on [when otherwise we should be slothful] in order to realise that destiny.

Destiny and blessing are seamlessly connected. success is not a direct product of hardwork but blessing. Whatever the reason why Lagos commercial bus drivers and conductors are not successful is a mystery.