S. Michael Houdmann Supporter Got Questions Ministries

This is a very complex issue, and we will start with what the Bible does not teach. Fate is usually thought of as a predetermined course of events beyond human control. A typical response to a beli...

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July 01 2013 • 3 responses • Vote Up • Share • Report

Michael Inglis Supporter

"In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will" (Ephesians 1:11)

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James Kraft Supporter 74 year old retired pipeline worker

We have a free will as to whether we accept Jesus as our savior. God made the way of salvation before the foundation of the world, But we have to accept him as our savior to be saved. 

For God so loved the world, (everybody) that He gave His only begotten Son, (Jesus) that WHOSOEVER (anybody) that believeth on Him, will not perish, but have everlasting life.

2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some men count slackness, but is long suffering toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. (Believe on Jesus as the only way of salvation)

John 6:40 And this is the will of Him who sent me, that all the seeth the Son, and believeth on Him, may have everlasting life, and I will raise him up on the last day.

John 6:37 All that the Father hath given me, will come to me, and all that come to me, I will in no wise cast out.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

2 Corinthians 5:21 For He hath made Him, who knew no sin, to be sin for us, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.

We are given eternal life, the minute we trust Jesus as our savior. John 10:28 "And I give unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand."

1 John 5:13 These things have I written unto you, that believe on the name of the Son of God, that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

All believers are chosen by God because He made the way of salvation possible. We were not chosen to believe, but when we believe we are chosen.

Christ died for the sins of the whole world, so that anyone who comes to Him by faith alone, will be saved. Romans 4:5 But to the one that worketh not, but believe on Him who justifieth the ungodly, (all of us) his faith is counted for righteousness.

Romans 11:6 It is all grace, what Jesus did for us, not works, what we do or do not do, it can not be both. It is all grace because there is nothing we can do to save ourselves, and we can only accept Jesus as a free gift. Jesus paid it all and we pad 0.

The gospel. 1 Corinthians, 15:1-4 That Christ died for our sins, according to the scriptures, that He was buried and rose again on the third day, according to the scriptures. When we believe it we are given eternal life.

John 1:12 But as many as received Him, to them gave He power, to become the children of God, even to them that believe on His name.

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Kenneth Heck Supporter

Here are three other verses about destiny (Rom 28-30)

28 "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, them who are the called according to his purpose,

29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called, and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified."

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Ben Jones Supporter Retired Professional Photographer

Jeremiah 15:2 “….This is what the Lord says: “Those who are destined for death, to death; those who are destined for war, to war; those who are destined for famine, for famine; those who are destined for captivity, to captivity.” 

Ecclesiastes 6:10, “Everything has already been decided. It was known long ago what each person would be. So there’s no use in arguing with God about your destiny.” 

Lamentations 3:37-39 “Who can command things to happen without the Lord’s permission? Does not the Most High send both calamity and good? Then why should mere humans complain when we are punished for our sins?

Matthew 25:34 “Then the King will say to those on his right,’Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the creation of the world.’”

James 4:12 (a) “He [God] alone has the power to save or to destroy...”

Prov 21:1 “The king’s heart is like channels of water in the hand of the Lord; He turns it wherever He wishes."

Prov. 16:1 “The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.” 

Prov. 16:9 “The mind of man plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps” 

Prov. 16:3. “The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the Lord."

Prov. 19:21 “Many plans are in a man’s heart, but the counsel of the Lord will stand. ” 

Jeremiah 10:23 “I know, O Lord, that a man’s way is not in himself, nor is it in a man who walks to direct his steps.” 

Romans 9:10”...When Isaac married Rebekah, she gave birth to twins. But before they were born, before they had done anything good or bad, she received a message from God. This message shows that God chooses people according to his own purposes, he calls people but not according to their good or bad works. She was told ‘Your older son will serve your younger son.’ In the words of scripture, ‘I have loved Jacob but Esau I have hated.” (See Mal 1:2-3).

Romans 9:15 “For God said to Moses, I will show mercy to anyone I choose and I will show compassion to anyone I choose. So it is God who decides to show mercy. We can neither choose it, nor work for it.”

Romans 11:7-8 “So this is the situation: Most of the people of Israel have not found the favor of God they are looking for so earnestly. A few have-the ones God has chosen-but the hearts of the rest were hardened. As the scriptures say. God has put them in a deep sleep. To this day he has shut their eyes so they do not see, and closed their eyes so they do not hear.” (See Isa 29:10 & Deuteronomy 29:4).

Ephesians 1:4-5&11 “Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes. For he decided in advance to adopt us into his family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. Furthermore, because we are united with Christ, we have received an inheritance from God, for he chose us in advance, and he makes everything work out according to his plan."

Psalm 135:6 “Whatever the Lord pleases, He does, in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps” 

Isaiah 46:9-10 “For I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is no one like Me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things which have not been done, saying, ‘My purpose will be established, and I will accomplish all My good pleasure’ ”

Daniel 4:35 “ All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, but He does according to His will in the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of earth; and no one can ward off His hand or say to Him. “What have You done?’”

Job 42:2 “I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.”

Isaiah 64: 8 “But now, O Lord, You are our Father, we are the clay, and You are our potter; and all of us are the work of Your hand."
Ex 4:11 “The Lord said to him, “Who has made man’s mouth? Or who makes him mute or deaf, or seeing or blind? Is it not I, the Lord?” 

Lamentation 3:37-38 “Who is there who speaks and it comes to pass, unless the Lord has commanded it?”

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