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Destiny in Scripture and Fiction

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Destiny is your potential waiting to happen. The paths you take in life are based on the decisions you consciously make. The choices made will affect your life in the short-term and long-term. You make decisions that will show some degree of consequence, whether good or bad, at any point in time. The affect those decisions have on your life may be apparent right away or may develop over time. There are people that believe God has created their destiny. There are also people that believe you create your own. Whichever the case, that destiny can be missed based on the choices you choose to make for yourself. Your destiny is a result of your own actions. The Bible tells the story of Adam and Eve and the Fall of Man. God created Adam and Eve and put them on this Earth. He gave them the ability and the right to choose obedience or disobedience. Both Adam and Eve knew what would happen to them dependent upon which choice they made, and they were held accountable for their choices. Their future was shaped based on the decisions that they themselves made. On their own free will they chose disobedience and the results were sin, suffering, sickness and death from that day forward. “So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken” (Genesis 3:23, New International Version). God had planned for them to live their lives one way, but ultimately gave them the power to decide their lives for themselves. This holds true throughout the Bible. God chose destined work for many people but it was their choice to disregard that predetermined destiny and create their own. In the movie Looper, the character named Joe is given the perfect opportunity to reconstruct his destiny. The movie is set in the future and the premise is that the “Rainmaker” is a sort of mobster that uses time travel to send a “looper” back into time to kill a specific person before that person makes it to the future, 30 yea

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