Description

Destiny :

Destiny refers to a predetermined course of events. It maybe conceived as a predetermined future, whether in general or individual. It’s a concept based on the belief that there is a fixed natural orders to the universe.

Destiny maybe envisaged as fore-ordained by the Divine (for example Protestant concept of predestination) or by human will (for example, the American concept of Manifest Destiny)

A sense of Destiny in its oldest human sense is in the soldier’s fatalistic image of the “bullet that has your name on it” or the moment when your number “comes up" or the romance that was “meant to be”.

Destiny maybe seen either as fixed sequence of events that is inevitable and unchangeable, or that individuals choose their own destiny by choosing different paths throughout their life.

Some believe that one’s destiny maybe ascertained by divination.

Although the words are used interchangeably in many cases, fate and destiny can be distinguished. Modern usage defines fate as a power or agency that predetermines and orders the course of events. Fate defines events as ordered or "inevitable".

Fate is used in regard to the finality of events as they have worked themselves out; and that same sense of finality, projected into the future to become the inevitability of events as they will work themselves out, is Destiny.

Fate is an outcome determined by an outside agency acting upon a person or entity; but with destiny the entity is participating in achieving an outcome that is directly related to itself. Participation happens willfully.

Glossary

Predestination : A religious concept, which involves the relationship between God and His creation.

Divination : The attempt to gain insight into a question or situation by way of a standardized process or ritual.

Manifest Destiny : Manifest Destiny is the historical belief that the United States was destined and divinely ordained by The God of Christianity to expand across the North American continent, from the Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific Ocean.