Parables of the Kingdom and Is Everything Determined

The older humans get, the more we start to question our lives. Although there are many differences in the two articles, Parables of the Kingdom Is Everything Determined, there is also one major similarity. Both articles express wanting to know how the world works. In the Parables of Kingdom, a Christian view of how it works, there is no free will, you are living by Gods plan. This is hard for some to wrap their minds around because we do not know what God's plan for all of us is, he keeps it hidden and as we live our life with our eyes fixed upon him, he slowly starts to reveal it. For example in The Ten Virgins parable, it expresses how we should live a life with our eyes always fixed on Jesus and never loosing sight of him. There were ten virgins that came to see jesus that day and that brought lamps with them. Five were wise and brought oil to burn for the lamp and the other five were careless and did not bring the oils. The five who were careless, did not have their eyes fixed on Jesus and were forced to go back to get oil. When they arrived with their oil, they learned that they had missed their chance to see him. They wanted to be let in but instead were told, "Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh." This means that we do not know God's plan. In order to know it and live in it, we have to be eager and always be thinking about Jesus. Another example of this is in the parable The Ten Talents. In this parable, the lord has given money, or talents, to servants. He believes that these three men know what he wants done with the money and trusts in him that everything will be okay. Two of the three men do exactly what the lord wants them to do, they go and trade their talents to get more. The other man who did not do this, was selfish and did not trust in the lord, he hid his talent/money from the world, showing that he does not trust in God's word. This story is made relevant to us now even though God doesn't hand down money for us to spread, he has given us his word through the Bible for us to spread. In his plan he has for us, we are told to go spread his word to nations. Those who have full faith that the Lord will give them life will do this, those who do not have faith will not do this. "And there shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal." God's plan is for the righteous to strive and those who are not trusting or believing in him to be punished. He has the will to determine where we go after life based on what we believe and how we trust him in the life we live on earth. We as humans do not have the free will to determine where we end up, God is the only one who can judge that. The last parable, The Prodigal Son, also shows that even though God will judge where we end up after life, he also has a forgiving and welcoming heart when or if we decide we have not been living a righteous life and we want to turn our life around to walk in the path of Jesus. These parables are a completely different way of thinking than the way scientific people think about free will. In the other article, Is Everything Determined, there is free will. The group of people that believe in the way of thinking described in this article believe in scientific reasoning rather than the Bible and Jesus. "Is everything determined? The answer is yes. But it might as well not be, because we never know what is determined." This shows that they believe we have some free will because there is not proof to show that we don't. Instead of the bible they believe that we have free will based upon the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics and Darwin's idea. Both the two articles, Parables of the Kingdom and Is Everything Determined, are trying to express their opinion on free will and prove their thoughts and reasoning on it. As humans we want to know more and more about ourselves and the life we live, asking daily is our life plans were already determined or if we are determining the as we go.