The other day in class, when we covered the Protestant Reformation, we talked a little about the idea of predestination. How people, long before being born, are already set in life; what they are going to do and where they're going to end up. This doesn't quite make sense to me. Perhaps I'm a bit biased, I was raised to believe in free will. But it seems to me that predestination would eradicate the concept of sin, and thus morality. Sin is pretty much the choice to go against the teachings and laws of God. But if people had no choice, they couldn't technically sin. God's will is good and moral, and so a murderer would not be a sinner, or immoral, because he/she simply was doing as God had planned. And who would call God's plan immoral?
Besides, the whole concept seems like a rather fatalistic way of looking at things. You do what you do, but know it doesn't matter because you really have no control over your fate. Kind of bleak.
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