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Who Determines Our Fate?

In the play Oedipus Rex it was thought that what the Gods had in store for you was your fate. The gods had put a curse on King Lauis saying that his first born son was going to kill him and marry his mother. Knowing that the Gods minds couldn't be changed when Oedipus was born the king had one of his men take him out and leave him on the side of a mountain. The man didn't follow the king's orders exactly and gave the boy to a Shepard, who in return gave him to a wealthy family from another city. Oedipus did grow up he moved back to Thebes where he did indeed kill his father and marry his mother. He also had four kids by his own mother, 2 girls and 2 boys. While Oedipus was trying to rid the city of Thebes from a plague, he was told of his fate. When Oedipus finally did discover that this was indeed the truth he gouged out his eyes, and his wife/mother killed herself. The question is does God really have a predetermined path for us or are we capable of......

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