Does God respect science? If not, why does he allow computers and telecommunications to run rampant? If it is God who created human beings, then doesn't He feel out of control of what the human being are doing now (the nuclear weapons and bio-chemical weapons, etc.)?
We human beings have an origin, and is it the same with God? Does God get married? Is God hereditary, or is it the same ever-lasting one?
We have all those questions but who can answer them?.
Predestination needs us to strive for; friendship needs us to maintain; good will needs us to treasure and future needs us to create. There is no Savior, nor Goddess of Mercy who once saved people in the past but cannot do anything to help the people at the present. The world is developing too fast.
People have to work together and associate with each other. Talking about predestination, it's just a kind of explanation about what has happened, and I'm afraid nobody can predict it before hand. From ancient times till the 1980' s, once getting married, the couple had to stick to each other for their whole life. Can we say it is because of their life-long predestination? It is just because of the marriage system. In the western countries, life-long marriage is rare. Can we say it is because their predestination makes it so? It is actually the result of human nature. The color of love could be attached to predestination, but not the color of superstition. www.xuexue6.com
Predestination is a lovely word which we should treasure and respect. In the present world, we should always follow the win-win or multi-win policy, instead of being single-handed. In order to achieve success, we must gain mass support instead of indulging in self-admiration. We might as well call the communication, the cooperation, the common concerns and the common aspirations of human beings “predestination”.
Translated by Zhang Baodan
中文
人世间有许多东西即没有答案，也解释不清。例如几十亿的人类，为什么就你们俩结为夫妻？为什么天天在一起没感情，素不相识的会一见钟情？为什么一家人会天天吵架，又吵而不散？为什么看去很般配的又不能结为连理？为什么一个为另一个付出的太多？为什么多情总被无情弃？……
百思不得其解，于是人们创造了“缘”这个包罗万象、包容万物的词汇。为了左右逢缘，人们又派生了“情缘”、“孽缘”、“善缘 ” 、“恶缘”等几大支脉。诸如：“有缘千里来相会，无缘对面不相识”，“千里姻缘一线牵”，甚至还创造了“月下佬”、“有缘无份”、“有份无缘”、“相逢即是缘”，“冤家路窄”，“不是冤家不聚头”等。再解释不通，那就求助于“前生后世”了。连林黛玉流泪都是为了还前世欠贾宝玉的浇灌之情。
www.xuexue6.com www.xuexue6.com其实所谓“缘份”，经常是一种巧合、偶遇，甚至误打误撞。你不遇到这个人，你也会遇到别的人。但人们执意将其加上感情色彩，甚至迷信色彩。由此竟引出了无数的宗教门派。其主要理论无非是“前生后世”之说，“天堂地狱”之说，和“精神不灭”之说。
可是前生谁知道？知道又怎样？后世谁予知？知道又怎样？今天在眼前的尚不能把握，还谈什么虚无飘渺的后世？放弃今天，其实无异于放弃明天，因为二者是连续的。为了来世高人一等，宁愿今世当牛做马，是很荒唐的。
谁见过秦始皇转世？谁听说过汉武帝托生？唐僧今在哪里（空余大雁塔）？孙悟空又在何方（花果山确有其名）？三皇五帝至于今，包括孔子、老子、庄子等诸子，我们还能在哪里找到他们的身影？
天堂有几个？是否也分东西方？上帝是中国人、还是外国人？佛教、道教、基督教、天主教、伊斯兰教……哪个教更正确？哪个教更伟大？各教都主张行善、不杀生，为什么彼此、甚至内部仍争斗不休、甚至打打杀杀？西方极乐世界是各教共享吗？天无二日，国无二主，上帝是大家一个，还是各教不一？都希望上帝保佑，上帝是否太忙，太累？