Will of God

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The will of God or divine will is the concept of a God having a will (i.e. particular desire) for humanity. Ascribing a volition or a plan to a God generally implies a personal God (God regarded as a person with mind, emotions, will). It is often conflated with God's plan.^{[1][failed verification]}

Interpretations[]

Christianity[]

Leslie Weatherhead says that the will of God falls into three distinct categories; intentional, circumstantial, and ultimate. God intends for people to follow his guidelines and do the right thing; God set the laws of physics and chemistry into play, creating different circumstances man can choose from and those circumstances will sometimes cause difficulties. That does not mean we should not struggle against circumstances to create God's ultimate will, a peaceful world dominated by love and compassion.^[2]

Deism[]

As for Deism, it has been explained:

In general, the deists believed reason to be an innate faculty of all people. Reason, the very image of God in which all humans are created, makes possible knowledge of the will of God. By the exercise of reason, people possess the possibility of adopting a natural religion, that is, a religion grounded in the nature of the universe. At creation, God established this rational order, but although the prime and necessary cause of this order, God had become increasingly remote. The world, nevertheless, continued to function according to the laws that God had established at creation, laws that operate without the need of divine intervention.^[3]

Islam[]

In Islam, submission and surrender are terms referring to the acceptance of God's will.

Sikhism[]

Hukam is a Punjabi word derived from the Arabic hukm, meaning "command" or "order." The whole of the Universe is subject to the hukam of God and nothing happens that is not the will of God.

It is by the command of God that we are born and we die. In the Sikh scriptures, the founder of the religion, Guru Nanak says:

O Nanak, by the Hukam of God's Command, we come and go in reincarnation. ((20))

— Japji Sahib Stanza 20

See also[]

• Destiny
• Deus vult, a Latin expression meaning "God wills it", canonically expressed at the outset of the First Crusade.
• Divine law, any law that, according to religious belief, comes directly from the will of God, in contrast to man-made law.
• "God willing" is an English expression often used to indicate that the speaker hopes that his or her actions are those that are willed by God, or that it is in accordance with God's will that some desired event will come to pass, or that some negative event will not come to pass.
• God's Plan (disambiguation)
• Karma
• Luisa Piccarreta
• Plan of salvation, in general Christian concept.
  • Plan of salvation (Latter Day Saints) is the view of God's plan as described by the Latter Day Saint movement.
• Predestination
• Providentialism is the belief that all events on Earth are controlled by God.
• Will (philosophy)

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