Reply #5: No, that's not possible. [View All]

[originalpckelly]

Your parents didn't get to have their way. Their plans failed. What you did was your plan. Their plan was for you to pursue the career of their choosing, right?

If that is true, their plan has not been fulfilled, as you did not choose the careers they had in mind for you.

Now, if their plan was for you to just go to college and be successful in life (which I hope you have been :-)), then that has been fulfilled.

So in that case, your example is not usable for this situation, as you are conflating two different goals into one goal.

Goals:
1. Get an advanced education
2. Pursue their career choice

On one you followed their plan and accomplished that goal of theirs, and on the second you did not. In one case you followed their plan, and in the other you did not.

I could actually prove to you how this works with a decision tree if I had to, and I could show graphically how God's plan is not possible if you have free choice.