Do you believe in coincidence?
Do you believe that everything happens for a reason?
The way I see it, you must believe in one or the other. If you prefer to be passive, then coincidence is the easy option. If things happen for a reason, then there must be someone/something taking responsibility for the occuance. For the sake of Christianity and my own beliefs, I will assume that God is the reason for events. If you choose to believe in another power--mother earth, the full moon, the pull of gravity, your mother--you are more than welcome to do so, but the fact still remains that intentional events must originate from an facillitator.
conversely, coincidental events originate from nothing. They are not connected in any way. They come about by random chance, which has not reason.
So then, if what I say has any truth, and if you believe in coincidence, where is hope, faith and understanding?
If events happen without reason, how can one hope for anything to improve or for life to get better?
Where does one derive faith from? Or is it merely faith in oneself? Can you have true faith in yourself, or is this a selfish and dead-end belief?
How can you make sense of the world if you do not believe in a higher power with omnicient control?


P.S. what about karma?