I tend to think of fate as joss. That is whatever occurs happens. My regard is to consider it a post hoc description of what happened.
The Chinese derived joss from a Portuguese term for God. In the Chinese culture it can mean fate or luck.
So I regard fate as a kind of gestalt or complete complex of compresence. A scene such as that in 1812 where Napoleon views a corpse resplendent in an officers uniform on a battlefield and declares “voila, a splendid death!”. That is joss or fate.
Yet as a Christian I believe God has an intention for the world. Details are beyond my pay grade.
