Inaction == still an action.
Indecision == still a decision.
Originally Posted by
AlericB 
Why do I never get a straight answer to this?
My question is: Do you think that when you make a Big Plan you are responsible for keeping it or do you agree with the recent "teaching" here that a Big Plan is, somehow, unbreakable and so you are not required to be responsible for keeping to it throughout your life?
This is not a pedantic point. It goes to the heart of who we are: are we responsible for our actions or aren't we?
I always used to answer questions like this 'it depends'.
I like to look at the potentially unalterable and immutable in terms of context, and if I understand correctly the secular way embraces a more fluid context so as not to absolve one from accountability but allow for said context to frame the execution of The Plan.
There's a similar dichotomy in the Christian realm with freewill v. predestination. In my assessment neither allow the adherent to lean on cheap grace.
Am I off base here?
*ducks*