However, this simplistic way of looking at destiny doesn’t fully encompass how the world works-while destiny and free will might seem like opposing ideas that can’t coexist, the truth is actually far more complex. This fate seems inevitable, as divine beings like Crowley (a demon), Aziraphale (an angel), and Adam (the Antichrist) are supposedly bound by prophecy and have no choice but to follow the path that God has laid out. According to the Bible, this plan ends with Armageddon and the final fall of humanity. From Miracles Of Our Lord.Throughout Good Omens, Crowley and Aziraphale talk often about what they call the “Ineffable Plan”-that is, God’s plan for Earth. But a free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. To create in order to uncreate is something else than divine.
That would be to make a will in order that it might be no will. If a man say, “But might not the will of God make my will with the intent of over-riding and enslaving it?” I answer, such a Will could not create, could not be God, for it involves the false and contrarious. Nay, more, the whole labour of God is that the will of man should be free as his will is free-in the same way that his will is free-by the perfect love of the man for that which is true, harmonious, lawful, creative.
“Those who cannot see how the human will should be free in dependence upon the will of God, have not realized that the will of God made the will of man that, when most it pants for freedom, the will of man is the child of the will of God, and therefore that there can be no natural opposition or strife between them.
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