Personally, Heck no, I thank my parents for bringing me into this world and making me a sane human being. I don’t thank God. But that’s just me.. How many of you wouldn’t thank God first? None…
To me no such book exists. You believe in it yet you speak of free will.
YOu don’t see how you are contradicting yourself? On one hand you are saying everything is pre written, then on the other hand, you want to give yourself credit for YOUR actions. If something has already been written and can’t be changed, then free will cannot exist. Free will only exists if you HAVE THE POWER TO change what’s written!
It’s either the book of decrees or free will. They cannot coexist. It doesn’t even make any sense.
Say you develop a game. You have encoded the characters to do such and such. You have placed the instructions and the rules. Characters cannot do what you haven’t given them the power to do so. They cannot turn JUMP if you haven’t programmed the character to jump.