Interesting responses.
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Free will can exist only if fate is limited.
The only time that truely exist is NOW. Its always now.
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I am not sure quite what you mean by the first statement, but I believe that as Free Will is expanded the universe becomes MORE complex and unpredictable.
Your second statement is similar to the Buddhist perspective. Yet, your emphasis on God leads me to believe you mesh the two perspectives in a similar way to what was done in this paper. At the end there are some comparisons of Buddhism and Christianity.
Buddism and Christianity have a lot more in common than they have in opposition. Fate, by definition means that everything is pre-determined by an outside source. Freewill is the power granted by God to create our own destiny. I explain it in the same way as a road. You can't change where a road leads, but you can change the road you are on. So fate would be the ultimate consequence of following a certain life path. Fate exists only as an infinte list of possibilities.