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(Auto-generated)Hi, I'm Will. If you're wondering why I gathered you guys here today across the

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internet, I've had this kind of nagging thought process lately and it makes a

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lot of sense. Well, it's because I wanted to tell you guys that there is no

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paradox when it comes to free will and God's plan that I'm gonna explain here.

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So many people seem to think that because science can explain so much of

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this world, God's no longer really needed for the explanation, and that a belief in

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God serves the purpose of a lazy explanation for people who just aren't

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quite smart enough to understand the sciences of the natural world and a

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coping mechanism for people because we simply can't fathom what it would be

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like not to exist. But what are science and logic but observable patterns?

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Science and the math that physics are based in, these studies at their cores

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are... if we do this like that, this will always repeat in a pattern. So human

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beings with their powers of deduction created scientific laws and somehow

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because we're able to understand on a surface level simplified version how

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quite a lot of our world behaves, we've convinced ourselves that there's no need

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for God as an explanation. But the question missing from these people's

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minds is how this is perfect balance of physics, natural elements, and God knows

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what else, and God knows what else, come together and create and sustain mankind.

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How did these patterns come to repeat in all those billions and billions of

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independent ways that just so happened to work in complete unison? And one of

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the issues that these people have taken with the idea of God is the idea that

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God has a plan. They argue that if man has free will then a plan is out of the

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question and I will address that shortly. But first, it's important to realize that

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we've come to exist through a very intricate set of events beginning over

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13 and a half billion years ago. God, who unlike us, is not subject to existing in

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a single moment that progresses through time at a steady rate and exists all the

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time at once. God has formed our world and our home through an incomprehensible

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amount of events. The enormity of the plan is so bafflingly huge there are a

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staggering number of people who just simply can't accept that these events

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and designs were created and therefore must have occurred by their own accord

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or as a result of chaos. Chaos being, you know, the unattended results of random

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interactions. I get that. It's hard to comprehend a being so powerful that it

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could mindfully design our existence. But again, God is not subject to time. He is

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not subject to the limitations of the human brain. Designing is a lot different.

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He carefully designed this existence to occur cause and effect style like an

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infinitely complex Rube Goldberg machine to culminate into a world which we live

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in today and the world that we will have tomorrow. Now I know we talked about how

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you'll never be able to comprehend God in the last episode, but think about it.

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Which is absurd phrasing for what I'm about to say, admittedly. God created

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your ability to comprehend. God created you and all that you could ever wish to

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comprehend. The wise man accepts that there will be no final truth that he can

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discover about his Creator and that his Creator simply is. And that's enough. How

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can one hope to understand the motivations of God via logic? When that

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which they seek to understand designed and created the brain that is doing the

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pondering, created the world that has taught said brain everything it's ever

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learned and designed the very systems of logic that the brain is using. But here's

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the thing that took me years and years of studying and searching to finally come

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to logically. There was always just enough to finally comprehend that we do

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not need to understand. It's not required. It's not expected of us. He wants you to

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believe and act with him believe. He expects from you and return for this

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magnificent world that he created an entire universe to support. That you

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believe and that you treat those that he has lovingly created with the love that

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they deserve. This is often difficult as we tend to treat others as if they were

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their own Creator and they are not. They are God's children and loved by him

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every bit as much as you are. We judge their choices and ration our love based

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on whether or not we believe they deserve it. They do. We reserve love

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because of a lack of trust. Don't. Not only is God always watching, God is

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actually part of the scene even if that person's free will choice takes advantage

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of you. God will provide. He only asks that you love and believe and that you

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try to make decisions and take your fellow man into consideration and make

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the choices that echo out that which is good. He put us all on the same gigantic

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playpen loaded down with stuff to do. He expects us to share the things he gave

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us. Now, on to the fun part. The following is my theory regarding the answer to

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God's plan slash free will paradox. Also included is a brief description of the

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interaction of this theory with wave function collapse and the Copenhagen

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interpretation. So if you already know what these are I'm gonna do short

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versions of them. Anyways, so God loves us enough to give us free will, right? But if

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we should have the freedom to do whatever we choose to do, how could God

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have a plan for us? If God has a plan for us, doesn't that mean that there's only

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one route that may be taken throughout one's life and that free will is merely

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an illusion? Well, to propose my theory, we must begin with recognizing where we

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stand within the scope of God. We are creations, humans, living on a creation,

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Earth, universe, etc. Governed by a number of creations, space, time, forces,

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thermodynamics, etc. God is not limited to time as he created time. God's not

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limited to finite matter as he created all when there was none. We can only know

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within creation and God's existence, for lack of a better word, is not limited to

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that, nor is he governed by our laws. Our laws and theories are governed by him.

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That said, you've most likely heard about the theories of the multiverse. If you

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haven't, you're not a Marvel fan, which is an infinite amount of universes that

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encompass all possibilities. In other words, if there is a combination of

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events that, regardless of their probability, could result in an outcome,

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it exists in one of these parallel universes. In the case of Schrodinger's

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cat, the moment the cat becomes unobserved, it's inside the box and its

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life is dependent on that 50-50 chance, a branching occurs and two different

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universes continue on from that moment. One in which the cat is alive and one

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in which it's... I'm sorry to tell you this, the cat died... in that universe. Some

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physicists have theorized that these universes exist outside of our

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observable universe. Some think that they exist in other dimensions and that,

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apart from the moment of division, our universe will never again interact with

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the others. Most of these theories have a common thread though, that the universes

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are created at some point between the beginning of probability and the moment

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of deciding interaction. Observation or measurement is usually the case. Now,

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physicists have generally accepted the Copenhagen interpretation, which in

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layman's terms basically states that until something is observed or measured,

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that something exists in all places that it is possible for it to exist in. Not

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only that, but the amount that something exists in each place or position in

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space and time is directly proportional to how likely it is to be in that

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position. In other words, before it's observed, the more likely something is to

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be somewhere, the more of it actually is in that position. The moment that it's

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observed, however, all of those probabilities gather or collapse into

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one position and one singular 100% probability. Imagine reaching your hand

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into an opaque bag of marbles that you've just mixed up without looking and

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it contains 99 blue marbles and one green marble. The moment you close your

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hand around a group of marbles is not the moment at which the green marble has

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a 100% probability of being in your hand or being with the rest of the marbles. I

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know that's bizarre sounding. That moment only occurs when the hand is opened and

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the marbles inside the hand are observed. Until that moment, the green marble

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exists in all the possible positions inside and outside of the bag. The

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moment where you open your hand and you look, this is what's referred to as

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wave function collapse. This is the moment where it either is or is not. And

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wave function collapse is the point in the many-worlds theory that the

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branching of these multiple universes occurs, a new universe created for every

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single possible outcome. I know that last bit there was a doozy and I highly

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recommend looking up a few videos on Copenhagen interpretation, the many

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worlds theory, and the double slit experiment to get a better grasp of why

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physicists are inclined to believe that these are the theories, these are the

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this is the way it works. But back to the main topic, how does this relate to

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free will slash God's plan? Well, if God exists outside of time, then God exists

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all at once. I've said several times, he's the beginning, the middle, and the end

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simultaneously. God's plan has often been interpreted as this linear single path

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for each of us. Those that assume this may also come to believe that we may

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wander off set path and respectively wander back onto the path. But I propose

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this. What if God's plan is the options we have? What if we stop selling God

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short on credit and he designed every possible outcome before we choose? Allow

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me to explain. It would not seem like much of a plan to say that he designed

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all these branching universes in which every single possibility is present.

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However, how all of these possibilities for one person's decisions interact with

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every possibility for every single decision made by every single life form,

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natural phenomenon, and physical interaction in the world and beyond? Well,

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they offer a myriad of possibilities as well. And who but God is to say that all

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these possibilities do not converge at points within each of our lives? Each

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person's nearly infinite amount of possible paths always leading to the

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same important moments and all those possible worlds. What if these many

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worlds have existed since the very beginning and through the process of

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deciding and existing in the present, these many worlds become a singular

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world in the wake of now, our past. Millions of single fibers braided into

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the same rope. Is it possible that we are not creating these worlds but actively

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selecting from the infinite possibilities which world ours will be

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with each decision? I propose that we do not create the paths, but we do choose

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them. Not all paths are obvious either. It's far too easy to miss so many of them

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in our day-to-day and not see them for what they are. There are so many

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opportunities to do something kind that will resound into the human race that

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just wouldn't occur to us. So when you're unsure what to do, I give you the

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advice that I gave a friend of mine that I was trying to shake out of a mental

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funk. Pick up a good feeling, give it a hug, and then pass it along. Granted, not

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everything you do will resonate, but frequently something you did or said

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will and it fires out like fireworks. It's been my experience that you only

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get to see the back trail of the cause slash effect of your actions or words a

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few times in your life. I pray for your clarity of mind so that you recognize

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what you're witnessing when it happens to you.