Friday 3 February 2017

Intercedal implementation

God has a plan! Assumingly, but how specific, far-going, and widespread is his plan, and to what extents does God intercede with regularly occurring circumstances?

I think its generally accepted from anyone who believes in God, that he influences this world, and life. I want to try to understand more accurately, to what degree. To understand the degree, first of all, it seems practical to understand the intent, or reasoning (which seems to be a logical way of understanding almost anything in life). To understand the intent (ie. Purpose/ function) of something, I find it useful to compare the scenario of the presence of the constant, in comparison to the scenario of a void of the constant.

In the scenario of the inexistence of God, everything that ever happens or ever has happened in this world and in this universe, is complete fluke and has no over-reigning force causing any occurrence to be so. In this scenario, –hypothetically- in the past, there is the high probability that nothing significant or relevant ever occurred. This includes, life being sustained to the point it’s at now, life adapting in any method or form to have the capability of consciousness as humans do (ie. evolution), life being sparked initially in whatever unknown, rare circumstances are necessary, or even the elements existing required for everything in the universe to behave in the way it does (which is overall -in general- my understanding of the mathematical probability supportive evidence that God does exist). This can be compared to the scenario of the constant (God) existing.

In the scenario of God existing in current day life, he implements an influence on circumstances within this world to allow it to be at least to the point it is today. God would have implemented the specific elements of the universe to exist initially, caused life to begin (in whichever method you may believe), caused life to be adaptable (whether by evolution, or in more short term relevance; developing in societal, technological, and manufactural methods) and allowed life to be sustained to this day in age.

The difference between the 2 scenarios, being that current day life exists as an absolute, rather than a coincidental possibility.  If life exists as a result of the existence of God, rather than the result of chance, this means the intent of God is to at least allow life to exist to its point of consciousness (allowing free will). This would likely be the minimum possibility of the purpose of God, which seems understandable and confirmatory from typical religious perspectives in general, as God creating humans in his image with consciousness, decisive capabilities, and free will.

Now that the general reasoning of Gods implementation of specific circumstances occurring seems graspable, as well as the minimum plausible degree (being allowing humans to have free will), theorising the maximum degree of Gods influence, seems like a productive next step in understanding the more realistic degree of Gods intercedal influence on everyday life. If God was to maximize his potential influence on the circumstances of the world, he could cause everything to happen exactly as he wants, causing every single minor detail in the vast expanse of the universe, throughout the vast expanse of time, to happen exactly as is does. If that was the case, everything would occur precisely to his preference, with absolutely no chance of any alternate occurrences. This seems quite unlikely to be the situation, as under such conditions, God could force nothing to ever go wrong (which seems contrary to reality), and this would void the allowance of free will and option of choice, with which comes the possibility of making the wrong choice and causing something -in turn- to go wrong. Therefore, it seems the maximum influence of God would be; causing everything to occur other than any circumstances involving the allowance of free will.

With this allowance of free will, comes a lot of circumstantial possibilities. In every individuals life there is a profound number of situations where they had the opportunity of choice (inherently free will), which could possibly drastically affect the forgoing situations and what options there may be from that point on. Therefore it seems likely that God actually plays a minor influence on every individuals life in general, since the grander of happenings in life would be so extensively influenced by the option of free will. The maximum specificity of Gods potential plan or intent for any individuals life, therefore would have to be largely adaptable to all potential scenarios occurring as a result of alternate choices of the individual.

So, if God does have a specific plan or purpose for you individually, it is likely not such a specific plan as commonly assumed, but more like an adaptable plan, with potential outcomes changing with your decisions and actions. The specific, ultimate purpose of your life -intended by God- at the current time (having been affected by past decisions), is probably most accurately, estimatedly distinguished, by you, based on observation and consideration of past, impactful, reoccurring circumstances.

But, like a conclusion of this topic, unlikely to be distinctly determined!

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