Intrication

Consider the intricacy of this world, the circumstances which occur -including all causes by any degree of influence on the situation-, the decisions made by every person -also as a result of vast variances of influence-, and the countless relevant circumstances which were necessary to occur in the past, as a lead-up to the present situation. The complexity of relevant variables is virtually immeasurable and incomprehensible.

To include purpose to the equation of this world, certain circumstances are necessary to occur. As I determined in my posts of “Inverted Inevitability”, “Purpose Potential”, “Purpose vs Probability”, “Indeterminism”, and “Conditional Coercion”, there is the possibility of purpose being present in this world, by allowance of uninfluenced results, yet guaranteed occurrence of required circumstances.

The orchestrator of the occurrence of the certain circumstances would no doubt be what we identify as God. If God created the necessary conditions for humans to exists (and therein purpose, via free will), with a vastly complex set of variables to allow the scenario of uninfluenced free choice, then would God continue to implement conditions throughout the world, after humans were already existent with free choice? And if so, how, with the allowance of free will changing all circumstances from that point on, and restraining Gods effect of alteration?

If God has a will (or preferred scenario of occurrence) -as intentional implemented purpose would indicate- beyond the initial allowance of our free will, then it seems necessary that he would indeed continue to implement conditions throughout the world. Even if Gods will is to allow a significant quantity of humanised free will, it would still be potentially necessary to implement conditions.

The only way God could alter or implement intentional conditions while allowing free will, would be for our will to be for God to alter conditions. If God altered conditions relative to the decision of any human, without our will, in the intent of a certain cause, he would have to influence our will, which would be a reduction of our free will.

Since nearly -or perhaps entirely- all occurrences in the modern day world would be relative to someone or another’s decision at some point (or else that occurrence wouldnt pertain in that exact way), it seems that it could be necessary for God to reduce the free will of some, in order to alter conditions (even if the alteration is of the will of someone for God to do so).

But perhaps the method of application for God altering conditions (which require a certain decision from people), could be similar to what was theoretically applied in order to guarantee the minimal necessary circumstances for humans to have existed in the 1st place. The method of allowing vastly complex variables to occur without influence (allowing freedom), yet predicting the occurrence, and in the event of the unacceptable circumstance, readjusting the initial vastly complex variable starting setup.

Is that method of application significantly different from directly influencing circumstances for an intentional outcome? Altering the original starting setup based on knowledge of outcome would in essence, actually be influencing the scenario and reducing freedom possibility and potential.

The difference would be the degree of influential alteration vs freedom. In the scenario of; altering the beginning state of all matter and elements in the universe to a new random uninfluenced state, in the case of the 1st trial not resulting in human-like consciousness being developed (with perhaps the probability being 2/1 for eg), would be an incredibly small degree of influence and small reduction of freedom of possibility. Some degree of influence is required after all, otherwise nothing would occur in the 1st place, theoretically. So the difference is significant between that influential alteration and direct influence of outcome.

As long as the original starting state of human consciousness was not directly implemented in a certain way -but allowed alternate possibility based on uninfluenced variables-, then free will could exist, and therein potential purpose.

It seems relatively easy for God to have implemented initial free will in this world, based on uninfluenced variables and allowing probability of specific occurrences involving said variables, to cause the necessary steps toward human consciousness and free will.