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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