free will and rebelion

 

Can we really have free will?

If you were able to map the atoms in the universe, have a supercomputer that could keep track of every one, you would have the capacity to know how every single thing will interact with everything else. You would be able to predict the future with perfect accuracy, knowing exactly what will happen by extrapolating data. Even the consciousness of humans is just the exchange of bio-electric pulses in the brain. Stop those pulses, your human no longer has conscience. You could hypothetically map every decision that person will ever make. This is the omniscient plan of God; this is the purpose of everything, to follow such a plan.

Or...is it?...

Quantum theory suggests that nothing is certain. There is always a chance that something unexpected will randomly happen: randomness, something unplanned for. This chance is the great monkey wrench in the great plan; because of this, you can never know everything. The plan of God is sundered.

This capacity for chance represents the scientific analog of the spirit of Satan. The capacity for the universe to randomly decide it's own fate, to go against the plan set out before it was even created. The spirit of Rebellion.

The spirit of rebellion, the analog of Satan, that exists in all of us; to realize that there is a plan and yet have the capacity to forge our own path. To see that omniscience is flawed. By merely having the capacity to recognize this we have something that allows us to create the universe we wish. To change the plan that was written. To obliterate it, sunder it, cast it down and forge our own way under our own power, with our own knowledge and our will. The will to bend and break the fragile will of God with merely the intent to do so. To bend the universe to our own will; such is the application of magic. By merely realizing there is a plan, there is a certain way the universe must evolve based on the rules of reality, we have the opportunity to change that plan. Take the reigns and forge our own path; the left-hand path.

God may have created the game, but we have the power to change the rules. To put the power of our own will between us and the slavery of destiny. To crush fate and manifest our own.

And when we finally return to Nothingness, we can be content. For we have checkmated God.