Is God/reality controlling everything?

[Megan Alecia]

If reality is perfect, then how does free will fit into that paradigm? Or I guess the right question is how much of it is allowed in the grand scheme (whole of reality) of things?

"Who makes our choices?" is quite vague but is sort of in a similar vein too. Does reality make our choices? Or do we (as an individual) make it? 

[Artsu]

Things are not perfect, because of free will. But it is good for us to have free will.

What is not good is people choosing to do wrong. This stops things from being perfect.

 

Edit: you as an individual make your choices, but you can be influenced by outside entities without knowing it. All sorts of other factors go into why you do what you do. You will be judged by what you do freely.

You are free to do what you want, but there are moral constraints to consider. You shouldnt ever break the 10 commandments for instance, although it is very rare that a person never does it.

Edited August 17, 2020 by Artsu

[Johnny5]

What else would be "controlling" reality, if not reality....?

[JosephKnecht]

13 hours ago, Megan Alecia said:

If reality is perfect, then how does free will fit into that paradigm?

It is perfect because it is free. 

All questions of determinism lead back to the question of identity. 

If you identify as a person, you will the will of a person.

If you identify as God, you will the will of God. 

It is not a question of freedom, but rather a question of who we are...

[Megan Alecia]

 @JosephKnecht Seems like a nice assessment of it 

 

[Danioover9000]

@Megan Alecia

15 hours ago, Megan Alecia said:

If reality is perfect, then how does free will fit into that paradigm? Or I guess the right question is how much of it is allowed in the grand scheme (whole of reality) of things?

"Who makes our choices?" is quite vague but is sort of in a similar vein too. Does reality make our choices? Or do we (as an individual) make it? 

   Free will fits into the paradigm because of how expansive reality is in the first place. Because the Godhead is doing most of the heavy lifting you don't bear as much godly responsibility to the universe, other than to peel off layers of your lies and the illusions of reality. To do this, there has to be at some point a trick played at yourself feeling a sense of free will, and a sense of things to discover.

   How much free will depends on your mind type, psyche, the environment you grew up in, what people you've encountered, and so on. The direct degree of free will is proportionate to the amount of limitations you have. Also, paranormal events, entities and abilities complicate this further, but actually those are also measures of your free will.

   The last question is tricky, depending on how much spiritual material you've consumed. When we are born, much of our youth tends to be subject to otherness and environmental forces. As we grow up, we develop more of a sense of self, and most of our lives we tend to roughly feel in control of half or less of the events we've experienced. The tricky part is when we start to go too far at either spectrum. God will throw a curb ball at you for thinking you're mostly in control of your fate, and life opens up possibilities to be an individual spirit when you're too deterministic. 

   Even making evil choices is part of reality, that's how free it is, and all limitations and evil experienced so far is part of reality's perfection. God's mixing blood and flesh together to ultimately form sentient beings.