So? What about God?

So, that is my best description of what “Reality” is. What do you think? So now you can understand why, when someone says “There is no God” I view that opinion with such skepticism. But If I were to argue that there was a God, where would He be?

To answer that let’s look at the whole series of events that make up the current world. I view them as energy passing through various fields along paths chosen by each of us. But I would like to say that that is only one point of view. I am looking linearly back towards the Big Bang. But what if there were another way to see these events? A way to see all of them at once, from the “side” so to speak. Well then, that observer would be able to see everything you have done and all the choices ahead of you. They would see the choices you make and the ones you do not make. If you existed in multiple times because there were other waves of energy activating your “World Line” they would see that too. In other words, they would see everything everywhere. They would “know” you before you were born. And since that observer wasn’t on our timeline, they would have an infinite, or certainly different, amount of time in which to look at things. Sound familiar?

I like to look at life this way; Imagine you’re getting in a boat heading to a destination you can’t see. There are almost an infinite number of ways for you to get to your destination. There are also any number of things that will help or hinder you along the way. But the route you choose is up to you. The destination is always the same. You may get to make the same journey over and over again, but you won’t remember if you do. Or you may only go once.

So, how does this relate to “Real Life”? Well, as I said, I like to think that alternative choices still exist somewhere even if we don’t take that route. So, our first daughter was born with a heart problem that ultimately led to her untimely death at almost 3 years old. But I like to think there is another path where she didn’t die. If that were true, that presents it’s own set of problems. Our son would still exist, but all of our subsequent children would not. I think there is also a path where she did not have a heart problem at all, but our son does not exist along that path. And since as I have previously stated, for any individual to exist at all everything that happened before their conception had to happen, then there is no path anywhere where all of our children exist happily and healthy. Except perhaps in Heaven. Something I am unqualified to even speculate about.

Just a quick word here about the phrases, “God has a plan” and “It’s God’s will”. Well if God is the being that laid out the fields, then He does indeed have a plan, lots of them. And it is up to us to pick our way through them without having the benefit of seeing very far ahead of us.