There has been a question in the minds of people since religions and religious philosophies have existed, namely the question of predestination. How can it be that mankind has free will if there is predestination? How can there be destiny if there is not predestination? How can there be fate if we have free will? How can God know everything if we haven't yet made all of our choices? Is it just that God knows which choices we will make before we make them and that we actually have one limited path we will follow? If so, is that really free will? I think not, and so do others. Then how can God know everything? All of these questions assume the premise that there is a "Creative Source" that I will refer to as God. If you remove the shackles of specific religions and their particular schemas and doctrines, you still have the fact that belief in one God or another is and always has been a universal concept of mankind, from the earliest recorded history, regardless of his name(s) and regardless of the times. The premise of this theory is one that considers all religions and faiths and is in conflict with none of them, given the allowance of an open mind, unrestricted by specific religious beliefs.
Whether or not God created the earth in six days and rested on the seventh, or whether or not God is a seven-headed six-armed multiple god figure, the questions posed above still apply and have applied to mankind's curiosity for eons. It seems an insurmountable task to not separate free will and predestination and it seems impossible to have the two coexist.
If God is all-powerful and all knowing, as most religions and most people believe, then He must know everything. Is it, then, possible for us to have free will? Or do we just think we have free will and it's all just a joke on us? If every choice we make is already known, then we are just pawns in the game of existence, thinking we have freedom to choose, when in actuality, we are only making the choice that has been predestined for us to make, for God already knows our choice and may even be guiding or controlling those choices, thus no freedom of choice at all.
It is my intention to propose that through the study of modern science, we have unlocked the key to the question of free will, be it already known by the Creator. I propose that we do indeed have free will at every moment of our existence, or existences. Modern mathematical equations have mathematically proven a theory which some call the "Theory of Everything." Until recently, there were calculations for the workings of the macrocosm, space, planets, stars, galaxies, and other large bodies, involving gravity and relativity, in which there is an ordered universe, governed by mathematical laws that seemingly conclusively can predict how things in our universe interact. However, these laws and equations broke down and did not work when examining the microcosm of our universe, the infinitely small particles such as quarks and other sub-atomic structures.
In the development of String Theory, the theory that all matter is made up of tiny strands of vibrating energy, several sets of equations have been developed to try to prove that there is really one set of equations that apply to the macrocosm and the microcosm, alike. I say several sets of equations because it's true. At first, one set of equations was found that seemed to be the one. Upon further investigation, other flavors of these equations arose, bringing the question back to life as to whether there is one set of equations that constitute the "Theory of Everything."
While this is still in debate, there is one interesting point that applies to all the flavors of the mathematical formulas. That point is that mathematically, there is reason to believe that there are more dimensions than the three we perceive (four, if you count time as a dimension). Some of the sets of equations conclude that there are six dimensions and some say that there are eleven, and others say that there may be even more than eleven. However, they all indicate that there are more than we previously thought. "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio...."
Assuming that there is a divine Creator is not such a difficult concept for us to grasp. More dimensions, on the other hand, are hard to conceive. There have been scientists who have proposed that there may even be parallel universes (plural) coexisting alongside our own. Within Quantum Mechanics, one analogy was that in the world of the infinitely small, it was theoretically proven that you could be somewhere before you got there. If the possibility is one you can grasp, then try grasping the following.
We are not these bags of bones we perceive, but much more. And we don't live bounded by these physical trappings we perceive, but move in and out of and through these dimensions without even knowing it. Imagine that you are sitting on your couch watching television. You feel hungry, but you don't want to miss the show. At that moment, as in every moment of choice, it is possible that you actually make and carry out all of the possible choices, simultaneously. The "you" which you are currently perceiving stays on the couch while the you in one of the other dimensions actually gets up and goes to the kitchen, while another you in another dimension gets up, but procrastinates about getting food and sits back down, while another you falls asleep, while another you.... What if every time you have a choice to make, you actually make them all? You are only aware of the choice you carried out in the particular dimension you are experiencing. Each you in each dimension has no knowledge of the choice made in the other dimensions. Each choice spawns another existence or existence path and they blossom like a flower with the petals constantly growing anew and have their own new path to travel. How many of you are there?
Let us just say you have a choice to make that has three possible choices. Each spawns a new you. In one dimension, the choice you made takes you to the kitchen. Then the choices of whether to go to the pantry or the refrigerator spawn another you. The you who goes to the pantry sees four possible food selections. As the choice is made, three more of you spring into existence. The possibilities are infinite, as they should be with an infinite Creator.
Then where does this lead us? The question of free will is now essentially overcome. I say "essentially" because still there is an all knowing God who knows all of the possible choices at each decision point, and He knows that you make all of the decisions you can possibly make, and He knows all of the decisions that each "you" that you have spawned will make. He has even already known how many of you will be spawned during your existence in each existence that you spawn, for He is all-powerful and all knowing. The concept is truly staggering, but is truly possible. In that realm of possibility, there is still predestination, and not only free will, but also the ultimate in the concept of free will. We make and experience all the choices possible. That is the ultimate freedom, to be able to experience it all. The predestination still exists because God knows the choices ahead of time, but the multiplicity of parallel universes and dimensions beyond our tiny conceptions allow for totally free will at each decision point. And these multiple existences are not only known by the Creator, but have been predestined to exist so that we can have the freedom to choose every choice. Therefore, the concept or theory is appropriately named, "The Theory of Divine Predestined Multiplicity."
Would you and your spouse create a child with the predetermined intent to limit what that child can be? Would you force your child to be exactly what you want him or her to be, not allowing the child to become his or her dream? We all tell our kids, "You can be anything you want to be." We want them to experience the things that they want to experience. I can't believe that our Creator would love us any less.
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