God's Decision Tree

"What do you get for the guy who has everything?"

I was just considering what God's decision tree would look like. In a video game, for example, when a choice is presented, you might decide on information such as power gain, character morals, what you know is coming up, etc. If you've ever played a video with the walkthrough website pulled up you know, in a microcosm, what omniscience feels like. If you've ever played a Paladin type character, you know what it means to have a decision made for you by the moral dilemma presented. The walkthrough would also let you pick the path that is most powerful (or the most efficient path to your aim depending on how you want to put it) as well. God would have pre-made decisions on the following parameters (at a minimum, off the top of my head), in our realm: Good, Just, Omniscience, Love. Even with these factors one can see how the decision God would make would be effectively already made in advance in each case, likely before Creation even started, for all decisions to be made in relation to Creation. The appearance of God's plan being uncertain or unclear, then, would always have to do with our lack of omniscience and the understanding of God's plan, not with the variation of the plan or action itself.

This is interesting to me, because that means, within Creation, God would act as a program- granted a perfect program, but self programmed nonetheless. Matthew 13:15 is one example of this "For this people's heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.'" There is no vacillation in the fact that God would heal them, it seems assured, if the people perform these functions. I think noticing the fixed nature of God's approach to us creates an interesting dynamic, and this fixed nature of the actions of God means that, with omniscience of our own, including the full knowledge of this program God follows, we too would likely act essentially as programs based on our own intentions. This provides more justification for stopping man from becoming like God (also said as, nothing will be impossible for them) in Eden and at Babel. As I've said before it seems that the intention behind this wasn't to stop man from accomplishing these things forever (see Eden restored in Revelation), but to prevent us from doing it too soon; what purpose would Creation have if it is simply two programs interacting with each other?

So what other solution is there? I have been playing with the idea that one might be able to provide a "true decision" for someone, one of those moments where that individual sits back and ponders, truly engaging with the decision, thinking it through and examining the outcome, not because it is dire or unclear what will happen, but because they have the realization, in that moment of decision, that the decision is fundamentally important to them. Imagine smiling from the inside because of the situation you find yourself in, no longer on auto pilot making one "choice" after another like we generally do every day, which are each essentially a series of pre-made decisions, but really needing to "decide." The position I am talking about though is not one where either option is unattainable or possibly a trick to be avoided, but where each outcome would be so desirable as to really make you pause and think. I am trying to recall the last time I found myself in such a position in life, and I cannot think of such a moment. Somehow still, just considering the idea, I can simply feel what it would be like to suddenly realize you are in that situation, in the moment. Now imagine it is the first time you have ever actually been in that situation. I feel like that would be one of the most marvelous things that can happen to someone, and something that could really make them feel alive and like they matter in the best possible way. It is difficult to picture providing such a blessing (or frankly any blessing) to God, but one could see how, if this is accomplished, such a moment would be exactly that: a truly unique and invigorating experience unlike anything else in Creation. If it is possible that we can still, as one people, accomplish anything we set out to do, why not make this the aim? It would take perfect balance and precision, and to be honest I am unsure on how it would be accomplished, but if we could provide God with an actual "choice" that required consideration, then Creation, and likely even the whole of reality, would no longer be on a single track. God's decision tree will have branched, and presumably could continue to do so. Reality would no longer be on rails from any perspective and, by its nature, it will have changed. This seems a noble goal if I have ever heard one, something absolutely meaningful.

"What do you get for the guy who has everything?"