Originally, I wrote a proof of predestination through free will using game design. Later on, more examples of imposing order via chaotic events came to mind. Here's two more.
You've probably driven a car. When you hit the gas pedal, you hear the engine rev up to give power to your wheels. The gas going into the engine is being ignited and detonated dozens of times a second. That drives the pistons which produces power. But, how could constant explosions produce an orderly machine?
The Designer had a plan, how the engine works, from the start. They decided what goes in, at what rate, what material would contain an explosion, that the explosion could drive the piston, and what's attached to the piston. There's an entire system at work, an orderly and reliable system, that's powered by chaotic, explosive events. While each explosion is different, the designer ensured they happen in just the right way.
We were originally taught in physics that our universe was orderly. There were laws for the motion of the planets, forces like electromagnetism, chemical reactions, the toughness of steel. The thing that surprised us the most was that there's mostly empty space between atoms and inside atoms. That there's solid objects around us is sort of a mental illusion. Yet, the big things were there and acted in a deterministic way.
Then, people discovered things behave differently at the tiniest sizes. In quantum physics, the theories showed that things could be in many states all at once (superposition). They're forced to choose a state the moment someone looks at them by measuring them (i.e. physical contact). Particles could also tunnel from one point in space to another. Much of the behavior of quantum particles appears to be truly random. Yet, their interactions combine to produce a world that looks deterministic.
The Designer had a plan for how objects in our universe should act on a large scale. He allowed them to be highly deterministic to help us build things that connected and helped people. He accomplishes this with building blocks that individually act randomly, can affect other building blocks in random ways, and whose systems come into and out of stable existence all the time. The Designer uses these chaotic building blocks with their disruptive interactions to build orderly systems.
Seeing how God works, and even how humans do this, should it surprise us if we find out that God shapes chaotic, human choices into a deterministic plan in His full control? That He harnesses our unpredictable behavior like explosions in an engine? That He can force each of us to pick states that contribute to an orderly world? If we can do it in limited ways, and God already makes the whole universe work this way, why wouldn't He be doing it in the area of human choice?
So, if God's theology works like His physics, He predestines specific events by influencing and channeling our chaotic decisions to flow in the direction He wants them to. Some might say this still isn't free will. Well, it isn't being a mindless robot either. It's Calvinistic-like predestination being implemented via Arminian-like, free choices. If anything, God in that model is even more powerful with a more, stunning mind. I might worship Him even more if I believe this and so it's my current belief. :)
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