Understanding freedom of choice

 

 

One of the most complex psychological philosophical conundrums is – is there freedom of choice?

 

On one hand Judaism unequivocally believes we are free to choose, which is the only reason this world was created, to offer people the opportunity and hence the reward to choose good over evil.

 

On the other hand it doesn’t make any sense – and scientifically has been proven – that man doesn’t have freedom of choice.

 

So which one is true?

 

Well as all realities there are two realities that exist simultaneously.

 

The first is our perception – the truth doesn’t need to exist for perception of untruth to exist.

 

Much like a player in a video game perceives the game and hence engages in it, our reality as Einstein said “reality is an illusion albeit a very persistent one” offers us a highly fixed natural existence which allows us to disregard God to choose to do whatever we choose.

 

In truth however the very reality, the very game we live in, was made by God.

 

So while we are like a player in a game, if the game was set up by God, then every experience was also set up by God – so the bottom line is this, while in experiential perception we feel that we have freedom of choice (and hence we actually are choosing on our own based on our own experiences) in reality the drama, the movie, the saga, the adventure was all preplanned to get us to discern light instead of darkness.