A speaker uses chess to explore free will versus divine plan. Like pieces on a board, humans face constraints but choose their moves freely. God anticipates every outcome while letting us decide how the plan unfolds.
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If you consider a game of chess, the chessboard has a certain number of spaces, each player has a certain number of moves, and you can put the world's greatest chess master up against a supercomputer and they both win, you know, occasionally, you know, one beats the other. You might say, well, to move my pawn or my rook, I have free will and I can move them however I choose within the confines of the physical reality in which they exist. But at the same time, there are rules. There is a plan, right? A plan. There's only a certain number of moves that can be made. If you were to multiply that chessboard by infinity and then square it, you get an idea for how free will is executed in a divine system of intended plan, if you will. In other words, God has a plan, man has free will, man has the ability to make any choice he chooses within his physical reality. Every possible outcome has been pre— has been, how do I say, anticipated. God does have a plan for our life and, not or, and he's given us free will to determine that plan. So,