I love the Matrix series. Besides having some killer action sequences with unique cinematography, it also has sophisticated flowing dialogue. I watched the second show in the series the other day and can’t seem to stop thinking about one little piece. It starts when the Oracle offers Neo a piece of candy.
The Oracle: Candy?
Neo: Do you already know if I'm going to take it?
The Oracle: Wouldn't be much of an Oracle if I didn't.
Neo: But if you already know, how can I make a choice?
The Oracle: Because you didn't come here to make the choice, you've already made it. You're here to try to understand why you made it. I thought you'd have figured that out by now.
Neo: Why are you here?
The Oracle: Same reason. I love candy.
Do you think that’s how it really works? Are the choices we make in life already decided and we’re just here to experience it all? Or can we actually shift our destiny at each fork in the road? The former seems logical to me. How else could God be all knowing and fit us into the great puzzle in our perfect spot or know our wants, needs, and desires before we even know them ourselves if he doesn’t already know us so well that he knows what we’ll decide before hand? But still, it doesn’t feel very comfortable to know that my reservation is already set in stone. I don’t know. What do you think? It’s been boggling me.
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2 comments:
I couldn't put it into a sound bite here,but my firm understanding is that our agency remains free-He does know us so well that he sees our future choices, but He does not influence those choices, and when we make them He has already prepared to use them to teach us more about HIm and more about why we are here...
It doesnt matter that God knows what you will do. You came here to find out what you can do.
The Oracle cannot make the choices for Neo, he still needed to be the one to stop the virus, without him, all hope would be lost. Each person has a role, what is your role?
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