There's a divide in Christian thought between people who think God knows (and controls, I guess) every decision we make and people who think we have free will to make choices. Many Christian theorists find this important because it relates to the question of who goes to Heaven and why. The question is typically called "predestination."
Across campus, sort of, we hear about "multiverse theory." I am a layman when it comes to this topic, but if I had to summarize the theory I would suggest a thought exercise: Imagine every chance outcome in your life had its own universe where the outcome were different. Every time you rolled a one on a die, imagine that in some parallel reality you rolled a 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6.
Multiverse theory is presented as something that permutes over chance events. What if it permuted over decisions? Perhaps we are all, in the multiverse, the sum of all the combinations of decisions we might have made (given what God made us) and their outcomes?
Maybe we all go to heaven as this integrated version of ourselves.
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