Comment by Jimmy on October 20, 2013 at 12:26am  God's plan is
just another way of saying "predetermination," the notion that
all things that happen are preordained to happen throughout all
of existence. By metaphor, it's like a movie burnt to a DVD, and
the entire movie has already been burnt to the disc. While
people believe they're doing things and making choices, free
will, in this interpretation is actually an illusion. According
to predestination, every thought you have, every plane that
crashes into a building, the sway of every grass blade, the
motion of the clouds, the fall of every rain drop, all the way
down to every quantum effect - all predetermined throughout
eternity.  Comment by James Cox on October 20, 2013 at 1:22am  I
think this is the 'hard' version. I have had numerous
conversations about time and causation questions. Even a few
shows on NOVA have played this out to a place of intense
discomfort.  Sadly it is unclear if we are 'bugs in temporal
amber', or not, but I have not been able to