Thought Experiment – A Divine Redemptive Model of Programmatic Reality

Premise:

Imagine a world not randomly assembled nor materially self-existent, but procedurally generated—structured by logic-based code authored by a Divine Systems Architect. Reality unfolds through constrained, information-driven rules, similar to the way game engines generate vast environments from compact logic sets.

But this isn’t simulation theory. This is a metaphysical model of reality grounded in the biblical claim that logic, not matter, is ultimate, and that the cosmos was spoken into being by the Logos—a personal, eternal mind.

1. Logic-Based Procedural Reality

In this model:

• All things emerge from the operation of logic L on information states S: Ω = L(S)
• Space, time, and matter are not primary—they are emergent from deeper logical structures authored by the Creator.
• Every physical law is an expression of logical constraint, not an independent brute fact.
• The system is coherent, intelligible, and morally loaded because its Architect is not only intelligent—but personal, purposeful, and holy.

This world includes image-bearing beings, endowed with agency, reason, and the capacity for communion—real participants, not passive programs.

2. The Architect’s Foreknowledge and Choice

From the very beginning, the Architect knows what must happen.

• Creating beings capable of love, trust, and moral reasoning requires giving them the freedom to choose.
• He knows this freedom will be misused.
• He knows they will choose treason.

He knows. And He still creates. Not out of naivety, but out of love. Because forced obedience is not love. And real communion is only possible when loyalty can be refused.

3. The Breach: Sin as Logical Sabotage

The creatures reject their design. They redefine truth on their own terms. This rebellion isn’t just disobedience—it’s a logical contradiction. It breaks the harmony of the created order:

• Identity fractures
• Relationship dissolves
• Death and entropy spread

In code terms, the system now runs unauthorized operations—broken loops, corrupted moral logic, relational division, and spiritual entropy.

4. The Divine Intervention

The Architect could terminate the system. But He does not. He enters it.

1. The Incarnation is the eternal Logic embedding Himself within the very structure He wrote, as the perfect instantiation of coherence, holiness, and mercy.
2. The Cross is the central junction—where justice meets grace. The Architect absorbs the full consequence of rebellion, enacting a substitutional rewrite.
3. The Resurrection is the first line of new creation code—a recompiled human reality, ultimately untouchable by death, with time itself divided by a cosmic redemptive act.

5. Miracles as System-Level Commands

Miracles are not violations of law but Administrator-level overrides. The sun standing still (Joshua 10), a shadow moving backward (2 Kings 20), or the sea parting (Exodus 14) are intentional commands, lawful for the One who authored the laws.

Natural laws operate predictably because the Architect is faithful. But He is not bound by them—they are tools, not chains.

6. Redemption as Re-Creation

The Architect doesn’t merely fix what’s broken. He writes something new.

• He restores relationship, but not by force—by sacrificial love.
• He transforms traitors into co-heirs.
• He preserves freedom without sacrificing truth.

In Christ, the system is not simply patched—it is re-authored.

Conclusion: The True Structure of Reality

This is the deep structure of reality:

• Programmatic—but authored in love
• Ordered—because the Logos is a person
• Emergent from logic—not chaos

He knew we would rebel. He saw the cost. He made us anyway. And He stepped into our corruption and then divided history—to bear it, to break it, and to bring us home.