Put it another way: God provides, we decide. That is, God provides the chessboard, the chess pieces, the table, the chairs, the hands to pick up the pieces, the eyes to see them, the rule book for how the game is played, the brain to reason out the moves and strategy, the emotional structure to do the "psyching out" of the opponent and strengthening of self...and we decide what to do with all that stuff, using our free will to do it. Some play the game well, some play poorly, some refuse to play at all (by, for example, committing suicide...). It's up to us how we play the game of life, but we can only work with what is within the actual parameters of the game. Science is a very useful tool for examining those parameters on the outer physical and energy levels. Religion and philosophy and psychology are very useful tools for examining those parameters on more subtle (inner) levels.

- LH