"The Problem Is Choice"

What is it about agency that was so important that we fought over it in the life before?

If you take a man and tie him up with ropes and tape and such, would he have as much agency as you or me? If you locked him up in a room and left him there in the dark and he was bound beyond all movement or sound, would he have the freedom of choice?

In The Matrix: Reloaded, the Oracle makes an interesting observation. She offers Neo (Keanu Reeves) a piece of candy. He looks at her funny. "You already know whether I'm gonna take it or not." She chuckles. "Wouldn't be much of an oracle if I didn't." He then says, frustrated, "But if you already know, how can I make the choice?"

The Oracle's answer can be said of our life now as well as what we did in the life before. She responds simply, "Because you didn't come here to make a choice. You've already made it. You're here to understand why you made the choice."

I would venture to say that the man in bondage would have as much agency as the freest man on the street.

The thing is, I don't think that the war in heaven was necessarily over what we would choose when we were on earth. I think it was more about who we would choose. If we would freely and on our own, without any pressure but acting as our own agents, choose Christ or Satan. Light or Dark. Good or Evil.

So it's not that we're here to choose. We just have to remember why we made our choice. Then we decide whether to remember that choice or to make the other decision. We decide if we want to stay on this side, or cross over.