I Lost 4 Hours of Work... Did Free Will Do This?

Adobe crashed. Four hours of editing. Gone. No autosave, no backup, just a blank timeline and a question every free-will defender hates: Did I freely choose this... or was this ordained? Here's what happened: I was finishing a long video for today when Adobe died mid-project. I still have the raw first 15 of ~40 minutes, but the edit is toast — so that video moves to tomorrow. Tonight, we go live instead. And we're doing it in the wasteland. Fallout 4 — no mods, all DLCs, pure vanilla survival — while we continue the conversation I actually care about: Free will is not a legitimate philosophy for anyone claiming a biblical worldview. Not "free will is complicated." Not "well, mystery." Libertarian free will — the idea that you are the ultimate, uncaused source of your own choices — cannot coexist with a God who is actually sovereign over all things. You can have autonomous man or you can have the God of Scripture. You cannot have both. Tonight's stream: • The Adobe crash story (what happened, what survived, what didn't) • Fallout 4 vanilla playthrough as we talk — no mods, all DLCs • Why "free will" collapses under a consistent biblical worldview • Secondary causes, human agency, and why "God didn't crash Adobe" still doesn't rescue libertarian free will • Live chat gauntlet — bring your best free-will defense This is not a pity stream. It's a case study. If free will means ultimate self-determination, walk me through who "freely" deleted four hours of work when the software just... died. Then walk me through how that same autonomy survives a God who "works all things according to the counsel of His will" (Ephesians 1:11). Drop your free-will defense in chat. I'll take the strongest ones live and we'll test them against Scripture — not vibes. 📚 Topics: free will, predestination, Calvinism, Reformed theology, providence, sovereignty of God, biblical worldview, secondary causes 🎮 Gameplay: Fallout 4 — no mods, all DLCs, vanilla survival 💬 Chat rules: argue hard, stay civil, no drive-by one-liners — bring a claim Support the channel: PayPal: animatedreformation@gmail.com Subscribe for theology and gaming without the soft-serve version of either. #freewill #calvinism #reformedtheology #fallout4 #biblicalworldview