An example of the magic circle (Games need rules to create magic circles) in real life is God's boundaries and rules around our Earthly existence.

Play in games occurs only when it's voluntary (Play occurs in voluntary unstructured space). Games have rules around them that everyone agrees to follow. If someone breaks the rules, cheats, or otherwise will not abide the rules as everyone else, the magic is broken and the game falls apart (Games are fragile).

God had a plan for a "game" of sorts called the Plan of Salvation. It hinges on us choosing to play in the first place, and our agency is never revoked (Moses 4).

It's hard to cheat in God's game, because the "cheaters" are accounted for in the game's rules as in a state of wickedness and in need of repentance (Learning is integral to our eternal progression).

The rules of life are that we are allowed to break them - within the magic circle only (Alma 42).

But there is a case where the whole facade can come crumbling down - if God cheats.

In 2 Nephi (2 Nephi 2), Lehi outlines a case where "God would cease to be God" - if there were no law. A sudden lack of rules (Children need rules to be able to play with the rules), after everyone voluntarily chooses to follow the original rules, would result in the very fabric of the universe crumbling as the actors that make up the universe (based on voluntarily following God's plan (Abraham 3)) throw up their hands and walk away. God's power would no longer exist.

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