Condensing God's Plan in as few words as possible

When we picture God we should see Him as one that is ALL knowing (Omniscient), All powerful (Omnipotent), and present everywhere (Omnipresent). In a few words the best I could explain is that God DOES INDEED have a plan. His plan is for mankind to enjoy His creation while walking in fellowship with Him.

However because He is God, and His very nature does not allow Him to force people to walk with Him in His FOREKNOWLEDGE and PERFECTION He took a risk and gave the man He created a FREE WILL to choose whether they should walk with Him OR to walk in their own way. This He did when He spoke to Adam and Eve in the Garden. He said..

Gen 2:16-17
16 And the LORD God commanded the man, "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden;
17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die." (NIV)

IOW here is where God gave the man the FREE WILL to choose what he wanted to do. Either to walk with God OR walk in SEPARATION FROM GOD. We know the choice Adam and Eve made and every man born of a man and a woman since has inherited the sinful nature. But......

God's plan was NOT THWARTED because God in His Grace, provided the Way from eternity that His Son should incarnate at the chosen time in order to redeem man and make it possible for fellowship with God to be restored by accepting His GIFT OF GRACE through faith. He KNEW from eternity past that man WOULD CHOOSE to do the opposite of what he OUGHT TO DO, (sin) so His ONLY SON "BEGOTTEN" OF THE FATHER came to redeem man from the consequence of sin (eternal punishment).

That being said, God ALSO KNOWS from eternity past WHO would accept the GIFT OF GRACE and who wouldn't. Those whom He knew HE CALLED, are HIS SHEEP, the ELECT. Those who reject the Grace of God as offered have chosen FREELY their own path that leads to the destruction. Unfortunately, this path is chosen by the many.

Thank God .....His plan will NOT BE THWARTED.







“All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”~~~~Edmund Burke