god's plan???

Question

i've often pondered what exactly is god's plan. i always here people saying god has a special plan for all of us. but what exactly does that mean? let me elaborate. let's say god's plan for me today was to find a dollar on the ground. does that not mean it was also in his plan for someone else to lose a dollar? or, to take it a step further, let's say god's plan for me is to kill a murderer. wouldn't that mean that he already had planned for someone to be a murderer? that's sort of a messed up plan for one's life. any ideas on this?

to those who think god wouldn't doesn't have it in his plan for us to kill people, might i point you in the direction of the story of abraham. didn't god make him kill his own son isaac to prove his love for god? and it's not like we haven't had any killers recently saying they were killing in the name of god. please respond on what you think of this.

Answer 1

This is why religion is so popular - it lets people fantasize someone else has a plan, someone else will take charge, someone else will fix all their problems.

It's a lot simpler when you realize there is no god, and there is no plan, other than the plan you make for yourself.

Ever wonder why life doesn't make sense? That's because it's all pretty random. If there were a loving benevolent god, life would be very different. But there's not. So that means YOU have to be responsible for your own life.

Answer 2

I think that there is a plan for each of us for our lives, but I think the plan comes from us. I think we choose the time to incarnate and the folks to come here with so we can all participate in a hands-on group lesson.

I think God facilitates our journey. I think God is the energy that powers this existence and I think that whatever we dwell upon in our heart and mind is what God sends.

Now it does seem like serendipity when we find something that someone else lost, but I think sometimes it just appears that someone else lost something - because I know that there is plenty of everything to go around.

In the case of a murder - yes, there is as much to be learned by being a murderer as their is in surviving a victim. I somehow think there is less to be learned as a victim - but the loss itself might be integral to our overall group plan. I also think that we can incarnate whenever there is a baby available - and someone who dies young will just take the opportunity to come back in another capacity if they want.

To help figure out what the plan is, you need only to look back over your life and see the patterns and such to see the areas you personally are focusing on. I wouldn't worry too much about the details of the plan. You can be sure to find it all out in the end - which will come all too soon for many of us, I imagine.

Peace!

Answer 3

First off, His plan is not the way you describe..
God would never command you to kill anyone, He does not work that way.
God did not 'make' a person a murderer. We have 2 roads to choose from, good or evil.. He wants us to be saved and join Him in Paradise when we die...
The dollar deal, we do find a dollar or more but he did not 'make' someone lose a dollar for us to find....

Answer 4

First of all, God didn't have Abraham kill Isaac. He did, however, determine by telling him to that Abraham was willing to obey him even if he did not fully understand the reason. Then, God gives us free will and in most cases he does not have specific plans for us as individuals because that would infringe on our free will. God's plan, therefore is more of a overall plan which he has crafted in order to lovingly free us from the sinful, fatal decisions which were made by Adam and Eve and passed on to us. This plan involves the replacement for the imperfect man, Adam by the perfect man, Jesus Christ. It also involves the rulership by Jesus Christ in order to bring the earth back to the perfect condition of paradise which Satan, Adam and Eve also messed up. Will you be there? What is your plan??

Answer 5

If a person is to believe in an omnipresent god, one would feel that there is nothing but god. I am not saying that you do, but if you look at it in this way, everyone is god, and everything...So, what does god do to anyone but himself? All this talk about plans for a persons life, what a funny little game you are playing.

Answer 6

possible answers:

1 God doesn't have a plan, it's all free-will.
2. God has a plan, it's perfect, you can't do anything to change it or your place in it. No free-will.
3. God has a plan which he can't enforce and we can break from it as often or whenever we feel like it. Free-will.

Answer 7

Yes, God has a plan for everyone's life, there is another will that often conflicts with this: free will. Christians are taught to pray to allow God to do his own will in life, because we do not know what is best for us. God knows you and what you will do, but YOU still make the decisions. You can choose to do anything, but your decisions will fit into God's plan somehow. Kind of difficult to comprehend, but hopefully that clarifies it.

Answer 8

Do you imagine a most evolved being needing to make plans after their grand example of themselves was creation itself? Silly little humankind...LOL
No, seriously...No, God has no plans...he absorbs from opportunities given, choices made, wisdoms gained or not...the motive of creating to begin with was constant, continuous & varietal input of knowledge. There are no preferences of where this comes from, nor from whom, or when....do you honestly imagine that you are the only one having your experiences, feeling the same feelings, trying the same paths, enduring the same pains, elating in the same accomplishments????? Do you not see that their are others just in your own circle, let alone everywhere else, that do not share your sameness.?

See? God is very happy with what has been created, how it is changing, all of it...it is all pure perfection.

Variety is the spice of life!

Answer 9

i don't understand. What the hell are YOU doing approximately it? i'm getting so aggravated whilst human beings ***** that this prosperous individual or that prosperous individual or some customary individual or GOD isn't doing adequate to help "the African babies." i would be unable to help yet contemplate whether they have stepped back and delivered a glance at themselves.

Answer 10

God's plan is for us to earn a dollar, further more, His plan for us is that we impact others in a positive way and to not become killers. His plan for our lives are not always followed, and He doesn't plan bad people, people choose to be bad.