Do you know that before the dinosaurs lived, before the earth was made, and before the starts were created?

Question

That God had you in His perfect plan? And that all of us are divine and that the universe cannot be complete until each of us realizes our full potential as children of the cosmos?

Awesome responsibility there, isn't it.

Nay Sayers, If the plan isn't perfect, could it be because we haven't yet manifested our own creative, divine natures?

Maybe it's our own doing that things aren't yet perfect.

Answer 1

Sounds great but what about life on other planets? Will we get to meet the other children of the cosmos?

Answer 2

Well god has come a huge gutser because I refuse to follow his plan --- and that means (to use your own words) "the universe cannot be complete,"

If that worries you, just send me your prayer-gift and maybe I'll change my mind.

Answer 3

My Bible doesn't say we're all divine. God is clear that we are created beings.

Why do people drive cars like they do, if you are right? Doesn't that mean the universe will be around for a long, long, time?

Answer 4

Any plan that includes childhood cancer cannot be a perfect plan. Also, what about Yahweh's plan to condemn billions and billions of good people to eternal torture for thought crimes..perfect? Yeah okay.

Response to details:

So it's our fault that Bible god included childhood cancer in his plan? Is your god not all-powerful enough to do something about it? Is he not all-loving enough to care? Is he not all-knowing enough to know that completely innocent people and animals are going through immense suffering through no fault of their own?

Appeals to the fall of man fail horribly. All-knowing god would have had to have foreknown what the results of putting the tree in the garden would be.

Answer 5

Nice sentiment, but seriously couldn't a god come up with a better plan? Sure it's nice that I live after he revealed his plan of salvation, but the bulk of humanity that lived in the preceding 200,000 years did not have a clue.

Answer 6

*looks around*

This plan is perfection? Man, I guess I have been delusional all this time. This is certainly not how I would describe "perfection."

There is no "perfection," therefore there in no God?

Answer 7

wow! heck of a concept there... especially the part about 'dinosaurs' (a good Christian shouldn't believe such rubbish! fossils were put in rocks by the DEVIL!) and the Earth (the Earth is eternal, you act like it... just happened!)

Answer 8

You're so right. The holocaust was PERFECT! God loves genocide.

Answer 9

I know no such thing.
By what epistemological route did you arrive at such an unlikely conclusion?

And where does that place you on the free will/predestination debate?

Answer 10

Yes, I knew that.

Ephesians 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies in Christ, 4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him in love, 5 having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, 6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He bestowed favor upon us in the Beloved.

7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace 8 which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and insight, 9 having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself, 10 for an administration of the fullness of the times, He might bring together all things in Christ, those in heaven and those on the earth--In Him.

And yes, it is an awesome responsibility.

Ephesians 2:10 For we are His handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.