Part 1 — A Common Error
God’s Eternal Plan
Why am I here? What’s the purpose of life? These are some of the questions that most people live with. On one hand, societies tell us how life should be, what a successful life looks like, and how to get there. On the other hand, religion says that we’re doomed and that we desperately need to get right with God in order to be saved. Depending on what we believe, we end up establishing our own goals, purposes, and plans to achieve the perfect life and to make it to heaven.
Many people create their goals from a humanistic perspective, keeping themselves at the center of all things. Even those who seek God through religion or an intimate relationship with Him often find themselves without an answer for their purpose in life. Start asking people what they believe God’s plan for human kind is and you will find many people saying man’s salvation is the ultimate goal.
This misunderstanding comes from a man-centered perspective: Humans messed up, they separated themselves from God through disobedience and Sin, seeking independence from God, and now they need saving. From this perspective, the “Fall” perspective, everything is tainted with the humanistic mindset. Everything is thought, felt, observed, and projected from the creatures point of view instead of the Creator’s.
If God’s ultimate plan is mankind’s salvation, then we could say that God is an accomplice of sin, since Eve’s first sin was necessary in order to fulfill His plan. When God commanded “Do not eat the fruit of this tree”, he must have secretly wanted Eve to disobey Him and eat from it, so that man would be separated from Him, lost in darkness and dead in sin. Then God could save all human kind and show His great love! Is this really what happened? Was this God’s will for mankind? Or course not!
God’s desire is to save all human kind
God’s Plan is relationship with every human being
God never desired for man to sin and live apart from Him. Salvation was never the plan of His heart. Redemption only became necessary when Man decided to separate themselves from God’s loving embrace through sin. Salvation was included in God’s desire for us because man first sinned and needed saving. In other words, God’s DESIRE is to save every human being from the darkness of sin, but His PLAN is to have deep, loving relationship with every man.