re: God Has A Plan For Your Life

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How do you justify that people several thousand years ago got it right? That what they wrote down is the absolute truth with no wiggle room?

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Legitimate questions. A partial answer for me is that I believe God put the question in our hearts (there is substantial evidence that all cultures practice religion of some sort) and therefore owed us an answer. It makes sense to me that would answer the question. I would actually want to ask him why he waited so long to provide the answer, as opposed to saying that "several thousand years ago" was too early to be believed now.

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doesnt seem like he created us out of need therefore he doesnt need us to exist but he created us anyway. Why? to show what he can do? or to make us suffer with a promise of no suffering if we follow him only?

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Eta: the answer to "why did God create us" is that he loves us.

If I had a priori knowledge that one of my children would suffer, it wouldn't stop me from creating them, because I love them. Love is creative, and existence is better than nonexistence.
Anyway, we don't have to answer questions like "why did an all-knowing God create someone who would suffer horribly as a child" because, logically God cannot know what is not knowable, thus he can't know us before we exist.