re: God Has A Plan For Your Life

Time is relative; we've know that since Einstein. If there is 'God', I.e., if the essence of manifest Energy and Matter is a form of Self-aware, Consciousness (the Biblical "I Am", then everything that can happen...already has. Therefore, God knows all from *beginning* to *end* of the Created Universe. And as such, there is indeed knowledge of "a plan" , or a trail of progression of all things.

Of course, such knowledge on the part of God is worthless to those of us who are in the linear, time oriented process of evolution. We live, we learn, we employ Knowledge as Power and move toward the kind of Knowledge/Power that God is.

The real issue is whether or not we live one life, and again pop up in another life which is the just consequence of our beliefs and actions in the current life. That Issue is the basis and purpose of Religion; Religion being the Spiritual aspect of a God-based Universal Paradigm. If there is no God - Spiritual Essence as the Source of the manifest Universe - and no next life, then all purposeful discussion is meaningless, and a useless waste of valuable time. Assuming one's quality of life is valuable of course. For many...it ain't; though Humanity is genetically inclined to strive to stay alive.

Bottom line: If where we landed in this life and where we land in the next (assuming such) is not determined by our own free-willed choices and actions, then God does not exist...because an unjust God would not even meet the Darwinian scruples of 'justice'. Much less the higher Morality of a Love-based Spiritual Paradigm.

Hate to do a 'drive by'...but I'm done. Hard day. Wore out. Good accomplishment though. Hot brownies...cold milk, Great Grandaughter and the Lazy Boy. Thank you Jesus.

(I went back and edited the 'w' in "now" to a 't'...because it was critical to the point. Thread went 10 pages so it seemed somewhat of interest.)