Strip away the centuries of man’s elucidations and what do you get? A premise that confuses one’s faith and deceives the core of belief. It begs to ask if our lives are a sentence to God’s judgment or the journey to the fruition of a divine plan. We’ve all been told at one time or another that God had created everything according to His will. And, that the will of God is but a mystery to us mere mortals. We are taught not to question God’s plan as it is infallible. In addition, we are taught that God is omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient. Therefore, according to His word, the outcome is known.

It is said that in the beginning, God breathed into man, making him a living soul. Is this then the meaning that God is in us? That we are a vessel of the spirit of God? It would then stand to reason that we should be able to hear and discern what the voice of God has to say. Why is it then, that we tend to blindly follow the words of others over the whispers of an almighty, all-knowing, and always present divine voice? Still, why is it that over time, man’s fallacy in ignoring the voice of God did He then forsake us to his absence? Is there not evidence of a greater plan to play out?

God placed us in the garden alongside the tree of knowledge; stating that we should not eat of it yet giving us free will to do so if we chose. If all of what I have stated before has an air of truth to it, then by reasoning, the validity of the gift would then lend credence to the foreknowledge of the gift giver. Being that He would know the eventual outcome of our freewill. Could it be that we were meant to wander in a godless place until we had come to terms that we could not endure without the divine word? It would then seem that the apple was meant to be eaten.

Then why would God want us to fall? Was it, the apple, meant to be eaten so that we would then have the knowledge to choose wisely? Through all the suffering and despondency, we would please God indeed, if, through our free will, we chose to come to understand our relationship with Him. And, to come to that want freely, of our own choice. The apple, a fruit from the tree of knowledge. Yet we are more ignorant now of our understanding as to who placed us next to the tree than the ones who first tasted the nectar of truth.

Again, strip away the centuries of mankind’s soiled hands. Erase the mortal words trying to interpret the whispers of the divine. Instead, converse with the indwelling spirit that surely would lead you into the light of truth. God left. Sadly, it’s true. He sent His Son; who also left. Sadder still. Yet he did leave us His spirit to guide and assure us that there is a divine truth to His Plan. Perhaps we should realize that if we adhere to our belief in the plan, then the plan will not fail us. It seems preordained that we are to suffer the world. Just as we are destined to conquer it through meekness and love; should we accept it.