| A Human Glimpse of the Plan of God: Man Makes | | | | proclaiming belief in God and good deeds. He has |
| His Own Destiny | | | | given man the free choice between belief and |
| | | | | disbelief, between good actions and bad ones. |
| In this we are touching on one of the most | | | | The consequence of human response to the |
| difficult dilemmas. In this we are attempting to | | | | divine message shall be dealt with after |
| read the causality of man's existence according to | | | | resurrection where every human being shall be |
| religion. | | | | brought before God to hold account for his or her |
| However, we ought to try, even briefly, and | | | | own belief and actions. |
| provide with a glimpse of religious postulates | | | | Those who chose to believe and perform good |
| proclaimed unto the human race. In other words, | | | | deeds shall be rewarded in Gardens of bliss |
| what is God's plan for the human kind? | | | | eternally and those who did not believe and |
| We read in three Scriptures namely the Law, the | | | | performed other bad deeds shall be punished in |
| Evangel and the Qur'an that God has created Man | | | | eternal fire. |
| by an act of His will. | | | | Man shall be tried and tested through good and |
| We are further told that God has ordained the | | | | evil, evil within and evil without, by the criterion of |
| Angels and the Devil to prostrate unto man. The | | | | worldly benefits and the denial of God, by the |
| Angels obeyed the command of God but the | | | | desire to live and the desire to die, by the lusts |
| Devil refused to obey. The Devil by this made of | | | | and temptations of the devil. |
| himself the enemy of God and the enemy of | | | | For this plan God has ordained a precise Hour |
| Man. | | | | where all humans shall die and then shall be |
| Then we are informed that God ordained Adam | | | | resurrected again to be judged and reap the |
| and his wife Eve to dwell in the Garden and eat | | | | consequences of their own deeds in their earthly |
| there from and live in felicity but not approach | | | | life. |
| the tree (tree of knowledge according to the Bible | | | | There cannot be more clarity in the Message of |
| and the tree of procreation according to the | | | | God. |
| Qur'an). | | | | Those who will choose the path of God and those |
| God has warned Adam and Eve against the devil | | | | who will choose the path of the devil. |
| and his task to dissuade man from the right path | | | | This is the plan of God as is proclaimed in the |
| of God. | | | | Four Books of David: The Psalms, Moses: The |
| The Devil tempted Adam and Eve to taste from | | | | Law, Jesus son of Mary: The Evangel and |
| the forbidden tree and this led to the obedience | | | | Muhammad: The Qur'an. |
| of man to God and the subsequent fall of man | | | | Humans are invited to take either way but are |
| and the devil from the Garden. | | | | obliged to take either way. They have no choice |
| Then God ordained that Man shall have | | | | but to choose either way. |
| procreation and live for a certain time on earth. | | | | This plan explains the presence of man, his |
| Therein he shall be given birth and therein he shall | | | | deathhis life cycle, his test and trial, his choice, |
| live and therein he shall be returned. | | | | good and evil and the consequences of reward or |
| God has ordained a cycle for man. This life cycle | | | | punishment promised in the divine message. |
| is temporary, transitory and ends by death. | | | | According to the plan of God man makes his own |
| God has ordained that He shall send humans at | | | | destiny. |
| different times and different places His message | | | | |