Creation Plan of God

I am also asked this question often, “if there is destiny, then where is the question of a ‘free will’?” The fact of the matter is that God has provided the infrastructure to man in the form of life support system and the different situations that present themselves to man. This is the destiny part of the matter. Man is; however, free to respond to all these different situations, as he likes. That is his free will or his freedom of choice. In this aspect, he is completely free.

Unlike any other creature in the Universe, man is free in this world. God has not placed any curbs on him. But this freedom is for the purpose of putting man to the test, and is not meant to encourage him to lead a life of permissiveness, like the animals and then just pass away one day. Rather its purpose is that man should lead a morally upright life of his own free will, thus demonstrating that he is of the highest moral character.

This limited world in which man finds himself before death, therefore, has all the necessary ingredients for the ‘trial’. It has man as the perfection-seeking creature in a less than perfect world where he has been given complete and full ‘freedom’. Man thus has a ‘choice’ to misuse his freedom by creating havoc, killing people, living a life of leisure or use his freedom wisely by submitting to an unseen God and qualifying for paradise.

Having established the probability of the existence of God and the Hereafter, we are in a position to understand the Creation Plan of God.