The usual arguments #5: God's plan

God has a plan, obviously he want to fulfill his plan. He is omniscient, so he knows how to make his plan work. The only way to make sure his plan will indeed happen is to "fine tune" everything leading to the fulfillment of the plan. Therefore, everything is part of his plan. If you had a plan, let's say to become president then all of your actions would have that exact purpose. Everything you do would be done to help you achieve your goal. 1) This wouldn't happen if God didn't have a plan I want to make this clear from the start. This is not about the existence of death, suffering etc, but about the reason why they exist. God clearly can't enjoy doing this to us, so he must have a reason for designing humanity like this. This reason being his plan. The answer apologists provide to questions like "Why is there starvation? ", "Why do babies die? " is "It's all part of God's plan". It is then clear, that the only reason they exist is because of his plan, so if God didn't have a plan, starvation, suffering, cancer and so on wouldn't exist. 2) God's plan requires death and suffering Of course, everyone has to die at some point, there's nothing evil with that, but God's plan requires a lot more than that. History is full of bloody conflicts. All the wars, the holocaust, slavery and everything else is part of God's plan. Keep is mind he is omnipotent, so if his only purpose was to kill people (for any reason really) he could do it in a less brutal way, unless he enjoys killing people in a brutal way (which would make him evil) or his plan REQUIRES the brutal killing of people(making his plan evil) Look at it this way. God has the power to make every single death as "pleasant" as possible. Life doesn't have to end in agony and God has the power to change this, but he doesn't. He has the power to start or stop a war at any time, he could've made sure slavery never happened. He could've made the world a peaceful place, but he didn't. Why? The only reasonable explanation is that it's all part of God's plan. 3) God's plan requires most people to go to hell "Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. " - Mark 16:16 "Jesus said to him:"I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. " -John 14:6 Not only you have to respect a lot of rules to go to heaven, but ALL non-Christians that ever lived were condemned to eternal suffering in hell. Yes, some chose not to worship him, but MOST of them had no choice. Billions of people died before Christianity appeared, billions went to hell for not believing in something that they didn't know existed. Why would God do that? Because it's part of his plan, right? Just like cancer and starvation, billions of people burning in hell for no real reason are needed in order for his plan to succeed. To this day, most people aren't Christians and for many it still isn't a choice. According to the Bible, God revealed himself countless times. Then why are there still people who don't know about Christianity? Why didn't this religion enter most of Asia? Think of all the people who lived in Australia, America and Africa that died and went to hell just because they didn't know about Christianity. These are things God could fix, but he doesn't. Does he enjoy sending people to hell, or is it just part of his great plan? *Note: Of course, some people would still go to hell, because they have free will and can chose to reject God or don't obey him, but my point if that for many it WASN'T a choice not to believe in God. 4) The outcome could never compensate Let's say God's plan has a great ending for humanity. The greatest possible ending would still not compensate for what humanity had to endure for thousands of years. With the population rising and the number of Christians decreasing constantly, more and more people are going to hell every year, and this is clearly not going to change for a long time. All the bloody wars in history, slavery, persecutions, deaseases were all part of God's plan. There is no possible outcome that would compensate for that amount of damage. Also, think about the world without God'a plan. Suffering is part of his plan. Without a plan, there would be no suffering. All people would be healthy, all people would know about God and all people would have an easy death. If God didn't have a plan at all, the world would have been a better place since the beginning. Without God's plan, the world could've been perfect and there is simply nothing that can compete with that.