God’s perfect planning

We’re told to believe that God works in mysterious ways. That it’s all a part of God’s plan. God’s grand design. We say this when we don’t understand why something happened, often something terible, and we can’t find a rational reason to explain the sheer horror we have gone through. I won’t delve into millions of questions people have been asking for ages about God. It’s likely that every question about the Creator has already been asked at some point in history. Millions of questions about God have been answered, more or less eloquently.

To me, ”God works in mysterious ways,” ”it’s all part of God’s plan,” and ”Have faith” are thought-terminating cliches people say when they can’t grasp what’s going on and they need to make sense out of life somehow. But then, these thought-terminating-cliches are also valid explanations.

God is perfect and His plans are perfect. The reason why we see chaos and ask, ”Why would God allow so much evil in the world?” is because we don’t have the cosmic coordinates of God. We don’t have God’s reference point. What we see as evil might be needed in the grand scheme of things to lead to something beautiful. This isn’t a justification to turn into a psychopath, of course. I’m talking about God’s perspective. God sees the whole painting, not just a tiny dot in the corner. He sees how every scene in the painting connects.

And so, bearing that in mind, something we see as good can lead to something terrible down the line. That’s the trick. Our perspective is flawed by our cognitive limitations.

God is the cosmic conductor. Ensuring the cosmic melody sounds perfect requires engineering events and putting them together in ways we can’t imagine so that all sounds in the cosmic orchestra are perfectly aligned. Infinitely complex concepts are presented in simple ways so that all people, be it of average intellects and geniuses and everyone in between, can grasp the underlying message.

Do you really think heaven is about harps and running around in white robes with stupid smiles on our faces? Of course not. It’s all metaphorical so that people from all walks of life across the ages get the message that heaven is a place somewhere out there where there’s true contentment, even bliss.

Do you really think hell is about fire and brimstone? It can be, I guess, but I’m more inclined to believe in ironic and personalized hells. There are TV shows that sort of capture that concept. I believe it mirrors God’s mind more than some bland fire and brimstone scenario for all. Why wouldn’t God be mercurial, perhaps trolly? From what we can find about God in various religious texts, the Creator is quite the social engineer, thought-reformer, and punisher, as much as He’s generous and helpful.

It’s way better to be God’s chosen nation than a nation cursed by God, that’s for sure.

There could even be bounty hunters (spirit squad) chasing after the damned souls that escaped their hellish humiliations and are now on the run across the multiverse. Let’s call them deserters from hell. What do the bounty hunters get when they capture and bring back one of the deserters and who gives them their reward? God, Satan, some other cosmic being? Good question. It stands to reason that escaped souls would avoid anything to do with their fate in hell. If they are forced to play the violin in hell, they’d stay away from violins; if they were forced to dance or speak a particular language in hell, they’d stay away from both.

The spirit squad would likely try to trigger the damned by teasing them.

It would also mean that whoever is in heaven or hell has been judged by perfection that is God and, therefore, the status of each soul is perfectly aligned with that soul’s fate, even if it means a cruel and unusual punishment from that soul’s perspective. I doubt there are appeals.

I’m sure some of you are going to roll their eyes and say it’s totally not what any religion says about the afterlife. Well – God works in mysterious ways. God is a painter with an infinite canvas. I wouldn’t be so hutzpah-filled as to claim there’s only one way God does things.

In essence, all the imperfections only appear as such because we don’t have the reference point. All the imperfections are, actually, perfectly aligned to form the grand picture of the universe, when one sees life from God’s perspective.

As such, God’s planning is indeed perfect.