The Great Competition

    You ever stop, wonder  and ask yourself, what is the meaning of life? Why are we here? What does it all mean? If we were created, then why? This question has puzzled philosophers  for millennia upon millennia as they carried logical trains of thought as far as they could go only to end up with no answer to our glorious existence on Earth and the universe. Such a pursuit of this ultimate truth can drive you mad, should you choose to set out and attempt it’s discovery.

   But perhaps the answer is not as complicated as it seems. Albert Einstein once said, “When the answer is simple, God is speaking”. It’s a simple answer we should be looking for, not one that is buried under thousands of years of complex logical analysis performed by master philosophers. So here is a possible solution to mankind’s existence.

    First of all, we need to refresh our idea of God. God is perfect, omnipotent, all-powerful, and perfect. He must be all of these and more, in order to be called “God”. There is only one position available for the ultimate perfect being, and God has it filled.

    Let’s go back in time, before Man was created and before the Earth and the heavens were formed. God sits in a position of authority and the angels worship him without question. Except for Lucifer (Satan). He does not agree with God’s omnipotence. So he stands before God and points to him, and states to God, “You claim to have complete power and control over everything, do you?”

    God says, “Yes I do”.

    Satan replies, “I believe you cannot control a being that has free will, therefore you cannot control everything, therefore you are not worthy to be called “God”

    Now God has a dilemma. He must either prove Satan wrong, or have His authority forever in question. So naturally, God accepts Satan’s challenge. God and Satan come to terms over this challenge and lines are drawn, rules are set. God will create mankind and neither God nor Satan will tamper with Man’s freewill. Man will either choose God, or choose Satan. If Man chooses Satan, then Satan is proved correct that God does not actually have control over all things. If Man chooses God, then the authority of God remains in place.

   In this contest, neither God nor Satan has the upper hand. It is an even match with the outcome still to be decided. Since the dawn of the Earth, mankind has been the key element in a competition between God’s glory and Satan’s ability to deceive. Now that’s simple, isn’t it?