I wont quote scriptures here because I can't and I can't read very well (small print) due to cataracts but I assure you that the following has merit in the way I remember and understand it.
As God proposed ... "In The Beginning", he created the heavens for the angels and the Earth for man.
Man was to live and multiply and live forever upon it. (earth)
We all know the story about failed perfection and the end of God's perfect plan .. or was it?
Since scripture points out that whatever God sets out to do, it is his will and Must be done (accomplished) because .. He Is God!
This says to me that the entire Bible is God's plan .. laid out as a kind of blueprint as to How his original plan Will come to be!?
Earth, Paradise, Man.
Heaven .. Spiritual beings.
Someone please tell me Where in scripture that it says God failed and his original plan cannot or will not be fulfilled?
Is God Fallible?
Thank You
You are wandering into some theological nosebleed areas.
To begin with, no God is not fallible. The appearance thereof has everything to do with Man's inability to perceive (or even comprehend) His Plan. We tend to think of God as Man Writ Large -- as an approachable very powerful man with a white beard who looks a lot like Charlton Heston.
In fact, God is so infinitely beyond our ken that we really don't see the "big picture" nor can we. Instead, we need to rely on His Word to us.
Even then, the idea of predetermination has been vexing Man for thousands of years. Martin Luther and Erasmus feuded over it during the Reformation, to the point where they despised each other despite each being a brilliant logician and theologian.
In "The Freedom of the Will," Erasmus defined free-will or free choice as "a power of the human will by which a man can apply himself to the things which lead to eternal salvation or turn away from them." By this, Erasmus means that man has voluntary or free power of himself to choose the way which leads to salvation apart from the grace of God." This, of course, indicates that man needs both free will AND God's grace to "choose good."
That opening is all it took for Luther to publish "The Bondage of the Will" -- the very name was a thumb in the eye of Erasmus. As noted elsewhere in this thread Original Sin means that by definition Man is bonded to sin and carries that bondage until released by God's intervention. Thus, "free will" is an illusion.
Does this result in God being bonded to Man? If so, then God is not sovereign -- a situation that is logically satisfying to some agnostics and most atheists.
The balance tipper is Jesus Christ. He broke the logical bond of Man to Sin and thus freed Man to follow sin or grace according to each person's ability to discern evil or good. THIS DOES NOT MEAN MAN CAN BE SAVED THROUGH WORKS. It is in Man's Heart that grace is found. Invariable, the works follow the grace, not the other way around.
Predestination (think Calvinism) is a bankrupt perspective -- a spiritual nihilism that leads nowhere.
That is the best I can do address your weighty question...
