Gods Eternal Plan

Yesterday I addressed Where did we come from? Today I wanted to start to address Why am I here? 
Most of us face challenges and struggles in this life to make us as why am I even here, Why do I have to go through all of these hard, difficult times. Believe me, I have asked those same questions. Over the next couple of days I would like to address these questions that we all have about Why are we here?  As i talked about in my last post, I said God wanted us to have a plan so we can become like Him, and so that plan had to consist of us gaining a Physical Body as he did. So we needed to come down and to do so.

Jesus Christ under the direction of God created this earth that we live on this day. You can find that in Genesis 1-2.

With the Creation completed God sent our very first two parents Adam & Eve down to the earth. Most of us know the story of our first two parents. They were in Gods presence and then got tempted and partook of the fruit. This brought sin into the world, and it also got Adam & Eve cast out of the Garden of Eden. Was this a bad thing? Yes, it was in a sense but God he controls everything and so he made something bad into something good. In the Book of Mormon it talks about Adam & Eve in 2 Nephi 2. There are some key verses that we need to focus on for why The Fall of Adam & Eve had to happen. In verses 19-23 it says,   19And after Adam and Eve had partaken of the forbidden fruit they were driven out of the garden of Eden, to till the earth. 20And they have brought forth children; yea, even the family of all the earth.

 21And the days of the children of men were prolonged, according to the will of God, that they might repent while in the flesh; wherefore, their state became a state of probation, and their time was lengthened, according to the commandments which the Lord God gave unto the children of men. For he gave commandment that all men must repent; for he showed unto all men that they were lost, because of the transgression of their parents. 22And now, behold, if Adam had not transgressed he would not have fallen, but he would have remained in the garden of Eden. And all things which were created must have remained in the same state in which they were after they were created; and they must have remained forever, and had no end.23And they would have had no children; wherefore they would have remained in a state of innocence, having no joy, for they knew no misery; doing no good, for they knew no sin.

These verses state why it was necessary for Adam & Eve to fall. When they were in Gods presence, they were innocence, they did not know the difference from good or bad, and they could not have have any children. And so if God wanted us as his children to come to earth and become like him then there needed to be a fall. So we could indeed come into the World. In 2 Nephi 2: 25; Adam fell that men might be; and men are, that they might have joy. This is exactly why the fall needed to happen. Before the fall we had no way of coming down to this earth and gaining a physical body of flesh and bone like our Heavenly Father and we would have never experienced Joy, which is one of the most greatest thing that we can have in this life. So with the fall happening, We could be able to have that, that opened the gate for us to progress through Gods Plan.

I know that the Creation of the Earth was needed for Gods Eternal Plan to continue on, and also The Fall of Adam & Eve was necessary for Gods plan to continue. With them Falling, gave us the opportunity to come to this earth and to experience everything that we already have, are, and will experience throughout our lives. And this is what I will address next time.