the meaning of life 2.0

a thought descended upon me tonite. out of nowhere. i hadn't been pondering anything philisophical...or anything in general, really.

in the beginning, before the fall. humanity existed for one thing. to love and glorify God in a perfect existance and a flawless world for all of eternity.

now, the reason for our existance is a shade different. before we would have simply been existing. living and loving and frolicing in the feilds. now we are no longer merely existing; we are being groomed. it all started with a desire to be on an equal level with God, and in every way that is what it's still about. the thing that i realized, the thing that rocked my world is this.

He is giving us the opportunity to try to replace Him.
the first analogy i thought of was a boxing match, and i initially didn't like it. but the more i thought about it, the more i realized that's perfect. there's a fight coming. a reckoning, if you will. and all of human existance since the fall has been our training montage.

He's giving us the chance to do our absolute best to replace him so that when fight night does come around, there will be absolutly no question as to who is superior.

Free will and mistakes

this is an incomplete essay i've been working on. i just recently found it in my notebooks and thought id post it here in hopes of some feedback. help me finish writing this B.

Is it in our power to make mistakes? The focus is so often on whether or not we have free will enough to do the things we want. But what i wonder is if we have the power to screw it up. While we're walking down the path that He has laid out for us, can we walk off it?
Free will lends the argument that He sets the goal, and we find the path that leads us there.
I'm making the argument that He sets the path, we make the mistakes, and there is only one goal. Graduation. Oneness with him.