If there's a "Divine Plan", we clearly don't know anything about it. Might as well act like there is none in the meantime.

**Because there is no way to prove a Divine Plan exists, it must rely on individuals' faith. There are also too many potential Divine Plans to narrow it down to a simple statement such as this.** * There are many religions and beliefs in the world. It is limiting to apply just one Divine Plan to all of humanity. This statement could be referencing any number of belief systems, even just within Christianity. * Living according to the Divine Plan could go two different ways: ⋅The Divine Plan simply informs the decisions and paths one takes in their life. ⋅The Divine Plan is already laid out for each individual and their decisions are actually predetermined by the deity which created their Divine Plan. * Therefore, it depends on the person and their beliefs about whichever Divine Plan they may believe in. * Ultimately the belief in a Divine Plan comes from faith alone; there are no scientific studies proving its existence. If one believes they live according to a Divine Plan, that is their decision. One should absolutely live according to their beliefs, but also must recognize that they are hardly ever universal.

**If there _was_ a god who _did_ create this divine plan, I wouldn’t want any part of him or it.** A divine plan, or any notions of fate and destiny, to me, make life almost pointless. An absence of free will would beg me to ask the question then, why are we here? What is the point in our lives if we cannot choose our own paths? And how does it work then? This _'divine plan'_. How is it that things can occur without a chain of events and can occur in an already predetermined plan? And why is there such awful crime in the world if not for free will? And if life were down to the divine plan, then why is there so much natural disaster? I would not personally like to believe in a god and his divine plan who is okay with causing that much pain and suffering to merely ‘test’ his people? For me, this is all just too many questions that come to no meaningful or accurate answer. All I can think to this opinion is **no**.

It is incredibly difficult to see the world as a result of a Divine Plan, particularly when observing the argument from a Christocentric point of view. For example, it would be difficult to assert that the world is shaped according to the divine planning of an abrahamic God because of the problem of evil. Since divine figures like the Christian God are supposed to be benevolent as well as all-powerful, it would be hard to explain why this God would inflict terrible ills on the world for no reason. After all, how could a natural disaster that kills hundreds of innocent children be a plan made by a benevolent God?

There is a divine plan and we went against it, time and time again. We did not follow God's plan, and so regardless of whether you believe that plan exists, I don't see how a Christian at least, like me, could argue that we are living, either Christians or humanity as a whole, according to His plan.