God and all the other gods are the happiest beings in the whole existence.

Our God in His grace wants us to be as happy as He is. Because evidently this is the very thing that brings Him the happiness that He enjoys.

God therefore brought us into the organized existence as His offspring. And God put forth His great plan that will provide mankind the way to obtain the same eternal happiness that He has.

A fundamental part in the way to eternal happiness, besides having the immortal existence, is to have the knowledge similar to the knowledge that God has. The knowledge that God has is the knowledge of good and evil. God has the sure knowledge that the good brings joy and that the evil brings sorrow. The fulfillment of the good, the victory of the good over the evil, consummates happiness. And thus, it is necessary that a compound of the good and the evil exists, so that a choice for the good and its fulfillment may be done to bring about happiness, even that same eternal happiness that God enjoys.

But God cannot simply create man already with the knowledge of good and evil. That is tantamount to Him making the choice for us. And for Him to make the choice for us does not serve a righteous purpose. For Him to make the choice for us without our own volition will not be right. It will not allow us the triumph and the joy in our own choice. It will not provide us the kind of eternal happiness that God enjoys as a being with free agency. God in His righteousness cannot by Himself decide for us our own fate.

Therefore, when God began putting His plan to work, God in His grace created man after His image and gave man his own free agency (man's own free will), the same free agency that God has. And God planted in the garden of Eden both the tree of life and also the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Man was therefore given the freedom to choose for himself whether or not to partake of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

(One may note that so many of the churches or religions that base their doctrines on the Bible still continue to fail to understand the reason why God planted the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. They apparently do not understand that both the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil that were planted in the garden of Eden were part of God's great plan for the eternal happiness of man.)

As part of the law of the garden of Eden where man lived the life of an immortal, God told man not to partake of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. God told man that he will surely die if he transgressed that law, death being the consequent punishment for his transgression. This is evidently because God cannot allow any evil to continue in perpetuity.

Adam, by his own agency, transgressed the law of the garden. (And essentially, all of us actually transgressed the law of the 'eternal' garden.) This actually allowed man the opportunity to obtain the knowledge of good and evil and to become like the gods who have the knowledge of good and evil. But Adam's transgression incurred the penalty of death for himself and all his posterity.

There are those who question why all of Adam's posterity are made to suffer the same penalty incurred by Adam when they have nothing to do with Adam's transgression. But that of course overlooks the idea that Adam's entry into the mortal world is for the purpose of allowing all mankind the chance to know good and evil and eventually become like God, which is what God in His grace has offered all mankind. And reason tells us that each of us actually decided to enter the mortal world in order to obtain the knowledge of good and evil.

It is clearly contrary to good reason to think that mankind came into this mortal world uninvited. That will negate the principle of free agency that is so necessary for the fulfillment of God's righteous purposes as has already been intimated above. So, it must be that God invited us to be part of His great plan and we exercised our agency in the decision to enter the mortal world.

The only time that we probably were unable to exercise our own agency was when God brought us forth into the organized existence in the very beginning to be His begotten spirit children, indeed as His offspring in the very beginning.

The relevant idea is that, on the matter of our progression into the knowledge of good and evil which is for the purpose of obtaining the same happiness that God enjoys, we all must exercise our agency. And that is saying that, when God invited us to execute His great plan, we ourselves decided to enter into the mortal world to experience the good and the evil. We only needed provisions in God's great plan whereby we can get out of the trap of the alienation from God and the mortality imposed by our choice to obtain the knowledge of good and evil. And God's great plan for man includes these necessary provisions.

Now, indeed, Adam's transgression necessitated that another fundamental part be provided by God's great plan. This is particularly the provision for mercy. God in His wisdom gave Adam and all mankind the time of temporal life on earth, so that mankind may experience good and evil, and also so that we may prove our desire for the good and our abhorrence of the evil in order to make ourselves worthy of the redemption from the sad state of alienation from God.

God therefore drove man out of the garden of Eden and had the tree of life guarded so that man may not partake of the tree of life forthwith, lest man will become immortal and live forever without getting the time of probation. The time of probation is according to God's mercy. It allows man to do the things that will qualify him to be redeemed from his alienation from God on account of his becoming unclean upon his actual knowledge of the good and the evil. The temporal life on earth allows man the chance to repent and then prove his desire for the good and his abhorrence of the evil. And all these are according to God's great plan.

God's great plan also provided a very fundamental part as the one and only way whereby man may obtain redemption. God sent our Lord Jesus Christ into the world to offer the sacrifice of a sinless one.

The Lord Jesus Christ, the firstborn and the best from the midst of all of us who are God's offspring, is the sinless one. He is the only one who can claim the just and perfect reward of the sinless one who fulfilled the perfect sacrifice that God requires according to the absolute demands of justice. He is the only one who can righteously plead for forgiveness before God in our behalf.

The Lord Jesus Christ fulfilled the perfect sacrifice that God requires by showing forth the grace, the power, and the glory of God on earth, by declaring the will of God before the world, by living a sinless life before God, and by fully obeying the will of God in all things, even the utter pain of his sufferings at Gethsemane and the degrading death on the cross.

The Lord Jesus Christ loves us so. Therefore, our Lord pleads before God that his reward be our redemption and our justification into the eternal happiness that God has prepared for all those who love the good and forsake the evil.

The perfect sacrifice of the sinless one deserves the perfect reward that comprises anything that the sinless one asks before God. Denying the perfect reward to the sinless one who offered the perfect sacrifice would be an utter injustice. But God cannot be unjust. God is perfect in all the attributes of grace, mercy, and justice. God cannot be found lacking in these attributes. God cannot deny the reward to the Lord Jesus Christ, for otherwise God would cease to be just and so cease to be God. But God cannot cease to be God.

And so, our Lord's love for us affords us our redemption and our justification. The Lord's love for us caps the fulfillment of God's great plan for man.

God's great plan fulfills the grace, mercy, and justice of God. And God's great plan fulfills God's great love for us.

Now, what remains is our part in God's great plan, which is to find out and fulfill what He wants us to do to prove ourselves worthy of the eternal happiness that He has prepared for us.

The reasoning behind God's great plan for man is not of man's inventions. For what man of limited wisdom would have thought that the perfect sacrifice of a sinless one actually deserves the perfect reward that comprises anything that the sinless one asks before God? What man would have thought that God must necessarily be perfect in all the attributes of grace, mercy, justice, and love? What man would have thought of God's great plan for man? It is only because God has revealed these things through His servants and through His Beloved Son that mortal man has obtained an understanding of these things.

The reasoning behind God's great plan is so perfect, so consummate, so all-encompassing that no humble person can doubt that it is from God. God's great plan has been revealed by God Himself through His prophets. And those who submit to the spirit of that which is good can readily understand the perfection of God's great plan. All of those who are humble enough to submit to the spirit of that which is good can readily discern the truth.

(An outline of the fundamental things we are expected to fulfill as our part in God's great plan is given in the ebook. The outline given in the ebook is according to the outline of the fundamental things that each of us is expected to fulfill – as duly preached by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. If you are not inclined to purchase the ebook, the outline given in the Appendix part of the ebook can pretty much be read in the limited ebook viewing provided @ Google Books.)