Perfect Plan Bs

For out family scripture study tonight, we read 2 Nephi chapter 2, which includes many important and blogworthy messages, some of which center around Adam and Eve. As we read those scriptures, we considered God's plan and how it was helped along by Satan's attempt to foil it by getting Adam and Eve to disobey God, partake of the forbidden fruit, and get kicked out of the Garden of Eden. As it turns out, that development seems practically vital to God's whole plan, causing some of us to wonder what God would have done if Satan's plan to tempt Adam and Eve had failed. If The Fall was an essential part of God's Plan, as it often seems to us, what was His Plan B?

My answer, aside from the obvious "I'm not sure," is that God is VERY good at Plan Bs to the point that His Plan Bs could pass off as Plan As. Who knows? Maybe the Fall was a Plan B, but it worked out so well for God's ultimate plan that we are at a loss to think of any plan that could have worked out as well for God and His children.

God seems to be prepared for every possibility, which makes sense, considering His gift of foresight. Still, humans like to think we're difficult to predict. It's possible that we throw God some curve balls from time to time. It may be that God is just really good at hitting curve balls.

I don't know what God's best case scenario was, so I can't know for sure that this isn't it. At the same time, it seems that Satan threw a serious wrench into the works. But maybe God accounted for that and made the best plan possible, already factoring the curve balls that He foresaw would be thrown at him. Maybe this all is a massive Plan A. Still, one can hardly help wondering what would have happened had things gone down differently in the Garden of Eden, but whatever might have happened and however much that would have changed things, I'm confident that God would have had a plan in place in case things happened that way.

God has a perfect plan, but maybe part of what makes God's plan so perfect is the perfection of His backup plans.