Many people don't see the plan and purpose for their life, and can't understand why God is not controlling things and making Himself known, and therefore conclude that there is no God or no spiritual power that is concerned with humans. I have set out as near as I can what seems to me to be Gods reasoning for this world and the way things are. The Bible doesn't give much information about the time before the earth was created and some of the timing is disputable, and some assumptions have to be made, such as God (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) was alone before He created the other beings that are in heaven, however if you can follow this outline, you will have a better understanding of what life is all about, and what your purpose and objectives in life should be.

In the beginning God was alone. The Hebrew name for God, Elohim. means more than two, but is used with a singular verb or adjective, grammatically incorrect, this is a bit like saying "they are the one person who created ". and we learn later that God is Father, Son and Holy Ghost, but all comprise the one God, in effect three methods of manifestation, or three dimensions, two dimensions defines an area you need three to define an object. At some time God decided to create some entities to have as companions or pets, much the same as people have pets and take great pleasure in their companionship. So God thought for a while about what type of creature to create, its size and abilities and other specifications. Then he spoke quietly and suddenly, right in front of him, there appeared a cherub. God told the cherub that he had just created him, and gave him a name. After talking with him for a while God decided that the cherub needed some companions like itself. After explaining that he would create some companions for the cherub, God left the cherub in the garden and moved away a short distance, and then created some more cherubs. God greeted them and named them then took them into the garden and introduced them to the first cherub. God would often muse about possible designs, and what features and abilities would be desirable. From time to time He would move away and stand by Himself for a while, considering what sort of creature to make, then suddenly a new creature would appear before Him. Sometimes the same as others, sometimes a new type.

As the numbers increased God decided to have some creature to teach singing and music, and to also help in organization and answering questions that various creatures would ask. Such a creature should be easy for everyone to find, so should be bright (Ezekiel 28v17 brightness in KJV) and shining, 2 Corinthians 11: 14, so the glow could be seen from a distance. It should be more intelligent than most, particularly with regards to singing and music, good at decision making and planning, and having much greater capacity of free-will and opinions, so as to be better able to plan music and orchestration. (It seems that some of the creatures had been created with little self assertion in this area, and possibly some were almost "pre-programmed" with little adaptive ability, Rev. 4v8 {repeating the same sentence, admittedly a very good sentence}).
So God moved away a short distance and thought up the final plan, and spoke it. Suddenly there appeared before him a brilliant handsome angel. God said to him "You are my angel, I have just created you to look after the music and singing. Your name is Lucifer, come and meet my many other creations". As time went on Lucifer noticed that God would, sometimes from his throne, and sometimes from a short distance away, not at any particular place, He would pause and suddenly a new creature would appear in front of Him. God would tell the creature its name and explain that He had just created it, then introduce it to the rest of the created throng.

Lucifer found that he was very important, more important than any of the others, also more beautiful, and he shone brilliantly, making him easy to find. God was the only other being to shine forth brilliantly, more so than Lucifer, but then Lucifer was in charge of singing and many other social things. Many creatures came to Lucifer to ask about God, the heavenly place they lived in, and about creation. This last subject irked Lucifer, as he didn't have a good explanation of how it was done. Come to think of it, neither did God, "I just speak it into existence" hardly explains anything, but makes out that it is too complex for others to understand.

The idea came to Lucifer that he was so beautiful, intelligent, cleaver and impressive that all in all, apart from God's brilliant aura, he was better than God, or at least as good. Perhaps it was just a matter of luck that God had been first to appear. Lucifer theorized that God would have had many thousands of occasions to find out just where to stand, and when, to greet new creatures as they came into existence, before Lucifer had appeared. By chance Lucifer could easily have been first, and if he'd had time to work out where and when to stand to greet new arrivals, he could have told God that he had just created him, and that He was a servant to Lucifer. This was a very pleasant thought, and boosted his self esteem, so he decided to watch more closely when God moved away and stood motionless, waiting for some event.

After many observations he concluded that, though God may have muttered something, he didn't move, didn't seem to make anything, but then some creature would appear in an instant, right in front of God. After much thought and consideration Lucifer decided that there must be something inherent in the universe that periodically accidently created beings. That was why there was such a diversity of beings, some with wings, some without, different bodies, legs, tails, eyes, faces, even one covered with eyes! There was no fixed pattern to it at all, just random results. (Rev 4v6-9) Later on he started using this idea to lead people away from God, pretending that life in all its complexity just happened by a series of trifling accidents.

Gradually Lucifer started convincing some of the angels how important and clever he was, and how God wouldn't be able to cope without him, and that he was doing all the work, while God drifted around and watched. When one not so friendly being pointed out that God created beings, including Lucifer, he was upset, his ego was hurt. So he started claiming that God didn't really create, he just knew where to stand at the time that the universe accidently created a new being, and God's explanation that He "spoke it into being" was hardly scientific evidence. Lucifer also pointed out how busy and important he was, and that he didn't have time to stand around and wait for a new being to pop out of nowhere. "If God wasn't there the event would happen anyway" he claimed. Lucifer decided that he was more important than God, and convinced a large number of angels and beings that he should be in charge, or at least sharing power.

When God pointed out the truth to Lucifer he rebelled, and, with about a third of the angels, who knew God and had seen His power, was defeated and driven out of heaven into the expanse of space. One of the problems of space is there is no meeting place, no definable position, nothing to do or make, and nothing to make anything with, this was a bitter blow to Lucifer's ego, and that of the others with him. Also knowing that they would not be allowed to reside in heaven again made them bitter and set them permanently against God's plans and interests. Isaiah Ch. 14v12 to 20, "How you have fallen from heaven. O morning star, son of the dawn":- etcetera, for the fall of Lucifer.

In the Old Testament times, names were very important, and were intended to indicate the character of the person. Similarly in Heaven, Lucifer's name implied his position or purpose, but now it was changed to match his new character. He was renamed Satan. His new character is described in John 8:44 as a "murderer from the beginning, and a liar".

After this God pondered on the problem of how to be sure of the attitudes of created beings, lest after a time they become conceited, like Lucifer, or difficult, argumentative, arrogant and hostile as some had become before they were driven out of heaven.

There needed to be some long term test to find out how the spirit of the being would develop, and then some criteria to decide if it would be suitable to bring into heaven. Not something based on skills or intelligence, since God would provide everything in heaven, and besides the best skills and intelligence would be puny besides God's. This is much the same as us keeping pets, apart from such as guide dogs and horses they don't usually contribute anything other than companionship, they do cost time and money, but we still love them. So the test needed to be one that would ensure that they would not become proud and puffed up, one that everyone could easily pass, so that none could complain they were rejected because the standard was too high. Obviously if they were near to heaven, and could easily see it, and know that it was their goal in life, it would be hard to tell who was genuine, and who was putting on a show just to get into heaven, and would be unreliable, and liable to change their attitude once they had been admitted to heaven, perhaps thinking they had got in because they were smarter than others, or had earned their way into heaven.

This required some place where they could not directly see heaven or the spiritual realm. A place where they could have complete freedom to determine their own spiritual attitudes, and worship what they felt inclined to, or nothing at all. Freedom to pursue their own ambitions, showing their suitability or disqualifying themselves by their behavior and attitudes to others and towards God. But suppose that a wrong thought never entered their minds, how then would they have decisions to make as to what is right? This would not be a problem if the fallen angels had access to them, they would then have enough bad influence to contend with. (A similar intention is expressed in Revelation 20 v2-3, where the devil, (Lucifer), is bound for a thousand years, then loosed to deceive those who don't really want to worship or obey God, Rev. 20 v7-8).

So God formed the earth and created various forms of life of plants and animals designed to reproduce after their own kind. Gen.1 v1-31. There is no evidence in the fossil record that any species evolved into another, (but many assumptions are portrayed as if scientific evidence) particularly a higher or more complex species, but that species have often split into variations by loosing some of the genetic information. Dogs breed dogs, large dogs have lost the genetic information to be small, and can't be bred down unless the information is re-introduced. As we don't know how much information was in each created kind, we can't tell how many of, for instance, the cat kind, tigers to domestic cats may have derived from a single type, breeding up and down as in breeding Great Danes and Chihuahua from the one original dog kind. Each species behavior was pre-programmed, birds build a nest characteristic of their species, spider's webs to their species etc. But even the more intelligent and mobile animals have a limited ability to determine their behavior, pack animals have their rules, and others their own behavior and rules, according to their species.
Then God made mankind, and this is the only creature He breathed into, with full ability for reasoning, designing, and full self determination. The Bible says that there is a different spirit in mankind (Gen 2v7) to give him a living soul, one that will live forever, recognize people in heaven, and will apparently remember what is done in this life, when entering the permanent spiritual realm, (Rev.20v13-15) as it would be wrong to punish a spirit that could not remember what it had done.

Satan and his horde came down to earth and it wasn't long before Satan, through the snake, deceived Eve with clever rhetoric (Gen 3v1-8) inferring that God was holding them from full knowledge by stopping them from eating the fruit of tree of knowledge, and surely they would not die from eating it. This was partly true as the immediate death was to their spiritual life, Gen 3 v8-14 " they hid from God", but not their physical life until hundreds of years later. Eating the forbidden fruit is recorded as the first sin on earth, so Lucifer's rebellion was before the earth was created. It is vastly easier to deceive people who are not fully aware of God's power and majesty, than those spirits Lucifer deceived in heaven who knew God well.

I have seen claims that time began when the earth was created, that is, that there was no time before then. This would mean that God would have realise that He was God and then create all the beings in heaven, and Lucifer would have to deceive many beings, and rebel, all in less time than it takes to blink. Certainly our earth and solar system had no time before it was created, and God is eternal, not constrained by our time, so these things must have happened in the time, or timeless domain that God exists in. In Genesis Ch.1 V31. "God saw all that He had made,and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning - the sixth day." The whole of Ch.1 is about our solar system, except one throw-away comment in V16. "He also made the stars." which might not infer that He made them at the same time as the solar system, but mentioned it as He had just referred to two objects beyond the earth. I believe that the "very Good" only referred to the earth, not the eons before its creation, and not to satan's rebellion, which had already taken place.

Adam and Eve had many children, but the first to run into a serious problem was Cain. It was a problem that besets us all, his feelings were hurt. God warned him that sin is crouching at the door and desired to posses him, but he must master it.(Gen 4.7) Cain was feeling hurt over his offering not being accepted, (Gen4 v5),
His offering was of plants, but God was making the point that there is no forgiveness without the shedding of blood, as was in Abel's offering, fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock, as this was pointing to the offering of Christ in the very distant future. His ego wanted revenge. He failed to control his feelings and the sin of murder resulted. Gen4 v8.

Cain was banished and was afraid that people would kill him, Gen 4 v14, there would have been descendants of Adam who had moved away and had their own family's, and Cain was afraid that some would take revenge on him. We are not told how many children Adam and Eve had, but in the 130 years before Seth, they could have had many, Gen 5 v4, who in turn may have had many children. This meant that Cain could marry a sister or niece, and presumably had, as no mention is made of him finding a wife after he was banished, and as Adam and Eve had no genetic defects, this was not a problem until the time of Moses when the accumulated genetic copying mistakes and mutations made it inadvisable. (Lev. 18v20) These are the mutations that evolutionists claim build up specific design information, to create new species, but they never do, as mutations degrade, making species, limited to within their kind, less viable.

Peoples standards went down hill until the earth was corrupt and full of violence as people followed their own opinions and moral choices. (Gen 6v11 and Gen 6 v6) Therefore God decided to bring an end to all flesh, (Gen 6v13). Noah found grace in the sight of God, Gen 6 v7-8, so was instructed to build an ark 450 ft. long, and eight people and numerous land animals were saved in it. Gen 7 v13, Gen 7 v23. As dinosaurs hatch from eggs, they could easily be represented on the ark by their young. Noah would only have to take ones that were old enough to walk onto the ark, probably no bigger than a dog, and as juveniles probably still tame and easy to manage. Some dinosaurs only grew to the size of a domestic fowl, but some animals such as a giraffe, horses and elephants, are large when born.

The ark had three decks and a roof (Gen 6:14-16) an average of 3.4 metres head room for each deck, and a total of 12,604 square metres of floor space. The ark was 137x23x13.7 metres, about 43,200 cubic metres. This is about the capacity of 522 standard railroad stock cars, each able to hold 250 sheep, 130500 in total. As there could be a great genetic variation built into the first of each species, such that dogs, wolves, coyotes and jackals could have be derived from just one breeding pair, so the number of species may have been 8000 or less, many of which as juveniles would be smaller than a domestic cat.

Noah and his sons were told to multiply and fill the earth (Gen. 9v1). But the people stayed in one place to build a city, and a tower unto heaven to worship other gods, so God came to confuse their speech, so they would scatter throughout the earth. (Gen.11v6-8). As the people suddenly couldn't understand others they moved away in fear and confusion, this also meant that genetic characteristics of the groups were probably different so they developed various racial characteristics, and depending where they settled, various amounts of suntan became a permanent characteristic, the wrong amount of melanin for the climate eventually modifying that characteristic, by affecting the survival rate due to such problems as rickets, skin cancer and diseases.

(Recently scientists have found that both white and black people have the same amount of melanin in their skin, but white people have it stored in the nucleus, and brown/black is produced by moving some/all to the surface of the cell.)
The Greeks worshiped many gods, some quite capricious, with no morals or purpose. Though they knew about fossils in the rocks they thought that the gods had put them there as a joke, as like many other societies they had lost the history and meaning of the record of Genesis, thinking that life just happened randomly. This was the result of Satan and his horde continuing with the idea that he had when he was Lucifer, that the universe just randomly made life, and there was no meaning to it, though of course they knew that there is a permanent life in the spiritual realm for humans, as God "breathed" into Adam, which he didn't do for any of the animals (Gen 2v7)

The objective of Satan and his horde is to stop as many as possible from knowing God and going to be with Him, just out of spite, a battle of numbers, not caring for the disaster that awaits those who ignore God, as Satan is called a "murderer from the beginning, ". (John 8:44 ) Over the years Satan has started many "religions" usually characterized by a harsh attitude and a strong disregard for human life, often requiring sacrifice, particularly human sacrifice in ancient times, and severe punishment for perceived crimes, or departing from the "faith". He doesn't care how many people die, as long as he can control territory and have absolute control over the people, and make them worship him frequently. Hence his offer to Jesus to have all the kingdoms of the world if Jesus would worship him, (Matthew 4v9), as he would then have control over Jesus and the kingdoms. His alternative is reincarnation, thus avoiding any question of a beginning or ending, allowing very flexible morals, and often adherents believe that this world is an illusion. Also the objective is vague and usually driven by fear, rather than hope of a reward or eternal benefit. Others are confused and frustrated from trying to placate various spirits or images they believe to be gods, trying this way then that, trying to find out what will placate the spirits, and give them peace.

As the Jews are known to be Gods people Satan has a insatiable vendetta against them in particular, and also against the Christians. Jews and christians in Moslem countries have to pay a tax to show that they accept they are subordinate, and their belief is inferior to the muslim religion, otherwise they are liable to be murdered. In christian countries and Israel all have equal rights, and some muslims are mayors in Israel, and many muslims are also in the parliament, (knesset) because they have equal rights, and get voted in. Jews, christians and non-muslims cannot have equal rights in a muslim country, their word in a muslim court is not accepted, but the word of a muslim is always taken as true.

As our sins, as God sees them according to His standards, (Deut 25: v16) disqualify us from entering into heaven, there has to be some way of cancelling them or paying for them. But we from our fallen state cannot pay for them or make up for them. It is no good offering God gold or gems, since He put them here when He created the earth, and He can make as much or as many as He likes. Besides our gold is impure, in heaven God makes it clear as glass, as no corruption is allowed in heaven, (Rev. 21 v18 & 21). We cannot earn our way into heaven, so God arranged for payment. To cover the sins of everyone requires paying a very high price, which Jesus, one part of God, paid on the cross. The body could be killed, but not the spirit, and the body was raised up on the third day. I see this as a dividing event or watershed, in that there are now two sides or "teams", those who accept Jesus' sacrifice and God's offer, verses everybody else. What greater insult can you make to God than to be in the side that crucified Jesus, the Messiah?

This is not the fault of the Jews as God had planned the method of redemption long before picking the Jews as His people, and they did exactly what God had planed and prophesied, they had to do it as planned. Isaiah Ch.52 and Ch.53, Ch.9 V6, 7. also Psalm 22. give an outline of what God had planned. This could only be done once, and had to be done "by the Book", as there was no alternative scheme by which we could be forgiven and saved. It is such a horrific crime that those who don't stand against it cannot enter heaven, only those who accept God's terms, and worship him, thankful for His mercy may enter heaven. This causes division among people as some believe in Jesus and some don't, perhaps preferring evolution or a belief compatible with evolution, or even one that extols murder and suicide bombing. Some search desperately for ways to earn their way into heaven, doing "penance" etc to earn points, but you cannot earn it, it is a gift, ask the giver. Jesus said in Luke Ch 12 v51 to v53, that he would bring division, it is the watershed that decides your fate.