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Master Plan By Charles Mills
Charles Mills is the author of more than 50 published books and over 300 articles. Mills began his career at Faith for Today and the Adventist Media Center in Newbury Park, California. For the past 35 years, he has been an independent media producer, writer, and radio/television host.
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od never intended for Adam and Eve to be the sole human inhabitants on earth. There were to be more people, a lot more. It was part of the Creator’s Master Plan. We have no idea what the before-sin “be fruitful and multiply” command entailed. We just know that Adam and Eve were invited to be co-creators on this earth, filling it with people as knowledgeable and deeply spiritual as they. How that would be accomplished is never defined. But the end result would be a human society based on God’s ideals and standards. We can catch glimpses of those concepts based on what the Creator said to Adam and Eve right after He told them to “fill the earth” (Genesis 1:28). It’s important for us to remember that the words used by Moses when he wrote Genesis reflect generations of humanity living outside of God’s Master Plan. Only when we imagine life in a sinless environment can we begin to understand what the Creator was really saying. It’s also important to consider what God didn’t say as He laid out His roadmap for society. Nowhere did God tell Adam and Eve to divide the world up into sections and confine individuals to those sections based on any type of criteria. The words subdue or rule over had to do with the governorship and care of earth’s natural resources and animals, not a rigid domination over other creatures—including fellow human beings. Human societies based on God’s Master Plan all had the same goals. Everyone was to be a co-creator and co-caretaker of creation.
