divine plan
Heaven's grand design
A divine plan is a deity's overarching design for creation or for individual lives—the belief that events unfold according to God's intention rather than chance.
The phrase appears in religious contexts to explain suffering or fortune: It must be part of the divine plan.
Often invoked to find meaning in circumstances that seem random or cruel.
- providenceDivine protective care
- God's willDivine intention or decree
- intelligent designPurposeful cause over randomness
- predestinationDivinely predetermined fate
- meant to bePredetermined by fate
prophecy · creation · vocation · calling · cosmic order · bigger picture · theodicy · everything happens for a reason · teleology · salvation · karma · omniscience · determinism · foreordination · fate · eschatology · act of God · scripture
- spiritualitysacred, enlightened, holy, spiritual growth, spiritual practice
- supernaturalghosts, ghost, witches, spirits, vampire
- fatedestiny, fate, kismet, Moira, fated
- cosmic ordercelestial order, cosmic balance, cosmic law, universal law, natural law
- providenceforeknowledge, omniscience, predestination, provision, care
- Mormon Doctrineeternal life, exaltation, Book of Mormon, Jehovah, priesthood
divine planrandom chance
Uncontrolled probability
blind chance · accident · coincidence · happenstance · randomness
divine planchaos
Complete disorder and confusion
entropy · disorder · primordial chaos · absurdity · randomness
divine planatheism
Rejection of deities
materialism · nihilism · naturalism · secular humanism · existentialism