THE FACT AND CENTRAL ELEMENTS OF GOD’S ETERNAL PLAN The reader may have a certain reticence, if not total resistance, toward any discussion of God’s decrees which would seek to understand the logical order in which God planned what he did, but a simple rehearsal of some of the basic biblical material about the plan should help to ease his suspicions that we are “rushing in where angels fear to tread.”3 What God has revealed concerning his plan he surely desires people to attempt to understand.