We come into the world, prepare for life, work, have children, grandchildren, enjoy this life more or less, and then it all ends at the grave. It seems that this is all life has to offer. Upon closer inspection, we can see that most people around the globe just consume this life and are not concerned with finding out if there is anything after death.

We believe that the most important thing in this short life we live is for each of us to know exactly God’s plan for us humans, to know what purpose God had when He created man.

Through this booklet, we want to offer you an answer regarding the purpose of this life we live on earth. We hope that what is written will be a guide for those who believe in their hearts that God is the creator, both of the Universe and of us.

We observe that when we are asked to give an answer about what will be after this life is consumed and what we must do to live eternally in God’s Kingdom, the vast majority of people live in total ignorance.

Due to ignorance, we can see today how many crowds of people are manipulated with various theories that explain how one can reach God’s Kingdom. One of them is the theory of purgatory. This theory, found in Catholicism, says that you can obtain forgiveness of sins through the payment of indulgences, which ensures your entry into God’s Kingdom and implicitly eternal life.

In Orthodoxy, we find alms and prayers for the dead, then the tolls through which the deceased must pass, and many other things through which man hopes he can somehow buy forgiveness of sins.

The same situation is found in most evangelical, Protestant, and neo- Protestant churches. The general belief is that if we admire God for what He has done for us, if we believe in the sacrifice on the cross, if we confess our sins, if we have a form of godliness, we will obtain salvation which is reduced to the forgiveness of sins.

It seems that very few realize that repentance and faith in the sacrifice on the cross are just some of the things a person must do at the beginning of their life of faith. Lord Jesus warns us that the lack of knowledge of the Scriptures is one of the things that keeps man in this ignorance. (Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God. Matthew 22:29)

Most of us stop at repentance, at the work on the cross… at the covenant in the water of baptism, at the forgiveness of sins. For many, the work of salvation stops here, without realizing that God’s plan includes both the restoration and the perfection of man’s character.

Almost no one believes that to be found worthy of the life that awaits us in His eternal Kingdom, we must grow to reach the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. (And he gave some, apostles; and some…pastors and teachers; for the perfecting of the saints, till we all come…unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. Ephesians 4:11-13)

This plan of God was made in eternity, before man was created. The purpose of the heavenly Father was to make brothers of the Lord Jesus, and it is the most complex and grand plan ever devised.