What Were We Created For?

[PernellRodocker]

Why did God who had everything or could have everything create such a creature as man and place him on this earth? He knew we would fall. He knew we would fail. He knew we would destroy the earth and eachother. He knew we would hate and kill and destroy! Why did He give us a free will? And lets not forget this question... Why does He allow such bad things to happen?

 

[David777]

Hello.

You said,

"Why did God who had everything or could have everything create such a creature as man and place him on this earth? He knew we would fall. He knew we would fail. He knew we would destroy the earth and eachother. He knew we would hate and kill and destroy! Why did He give us a free will? And lets not forget this question... Why does He allow such bad things to happen?"

The answers are contained within the scripture.

When God created us, He said it was good. No sin, no death existed.
This creation was an act of pure love. It was not God's desire that we
fell. It was not God's will that sin entered the world thru Adam and Eve.

Of course He knew we would fail, that's why He sent His Son. Yet again, perfect love in action. What a shocking history mankind has had. Reject God and we end up just like satan, pyschopathic, destroyers of worlds.

God is soveriegn, He has given satan and man some latitude in evil.
But, this latitude is restricted in many respects.

 

[palms25]

Sorry i didnt vote in the poll because the option i was looking for wasnt there!
My truth is that the purpose for our being here is so that God can experience this world that he created through us. This is our divine purpose and in that we can not fail.

God resides in the realm of the absolute. Absolute perfection, absolute goodness, absolute love. But how can God really experience how magnificent he really is?
How can you know you are tall unless you experience short? How can you know good unless you experience not being good.

This is where we come in. This is the meaning of the fall in Genesis, the tree of good and evil is the move from absolute to relative. GOd loves us so much for God experinces all that we do through us. This is our purpose and to return to God is our destiny.

 

[J.R.]

Out of the options listed, I suppose that it would be To walk daily in a relationship willingly with God.

I think that we were really created to first and foremost have a relationship with God. In order words, Fellowship. I don't believe we were created to accept Jesus as the sole reason, mainly because Jesus came to save us so that we could first and foremost be acceptable to the Father above.

I have struggled with this question a lot. To be honest, I feel that we were created initally because God was bored and wanted to be loved and to love. I think that God knew that when we created us to be in his image there would be many that would not submit, but the ones that did was reason enought to create us. Fellowship is beyond a doubt the thing that God wants from us. He wants us to obey his commands, love him, love others and spread his love.

That being said... we could all be wrong and God just created us for who knows?

 

[agua]

God made us as imaginative, creative, and emotional beings. He made us in His image. The reasons God created the universe, and us, are wrapped up in these qualities.

 

[brakelite]

I believe our purpose is, by the power and grace of the living God in us, to reveal to the watching universe the true nature and character of God.

 

[David777]

Hello PernellRocker.

We were created in the image of God.

We corrupted the image in disobedience.

At the restoration of all things we are changed.

Changed into what?

The image is restored to reflect God 100%.

That is why Jesus is our bother.

We become one with God, immortal, pure,
we have the mind and structure of God
himself.