Why did God create man?

[probinson]

Pretty open topic.

What are your views on why God created us?

[GrapeGirl]

To love and to be loved.

[Jimbeaux]

C.S. Lewis has taught me that the principle reason that God created us was that we might be the objects of His unfailing love. There may be other reasons, of course, but I like the idea that God created me to love me.

~Jim

The Bible is so simple you have to have help to misunderstand it.

[LeadWorship]

You and I were made to worship. You and I were called to Love. I was made to love You, I was made to find You, I was made just for You, made to adore You. I was made to love, and be loved by You.

[Tamara224]

Because He wanted to - that is, to please Himself.

[GrapeGirl]

i like this question cause it's one I actually know the answer to!!!! WOOT!

[dyluck]

Ultimately for His Glory. We are here to glorify Him! We are not here for us. The catch is, he wants us to choose to love, fear and glorify him! (that is in everything we do).

[Jimbeaux]

Here is one of my favorite quotes from C.S. Lewis. In it he tells why he believes we were created.
The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning to the word “love,” and look on things as if man were the centre of them. Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake. “Thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.”We were made not primarily that we may love God (though we were made for that too) but that God may love us, that we may become objects in which the Divine love may rest “well pleased.” To ask that God’s love should be content with us as we are is to ask that God should cease to be God: because He is what He is, His love must, in the nature of things, be impeded and repelled by certain stains in our present character, and because He already loves us He must labour to make us lovable. We cannot even wish, in our better moments, that He could reconcile Himself to our present impurities—no more than the beggar maid could wish that King Cophetua should be content with her rags and dirt, or a dog, once having learned to love man, could wish that man were such as to tolerate in his house the snapping, verminous, polluting creature of the wild pack. What we would here and now call our “happiness” is not the end God chiefly has in view: but when we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy.
~Jim


The Bible is so simple you have to have help to misunderstand it.

[ARBITER01]

Personally, GOD is a possible 7 dimensional being. HIS ability and desire to create is beyond our scope to understand. We are a product of HIS desire to create.

What we are currently is nothing compared to what HE has plans for later.

[The Lord is my banner]

You and I were made to worship. You and I were called to Love. I was made to love You, I was made to find You, I was made just for You, made to adore You. I was made to love, and be loved by You.


Cool song! :thumbsup: