Why did God create man ?

[wnwh]

Men are that they might have joy.

 

[Eric_Hyom]

Greetings and peace be with you all,

God gave us the greatest commandments and that should mean we can have no greater purpose than to follow these two commandments.

Here is a simplistic and yet profound way to test the powers of the greatest commandments.

Could the greatest commandments possibly describe God the Father before the creation of the universe began?

God loves all that he is with all his heart, soul, mind and strength?
God loves each and every one of us as he loves himself?

Could God love us more than he loves himself?

Could the creation of the universe possibly hang on God loving us as he loves himself?

This is just a collection of words to meditate on and challenge the mind to think. I can make no claims for these words they have been written with no authority or conscious revelations from God.

In the spirit of searching

Eric

 

[tptram]

to demonstrate His infinite love.
even to creatures who willing to offend, betray and kill him.
mankind committed the most despicable crime there is - deicide
and God still loves us.

Tak

 

[sneakers]

This is my recited reply that I learned in Catholic school from the Dominican Sisters:
God created man to know, love and serve Him in this life so we can be happy with Him in the next.

And that is exactly my answer!

 

[Eric_Hyom]

Greetings and peace be with you tptram;

demonstrate His infinite love.

Things to do with God seem so great and beyond our understanding; and so we use words like infinite.

But I wonder if God loves us as he loves himself?

How could he love each one of us more than he loves himself?

In the spirit of searching

Eric

 

[Sixtus]

What King would suffer such an ignomous and cruel death for the very least of his subjects? Not one who keeps them only for them to exist to worship him!

I do not believe God created man to worship Him. God is ‘all in all’. He does not need our worship. Its absence does not diminish HIm one iota.

It is our duty always to worship God.

Fortunately for us, God has not allowed us to be capable of realising the significance of Himself, His magnificance and uncreated glory and majestic splendour, power and glory, else it would simply crush us.

I believe God created us because He was foolish enough to do so, having done so, accepted total and full responsibility for us, even when we sinned and turned our backs on Him. He did not abandon us to the power of death which our sins deserved.

I believe that in this life, we will never be able to understand or comprehend why He created us. What we can be assured of was that it was primarily for our benefit, not for His.

To Him be the glory for ever and ever**

 

[M-Dent]

** Why did God create man ? **

I would say for no other reason than because God willed man.

 

[AlegreFe]

God made me to know Him, to love Him, and to serve Him in this world, and to be happy with Him forever in the next.

:yup: My good ol’ Baltimore Catechism (L #1-Q #6) and the wonderful nuns at my Catholic grammar school taught me that.

So my answer on the poll was “Other reasons.” It cannot be the second reason because God did not make us so that He can love us, (although He does). He made us so that we can love Him. It can’t be only to worship Him because we are not to fall down on our knees constantly if we are to serve others and love others; we would never leave the Church if we are to worship Him all the time and only worship Him and nothing else. So my only conclusion is the last one.

 

[AlegreFe]

I would say for no other reason than because God willed man.

We’re just about the same age. So why don’t you think that God made us to know Him, to love Him and to serve Him? I would think that your answer would be to the question, “how” did God make us and not so much as to “why” did God make us.

 

[AlegreFe]

God created man so that we could perform acts of kindness and acts of charity.

I like your answer. But for whom are we to perform these acts of kindness and charity? Certainly not for us or for those people right? But for God! So the answer would fall back on the good ol’ Baltimore Catechism answer;
God made me to know Him, to love Him,
and to serve Him in this world, and to be
happy with Him forever in the next.
So I’m sure you know that by performing acts of kindness and charity we are actually loving and serving God. :yup:

 

[M-Dent]

We’re just about the same age. So why don’t you think that God made us to know Him, to love Him and to serve Him?

Ah, Sandy I certainly didn’t exclude those things.

I just noted God “willed” and we became.

Being human I simply don’t have the capacity to understand the “complete” infinite and perfect answer of “why” God willed what He willed at the beginning of creation. He is infinite and perfect, not I. I just accept He graced us with life. Thus he willed us into being.

I would think that your answer would be to the question, “how” did God make us and not so much as to “why” did God make us

That’s quite reasonable.

God did reveal man was created good. And made in His likeness. And I do agree God offers us grace to know Him, love Him and to serve Him. But why God created anything is too infinite a question.

Free will may have complicated the matter - along with our fallen state. Yet if and when we receive the Beatific Vision I’ll glady answer “why” God created man, completely.

 

[mattjtayl]

Scientists say there are approximately 1.75 million species of animals on this earth. Maybe God screwed up 1,749,999 times and on his 1,750,000 try he finally got it right.

 

[AlegreFe]

Ah, Sandy I certainly didn’t exclude those things.

I just noted God “willed” and we became.

Duly noted. I agree. :yup:

M-Dent:

Being human I simply don’t have the capacity to understand the “complete” infinite and perfect answer of “why” God willed what He willed at the beginning of creation. He is infinite and perfect, not I. I just accept He graced us with life. Thus he willed us into being.

I agree here also. But we certainly can make it simple, as God is simple. How God made everything can be very complicated for man to understand. But God is simple and He does not want to complicate things for us. After all, He did put limits on our intelligence. So I would just like to say that God made us for the reasons that I have stated and it shouldn’t be more complicated than that. The “why” should be simpler than the “how” and that is all that should matter to us.

M-Dent:

AlegreFe:

I would think that your answer would be to the question, “how” did God make us and not so much as to “why” did God make us

That’s quite reasonable.
God did reveal man was created good. And made in His likeness. And I do agree God offers us grace to know Him, love Him and to serve Him. But why God created anything is too infinite a question.

It doesn’t have to be though. As soon as we start putting more into something so simple, that is when trouble begins. Look at all the Protestant denominations there are. They seem to want to make things more complicated than they really are when some things can be just so simple. We don’t have to make “rocket science” out of something so simple as to knowing, loving and serving God.

M-Dent:

Free will may have complicated the matter - along with our fallen state. Yet if and when we receive the Beatific Vision I’ll glady answer “why” God created man, completely.

Free will has complicated some things for some folks. But it doesn’t have to be that complicated. Don’t sweat it, is what I say. I can just imagine when we get to Heaven (God willing) and we ask God why He made us, He’ll probably answer, “to know Me, to love Me, and to serve Me and to be happy with Me here in Heaven.”

 

[AlegreFe]

Scientists say there are approximately 1.75 million species of animals on this earth. Maybe God screwed up 1,749,999 times and on his 1,750,000 try he finally got it right.

Huh? I hope you don’t agree with these scientists.