Why did God create the universe in the first place?

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Why would God create the universe in the first place?

I know it’s a pretty basic question, but I’m feeling self-conscious about looking like a Pharisee (following all the teeny little details without noticing the big picture).
 
For His pleasure. Because one of His attributes is generosity. Because God is good and loves us all (as I hear in the Divine Liturgy weekly) and He knew He was going to create us and needed a place to put us.😃
 
XndrK said:
Hello,

Why would God create the universe in the first place?

I know it’s a pretty basic question, but I’m feeling self-conscious about looking like a Pharisee (following all the teeny little details without noticing the big picture).
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God made the universe & us as part of it so we could know Him & love Him & serve Him in this world & the next.

Baltimore Catechism
 
God is Spirit, and God is Love. Since love seeks to go beyond the self, the Father is constantly pouring Himself into the Son. As part of this, He created that which is the opposite of Himself - the material universe, as a gift to the Son that the Son might express Himself through. In a similar way that you might give paints & canvas to an artist, so the material universe allows the Son to express Himself in a manner that is beyond His natural state. It is the Son who has ordered the stars, caused galaxies to come & go. it is He who supervises the rising & falling of suns & planets, and the creation of humanity.

In the fullness of time, the Son emptied Himself to take on the form of creation itself, raising creation to a new status under His universal Lordship. This new Creation is being returned to the Father, as resiprocation of the Father’s gift. Thus, we, mere creatures as we are, are caught up in the dynamic drama of the Holy Trinity, being at Oneness with the Son through His Love, to the Glory of the Father.

So, the Universe exists as an act of love by the Father, has been redeemed as an act of love by the Son. And the name of this love is the Holy Spirit.
 
XndrK said:
Hello,

Why would God create the universe in the first place?

I know it’s a pretty basic question, but I’m feeling self-conscious about looking like a Pharisee (following all the teeny little details without noticing the big picture).
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Possible reasons:
  1. He just needed a place to put all His stuff.
  2. It was a dare.
  3. He read it in the KJV so He had to. :rolleyes:
 
XndrK said:
Hello,

Why would God create the universe in the first place?

I know it’s a pretty basic question, but I’m feeling self-conscious about looking like a Pharisee (following all the teeny little details without noticing the big picture).
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Only G-d knows for sure; perhaps He will reveal this to us some day. I think the universe is an extension of G-d’s love and the creative power that imposes order out of chaos, randomness, and nothingness.
 
meltzerboy said:
Only G-d knows for sure; perhaps He will reveal this to us some day. I think the universe is an extension of G-d’s love and the creative power that imposes order out of chaos, randomness, and nothingness.
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This is the best answer so far.

Yet we are stuck with an odd inference. Is this universe the first and only one God has created throughout all eternity? If so, there had to be a reason why God’s creative power and love were not busy building other universes throughout eternity.

Only God knows for sure. 👍
 
I think from his point of view, God always created the universe. I think from our point of view, he created it at some point in his infinite existence, although I cannot imagine infinity having any points. Bear with me–** if he always created the universe, then it must be that creating the universe is a natural manifestation of his nature**, which is love. It didn’t happen at a specific time, because remember, for God there was no time. So we should forget the idea that God went along for eons without doing anything and then one fine day decided he would create a universe.

He is. Things don’t just happen with him-- they are. He is. The universe is. From our point of view, the universe was created. From his point of view, the universe is created. That’s how I see it. YMMV
 
XndrK said:
Hello,

Why would God create the universe in the first place?

I know it’s a pretty basic question, but I’m feeling self-conscious about looking like a Pharisee (following all the teeny little details without noticing the big picture).
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I think another question along the same lines would be, what is God’s purpose if he created nothing?
 
XndrK said:
Why would God create the universe in the first place?
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Because He wanted to be The Creator. If you don’t create anything, then you can’t be a creator:

Two strangers are talking at a party:

“What do you do?”

“I’m a creator.”

“And what do you create?”

“I create… universes.”

“Wow! And how many universes have you created?”

“Erm… well…” he shuffles his feet and looks embarrassed, “none actually.”

“Oh my, is that the time. Sorry, I have to rush.”

🙂

rossum
 
rossum said:
Because He wanted to be The Creator. If you don’t create anything, then you can’t be a creator:

Two strangers are talking at a party:

“What do you do?”

“I’m a creator.”

“And what do you create?”

“I create… universes.”

“Wow! And how many universes have you created?”

“Erm… well…” he shuffles his feet and looks embarrassed, “none actually.”

“Oh my, is that the time. Sorry, I have to rush.”

🙂

rossum
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:rotfl:

I would have found it just as funny if he had said," …er…well… only one." That would intimate that the second stranger was God, and that he was a bit nonplussed by the question.
Merriam Webster
the universe : all of space and everything in it including stars, planets, galaxies, etc.
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I am amused how we talk about multi-universes nowadays. No longer is “all there is” enough, we have to have many “all there is”-es.
 
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