Why Were we Created?

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ClemtheCatholic said:
And they’re not allowed a second chance?

New Question: Will those in Hell be there for eternity or might God decide eventually that they’ve had enough? God is capable of anything. So can we know for sure that those in Hell will remain there forever? Or does this get into the realms of God having no time…? :confused:
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If your in hell…perhaps next to Mao…and God calls you out because you’ve “had enough”…isn’t that like God subjecting you to His wrath…then changing His mind?

God is Perfect Act…and God has Perfect Justice wherein are the unapproachable fires of His Purity…and God has Perfect Mercy. So if you are fleeing forever from His Perfect Justice…and He stops everything to show His Mercy to you…isn’t that rather 2 contradictory acts?

But…“Let us give thanks to God for His Mercy endures forever”
 
It has been said a drop of repentence would empty hell. But those in hell have eternally refused grace. They cannot repent, so their torment is also eternal.
 
So every person in Hell knew on Earth that they’d chosen eternal torment?
 
ClemtheCatholic said:
I always hear it’s simply because He loves us but that doesn’t satisfy me considering the amount of suffering and regret in this world… Don’t those in Hell wish they had not been created?

I appreciate this is a deep topic so I certainly welcome long answers!

Thanks Very Much,
ClemtheCatholic
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We exist to participate in Gods creative act. We exist to help bring love or should I say “God” into the world and we exist to be loved by God. In an analogous sense we are co-lovers or co-creators.

Few other things are worth believing in.
 
SuscipeMeDomine said:
The Baltimore Catechism offered this:

Question: Why did God make you?
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.
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This.

I have been Christian for about 14 years now and I have learned about it this year.

I’ve always thought God created me because he has a sense of humor.

God’s will is that we come to know Him and eventually spend time with Him in heaven but people have free will and choose to be without Him.
 
ClemtheCatholic said:
I just came across this link: http://www.thetruthabouthell.net/. It isn’t written from a Catholic perspective but is it correct? I think the author is saying he believes those in Hell are not there for eternity…
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It depends on what people mean by hell. If hell is choice, then eternity in hell is only possible by choice. I often wonder if it is possible to think of purgatory as a state of being in which people are temporarily choosing hell.
 
Linux said:
It depends on what people mean by hell. If hell is choice, then eternity in hell is only possible by choice. I often wonder if it is possible to think of purgatory as a state of being in which people are temporarily choosing hell.
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Okay, so is there any clarification on this?

Again, what am I to make of this: http://http://www.thetruthabouthell.net/

There have been a couple of views presented but I don’t think there’s been anything stating official Church teachings… :confused:
 
THink of it this way. Maybe God was lonely or maybe boared. He wanted company.
 
Stephanie_Pauls said:
There are Bible verses where he calls himself a jealous God. :rolleyes:
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That’s a metaphor. God cannot be literally jealous since that would mean he lacks something that is essentially good which something else has Got. Only God is essentially good.
 
ClemtheCatholic said:
I always hear it’s simply because He loves us but that doesn’t satisfy me considering the amount of suffering and regret in this world… Don’t those in Hell wish they had not been created?

I appreciate this is a deep topic so I certainly welcome long answers!

Thanks Very Much,
ClemtheCatholic
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The normal human being consists of body, brain, and what you would call, “soul.”

God did not create the soul— it has existed exactly as long as God has existed.

Soul has the potential to acquire consciousness, and from there, intelligence. God engineered the brain body system to assist the soul’s development of its potential, which would not be realized otherwise. .
 
Linux said:
That’s a metaphor. God cannot be literally jealous since that would mean he lacks something that is essentially good which something else has Got. Only God is essentially good.
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This is correct. God cannot be lonely, nor can he want something, in the sense that his life would be somehow better with that thing.

My answer to the original question would be that to exist, especially in the image and likeness of God, is simply and tremendously good.
 
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