I’ve spent a lot of time, asking myself, what am I doing in this life? I’ve never found a convincing answer to this question: Why did God create us?
When I know this answer, I’ll know my purpose, I’ll know what should I do in Life, I’ll find the right path…
I said, it’s impossible that 7 billion humans are living out there without asking themselves the same question. There should be at least someone who has the convincing answer…
For me, I think I’d better wait before saying my answer, I need to think more, I need to read Quran and Hadith better, and understand what God meant to say, then I may know.. and in any case, I’ll continue believing in God with no doubt…
So, do you know why?
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The simple answer to this question can be found in the Bible. Colossians 1:16 says, “…all things were created through him and FOR him.” We were created by God, for God. Genesis 1:27 states that, “God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him.” Being created in the likeness of God, human beings have the ability to know God–and therefore love him, worship him, serve him, and fellowship with him. “Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. You have given him dominion over the works of your hands” [Psalm 8:5-6].
Quite simply, it seems that God desired to create us in order that He might be able to simply love us. I think this is evident in the way creation was first started. God walked with Adam and Eve in the Garden. He desired to be with them and love them. God merely created the universe as a natural manifestation of His love and populated it with us for whom He could express the greatest act of love, which is self-sacrifice, and with whom He could give the greatest thing in the universe: fellowship with Him. In this, He is glorified.
Our point in this life is to glorify God in every single thing that we do. We should be consumed by the power of the Gospel. So, in light of eternity and your personal salvation, choose to do with your life only that which will glorify God!
“We were created by God, for God”
I still don’t see the real purpose of Creation, what would God want humans for, God doesn’t need anyone, but we need him, this answer is not convincing to me yet…
“Our point in this life is to glorify God in every single thing”
This is also true in Islam, but still it’s our reaction to Creation, after God created us, we should be thankful for him, and glorify him, but the question is, why he created us in the first place…
In any case, I will continue believing in God, and the reason for me to ask this question is that I want to worship him better, and be what God really wanted me to be…
Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
For me, i don’t beleive that a GOD will make his creation like him. So, humans can never be like GOD. Should a God go to sleep, eat, go shopping, worship, need a bathroom!! and so on.. NO.. So I believe in only one God who is nothing like anything we know, he is unique, he has the ultimate power, the ultimate knowledge, and Allah described himself as:
1. Say: He, Allah, is One
2. Allah is He on Whom all depend
3. He begets not, nor is He begotten
4. And none is like Him
I accept this opinion, in Islam, God is unique, and we don’t even know what God looks like… It’s unimaginable…
Why are we here? why did God create us? God doesn’t need us, so why did he put us here?
God, indeed, doesn’t need us, he put us as an honor to Adam and his children. He preffered Adam over angles to rule earth and build it.
And as God put us on earth, he sent us messengers to teach us the best way to live on earth. Every message God sent was suitable to the people of a certain time and age, except his last message sent by messenger Muhammed pbuh, it is a complete message which suites all times and all people, and it is the last message from God. The story of our selection on earth is mentioned in the Holy Quran in Al Baqara surat:
30. And when thy Lord said unto the angels: Lo! I am about to place a viceroy in the earth, they said: Wilt thou place therein one who will do harm therein and will shed blood, while we, we hymn Thy praise and sanctify Thee? He said: Surely I know that which ye know not.
31. And He taught Adam all the names, then showed them to the angels, saying: Inform Me of the names of these, if ye are truthful.
32. They said: Glory to Thee, of knowledge We have none, save what Thou Hast taught us: In truth it is Thou Who art perfect in knowledge and wisdom.
33. He said: “O Adam! Tell them their names.” When he had told them, Allah said: “Did I not tell you that I know the secrets of heaven and earth, and I know what ye reveal and what ye conceal?”
34. And behold, We said to the angels: “Bow down to Adam” and they bowed down. Not so Iblis: he refused and was haughty: He was of those who reject Faith.
hope this is useful!
Thanks for sharing this story, it’s always great to remember how Iblis/Satan refused to obey God, that makes one think about the sin of himself… and this was really useful to my question…
I agree that God didn’t have a need for us, but he had a desire for us. His desire is for a relationship with us, a walk with us; his creation. He created us to worship him and bring him glory. That is our side of the relationship, it is our purpose.
God laid out his plan to bring us into a personal relationship with him from the beginning. God knew that he would create man, but he also knew that man would choose sin. His purpose all through history was to lay out the plan for us to see and understand how to reach him. Sin separates us from a pure and Holy God. Throughout the Old Testament God shows us that a sacrifice was required to bridge the gap between a perfect God and ourselves. Did God NEED the blood sacrifice? No, we needed it. We needed to understand, and have illustrated to us that a perfect Holy God can not have a relationship with us while we carry sin. This was his way of allowing man to come back into his fellowship. It was the only way at that time in history.
God’s reason for the system of blood sacrifice was prophesied in the Old Testament, and then fulfilled in the New Testament. He would send the ultimate, final sacrifice that was needed to bridge between our sin and his Holiness. His Son Jesus is the bridge. Jesus Christ was there with God in the beginning and then came to earth for the purpose of dying for our sins. He was the only perfect, and permanent sacrifice that a perfect God would accept. Without Jesus there is no provision for us to have a relationship with God. We can believe there is a God, we can believe that God created us, but without accepting his son Jesus as our intercessor to God we can never reach God. Without a personal relationship with Jesus, the gap is never closed between us and our creator.
God created us for a personal relationship with him and for his glory, and he gave us the means to reach him, His Son Jesus. Each person has to make the choice to accept Jesus as God’s provision for our sin or to reject him, but to fulfill our purpose, to fulfill God’s desire, we have to accept his Son; His sacrifice.
Thanks for sharing your opinion =)