why did god make us?

Answer 1

youll have to put on your best thinking cap for this one

'god locks himself out and himself comes to open the door to himself'

or as t s eliot the poet puts it:

'we leave home in order to return and recognise it for the first time'

or again:

god was a hidden treasure and he wanted to be known so he created the world

we are god [everything is god, god is existence, everything is of course existence] and in order to know ourselves [experience ourselves, recognise ourselves, see ourselves, know ourselves] we have to become not-god - why?

because everything is recognised through its opposite - like, it's no use drawing on pure white paper with pure white crayon - heaven [= 'god' = perfection = 'energy'] is like white on white - you cant see [experience, recognise, know] anything - it is like fog everywhere - like snow on tv - no fun at all

it wouldnt be perfection if god [perfection] didnt experience/know himself [herself, itself], so god has to create his opposite, for contrast - so he locks himself out [becomes notgod, or seems to become notgod, ie man - dont ask me how] and then opens the door to himself - deceives himself, and then undeceives himself

this, the greatest of truths, is symbolised in the yinyang symbol and the symbol Y - what the yinyang symbol says is that perfection [the circle, wholeness, unity] is ultimately not different from the world, the realm of duality, of separation, of polarisation, of imperfection, of good and bad mixed up together - because there is no recognition [experience, awareness, consciousness, knowledge] of god [perfection, energy, lifeforce, existence, unity, harmony, love, peace] without its opposite

so he [us] creates the world, the realm of imperfection, of duality, of plurality, of accident, of danger, of vulnerability, of mortality, of change and loss, etc so that he can come back home to truth and know that he is perfection, harmony, love, lifeforce, energy, indestructible, perfectly safe, etc etc

it is a great system and we are it - we chose it -we choose it - we are to blame - we are everything, we are existence, and we wanted to see ourselves, so we created the world, we threw ourselves into this illusion of imperfection in order to experience our perfection

it is the same principle in almost every story: okay at the beginning, things get bad or tough in the middle and then it comes right at the end - someone said that the universe is made of stories

'ultimately heaven and earth are not to be thought of as different' - because they work together as a team to give experience of perfection, experience of life, of energy [which the scientists say cannot be created or destroyed, ie is immortal - although the scientists avoid the word immortal]

the Y has the same meaning - the Y was an ancient wisdom symbol when pythagoras the ancient greek teacher adopted it - the Y means the unity or symbiosis of unity and duality [two stands for plurality, because two is the first plural]

god is one, then he creates the world by dividing himself up into many - then the manyness and the one reflect each other - the world is like a mirror to god - it enables him [us] to see ourselves

so there are two things that are ultimately one - there is god, aka existence, energy, spirit, truth, timelessness, changelessness, formlessness, perfection, heaven, 'neither this nor that' - and there is world, earth, plurality, duality, form, polarisation [into good and bad, here and there, beautiful ugly, etc etc etc] accident, bodies, time and space, change, death, mortality, 'storyland' - and they are like husband and wife - they are the ultimate reality - they work together to give perfection and the experience of perfection

so paradoxically, imperfection is perfect, because it allows or causes the recognition or experience of perfection - and imperfection is perfect because it is imperfect, because if it wasnt in contrast to perfection, it couldnt 'show' perfection

james joyce, who was perhaps the wisest of men, has a funny word for it on the first page of finnegans wake: 'twone' - that is, two united to one - and twone is like twine, ie the winding of threads of string to make twine, which is like twin - two which are the same - so twone is like the letter Y, the symbol Y, and the yinyang symbol - the union of duality [world, imperfection] and 'god' [heaven, perfection]

that is why god [we] made the world, and why we like life, although life is often horrible or imperfect

so when you say: why did god make the world - the answer is in the first word - why = Y [humour]

Answer 2

I cannot understand, nor measure God. It is impossible to determine his reasons why he made us. The greatest answer is, "I don't know, and neither does anyone else". That answers, "Why are we here?" So you can assume that a conscious being decided to make something out of pure nothing, but why would that be assumed?

People can understand the nature of an electron and the way an electron behaves, but no one knows why an electron behaves that way. First we would have to determine what preceded the electron. So in answer to why is the universe present, we would have to precede what took place before the universe banged into existence to know why it did.

God is the fill in answer for everything we do not understand. Why are there solar eclipses? Because the moon blocks the sun. Before this was understood, the answer would have been God. Where did human beings come from? We don't fully understand the evolution of a human or how we arrived at this current state of civilization, so for many, the answer is God. Why did God make us? The answer to that again, is God.

Answer 3

There is no actual fact that God has really made us. I mean there are books tha explain how we came to existence but nothing like solid evidence. Have faith and belive but where I do not see nothing. Where to science has some understanding where we come from. Where to some Divine power has made well there is not a real fact to that matter. So there you have it belive what you want but sometimes facts can prove more than myths.

Answer 4

I doubt it was to serve him. Animals don't do anything immoral or break the ten commandments, but humans are somewhat cursed...we are aware of our own mortality, our own weaknesses, and we are aware of God, and yet we openly defy him. But if God created everything, didn't he create free will, and evil, just to test us even though he is omniscient and knows we'll fail? Why would God create purposely flawed beings, who each day defy and question his will, when animals are just as good and lack all the flaws of man? Whatever purpose he had is only known to him if he has one, and we'll never know his reason.

Answer 5

why not. Evolution will explain it, and I don't think that there is (an either or) both God and evolution exists. We just know more about evolution than we do God. We have to look deep inside ourself to feel and discover the God feeling in ourselfves.

Answer 6

Why did we make god?

Answer 7

Did God make us? Sorry for responding with a question, but it reflects how I honestly feel.

Answer 8

A paraphrase from "Inherit the Wind":

"God created man, and man, being a gentleman, returned the favor."

Answer 9

God made us to serve (help) each other.

Some of us aren't doing so good.

Answer 10

God made us to serve him

Answer 11

To worship him, and he created the world as a trial to see who stayed true to his words. For those who have passed the test paradise will be their reward. This is the truth you can find it out for yourself. Have a nice day.