What could be the purpose for which God created Human Beings?

Question

I do not expect correct answer from any of you, what I'm trying to do is to start a fruitful discussion which may yield some common points to agree upon. Please answer only if you have seriously pondered over the question and feel the necessity to know the answer.

No . Even I dont know the answer. Good for those who find this question stupid ! Sometimes it's better not to think, and yes as someone rightly said, not to try finding out purpose for everything. But still, I guess I'm not the only one who has spent hours trying to find out something, from our holy books, from spiritual books, from discussions, and have failed.

Answer 1

80% of humanity, the religious folks, don't need to ask the meaning of life, the church tells them....the supernatural explanation. But the rest of us can't swallow religious dogma, because there's no evidence. Nobody can prove that there life after death, that people are tortured or rewarded after life or that there's invisible spirits running around.

I've come to two conclusions recently:

1. Life has no meaning
2. Life has a million meanings.

First, there's a certainty that death and annihilation awaits not only you, but the Earth in general. It's an astonomical certainty that our sun will supernova and leave the earth a burnt crisp, not to mention all the other extinction level events around the corner.

Second, the million things that give us meaning are the pleasurable experiences we can conjure up during the short period we are here on the earth, in the form of the relationships we have with our kids and other people, and the 'housekeeping' types of purposes. What i mean by that are the curing disease, ending hunger, improving literacy, reducing crime, preventing war, helping other kinds of things.

Answer 2

I am pained to see some of the responses doubting your bonafide in asking this question. I can see you are a new entrant here and I believe you are genuinely looking for some good points to emerge from the answers.

First of all, did God create us? If he did, we are his latest creation which ought to be the best. Is that so? We got the best brain power but isn't it being used at cross purposes against our own species? Aren't we therefore suffering from the greatest sense of insecurity since we, the species with the best brain, are ourselves our greatest enemies? God could not have created such an unwise lot. Or, if God did create us, the Devil must be at work. If there is the Devil, then undoubtedly God must have created us precisely to counter the Devil - no other purpose could have been more relevant.

I then come to the conclusion that if God created us, the purpose must have been to fight the Devil for which we have been bestowed with greater intelligence. But then we need to be wise as well.

Even if God did not create us, our purpose ought to be no different in furtherance of the good for our own species, i.e. fortifying our high intelligence with some wisdom to finish off the Devil.

Answer 3

You must agree that human beings are special in so many ways than other organisms. The non-religious persons would call it an accident that man is what he is to-day. In creation, there cannot be an accident. But, still, we are much puzzled by the way human beings commit blunders after blunders and commit crimes on humanity. No other living beings indulge in genocide as human beings do. That seems to be a curse, rather than a blessing. Ignorance is a bliss. To-day, I saw a footage of video showing a group of terrorists cutting the throat of a man alive, as if he were a goat, in the midst of slogans in praise of God. Are we not worse than animals. Can you imagine a tiger or a lion killing its own species like this. You tend to raise an accusing finger at God, the creator. The answer to this is that it is the lila of God. He is a creator as well as a witness to all that happens here. It is our belief that he keeps an account of all that happens and will settle it. Every body has to work out his karma. You will reap what you have sown. Let us accept whatever happens to us and to humanity.

Answer 4

II have pondered this question for many years and have studied many religions to come to this understanding.

We are here to learn, to experience emotions and feelings, to live and to die... to know love and sorrow, joy and pain. To choose and realize that each choice carries with it consequences.

All these concepts were foreign to us in spirit form. Call it spirit, soul, essence, or what you may. It is the power within us that makes this biological computer function. That power is an energy and energy cannot experience a physical world. Therefore we gained mass, or this body, to be able to learn about these things.

Why did God create us, because he loved us and wanted us to grow and become better, as any parent would for a child.

You must always remember, though, that with this or any other knowledge comes responsibility. Knowledge without responsibility is a corruption of universe.

Answer 5

In his own image and likeness. We see things in black and white - that is human. Wisdom is neither - it is more like Ying/Yang - homeostasis as Psychologists would call it. The middle path as what the Buddhist teaches. The same purity is what is achieved by good/evil not as a dichotomy but as a God like reality. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Human minds somehow cannot grasp concepts like the holy trinity. We see dots, yet when joined together, this becomes a square or cube. If dots are placed in the cube, this can become a dice. This spinning of the wheel of life (the Buddhist samsara) is what humans need, to become God like: hence achieve his purpose of creation. I do not visualise God as of any particular religion. Humans create HIM as such.

Answer 6

The mind is incapable of perceiving a situation where such questions do not arise at all !
It is the logical mind that asks such questions, and very genuine indeed ! Please see what it is that we can ask about ? Only a permutation and combination of what we have already seen, heard, touched, tasted, felt and the conclusions about these using logic . We further try to project an extension of these ideas.. Not that it is irrelevant.... In fact the attempt is to deepen the question further !
How about looking at the possibility of deepening our sense of perception or level of perception (the word sense again limits us to sensory organs !) ?
The self awareness, for instance, is not dependent on sense organs, and this self-awareness is unique to humans !
Then when we experience life in a deeper dimension, we can experience how such questions get dissolved, not trying to evade either the questioner or the answer !

Answer 7

Why do you want a purpose for everything. Is there any danger even if there is no purpose? When you search purpose, you want a brain behind as creator and creator takes care of all good people and all good people believes in creator. Those who doesn't believe in a purpose are non-religious and bad? Do you want to conclude like that?

You said in such an assurance that GOD created. Analyse. You created all these the way you perceived. You read bible a lot so you created GOD as well in your mind from the images of bible and telling everybody to believe in your GOD as the creator. Don't be so selfish, let others believe that there can be no purpose, there can be experiments, there can be a purpose to lead to chaos, there can be a purpose for purposelessness, There can be neither purpose nor purposelessness, there can be a purpose of evolution............can't conclude.

Answer 8

Good question...... ?!!
and explanation.......... i'm tired ........ think so much, read so much, discuss so much, sometimes laugh at the que. and also cry sometimes...........
but no satisfactory answer.

i just tell one thing,
what u or all of us want to know is not from holy books or spiritual books, we all know about it and also think so much over it like ,
"The God" is 'Gyanam'
but
"The God is I" is 'Vigyanam'
what we read, 'Aham brahmasmi'

but i believe,
purpose of creating human beings
should be to care, love and help eachother.
and also nature, animals, who doesn't
have sense for caring our ownselves.


after knowing ourselves,
that is 'aham brahmasmi'
sometimes, i feel
if God is within myself and everybody
then why He is creating so much problems
in our & others' lives?????

Answer 9

The origin of human life came about to reslove the pre historic angelic conflict.
We are presently in the rebuttle phase of satan's appeal trial.
If just one member of the human race believed on the Lord Jesus Christ John 3:16 this would resolve the angelic conflict.
We are on this earth to glorify God.

Answer 10

God created the human beings for those purpose becoz God give the most athentic power to human the purpose could not only that he aware and get the power for details pls.contact