Why does God exist?

Question

I can accept the existence of a Higher Being, but what is His purpose? Is He only there for us?

Answer 1

Ya know, thats a great question.......

Everyone states that we are here so we must have some purpose. What, pray tell, is God's purpose then? And who does he worship? His creator?

"We are here for Him" is double speak and a cop out to the question. It doesnt address the question. Its crap rheotric. Cant anyone respond with something other than rhetoric?

Answer 2

God does not exist for a reason. He IS the reason for all things. God described Himself by saying, "I Am that I Am". He is telling us that He is totality. All reasons lead to Him. He is called "The Great I Am." For us to require that He needs a reason to exist is an attempt to place Him on our level. He is far and above our level. We think in terms of why we exist because our existence depends upon Him and all things flow back to His existence. God simply IS. He is order. He is logic. He is love. He is joy. He is peace. He is creator. HE IS! And we should bow before Him in submission because HE IS and not try to find some reason for Him to exist. For us to demand a reason for Him to exist we are implicitly saying that He has some quality making Him desire to serve us. He loves us without measure. We in response serve Him. That's the way it's supposed to work.

Answer 3

God exists for a number of reasons:

1) Some humans have very powerful imagination.
2) Some humans feel more comfortable knowing that some wise and powerful "father" is watching over them and taking care of them.
3) Some humans feel that life would be meaningless without having a purpose.
4) Some humans have trouble accepting their mortality.

To me, those seem like the top four reasons!

Answer 4

No, not for us.
John Piper has written that God is for Himself.
Imagine if God were for us; what chaos that would prevail!

It would be like the scene in "Bruce Almighty," where Bruce has all these thousands of prayer requests to deal with, but most of them are "Please, God, let me win the lottery."

Bruce doesn't want to deal with each one individually, and choose some to win while the rest lose, so Bruce opts to make them all winners, all the lottery tickest for that day. 100,000's of them. The Lottery commission is thrown into chaos trying to figure out what had happened. Everyone who won, got pennies instead of dollars.

God's purpose would sound selfish and ego-centric if a mere human said those things; but for God who is all powerful, all knowing, loving, merciful, etc., to not be for Himself would be a failure that would reduce Him from God to demon.

God acts and does what He does just for His own sake, and not for us.
Isaiah 48:11 "For My own sake, for My own sake, I will act; For how can My name be profaned? And My glory I will not give to another."

Because God is perfect, he is also a jealous God: Isaiah 42:8 "I am the LORD, that is My name; I will not give My glory to another, Nor My praise to graven images."

The people of God are created for His glory: Isaiah 43:7 "Everyone who is called by My name, And whom I have created for My glory, Whom I have formed, even whom I have made."

The greatest benefit we have as believers is the glory of God. John 17:24 "Father, I desire that they also, whom Thou hast given Me, be with Me where I am, in order that they may behold My glory, which Thou hast given Me; for Thou didst love Me before the foundation of the world."

Answer 5

even if you can exept the existance that doesn't mean that "god" or a higher power exists. I bash "god", "allah", and all other supream beings and i haven't been smote yet. btw, I'll take my chances with going to hell

Answer 6

the only reason i think is cuz, one day a caveman was cheating on his girlfriend, then his girlfriend arrive to the cave and he said like oh ****! and his girlfriend started yelling and when she asked him why did he do that, he didnt know what to say, so he invented the word 'god' and said the god has told him to! so he went out of the cave and said lets everybody believe in god! of course before calling him god it was call 'coquito' XD

Answer 7

God does things for His own good pleasure.

Have a Merry Christmas!

Answer 8

The apostle John writes: “God is love.” (1Jo 4:8) He is the very personification of love, which is his dominant quality. The converse is not true, however, that ‘love (the abstract quality) is God.’ He reveals himself in the Bible as a Person and figuratively speaks of his “eyes,” “hands,” “heart,” “soul,” and so forth. He also has other attributes, among them justice, power, and wisdom. (De 32:4; Job 36:22; Re 7:12) Moreover, he has the capacity to hate, a quality the very opposite of love. His love of righteousness requires his hatred of wickedness. (De 12:31; Pr 6:16) Love includes the feeling and expression of warm personal affection, which only a person can have, or which can be extended toward a person. Certainly God’s Son Jesus Christ is not an abstract quality; he spoke of being with his Father, working with him, pleasing him, and hearing him, as well as of angels beholding the face of his Father, things impossible with a mere abstract quality.—Mt 10:32; 18:10; Joh 5:17; 6:46; 8:28, 29, 40; 17:5.

Evidence of his love. The evidence that Jehovah the Creator and God of the universe is love is abundant. This can be seen in the physical creation itself. With what remarkable care it has been made for the health, pleasure, and welfare of man! Man is made not just to exist but to enjoy eating, to delight in viewing the color and beauty of creation, to enjoy animals as well as the company of his fellowmen, and to find pleasure in the countless other delights of living. (Ps 139:14, 17, 18) But Jehovah has displayed his love even more by making man in his image and likeness (Ge 1:26, 27), with the capacity for love and for spirituality, and by revealing himself to man through his Word and his holy spirit.—1Co 2:12, 13.

Jehovah’s love toward mankind is that of a Father toward his children. (Mt 5:45) He spares nothing that is for their good, no matter what it costs him; his love transcends anything that we can feel or express. (Eph 2:4-7; Isa 55:8; Ro 11:33) His greatest manifestation of love, the most loving thing that a parent can do, he did for mankind. That was the giving of the life of his own faithful, only-begotten Son. (Joh 3:16) As the apostle John writes: “As for us, we love, because he first loved us.” (1Jo 4:19) He is, accordingly, the Source of love. John’s fellow apostle, Paul, writes: “For hardly will anyone die for a righteous man; indeed, for the good man, perhaps, someone even dares to die. But God recommends his own love to us in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”—Ro 5:7, 8; 1Jo 4:10.

Jehovah’s love for his faithful servants is everlasting; it does not fail or diminish, no matter in what circumstances, high or low, his servants may be, or what things, great or small, may come against them. The apostle Paul exclaimed: “For I am convinced that neither death nor life nor angels nor governments nor things now here nor things to come nor powers nor height nor depth nor any other creation will be able to separate us from God’s love that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”—Ro 8:38, 39.

Answer 9

Everything was created for him including us and not the other way around. He is life and love itself. Check out this site for a better explanation, http://www.near-death.com/experiences/research21.html

Answer 10

One verse for you- Why God is who God is.

Colossians 1:16
For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities--all things were created through him and for him.

-We were made for HIM. And His creation! And the universe! All God made, he did this for HIS glory. And he has brought salvation to mankind, through Jesus Christ- because we were born into sin, once Adam and Eve sinned. God designed a way for us to be with Him- and that is the meaning of our lives- To worship and live for the Lord- to believe in what Jesus Christ did on the cross- And now I am free! Free of fear, and free of worry- I am secure in Christ Jesus! Amen!