Why did "God" create the earth & everything in it ? What's the point to it all?

Answer 1

Why did God create the world? I thought the answer was that in God's kindness, He wanted to give people the opportunity to come close to Him. But why does the Talmud say we'd have been better off not having been created? Doesn't that imply that creating us was actually a disservice?
ANSWER:

Your idea regarding the creation of the world - so that God could give of His goodness to another - is correct.

Yet the Talmud does not contradict what you thought. Rabbi Yonasan Eibshitz (18th century Prague) explains:

Although the phrase is commonly translated as "It would be better if man were not created," a closer look at the original Hebrew more accurately translates as "It would have been more COMFORTABLE for man had he not been created." In other words, had the person's soul stayed with God in heaven, he would have had an effortlessly close relationship with God.

Now that man is created, he has to deal with many earthly problems, which may distract him from the more crucial task of getting close to God. In that sense, it would have been more "comfortable" for man had he not been created.

Nevertheless, being created is ultimately for man's benefit - so he will be able to put forth effort to earn the goodness that God wishes to share.

May the Almighty grant you the clarity to draw close to Him.

Answer 2

You are asking: Why did “God” create the universe, the earth and all in it?

Humans ask these questions (but animals don’t) because humans have evolved and acquired the faculty of conceptualization or reason. Conceptualization is the faculty that makes us aware of problems and contradictions and gives us the power to imagine solutions. If what we imagine is within the realm of reality, if it is possible, humans will eventually succeed at solving the problem. If we imagine things that are out of reality, they remain unsolved because, well, they don’t exist! God is such a problem.

Now, try instead to imagine a universe that does not have an outside guardian or superintendent, a universe that was always there, that has properties such as gravitational forces, atomic and kinesthetic forces, energy that compresses and expands in phenomenal explosions, etc, all things that prehistoric humans could not understand, but that we can observe and explain, and your question vanishes. Of course, with our imagination, we can always ask absurd questions and be happy with absurd answers. For example, someone can ask, Why isn’t the moon made of cheese? One imagined answer could be: because the Creator of the universe was allergic to milk products! To supply an answer is easy, especially if it is just for fun.

Answer 3

That's what love does.

He created a lovely home before He created those upon whom He would bestow His love.

Love will create opportunities and reasons for loving.

Just because He has had to put His ultimate plan on hold does not mean there was no plan.

His ultimate plan was that human beings would never die, always live in harmony and peace with each other and continue to develop spiritually, mentally and physically.

The plan to bestow immortality upon human beings and provide them with an eternally joyful environment cannot be fully implemented until the principle of selfishness in the human heart has been properly dealt with.

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Answer 4

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Answer 5

Your first error was in thinking that the universe needed a beginning. It didn't. The universe is a collection of matter and energy in a boundless space; it always was and it always will be - without a beginning or an end - forever.

Your next error was in thinking that there is a real and credible God. There isn't. God is an invention of man... a damn good one, too... but nonetheless, just an idea.

What's the point?

You'll have to figure that one out for yourself but here's some of my thinking and it may help you along. Take it or leave it.

I think it's time to thank our ancestors for their invention of God and for all that we've gained from "knowing him." I think it's also time to thank God, finally, and to applaud all of the philosophy found in "his" scriptures - those of Islam, of Christianity, of Judaism and of all the eastern religions - and, once done, I think its time to carefully store all of it away for the sake of prosperity and for history.

"God" (the idea of God) has done a terrific job and now it's up to us to move forward without him. Mankind must now be responsible for inventing its own next phase... We, all of us together, are the new idea of God.

I'm comfortable with that responsibility and I know how I'd like to see us go into the future.

It's my desire that we should decide what our utopia ought to be... that we ought to use all of our inventiveness and technology and resources to design it and then move energetically ahead to create it - our 'Godly' idea of a more perfect world.

Onward to Eden. That's my slogan and it gives me a real feeling of purpose. How about you? What do you think?


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Answer 6

There is a basic theology that God is not God unless there is something to be God of. God created, and then has sought through the ages to be in conection with that creation. The point is ultimately love.

Answer 7

All things are created by God and for God

Answer 8

To create another God. For a companion. If he can just get one good person to germinate into a higher life form out of all of us it would be lovely.

Answer 9

It's pretty obvious, isn't it?

He spent all those billions of years making the earth, the dinosaurs, the volcanoes, the birds, the mice, the turtles, the zebras, the gorillas, the cave men (and women!), neanderthals, and us, just so we could get into petty rows with each other and he could answer our stupid prayers (God -- please give me a pony for my birthday and I'll be good for the rest of my life). I'm sure he's thrilled that after all that evolution, he's *finally* got something important to do!

Sheesh!

Answer 10

When a couple know that they will have a baby they will start preparing a room for him, start buying things, cloths and toys, and even thinking about his/her school and whatever other things they may do.

God thoughts about us (human), and loved us then He created the earth and everything in it special for us.

This is why.