has free will, then why did he/she feel the need to create us? An omnipotent being would have no need or desire (those are human traits). This is a question about what would motivate an all powerful being to do anything. I find it hard to believe that god would create a universe full of beings to gaulk at his/her creation and offer their pathetic forms of praise to him/her - what satisfaction would this bring to an omnipotent being? My thought is; that we are here out of god's necessity to achieve the only pursuit concievable that would stir a notion of interest in an omnipotent being: that would be to make oneself, nonexistent. This would explain the reality that we live in as being comprised of infinite forms of being existing in an everchanging state for eternity. So, what motivated god to create conscious states of being (i.e. us, the universe, etc.)?
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2006-12-15 10:54:31 · 14 answers · asked by -skrowzdm- 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'll tell you why.
God is infinite, without beginning and without end. Everything that existed was God and nothing that existed was NOT God.
God was made entirely of the energy we call Love. Not the mixed up conditional love as we know it, but the fierce burning of Love powerful enough to create worlds.
God was fully aware of every aspect of His/Her Divinity. However, just as you may KNOW yourself to be a forgiving person but have no way to experience the ACT of forgiving without someone other than you to forgive, God could not EXPERIENCE every aspect of Himself/Herself.
Therefore God, working with the only substance that existed - God, subdivided Himself/Herself into an infinite number of individuations, granting them personalilties, consciousness and the gift of free-will. Free-will combined with a veil of forgetting caused these manifestations of God to perceive that they were individual entities completely separate from everything else, but this is just an illusion.
Therefore, you, I and all conscious creatures are direct manifestations of God, experiencing every aspect of Divinity and returning those experiences to the Creator. That is our purpose here.
Having free-will we are free to make the choices that form our experiences. God, being composed of pure, infinite Love, waits for us to experience all that we choose and in so doing to learn that the path back to the Creator is learning to love each manifestation of Himself/Herself just as the Creator does.
Some people still have a lot to learn, but the Creator's patience is infinite. No-one gets lost on the path back, nobody gets left behind. There is no hell. The one guarantee in the universe is indescribable joy in the arms of the infinite Love of the Creator.
2006-12-15 10:56:47 · answer #1 · answered by Elmer R 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
By virtue of what the Christian theist considers God to be, would that God have the desire to create the universe (or to do anything else for that matter)? Isn’t desire an intuitively human quality that such a “perfect being” would not exhibit? My theist friends are quick to say that God - in his sovereignty - acts without constraint of necessity and simply does as he desires. Of course, that still doesn’t answer the question of why. But let us suppose this argument is valid.
Assuming that God does as he desires, what could he possibly desire? Why would he desire what he desires? Would he desire his desires? If God is truly complete of himself, why would he need or desire to create man? What would be the point?
Consequently, I can substitute just about anything for the Christian God and achieve the same results. For example, I believe there are pink bunnies that live on the planet Mars who are responsible for the creation of the universe and control the destinies of all mankind. They are invisible, of course, but I know they are there and all my friends agree with me - so it must be true! And if you don’t believe in them as we do they will torture you for all eternity. Silly, isn’t it?
2006-12-15 11:01:05 · answer #2 · answered by jaden404 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is good, and it is the nature of goodness to diffuse itself.
God created us simply so that beings other than Himself could share in the infinite happiness that was His from all eternity.
Love gives to the other, simply for the sake of the other, and not for what one can get out of it.
It is a modern materialistic idea that all actions are motivated by some gain for oneself.
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2006-12-15 11:06:47 · answer #3 · answered by Catholic Philosopher 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
honestly!!! It replaced into something extra formal, yet I used to seek for suggestion from from Him even with the reason and when you consider that I kept ahead to my own ambition and needs, at the same time as He gave me avertisements I kept none and did my way going into more and more trubles! Into an end, interior of a deep depresion, He kept my existence (!!!) the very 2d I left away of all my deep needs... There, empty heart, i replaced into full of God's basic and Peace and Love - an complete New existence, a sparkling body, a sparkling imaginative and prescient over the previous and the destiny :) :) :) sure, he's my Saviour!!!
2016-11-26 21:45:49 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good question, I'm not sure. Myself, well, I'm a devoted, faithful Christian, and I'm not going to sit here and throw Scripture and Verses in your face because, frankly, I hate when people do that and it's not a good answer. I would have to say, and this is just my opinion and what I believe, is that God is so loving, so forgiving, and so pure, that He created us, and we're not meant to know why, and maybe we never will know. Maybe when we get to Heaven we'll know, maybe not. I believe that there are some things we're just not meant to know, never can know, and shouldn't bother trying to figure out. But it's good to ask questions and ponder the possibilities...
2006-12-15 10:59:16 · answer #5 · answered by Kiara 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God created man because of His nature. The heart of God is love and it is really frustrating to have a heart to love with and not to have anyone to love. God created man with free will because one of the desires of love is to be wanted and loved your self. This is not a conditional response or desire it is part of the dynamics of love.
As a result God created man so that we could be in a relationship with Him and He with us. Mankind is the winner all the way. We get to be provided for, in all areas and we are loved with God's perfect love that has nothing to do with our performance. We are loved completely just for who we are, even with all of our imperfections, all our mistakes and regardless of our past.
God created the universe to His own personal tastes and preferences. He did not create it so that man would enjoy it. He created the universe so that He can enjoy it. The fact that we can appreciate the tastes of God is a good thing in my opinion.
2006-12-15 11:13:36 · answer #6 · answered by David R 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well in the first place God does have emotions, that is why we have them.He states he is angry, jealous,that in no way takes away from Him.Yes He is Omnipotent.He is THE CREATOR
I believe His power is so great any thought He has becomes, thus such a Hugh universe.
2006-12-15 11:23:37 · answer #7 · answered by gwhiz1052 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If there is a all might god, who made us, but the question is who mad God, It's the Chicken and the egg thing.And why did God make us have so much pain the the world, Is it some big Science thing, and He is up there turning up the flame.??
2006-12-15 11:01:34 · answer #8 · answered by bamatoyboi 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To me creation is inherit of God, it flows from him, that is his existence, in a sense, all that the light touches becomes filled with life. Our goal should be to become light and give life to all that our light unveils in the darkness.
2006-12-15 11:09:20 · answer #9 · answered by guidedlight 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My explanation is:
We, as humans, cannot comprehend the mind of God any more than a grasshopper can comprehend the mind of man.
I can appreciate the eco-system and the grasshopper's part in it.
2006-12-15 10:59:14 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋