Did God create humans just to see if his friends like him for who is?

Question

This is the basic story I get from Christianity. God was lonely so he creates existence. He created angels to worship him and do stuff for him but he feel like they just do stuff for him because he makes them do stuff for him.

So because God is unsure if they angels really love him he creates man to see if one of his creations would choose to love him.

Is that basically what the story is?

Answer 1

Yep.

We're an experiment.

Kinda makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside don't it?

Never stop questioning. Never stop wondering.

Answer 2

Not really, the angels who do stuff for him do so because they want to, not because they have to. They have free will just like humans, that is how Lucifer could rebel against God and convince a third of the angels to join him in the coup attempt. God creates all intelligent beings with free will. Humans are just one of the beings.

Answer 3

Ego can be a good thing. The desire for self-expression,
creativity. God brought ego into being and therefore had the desire to be known. Kind of like your constant need for attention.

Answer 4

Free will. I agree with the Muslim, though.

All else makes no sense, unless God is a 'butler'.

Answer 5

Sounds like someone is projecting themself onto God.

Answer 6

i m a muslim, and we believe that God only created us to worship him...thats alll.. full stop! .

Answer 7

It sounds like something that would happen to someone with no "true" friends.

Answer 8

No. You put a human spin on the Divine Nature. God is sheer brilliance, beauty, harmony, wisdom, and so many carefully guarded characteristics. He has infinite and infallible integrity and a greater aptitude for love and creative splendor than any of us finite people. God existed in eternity in glory. But He devised a beautiful creation that He wanted all of his creatures to partake in. There is no one who does not love God in purity. It's not possible not to love Him. There is no uncertainty in that.

It is the impurity created by evil that entered into the Divine Creation and distorted the Truth about Divine Beings, and closed off the hearts of gullible men and woman to the truth about Him.

God had to devise a testing for man to extract out of the evil world those who would be fit for his kingdom. The simplest part of the test is simply to love Him, to call upon Him and ask for a pathway to be a good son to Him. And through his guidance, you can not fail.

It is not God that the angels worship, but the love that He has for them. And so it is for men. You will see this in your own lifetime just as the Psalmist wrote:

I will give you glory, O God my King, I will bless your name forever.

I will bless you day after day and praise your name for ever. The Lord is great, highly to be praised, his greatness cannot be measured.

Age to age shall proclaim your works, shall declare your mighty deeds. They shall speak of your splendor and your glory, and tell the tale of your wonderful works.

They will speak of your terrible deeds, recount your greatness and might. They will recall your abundant goodness; age to age shall ring out your justice.

The Lord is kind and full of compassion, slow to anger, abounding in love. How good is the Lord to all, compassionate to all of his creatures.

All of your creatures will thank you, O Lord. Your friends shall repeat their blessing. They shall speak of the glory of your reign and declare your might O Lord. [...] Yours is an everlasting kingdom and your rule lasts from age to age.

St Paul writes: Christ must reign until God has put all enemies under his feet, and the last enemy to be destroyed is death.


St John writes in Revelations a vision of heaven:
7:9. After this, I saw a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations and tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and in sight of the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands.

7:10. And they cried with a loud voice, saying: Salvation to our God, who sitteth upon the throne and to the Lamb.

7:11. And all the angels stood round about the throne and the ancients and the four living creatures. And they fell down before the throne upon their faces and adored God,

7:12. Saying: Amen. Benediction and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving, honour and power and strength, to our God, for ever and ever. Amen.

7:13. And one of the ancients answered and said to me: These that are clothed in white robes, who are they? And whence came they?

7:14. And I said to him: My Lord, thou knowest. And he said to me: These are they who are come out of great tribulation and have washed their robes and have made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

7:15. Therefore, they are before the throne of God: and they serve him day and night in his temple. And he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell over them.

7:16. They shall no more hunger nor thirst: neither shall the sun fall on them, nor any heat.


7:17. For the Lamb, which is in the midst of the throne, shall rule them and shall lead them to the fountains of the waters of life: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.

And it is in the Book of Revelations that the prophecy reads that the Rider on the White Horse comes forth, clothed in the white linen, the pure deeds of all the saints. "On his cloak and on his thigh was written: King of kings, and Lord of lords. To Him be glory and power forever." With one Word from Him, death and hell are burnt up, and exist no longer. And so will be the end of this age, with the last generation. And all will praise His Name, Alleluia!

John's Gospel:
1:10. He was in the world: and the world was made by him: and the world knew him not.

1:11. He came unto his own: and his own received him not.

1:12. But as many as received him, he gave them power to be made the sons of God, to them that believe in his name.

1:13. Who are born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

1:14. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us (and we saw his glory, the glory as it were of the only begotten of the Father), full of grace and truth.

John's Testimony:
1:3. That which we have seen and have heard, we declare unto you: that you also may have fellowship with us and our fellowship may be with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.

He made us to have fellowship with Him, His love is so great.