Why did God create us?

Question

If there is a God, why did he create us? Was he lonely?

Come on Triforce this is why I keep slowly losing my respect for atheists. I asked if their was a God, you should just answer it as it is.

Come on Shirley I love God I just ask these questions to keep people on their toes.

Answer 1

Think back, you have a past as we all do. Think back to a time, when you made someone happy, just for the littest thing. Maybe you brought your parents breakfast in bed when you were 5, or maybe you were there for someone when they needed you most. Or maybe, you just smiled at someone, and changed their day. You created a happy memory, how amazing does that feel? Giving life, and the chance to life it? Oh my god, I can't even imagine how amazing I would feel being able to give someone that. Ask any mother, child birth is hell, but it is so amazing, because you're giving life. There are tears for a reason.

-Question religion and the concept all of the time, its so important , and it helps you to understand yourself and what you believe to be your purpose. You do not have to follow and organized religion, I don't. Although I follow most pagan ideas, I have changed things to fit me, and who I am. Think about it. Im not saying become pagan by all means, but question, an try to find what you love, and your purpose.

Answer 2

I like the answers I found here and I think you'll agree it is sound Biblical doctrine; "... “for His pleasure.” Revelation 4:11 says, “Thou hast created all things, and for Thy pleasure they are and were created.” Colossians 1:16 reiterates the point: “All things were created by Him and for Him.”
Being made in the image and likeness of God (Genesis 1:27), human beings have the ability to know God—and therefore love Him, worship Him, serve Him, and fellowship with Him. God did not create human beings because He needed them. As God, He needs nothing. In all eternity past, He felt no loneliness, so He was not looking for a “friend.” He loves us, but this is not the same as needing us. If we had never existed, God would still be God—the Unchanging One (Malachi 3:6).

The I AM THAT I AM (Exodus 3:14) was never dissatisfied with His own eternal existence. When He made the universe, He did what pleased Him, and since God is perfect, His action was perfect. “It was very good” (Genesis 1:31).

Also, God did not create “peers” or beings equal to Himself. Logically, He could not do so. If God were to create another being of equal power, intelligence, and perfection, then He would cease to be the One True God for the simple reason that there would be two gods—and that would be an impossibility. “The Lord He is God; there is none else beside Him” (Deuteronomy 4:35). Anything that God creates must of necessity be lesser than He. The thing made can never be greater than the One who made it.

Recognizing the complete sovereignty and holiness of God, we are amazed that He would take man and “crown him with glory and honor” (Psalm 8:5), and that He would condescend to call us “friends” (John 15:14-15)."

Answer 3

The Universe would be a lonely place for a creative God if there was no other creative beings capable of appreciating it and His creativity.

He is building a remnant of peaceful people who don't want to live in eternal war!
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Isaiah 65:18 But be glad and rejoice forever in what I will create, for I will create Jerusalem to be a delight and its people a joy. 19 I will rejoice over Jerusalem and take delight in my people...
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Answer 4

Because he could. We are so insignificant and could never understand what a being like g-d thinks or does. Torah suggeststhat we are here to create goodness in teh world and bring heaven to earth-- Tor bring G-d's ways to earth and make our world holy.
We could be an experiment, but I think that we are created in G-d image and our purpose will never be known,

Answer 5

Well, we evolved to create a god to ask questions about it later on in the history of the world on Yahoo Answers.

Answer 6

God created us to know Him, to love Him, and to serve Him in this world and to be happy with Him in the next.

And He wasn't lonely, He wanted to share His happiness with us because He was utterly happy just as He was with nothing.

Answer 7

Revelation 4:11
"Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created."

Answer 8

God created you because He loved you, and He wants you to love Him back...but He cannot force anyone to Love Him because He created you with a free will, and True Love is offered freely and unconditionally...Thus, your purpose is to find Him, Love Him...and if you Love Him, you will do His will which is love your fellow man and fulfill His Divine plan for you.

It's as simple as that...God Bless :-)

Answer 9

He created man so that eventually he could via man, experience physical reality.

Answer 10

O my heedless self! If you would like to understand to some degree the aim of your life and its nature, its apparent form and meaning, and the perfect happiness in your life, then look! The aims of your life can be summarized as the following nine articles:

The first is that you should weigh up on the scales of the senses established in your body the bounties stored up in the treasuries of the Divine Mercy, and offer general thanks on behalf of all your body.

The second is that, through the feelings, tendencies and faculties embedded in your nature, you should discover the hidden treasuries—the works and manifestations—of the Divine Sacred Names, and recognize the Most Holy One through those Names.

The third is that in this place of exhibition—the world—you should consciously display through your life before the whole creation the subtle manifestations of the Divine Names in your being [such as your senses, faculties and abilities].

The fourth is that you should proclaim your worship and servant-hood to the Court of the Creator’s Lordship verbally and through the tongue of your disposition.

The fifth is that you should do like a soldier who, appearing on ceremonial occasions before the king with the decorations he has received from him, displays the marks of the king’s favor towards him. You should consciously adorn yourself in the “jewels” of subtle human senses and faculties embedded in your being through the manifestations of the Divine Names and present yourself to the view of the Eternal Witness.

The sixth is that the main purpose for the creation of living beings is that they should worship and glorify their Creator. They fulfill this duty by submission to Him—by obeying, consciously or unconsciously, the laws He established for their lives. Thus, you should consciously observe the obedience of living beings to their Creator—their glorification and worship of Him—and reflect on them and acknowledge them through testifying to them.

The seventh is that, through taking as units of measurement the small samples of attributes like the partial knowledge, power and will given to your life, you should recognize the absolute Attributes and sacred qualities of the Majestic Creator. For example, seeing that by using your partial knowledge, will and power, you have made a beautiful, well-ordered house for yourself , you should know that the Maker of this palace of the universe is powerful, wise and capable to the degree it is greater than your house.

The eighth is that you should understand the speech of each being in the world in its particular tongue concerning the Oneness of the Creator, the Lordship of the Maker.

The ninth is that from your impotence and weakness, and poverty and neediness, you should infer the degrees of the manifestations of the Divine Power and the Richness of the Lord. Just as the pleasures and varieties of food are understood or distinguished in relation to the degrees of hunger and kinds of need, so too you should understand the degrees of the infinite Divine Power and Richness through your infinite impotence and poverty.