Did God created us to worship HIM?

Question

I always wonder what are we actually doing here on this planet which happened to be his creation also. Just to live? Or did HE created us because HE need someone to worship HIM? I Why are we actually here? there must be a reason right?

Why should we glorify him? If we are here to worship him, can I disobey? Dont create us then as simple as that. I dont think we are here to worship him. If at all he wants that, then why should we die 1 day? so that another worshipper will come? There is something that he wants to accomplish. I dont think he created us just for the sake of worshipping him, its definitely more than that. We are basically in a drama stage and he is up there watching us laughing. :P

Answer 1

There will never be a true and accurate answer to the reason we are here. Biologocally speaking, all animals are only living to survive and reproduce (I like this idea, especially the second part). God is just an easy answer for people who NEED a reason to live. Now, asking about why a god would create us is a deep question, but unfortunetly, I have no answer because I am athiest.

Answer 2

God created us out of love.

Sin entered into the picture, and instead of destroying the human race He gave us the option of returning to Him because we choose to love and obey Him. We are here to learn to love as God loves and one day He will take those who have chosen Him out of this situation and create a new earth (2 Peter 3:13, Rev. 21:1) for us where there is no more suffering from sin.

Worship is for our benefit, not God's. He knows who and what He is. We often forget and go about our own lives like there's nothing else that matters - self-centered...just plain selfish. Worship draws our minds to think on God and that lifts us out of the "me" focus.

Look at the big picture. Why would Jesus come to earth to die for our sins to redeem us if He didn't love us? For worship? No, easier to just destroy the whole lot of us and start over. It doesn't make sense unless it was love. "God is love" (1 John 4: 8 & 16) not selfishness.

Answer 3

Yes, I believe their is a reason.

I think he wanted to show his great and wonderful love, power, and glory. He created man to do this. Angels and other heavenly creatures already worship God, and they were created to worship him. I think he wanted to create something that would worship him by FREE WILL. He wanted to create something that would demonstrate his all encompassing power over this world and all that inhabits it. Through man he shows other beings his true greatness, power, and most of all, LOVE. I believe that the angels look at us and wonder how beings that are so ignorant(in their eyes), and so unworthy(of Gods Love), and so beneath them(the angels) could be so special in Gods eyes. They probably wonder why God keeps loving and guiding us when we constantly mess up. Could God be demonstrating his love and power to the fallen angels. Could he be rubbing it in the enemy's face that creatures beneath him shall have it all. That we will have glory, peace, and love with God(through Jesus), while the enemy has nothing.

I have accepted the fact that I will not have all my questions answered, nor know the whole story, until I see him in His Kingdom.

Answer 4

God created each of us for His pleasure.
He wants a family. But wow, there is a bigger reason why we are here, right now, today
(directly from the orig manuscripts)
Before Adam and Eve, there was another earth age; yes, we were all present then. Satan was to guard the throne that was reserved for the Christ. Satan started a great war, because he wanted to be the Begotten Son of God, instead of Jesus. So the war was great, and a third of our people went with satan, then a great portion of us stayed neutral - they didn't care as long as it didn't affect them (whats new, huh?) and then there was a group who stayed on the side of God, who are called His Elect.
Satan was defeated, and God could have just killed the one third that followed him, but what does it take to kill one of your own? that you love? So instead, God ended that Heaven and earth age, and brought in the second age -this one we live in now. We are here to make a fair choice of who we will ultimately follow; satan or Christ. This is why people are given free will, and also why Satan, although already judged and condemned to death, is being kept around; because in order for you to make a choice, you need a comparitor. God will not interfere with the free will of man, and thats why it seems as if when horrible things happen to good people, that God doesn't care. He cares very much, but it is essential that He step aside and let man go in the way that his heart takes him, and that the choice is made by each person.
God is in control; He sees whats going on, and believe me, nobody is getting away with anything. When Christ returns, this time it will not be to be crucified - no, this time He's coming back as a King and with a rod of iron. Theres gonna be alot of correction going on, and a 1000 year period of teaching and of disipline, both of which are badly needed.
After that period of teaching, the judgement will occur. Nobody is gonna go to hell before they have had every opportunity to learn the truth.
Its not that you will get a second chance = its just that many people don't have a first chance to learn the truth, with the tripe thats being taught (or better said, real truth not being taught) even in the churches.
So as simple as it is, thats why we are here:
because so many of his people rebelled, it caused the necessity of free will and of making that final choice.
(for the scholar, yes I know the Elect do not have free will).

Answer 5

The obligation of God's creation to give to Him all honor, praise, adoration, and glory due Him because He is the holy and divine creator. Worship is to be given to God only (Exodus 20:3; Matt. 4:10). Jesus, being God in flesh (John 1:1,14 ; Col. 2:9), was worshipped (Matt. 2:2,11; 14:33; John 9:35-38; Heb. 1:6).

Answer 6

We are here to glorify God and have a relationship with him serving him. Also God wants to love us. We were created to have a relationship with him but sin has gotten in the way.

Answer 7

Yes we were created by God and for God. To Glorify Him

Answer 8

Human beings are created to know God. He instilled in us a thirst that will not be satisfied until we reach out to Him for companionship and love. Paul wrote in Philippians 3:8 (NAS), "More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ."
We were created to have an intimate, loving relationship with the Lord? and to bring Him glory. Paying respect with our gifts and good works is a natural extension of that design. But our primary responsibility is to spend time with Him.

Answer 9

Certainly not, but eventually to bask in the wonderful radiations emitted by Him if and when we ever reach paradise. In His creation and the advent of humanity, God has endowed mankind with a soul which has the inbuilt intrinsic characteristic to seek Him out and once one recognizes Him them adoration is the next logical step.

Answer 10

he created us to have beings that could fellowship with Him on His own level ...we were created in His image ... no other beings were .. not even the angels ... and we are here because we have a free will by design ...we are tested and tried here .. the ones that choose that which is right will go on to be with God where He is ..