why did god create the earth?

Question

why did he put people on it? why didn't he just create people in heaven? what's with this whole song and dance we have to do to get to heaven?

for the record, i don't believe in god or heaven, i just like to try and understand religions

Guppy - i'm pagan, so yes, i'm very concerned about the earth

Answer 1

Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.
4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness.

I hope you believe in the earth...
so get busy saving it from pollution.

Answer 2

God is in basic terms no longer contained in the class of "issues that have been created". the 2d regulation of Thermodynamics proves that what all of us comprehend through fact the universe has no longer continually existed. If it grow to be eternal, then it would be in a state of entropy, through fact it relatively is dropping functional capability. There are in straight forward terms 4 obtainable motives for the life of the universe. a million) It emerged spontaneously out of no longer something (won't be in a position to be authentic, from no longer something, no longer something comes) 2) that's an phantasm in our minds and we in straight forward terms think of that's there (the incontrovertible fact that issues may be properly measured and anticipated shows that it is not an phantasm) 3) It might desire to have continually been there (no, 2d regulation of TD skill that it wasn't continually right here) 4) somebody or some thing exterior the universe exercised a tension extra desirable than the universe at its optimal 2d, and introduced it into life if your cousin has an option, enable's hear it. If from no longer something, no longer something comes, then God (a writer) had to be there contained in the initiating. If there grow to be no longer something contained in the initiating, then no longer something might have EVER been created.

Answer 3

According to the Bible, at Isaiah 45:18 "For this is what Jehovah has said, the Creator of the heavens, He the [true] God, the Former of the earth and the Maker of it, He the One who firmly established it, who did not create it simply for nothing, who formed it even to be inhabited: “I am Jehovah, and there is no one else.'"
God created the earth to be inhabited by happy, healthy people. That was His original purpose when He created Adam and Eve. And that is still His purpose for us now. Psalm 37:29 states:29 "The righteous themselves will possess the earth, And they will reside forever upon it. "
It didn't say we would live here until we go to heaven, it says we would live on earth forever. In fact, when God created Adam, he gave him the command to take care of the earth, as stated at Genesis 1:26 And God went on to say: “Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness, and let them have in subjection the fish of the sea and the flying creatures of the heavens and the domestic animals and all the earth and every moving animal that is moving upon the earth.” God's purpose for Adam was that he be caretaker of the earth and of the animals. Nothing is said about him going to heaven.
God created spirit creatures, angels, to be with Him in heaven. The bible holds out a hope for a small number to rule in heaven with Jesus. Revelation 14:1-3 states:And I saw, and, look! the Lamb standing upon the Mount Zion, and with him a hundred and forty-four thousand having his name and the name of his Father written on their foreheads. 2 And I heard a sound out of heaven as the sound of many waters and as the sound of loud thunder; and the sound that I heard was as of singers who accompany themselves on the harp playing on their harps. 3 And they are singing as if a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders; and no one was able to master that song but the hundred and forty-four thousand, who have been bought from the earth.
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Answer 4

The Bible answers: (Isaiah 45:18) “. . .For this is what Jehovah has said, the Creator of the heavens, He the [true] God, the Former of the earth and the Maker of it, He the One who firmly established it, who did not create it simply for nothing, who formed it even to be inhabited: . . .”

The purpose for humanity is quite plain and it is not for humans to live in heaven......Humans were to live forever on earth. The idea of the immortality of the human soul does not originate in the Bible.... (Genesis 1:26-28) “. . .And God went on to say: “Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness, and let them have in subjection the fish of the sea and the flying creatures of the heavens and the domestic animals and all the earth and every moving animal that is moving upon the earth.” 27 And God proceeded to create the man in his image, in God’s image he created him; male and female he created them. 28 Further, God blessed them and God said to them: “Be fruitful and become many and fill the earth and subdue it, and have in subjection the fish of the sea and the flying creatures of the heavens and every living creature that is moving upon the earth.””

Man was to live forever unless he disobeyed...and then he would die.....not go to heaven or "hell" for torment.
(Genesis 2:17) “17 But as for the tree of the knowledge of good and bad you must not eat from it, for in the day you eat from it you will positively die.””

There are a lot of people who do not like this simple truth. They believe instead the original lie: (Genesis 3:4) “4 At this the serpent said to the woman: “YOU positively will not die.. . .”

Answer 5

According to the Bible, he created it to be inhabited.

"For this is what Jehovah has said, the Creator of the heavens, He the true God, the Former of the earth and the Maker of it, He the One who firmly established it, who did not create it simply for nothing, who formed it even to be inhabited: “I am Jehovah, and there is no one else." - Isaiah 45:18.

"As regards the heavens, to Jehovah the heavens belong,
But the earth he has given to the sons of men." - Psalm 115:16.

"Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth." - Jesus Christ, Matthew 5:5.

Answer 6

Its my thought that he put us here so we can understand love and hate be able to tell the difference and through it all those who still love after its all said and done, who still have faith get to rejoice in heaven where there is nothing but love. But until we experience it, we could never appreciate it.

Answer 7

So his creation could worship Him... / The first humans (Adam and Eve) were in paradise(almost heaven) but after they sinned they were sent to earth/ There is no dance to go there... Just believe the Jesus is your saviour... I suggest you email me... to know more about God..pls... I'll be waiting... [e-mail]

Answer 8

Once upon a time, at the very beginning of our times, Almighty God was feeling lonely and bored, but He did not want to stay idle nor to become more and more lazy, therefore He decided to start on one more of His experiments which He would call the Life Experiment. First of all He created a huge "inorganic" world, an inorganic Universe, as a platform on which to place His experiment, and so He spawned many glowing glimmers or puffs of Life on some parts of that platform.

So Life was there, in the form of innumerable individual divine sparks or glimmers, and Life had a nano-quantity of the same spark of life-will of her father Almighty God, but there was no digestible organic food for Life to live on and to be more active and so to develop. Therefore Life started eating itself, became utmost cannibalistic because of blunt desperation, because of not wanting to remain at the perennial idle and boring stage of a nano-glimmer where it had been started.

Almighty God could see that the Experiment was not yet so lucky, therefore He went on spraying more and more glimmers of Life on His world-platform, and those glimmers of Life went on always fighting and trying to devour each other until some of them became very big, even huge, or even more or less invisible, while some others disappeared after being ingested or just destroyed by the more fiercy prevailing ones.

Then there was a moment in the evolution of life where some life-expressions became people, what we now know as people, and those people, like all other more or less equally lay-outed huge and small beasts of the world, and even plants, went on feasting on each other, ever subduing and even exterminating the less strong opponents, until some of them could reach some degrees of development of their own which they would call civilizations.

The story of all this is endlessly long and utmost painful and bloody, so we need to simplify. We start from the biblical God. We may say that a Semitic tribe contrived Him as their own God Creator in their own image and so declared that He had created them in His own image and made them His favorite people, the Elected People of God. Then that Semitic tribe went on recording their annals in a series of books which by some modern ones were called Pentateuch or just Holy Bible and which are known unto us as the Bible, eventually with the New Testament for those among us who subscribe unto Christendom. Some other Semitic leader did not much agree and so they contrived the Holy Quran, but that is another story. Some other people in the World had other stories about their creation and vicissitudes, but we do not know much about that, and I am not sure we would be allowed or approved by our own certified creed leaders to become too curious about them.

If you are one of ours you may hope to go to yonder Heaven when you die if you in your living life have duly observed all the Holy Precepts, participated in the Holy Rituals, and if you have paid the required tithe. In yonder Heaven you will then be allowed to enjoy the ever glowing dazzling blessed nearness of Almighty God's presence, and of His Angels.

If you by chance have conducted a sinful scandalous life you will be stopped up at Heaven's huge Gate by the helpers of Saint Peter who will firmly deliver you unto the impatient merciless hands of ... the nasty helpers of ferocious ever grinning Satan ... who will hurl you down into the ever burning scorching Hell's fire for eternal damnation.

A fable for ... adults, for strong souls?. Good luck unto you!

Answer 9

The more important question here is: Why are there other planets besides Earth that seem to (at this point) serve no purpose?

Answer 10

Imagine Stephen King as a child, playing with ants and a magnifying glass, and you'll get the picture.