Why would God create living creatures for them to serve him?

Question

If he created the universe, isn't it a bit weird that he he needs such insignificant creatures serving him?

What are we possibly able to do that a "creator" would need help with?

Does he just need a bunch of creatures feeding his ego or something?

Answer 1

You asked: "Why would God create living creatures for them to serve him?"

It is odd during communion God wants us to serve himself to all of us! And why does he taste so bland?

"Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that god is a cruel and capricious tyrant."
— Edward Gibbon (1737-94)

Sorry, reminded me of that old Twilight Zone episode, "To Serve Man" about the aliens who come to earth to help man and they leave behind a book. All we can decipher is the title "To Serve Man" so we think they are trustworthy, only to discover it was a cookbook!

To answer your question.

"The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by H.Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of his creations, that he can be persuaded by their prayers, and becomes petulant if he does not receive this flattery. Yet this ridiculous notion, without one real shred of evidence to bolster it, has gone on to found one of the oldest, largest and least productive industries in history."
— Lazarus Long

God was created in OUR image so it shouldn't be surprising that he would have the same insecurities that we possess! He is an angry god, He is a vain god. He is a jealous god. He is a spiteful god. He is a cruel god. He is a judgmental god. He is all-powerful being yet emotionally very insecure - not a good combination! He is so vain and hateful that if you don’t acknowledge his son is the Savior, you will spend eternity in the fiery infernos of hell. He is a god that craves being the center of attention and demands worship! In this way He is no different than his creators, if not worse.

So long as man remains free, he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship. But man seeks to worship what is established beyond dispute, so that all men would agree at once to worship it. For these pitiful creatures are concerned not only to find what one or the other can worship, but to find something that all would believe in and worship; what is essential is that all may be together in it. This craving for community of worship is the chief misery of every man individually and of all humanity from the beginning of time. For the sake of common worship, they've slain each other with the sword. They have set up gods and challenged one another, "Put away your gods and come and worship ours, or we will kill you and your gods!" And so it will be to the end of the world, even when gods disappear from the earth; they will fall down before idols just the same.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky; (1821-1881)

“What the mind doesn’t understand it worships or fears.”
— Alice Walker

"It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him."
— Arthur C. Clarke

“Homo religious invents religious symbols, which he venerates and worships to save him from facing the finality of his death and dissolution. He devises paradise fictions to provide succor and support.... In acts of supreme self-deception, at various times and in various places he has been willing to profess belief in the most incredible myths because of what they have promised him.”
— Paul Kurtz

“Over the years I realized the god I prayed to was the god I invented. When I was talking to him, I was talking to myself. He had no understanding or qualities that I did not have. When I realized god was an extension of my imagination, I stopped praying to him."
— Howard Kreisner

“A sober, devout man will interpret 'God's will' soberly and devoutly. A fanatic, with bloodshot mind, will interpret 'God's will' fanatically. Men of extreme, illogical views will interpret 'God's will' in eccentric fashion. Kindly, charitable, generous men will interpret 'God's will' according to their character.”
— E. Haldeman-Julius

EACH nation has created a god, and the god has always resembled his creators. He hated and loved what they hated and loved, and he was invariably found on the side of those in power. Each god was intensely patriotic, and detested all nations but his own. All these gods demanded praise, flattery, and worship. Most of them were pleased with sacrifice, and the smell of innocent blood has ever been considered a divine perfume. All these gods have insisted upon having a vast number of priests, and the priests have always insisted upon being supported by the people, and the principal business of these priests has been to boast about their god, and to insist that he could easily vanquish all the other gods put together.
— Robert G. Ingersoll, (1872)

The god of the Christians, as we have seen, is the god who makes promises only to break them; who sends them pestilence and disease in order to heal them; a god who demoralizes mankind in order to improve it. A god who created man "after his own image", and still the origin of evil in man is not accredited to him.
— Johann Most, "The God Pestilence"

"Nothing is so pleasing to these gods as the butchery of unbelievers. Nothing so enrages them, even now, as to have someone deny their existence."
— Robert G. Ingersoll, (1872)

"Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is the history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind."
— Thomas Paine (1737-1809)

I know of no book which has been a source of brutality and sadistic conduct, both public and private, that can compare with the Bible.
— James Paget,

Strange...a God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied seventy times seven and invented Hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally with altogether divine obtuseness, invites this poor, abused slave to worship him!
— Mark Twain

If God created flawed beings, how then can He go on to blame them for their flaws?
— James Halloran

Answer 2

I truly believe, God came up with an idea and made it happen, he created the universe, Earth the leading planet, with living beings,creatures, and organisms. The reason he did this is because he has the power, if you had his power wouldn't creating be a cool idea?

Now you ask what are we possibly able to do that the "creator would need help with" Well he needs us now to clean up the planet, basically if you do or don't keep the planet clean our duty know is to keep the planet clean

Good Luck

Feeding his ego I don't think so, but I tell you this by abiding to his word, through his own words, Moses, and Jesus you will be feeding your ego. What a wonderful part of yourself to share by giving something back to God. Help him where you are capable. Spread the word where necessary, It brings joy and happiness into your life and everyone elses.

Answer 3

Exactly, and that includes emotional and intellectual needs as well. Is God so emotionally insecure that he had to create things to love him? But then, why is he always punishing and killing people?

And, if he needed company or someone to talk to, why didn’t he make us a little smarter? I mean, instead of billions of stupid humans, couldn’t he have built one ‘superhuman’? At least that way he could have an intelligent conversation.

It makes you wonder if – assuming Gods exist - maybe the Christian God isn’t really an adult God. Maybe he is just a sadistic little punk who is going to get his butt kicked when his parents get home and find out what he has been doing.

Answer 4

It was His interest that He create everything. So that His creatures know Him.
God was a Hidden treasure,
He willed to Know about Him,
Thus He create His Creatures.

All His creatures praise His Glory. Let men too, praise Him. He is above all. But man'n arrogance is greater than what he is. Pride belongs to God alone and He is not in need of anyone but everyone needs Him.

Answer 5

Since when is anything God makes insignificant.

Does the pot ask the potter why this or that?

Your idea of serving seems that of a maid.

The idea of serving for God is on the realm of Mother Teresa, or any one willing to share their life for the common good of society.
Simple giving someone a hand to help them in anyway, is serving.
Next time you help set the table for your family, your serving, out of love, not out of being Hazel the maid.
Next time someones car breaks down, and you give them a lift, your serving them.

God needs our help, cause many are out there that simply want nothing to do with his Love, thats us serving him bringing them to the truth. We can identify with others that are being lead by God.

Man has the ego trip, its called selfishness.

Answer 6

He does not need our help. It is other way around. And He knows it. We would have the power to heal the sick if we wanted Him to help us, but no, we tend to rather deny Him and blame all kind of things on Him anyway.

He needs human partners under the free will.

It is not His ego that is in trouble.

Answer 7

It is rather pathetic, but then again remember the god of the bible was modelled on a dictator of the times.

I mean does anyone think their children are here to serve them, actually maybe some of the more conservative members of society do...

Answer 8

Like anyone who creates a thing He had a need for a part of his being to find expression. In all that existed before He created all of this, there was nothing that could know the full measure of His grace. There was no sin to be forgiven, so how could He express the depth of His grace and love? So He created all of this to have us to love, and heap upon us more grace than we could ever possibly fathom.

Answer 9

Let's take a step back.

Why would God create? ...or even, Why would God do anything?

God is perfect, right? Unchanging? Everything? Infinite? Free of desire?

So why would it ever DO anything if everything is already perfect and it has no desires? Even wanting to "give love" to others is a desire. It wasn't for our sake; we didn't even exist yet.

*sigh*...

I have fully abandoned this God...

Answer 10

because you cant be god without being worshiped. look what happened to Zeus, Hera, Aphrodite, Apollo, Anubis, Isis, Selket, Amen, and all the other dead god, gods, goddess's. you need to be worshiped to even be a god in the first place or else you dont exist or turn into a myth. people think we need god/gods/goddess...but in a strange twist the gods need the humans to be a god.

Answer 11

First you have to define "serve". If by serve you mean bow down and worship and kiss the floor, he doesn't need that. The way I understand things is, being a perfect being, there's no way for him to improve himself. Now that would be pretty boring in the long run, always staying at the status quo. So, he created us as his children, and helps us to become better and better. In that way he is glorified through us, as we become more and more glorified. We sorta reflect his greatness when we do whats right.