This is what I believe: God, infinitely perfect and blessed in himself, in a plan of sheer goodness freely created man to make him share in his own blessed life. For this reason, at every time and in every place, God draws close to man. He calls man to seek him, to know him, to love him with all his strength. He calls together all men, scattered and divided by sin, into the unity of his family, the Church. To accomplish this, when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son as Redeemer and Savior. In his Son and through him, he invites men to become, in the Holy Spirit, his adopted children and thus heirs of his blessed life.
Now, tell me what YOU believe.
(source: http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/ )
2007-07-25 04:46:28 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yep, that's in "Catechism of the Catholic Church". The life of man...is to know and love God. This is also what i firmly believe.
~PhoeniX~
2007-07-25 04:59:17 · answer #1 · answered by Spurious 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If god is perfect and complete in himself, there's no reason to think he needed anything. What do you give someone who has everything? If we had never been created, what would he or we be lacking? How can we miss what we never had? Was it like he was thinking "I'm so wonderful, I think I'll create some people so they can worship and adore me"? Have you ever thought about all of the lifeless planets and all of his love and goodness that the people he never created there are missing out on? What does he get from our existance if he is infinite? Fuel for the furnace in his basement? According to some stories, that's all some of us are good for and the nasty part is, he knew who we were before he created us. Isn't God wonderful?
2007-07-25 12:03:46 · answer #2 · answered by Boris Bumpley 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God created man in His image.
Since that sentence seems left open wide for attack,
I must say that the Bible tells us that our Father in Heaven did not want to be alone. So God created earth, and man.
His son was to pay the price for our sins. Thank the Lord above for sending Him. Tried and true, anybody who argues against God, should actually study the Bible thoroughly. The truth shall set them free? (Corny, but true...)
2007-07-25 11:56:05 · answer #3 · answered by C Sunshine 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1) to worship Him and follow his Commandments:
[56] And I (Allâh) created not the jinn and mankind except that they should worship Me (Alone).
[57] I seek not any provision from them nor do I ask that they should feed Me
Quran 51:56-57
and the saved one are those who believed in God worshiping him alone, accept all the prophets of God including Jesus son of Mary, do good deeds, give charity and follow God commandments.
2007-07-25 11:52:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God created man to perform the one thing God can not do.
Worship God.
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2007-07-25 11:54:21 · answer #5 · answered by lunatic 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can see this. I believe that we are God here to experience God's knowledge. For: knowledge is nothing without experience. God is Almighty by has not experienced it. Nay, is doing so through us. God is Us. We are God, as are All things. God created this world and universe by means of relativity. In Heaven, from whence we came, there is no sin/bad/evil. We are One There. And, here, there is relativity: there is not fat without skinny, no big without small, no "good" without "bad" in which All are equal. All contribute to the knowing of God. God wants to know who He/She is/are. We are God's Self. For God to know Who God Is, God must know what God is not. So: We are here to experience God in what God is not. None of it is "bad". It serves a divine purpose to help us remember as we take this forgetful perspective for and as God.
That is what I believe. That we are here to experience Who We Are, to experience for God as Gods. Jesus said we are Gods and the sons and daughters of God. Is this so different?
2007-07-25 11:56:24 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would agree, but question how you define "his family, the church" when Scripture defines the church as the Christian collective, regardless of the church corporate they attend.
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2007-07-25 11:59:33 · answer #7 · answered by Hogie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
he didn't
god does not exist
man evolved from a common ancestor shared with apes about 7 million years ago
2007-07-25 11:50:02 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
why the hell did god create man?
I've asked that question quite often. ;)
2007-07-25 11:56:39 · answer #9 · answered by Annieaa 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God is imaginary
2007-07-25 11:55:06 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋