What is God's purpose for the earth? why did he create it?

Question

If all he wanted was more spirit persons in heaven why didn't he just make more?
Did he go to this much trouble to make the earth just to burn it up? That doesn't make any sense.

Answer 1

"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" -Isaiah 45:18

"The righteous themselves will possess the earth,
And they will reside forever upon it." -Psalm 37:29

"“Happy are the mild-tempered ones, since they will inherit the earth." -Matthew 5:5

"For the upright are the ones that will reside in the earth, and the blameless are the ones that will be left over in it." -Proverbs 2:21

What did God tell Adam and Eve to do in the garden of Eden? He told them to have offspring and to fill the earth and subdue the earth. (Genesis 1:28) What do you think it meant to subdue the earth (see Genesis 2:15)? There is a coming earthly paradise, despite what the churches have erroneosly taught in the face of the scriptures that I provided above.

"the earth is standing even to time indefinite." Ecclesiastes 1:4; see also Psalm 104:5; 119:90

Answer 2

GOD’S purpose for the earth is really wonderful. Jehovah wants the earth to be filled with happy, healthy people. The Bible says that “God planted a garden in Eden” and that he “made to grow . . . every tree desirable to one’s sight and good for food.” After God created the first man and woman, Adam and Eve, He put them in that lovely home and told them: “Be fruitful and become many and fill the earth and subdue it.” (Genesis 1:28; 2:8, 9, 15) So it was God’s purpose that humans have children, extend the boundaries of that garden home earth wide, and take care of the animals.

2 Do you think that Jehovah God’s purpose for people to live in an earthly paradise will ever be realized? “I have even spoken it,” God declares, “I shall also do it.” (Isaiah 46:9-11; 55:11) Yes, what God purposes he will surely do! He says that he “did not create [the earth] simply for nothing” but “formed it even to be inhabited.” (Isaiah 45:18) What kind of people did God want to live on the earth? And for how long did he want them to live here? The Bible answers: “The righteous themselves will possess the earth, and they will reside forever upon it.”—Psalm 37:29; Revelation 21:3, 4.

Answer 3

Be fruitful and become many and fill the earth and subdue it.(Genesis 1:28; 2:8, 9, 15)
The righteous themselves will possess the earth, and they will reside forever upon it.—Psalm 37:29
There are new heavens and a new earth that we are awaiting according to [God’s] promise, and in these righteousness is to dwell.” (2 Peter 3:13; Isaiah 65:17) Sometimes when the Bible speaks of “the earth,” it means the people who live on the earth. (Genesis 11:1) So the righteous “new earth” is a society of people who receive God’s approval.
the earth will be rid of wicked people and the remaining righteous ones will live here as God originally PURPOSED.
When God says He's going to do something, he will.

Answer 4

Why did He create majestic mountains, large oceans, beautiful trees, lakes, rivers, and creeks and ponds? Why did He create all this beauty and give it life? Why not just dirt?

Why would He go to sooo much effort to not only make so many kinds of trees, and plant life, but also many kinds of animals, and birds in the skies and fish in the waters? and to fill the oceans with sea life? Why not empty seas, and empty waters, and skies? What purpose would any of these things serve without mankind to make good use of it & enjoy It? He did it all for us.

The earth is not what is important to God, we are. Why is it so difficult for people on this earth to love one another, to do what is good to each other, to be kind and have compassion on others? That's all God has asked from the beginning.

That's really not that much to ask in return, for giving us sooo much, if you ask me.

Do people on this earth really go through that much trouble trying to destroy the earth we were all given,by killing each other,destroying God's creation, and all the many kinds of evil that goes on every day, all for the love evil, and the love of money? why do some people live just to fight, steal, and destroy/kill one another?

Why do so many people live their day to day life ignoring the hungry and the hurting? Why so much sinning? After being given so much without even having to ask, yet the wicked choose their own destruction, when God has clearly told us what He would do if we don't repent. Yet in His mercy, He has had compassion and provided us a way out by sending His Son, And even still, many on this earth will continue in their wicked ways. THAT doesn't make any sense to me.

Answer 5

1. God created humans to have fellowship with Him
2. The earth and everything in it was created for the benefit of mankind. Even the sun, moon and stars were created for our benefit -read Genesis 1 and 2
3. The earth must be and will be burnt up, along with the heavens, because mankind's sin has completely polluted everything and made it impure and, as we all know, nothing purifies better than fire. That way God can then create the new heaven and earth -without sin and death and disease- as He promised.
4. Trouble? God created everything from nothing by speaking it all into existence. I seriously doubt he was strained by the creation activity.
5. If you wish to know who God is, what He is like and why He does things then read the Bible; it's God's Word and His written revelation to us all.

Answer 6

It makes no sense. It is a wonder that people actually believe in it.

A logical explanation like the notion that the Earth is a product of cosmological and astronomical events is just too too scientific. Oh well. The Earth will be gone one day, but in the meantime, She sure is pretty!

Blessings,
Lady Morgana )0(

Answer 7

The earth was made for us and we were made for God. Before sin entered the picture he would walk the earth with Adam and Eve, talking and laughing with them. After sin entered the picture man was separated from God. He's been reaching out to us ever since, hoping we'll reach back.

Answer 8

God purposed and created earth for you. Everything He designed (plants, trees, air, water etc.) was for you. Man was created for God. And God created man's dwelling place to perfectly suitable for him. That's why the bible says The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof." 1 Corinth. 10:26

Answer 9

The earth is a saint making machine. Ask any athlete and they will tell you that resistance training is essential to get stronger - the spirit is no different. God is to wise to be wrong and to good to be cruel. Each adversity and challenge in life is an opportunity to stretch and grow; to become more and better. Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

Answer 10

Praise to God who created the world and made it a mortal, unstable and uncertain house the residents of which keep changing and under going ups and downs , wretched and miserable are those who are deceived by the fleeting and transient pleasures and attractions of this world.