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What Motivated the Gods to Create Man?

Nakosis

Non-Binary Physicalist
Premium Member
Why did God or the Gods create humans?

According to your belief, why is humankind here?
Or if we weren't created by a God per your beliefs how did we come to exist?

Was God lonely. Did God need worshipers. Was God bored and needed entertainment?
Was humanity an accident? The result of some experiment?

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Jacob Samuelson

Active Member
I believe that God creates humans for the same way humans create humans. Survival. God wouldn't be God if he didn't have something or someone to consider him God. Humans follow a similar pathway, yet we also find that apart from survival, we enjoy our creations. I find purpose being a father to my kids and I could imagine that purpose is felt in God as well with his creations.

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Regiomontanus

Eastern Orthodox
Why did God or the Gods create humans?

According to your belief, why is humankind here?
Or if we weren't created by a God per your beliefs how did we come to exist?

Was God lonely. Did God need worshipers. Was God bored and needed entertainment?
Was humanity an accident? The result of some experiment?

233974-Robert-A-Heinlein-Quote-God-created-men-to-test-the-souls-of-women.jpg

He created the cosmos out of Love, of course.
 
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an anarchist

Your local loco.
Why did God or the Gods create humans?

According to your belief, why is humankind here?
Or if we weren't created by a God per your beliefs how did we come to exist?

Was God lonely. Did God need worshipers. Was God bored and needed entertainment?
Was humanity an accident? The result of some experiment?

233974-Robert-A-Heinlein-Quote-God-created-men-to-test-the-souls-of-women.jpg
Genesis 1
26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

God created us to be the Godlike creatures who could rule over the animals in His stead. So I guess we have a created role we are supposed to play, but we bit a certain fruit and things took a tailspin from there.
Why did God create man for this purpose? No clue! Certainly He could have fulfilled this role Himself. Right?
 

osgart

Nothing my eye, Something for sure
To not be alone, to experience love, peace, and Joy. To have fellowship, friendship, and to relate in endless ways.

To explore, and discover. To conquer existence for the cause of life. To reach out into the great beyond. To find other Gods.

Iow, there was nothing better to do. God was just making do with the things available to come up with stuff for the heck of it. To see if anything could function.

A grande experiment of trial and error.

Just tapping away at the universal keyboard.

Heaven got boring!
 

paarsurrey

Veteran Member
"Why did God - create humans?":

Quran Verse- 67:1
بِسۡمِ اللّٰہِ الرَّحۡمٰنِ الرَّحِیۡمِ﴿۱﴾
In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful.
67:2
تَبٰرَکَ الَّذِیۡ بِیَدِہِ الۡمُلۡکُ ۫ وَ ہُوَ عَلٰی کُلِّ شَیۡءٍ قَدِیۡرُ ۣۙ﴿۲﴾
Blessed is He in Whose hand is the kingdom, and He has power over all things;
67:3
الَّذِیۡ خَلَقَ الۡمَوۡتَ وَ الۡحَیٰوۃَ لِیَبۡلُوَکُمۡ اَیُّکُمۡ اَحۡسَنُ عَمَلًا ؕ وَ ہُوَ الۡعَزِیۡزُ الۡغَفُوۡرُ ۙ﴿۳﴾
Who has created death and life that He might try you — which of you is best in deeds; and He is the Mighty, the Most Forgiving.
Holy Quran: Read, Listen and Search
Right?

Regards
 

dybmh

ויהי מבדיל בין מים למים
I don’t believe that God created people.

I’m thinking it was evolution, but I could be wrong.
Would it change your answer if the question was asked differently? Perhaps, why did God have the idea of creating people?
 

Hockeycowboy

Witness for Jehovah
Premium Member
If you’re like most people, you enjoy being alive. It’s a loving gift.

That’s the reason.

All of us have it rough, at times. But it only lasts 70 to 90 years.
Some of us, like in Sudan etc,. have it really rough! And life is shorter.

But when the Resurrection arrives (Acts of the Apostles 24:15), everyone will enjoy life as it was intended! — Isaiah 33:24 “And no resident will say: “I am sick.” The people dwelling in the land will be pardoned for their error.”
 

Brian2

Veteran Member
Genesis 1
26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

God created us to be the Godlike creatures who could rule over the animals in His stead. So I guess we have a created role we are supposed to play, but we bit a certain fruit and things took a tailspin from there.
Why did God create man for this purpose? No clue! Certainly He could have fulfilled this role Himself. Right?

He could have fulfilled the role Himself but the reason He created this environment was for us. He did not need us for anything. It is for our sake that God created us.
 

Truthseeker

Non-debating member when I can help myself
He could have fulfilled the role Himself but the reason He created this environment was for us. He did not need us for anything. It is for our sake that God created us.
Yes, that's right.

Consider the mercy of God and His gifts. He enjoineth upon you that which shall profit you, though He Himself can well dispense with all creatures. Your evil doings can never harm Us, neither can your good works profit Us. We summon you wholly for the sake of God. To this every man of understanding and insight will testify.
(The Kitáb-i-Aqdas)
 

rational experiences

Veteran Member
Man scientists said space was a womb holding the God bodies in it.

O like the ovaries of a human natural man's mother. What wasn't a God had been a destroyed God he said. O no body.

Reasoning. Father's memories after the ice age human are not the theist scientist. Baby ovary born brother man was. Theist scientist.

Modern day scientist.

Theisms humans discussing the name he imposed upon the gods.

So he him his man men theoried God owning man men he him his God quotes. Human theism. Of men humans

As he quantified what a God was as a man scientist and said his thesis owned the knowledge why the gods existed. As you have to see a God to talk about it.

As if he theoried invented their presence. By thinking about them.

No different from any egotist human man theist before him.

As he did personally pretend as a human that his thoughts knew created creation by mens words. Descriptions. Analogues. And naming evaluations.

An analogy he says. Forgetting science God fallout irradiated his life and he lost knowledge of science by God conditions.

How he is self possessed by mens science quotes today theorising.

Why his brother had to quote no man is God.

Once you remove he him his man men brothers father's status human out of science quotes you see he was lying.

The scientist human the ist. Men.

So when he heard feedback attack of life of humans attacked he said A men.

The theists as his brothers.

Knowing men had agreed to cause it to the alpha one status A man.

As man is one self first every man.

Men in cult group invented the sciences of God.

The science of God stated was why man's life was sacrificed as it was a confession. Of the scientists.

As stone O the planet existed first for a man to own a body of bones like the substance planet.

Why God stone is associated to mans body type and not wood or microbes.

As evidence no man is God a God or created by God. Stone.

Reason. When we die all that gets left with God is a bone skeleton as our end.

Gases mass own no cell.
Water is mass also gods spirits.

Gases burning as light gets one way voided out not in.

Why a man's science theory about God was proven wrong.

Our consciousness supported advised by CH gas heavens first.

Men's status I looked and saw and theoried.
 

Mock Turtle

Oh my, did I say that!
Premium Member
Why did God or the Gods create humans?
They got fed up with all the others they created - Neanderthals and such - and wiped them all out so as to give Homo sapiens a head start? Or, the Gods never existed and this just happened naturally, as it tends to do with most other species when their niche as to survival does a runner. :oops:
 

Aupmanyav

Be your own guru
Why did God or the Gods create humans?
"An idle mind is devil's workshop."
Sarmad said "la ilahi" - There is no God (Sarmad Kashani, Sufi, 1590–1661, beheaded for not reciting the rest of the verse).
 
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TransmutingSoul

One Planet, One People, Please!
Premium Member
Why did God or the Gods create humans?

According to your belief, why is humankind here?
Or if we weren't created by a God per your beliefs how did we come to exist?

Was God lonely. Did God need worshipers. Was God bored and needed entertainment?
Was humanity an accident? The result of some experiment?

I see it is all about Love.

"God has created His servants in order that they may love and associate with each other. He has revealed the glorious splendor of His sun of love in the world of humanity. The cause of the creation of the phenomenal world is love."

‘Abdu’l-Bahá, The Promulgation of Universal Peace, p. 297

The highest attainment to knowledge in this matrix, is to know and Love God.

Regards Tony
 

Nakosis

Non-Binary Physicalist
Premium Member
Genesis 1
26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

God created us to be the Godlike creatures who could rule over the animals in His stead. So I guess we have a created role we are supposed to play, but we bit a certain fruit and things took a tailspin from there.
Why did God create man for this purpose? No clue! Certainly He could have fulfilled this role Himself. Right?

So God created this world and we were supposed um... be its caretakers?
Can't say we've been doing a stellar job of it.
 

Nakosis

Non-Binary Physicalist
Premium Member
If you’re like most people, you enjoy being alive. It’s a loving gift.

That’s the reason.

All of us have it rough, at times. But it only lasts 70 to 90 years.
Some of us, like in Sudan etc,. have it really rough! And life is shorter.

But when the Resurrection arrives (Acts of the Apostles 24:15), everyone will enjoy life as it was intended! — Isaiah 33:24 “And no resident will say: “I am sick.” The people dwelling in the land will be pardoned for their error.”

Why wait until the Resurrection? Why not just create this utopia now?
 

1213

Well-Known Member
Why did God or the Gods create humans?
...

I believe the reason is love, because:

But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you, that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.
Mat. 5:44-45
 
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