Why Did God Create Humanity?

[Skwim]

That's it; just a simple question.

Be creative if you wish or pull you answers from the religious book of your choice.



Personally, I think he was bored

and looking for attention

 

[Terese]

He didn't. Kind of... Life found its way onto earth for reasons we don't yet know. Bacteria and stuff. We are a part of god, as well as nature and all things in the universe.

 

[Unveiled Artist]

That's it; just a simple question.

Be creative if you wish or pull you answers from the religious book of your choice.



Personally, I think he was bored

and looking for attention

Probably. If you were god, why would you have created humanity (if you did)?

 

[beenherebeforeagain]

6th grade science project.

 

[Skwim]

Probably. If you were god, why would you have created humanity (if you did)?

Because I was bored.

 

[arthra]

Why did God create humanity...?

There is a well known verse from the Arabic Hidden Words that Baha'u'llah revealed as He walked on the shores of the Tigris River:

O SON OF MAN!

I loved thy creation, hence I created thee. Wherefore, do thou love Me, that I may name thy name and fill thy soul with the spirit of life.

~ Baha'u'llah, The Arabic Hidden Words No. 4

 

[Unveiled Artist]

Dont know. I'd have to extend my imagination out a bit without any book of reference. Without any religious book, I cant see an entity having any human wants/needs to create anything. In other words, without the Book, the question doesnt make sense.

 

[George-ananda]

All the universe is a play/drama of Brahman's creative aspect. A play of finiteness to infiniteness. Why? - why do humans create art?

<my non-dual (God and creation are not-two) perspective>

Sorry, I know this was intended to be funny and mocking but I hope a serious answer is acceptable too.

 

[Thana]

That's it; just a simple question.

Be creative if you wish or pull you answers from the religious book of your choice.



Personally, I think he was bored

and looking for attention

Boredom? If one has the power of God, I'm sure they'd be able to conjure something more entertaining than humanity.

But I don't know the mind of God and won't presume to know it either.

 

[Town Heretic]

That's it; just a simple question.

Love requires an object upon which to express its nature. Greater love has no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friend.

 

[Skwim]

I loved thy creation, hence I created thee.

Sorry, but putting this in a more comprehensible form, "I loved your creation (not sure what creation he's talking about), therefore I made you." doesn't make sense. Need this explained.

All the universe is a play/drama of Brahman's creative aspect. A play of finiteness to infiniteness. Why? - why do humans create art?

Don't know how any answer would apply to the title question.

Boredom? If one has the power of God, I'm sure they'd be able to conjure something more entertaining than humanity.
But I don't know the mind of God and won't presume to know it either.

Yet you presume to know god's mind well enough to conclude that humanity wouldn't likely be entertaining enough for him.

Love requires an object upon which to express its nature. Greater love has no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friend.

The non-sequitur of the day.

 

[Town Heretic]

The non-sequitur of the day.

So that's two things you don't have a handle on, God and non-sequiturs. Good to know. Else, the first is a speculation informed by the latter. Or, working back to front, if love in perfection is sacrificial then man by his nature is the ideal object upon which or by which love perfected could be expressed.

 

[Thana]

Yet you presume to know god's mind well enough to conclude that humanity wouldn't likely be entertaining enough for him.

You caught me.

I figured you'd point that out instead of actually addressing what I said. I don't even know you and yet you're very predictable. Like I said, I doubt any thing even remotely God-like would find us the least bit entertaining.

 

[Skwim]

So that's two things you don't have a handle on, God and non-sequiturs. Good to know. Else, the first is a speculation informed by the latter. Or, working back to front, if love in perfection is sacrificial then man by his nature is the ideal object upon which or by which love perfected could be expressed.

Won't pretend to know what you have in mind when you say "love in perfection is sacrificial." or "love perfected" so I'll take it as just so much pulpit rhetoric, and ask how you know that " man by his nature is the ideal object." Sounds pretty arrogant coming from a mere mortal.

You caught me.

I figured you'd point that out instead of actually addressing what I said.

Didn't you actually say what I caught you saying?

I don't even know you and yet you're very predictable.

Yeah, I don't try to be inscrutable, enigmatic, or even deceptive.

Like I said, I doubt any thing even remotely God-like would find us the least bit entertaining.

Okay, So got any good guesses why he did the A&E thing?

 

[psychoslice]

God never did anything, its man that made up such a ridiculers idea, and now we are blaming a god that never existed.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Because I've been drinking, my answer is god was drunk and looking for some excitement so he made his own divine version of a clorox/aluminum foil bomb by putting the ingredients for the soup of life on Earth, and he is watching the pressure build in eager anticipation of the big kablooey that is coming.

 

[Rick O'Shez]

Here are God and Lucifer deciding to create Adam and Eve:

 

[Rick O'Shez]

Love requires an object upon which to express its nature.

God has a strange way of loving us though. Cancer, disease, famine, war, genocide, crime etc etc.

 

[Skwim]

God has a strange way of loving us though. Cancer, disease, famine, war, genocide, crime etc etc.

You misunderstand. Because god can do no bad these are, de facto, all good for us. In fact, as I understand the mechanics of it, the worse something appears the better it actually is.

 

[Nietzsche]

He didn't. Kind of... Life found its way onto earth for reasons we don't yet know. Bacteria and stuff. We are a part of god, as well as nature and all things in the universe.

So what're your opinions on the park, Dr. Malcom?