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Why Did God Create Humanity?

Skwim

Skwim

Veteran Member
Town Heretic said:
The inferential there isn't difficult if you have a modest familiarity with one of the religions you're intent on dismissing. The illustration in the second sentence is almost a complete quote from the Bible, John 15:13, "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." This is an important understanding within the context of the cross, but even if you don't know that all you have to do is connect the first sentence, which is the posit, with the second sentence, which is an illustration of it, to understand the answer, accept it or not.

You can say the moon is a vegetable. Same impact and objective support.

But, given I simply mirrored and broadened your own remark you get points for unintended humor, again. To extend your point so that even you won't miss it, everyone is preaching within this sort of context (an internet chatroom dedicated to religious debate) and everyone has a soapbox/pulpit.

Rather, I answered inquiry with a speculation that is a reflection of one approach or context for the question. A context you invited when you wrote, "Be creative if you wish or pull you answers from the religious book of your choice."
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Do men know their valuations to be true or do they believe them to be? Are they empirically, demonstrably true or simply consistent or inconsistent within their framework? I'd argue the latter is mostly the case with value. Broadly, social compacts tend to honor self-sacrifice above more selfish motivations, at least in principle. We set aside our highest military honor for those whose actions could be said to evidence the understanding of my Biblical paraphrase, by way of example. We give higher praise to someone who gives what they have over those who give what they can easily spare, even if that latter amount is greater in literal value than the former.

I don't get upset about the comments of strangers in an internet chat room. This is fun. But I do feel free to inferentially note hypocrisy and/or an unintended humor in a given complaint.
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Sorry, but your tiresome prolixity, inability to face critical comment, and digression into irrelevancies is just too much.

Have a good day.
 
Town Heretic

Town Heretic

Temporarily out of order
Skwim said:
Sorry, but your tiresome prolixity, inability to face critical comment,
and digression into irrelevancies is just too much.
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In order: you could have written that more succinctly, no such animal in my profession, and that's a reasonable way to describe entering this conversation. So not a complete whiff then.
Have a good day.
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So far, so good.
 
HekaMa'atRa

HekaMa'atRa

Member
Kemetic tradition tells us that humans were created as a byproduct of Amun Ra's emotions and we were literally formed from his tears - which I think is very fitting since we're emotional animals :D - and on a darker note, all the suffering we bring to the world :(.
 
viole

viole

Ontological Naturalist
Premium Member
Skwim said:
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


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and looking for attention
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I tend to exclude boredom. If He is omniscient, then I do not see what is so thrilling about knowing in advance the unfoding of all events He started.

Ciao

- viole
 
U

Useless2015

Active Member
Skwim said:
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


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and looking for attention
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To worship Him.


“I have created the jinn and humankind only for My worship.” (Quran 51:56)
 
chinu

chinu

chinu
Skwim said:
Now that's one hell of a waste of time and materials.
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Of course it is. Yes :)
"He" want that one day you may realize this and take your step towards re-union with from where we all started the journey of life in the beginning.
 
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Oldsoul

Oldsoul

Member
God took a glimpse into the future. . He saw panicked when he realized he had a son on the way...(Jesus).

After a mighty migraine. .(the first migraine in history)
He thought to himself.. "Both of us under the same roof?"..
Another glimpse into the future revealed Jesus disappearing after curfew. . Hanging out in the temple. . Taunting the elders and such.. "
God was like..


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So the creation of man was a clever ploy to cut to the birth of Mary and Joseph .. a kind.. loving family to take baby Jesus off God's hands for those first thirty years till he matured.

Duhhhh!!
 
ThePainefulTruth

ThePainefulTruth

Romantic-Cynic
Skwim said:
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
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Close. I think even God (being just One) would need/want to have the ability to be surprised or delighted, and even be disappointed. I think God was looking for companionship, with creatures who would choose to be worthy of that companionship of their own free will--rather than just robots/angels that were just following their programming. That of course would mean some would not be worthy of that companionship. How do we so choose, by being honest, moral companions with other humans, naturally, of our own free will, without divine coaching. If we were to hear God say thus and so, that would spoil the test--free will would be tainted. An omnipotent God could do anything, besides creating creatures with free will, instantly, thus the universe.

Spiny Norman said:
God has a strange way of loving us though. Cancer, disease, famine, war, genocide, crime etc etc.
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Suffering and death are part of the test. And they are also continuing examples of God's commitment to our all important free will. BTW, God, if It exists, doesn't create evil, evil people choose to do it.

Skwim said:
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.
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Again, those of our own kind create evil. Suffering is not good for us, it's just the sometime consequence of free will.
 
Ultimatum

Ultimatum

Classical Liberal
genesis9 said:
ok op
I created humankind because I create
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Troll.

Saint Frankenstein said:
Love. Love is the ultimate creative force and a Being that is Love can't help but create other beings to share this love with. That's not just pertaining to humanity, either. That goes for all living beings.
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How is "love" the ultimate creative force? And you talk about "all" living beings--what about the living beings that cause death and destruction to those that love God?

Thana said:
I'm more inclined to believe that watching our incessant stupidity would be tedious and disheartening rather than humorous.
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Incorrect! If it was so tedious and disheartening, why not start again? Or why doesn't he make himself comfortable with a giant God playground or use his omniscience to force uplifting emotions into his mind?
 
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