Spring has declared its magnificence through the pink cherry blossoms showering its beauty in my garden. Finishing my lunch and the familiar thought that has been haunting me for the last few months flooded in yet again.
I get how God created Man but what I want to know is WHY God created men in the first place.
You ask the most interesting questions
I am new at this and I want to make sure I get this right as for most of my adult life I have been searching and I must admit I did not hear nor was ready to hear until now.
Excellent!
Is that you God?
Are you ready to hear the answer?
Oh Yes please.
I simply created Man just for my pleasure and since you are now ready, check out the Bible (Revelation 4:11)
You are saying you simply love to create?
Yes, I do and I have also asserted it in (Colossians 1:16)
I am a personal Being and I want to create other beings so that I can relate with them in a genuine way. And when I relate to you I am then glorified through this relationship. That is why you are made in the image and likeness of Me (Genesis 1:27) so that through this relationship you glorify Me
Let me try and distil this in human terms. What you are saying is: the purpose of Man, as created by you, is simply to glorify you?
Correct
Please forgive me for pointing this out - to the non-believers it can sound quite narcissistic?
To those who have not heard the Word they may think that way, but to you try this.
I have made you in the image and likeness of Me and if you explore what these two words mean you will then finally hear Me.
Image of Me: I have made Man different from all other animals on earth. For the others I made them with my Word, I spoke the Word and it was created (Genesis 1:3, 14, 20, 24). They came from no-thing. But for you Man, I made you out of a combination of physical (dust) and meta-physical (my breath of life). It is this meta-physical or spiritual part of you that sets you apart from the animal world. It gives you dominion over the earth AND enables you to commune and relate to Me your Maker.
Likeness of Me: Now that I have established the channel for you to commune with Me through the image of Me in you, then you are made in "likeness" of Me so that you can experience the likeness of Me mentally, morally and socially.
Before I go further you must first understand the word "I" or "Me" This word refers to Me your God. When all is said I can be expressed in one word "LOVE". If you then replace the word "I" or "Me" with "Love" then the purpose of your being on earth is to glorify "love" because God is Love. It's through the experience of love that you truly know yourself and thus know Me or know "Love".
You are created with the mental capacity to choose and through this choice you express the highest version of who you are by being like Me. Every time your create music, you invent a machine, express your creativity through art, invent the iPad, or iPhone you are glorifying me through expressions of this mental creativeness.
You reflect My holiness and perfection (Genesis 1:31) every time you live uprightly and reject evil, feels guilty and practices or praises good behaviour you approve the character in Me.
I created Eve (Genesis 2:18) to enable you to have company and to multiply beings on earth for the purpose of extending the experience of Me through your relationships with each other. This socialness of Me, is experienced again and again every time you procreate, you hug a child, make a friend, genuinely laugh or make someone laugh or simply offering a free smile to a stranger. Every time you do that you glorify Me or in short you have glorified God.
So every time you praise Me and commune with Me, use your mental, moral and social side of you for good, you have utilised LOVE and shared LOVE and as a consequence you glorify the image and likeness of Me. In short you glorify God and that makes Me happy.
I simply love to create love.
Get it?
Wow..... thank you, I get it.
What you are saying is we are here to express LOVE and the only way todo that is to experience it by giving it away. As when you give love you have already experienced love because for love receiving is in its giving. By doing this we then reflect the image and likeness of God through you or in earthy terms you are the embodiment of LOVE.
Well done........ talk next time.
I get how God created Man but what I want to know is WHY God created men in the first place.
You ask the most interesting questions
I am new at this and I want to make sure I get this right as for most of my adult life I have been searching and I must admit I did not hear nor was ready to hear until now.
Excellent!
Is that you God?
Are you ready to hear the answer?
Oh Yes please.
I simply created Man just for my pleasure and since you are now ready, check out the Bible (Revelation 4:11)
You are saying you simply love to create?
Yes, I do and I have also asserted it in (Colossians 1:16)
I am a personal Being and I want to create other beings so that I can relate with them in a genuine way. And when I relate to you I am then glorified through this relationship. That is why you are made in the image and likeness of Me (Genesis 1:27) so that through this relationship you glorify Me
Let me try and distil this in human terms. What you are saying is: the purpose of Man, as created by you, is simply to glorify you?
Correct
Please forgive me for pointing this out - to the non-believers it can sound quite narcissistic?
To those who have not heard the Word they may think that way, but to you try this.
I have made you in the image and likeness of Me and if you explore what these two words mean you will then finally hear Me.
Image of Me: I have made Man different from all other animals on earth. For the others I made them with my Word, I spoke the Word and it was created (Genesis 1:3, 14, 20, 24). They came from no-thing. But for you Man, I made you out of a combination of physical (dust) and meta-physical (my breath of life). It is this meta-physical or spiritual part of you that sets you apart from the animal world. It gives you dominion over the earth AND enables you to commune and relate to Me your Maker.
Likeness of Me: Now that I have established the channel for you to commune with Me through the image of Me in you, then you are made in "likeness" of Me so that you can experience the likeness of Me mentally, morally and socially.
Before I go further you must first understand the word "I" or "Me" This word refers to Me your God. When all is said I can be expressed in one word "LOVE". If you then replace the word "I" or "Me" with "Love" then the purpose of your being on earth is to glorify "love" because God is Love. It's through the experience of love that you truly know yourself and thus know Me or know "Love".
You are created with the mental capacity to choose and through this choice you express the highest version of who you are by being like Me. Every time your create music, you invent a machine, express your creativity through art, invent the iPad, or iPhone you are glorifying me through expressions of this mental creativeness.
You reflect My holiness and perfection (Genesis 1:31) every time you live uprightly and reject evil, feels guilty and practices or praises good behaviour you approve the character in Me.
I created Eve (Genesis 2:18) to enable you to have company and to multiply beings on earth for the purpose of extending the experience of Me through your relationships with each other. This socialness of Me, is experienced again and again every time you procreate, you hug a child, make a friend, genuinely laugh or make someone laugh or simply offering a free smile to a stranger. Every time you do that you glorify Me or in short you have glorified God.
So every time you praise Me and commune with Me, use your mental, moral and social side of you for good, you have utilised LOVE and shared LOVE and as a consequence you glorify the image and likeness of Me. In short you glorify God and that makes Me happy.
I simply love to create love.
Get it?
Wow..... thank you, I get it.
What you are saying is we are here to express LOVE and the only way todo that is to experience it by giving it away. As when you give love you have already experienced love because for love receiving is in its giving. By doing this we then reflect the image and likeness of God through you or in earthy terms you are the embodiment of LOVE.
Well done........ talk next time.