Why are We Here?

[Skwim]

Think about this. If you follow my posts, that is.

How can I answer your question when I god does not exist? The best I can get out of the OP is "why are we created?"

I never asked the question. I never felt anyone created me on a "godly" level. So, why ask Why? and why god?

I figured that anyone who didn't think god created humans would simply skip the thread. Obviously I was wrong, which led me to post the following in post 13.

TO EVERYONE: IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE THAT GOD CREATED HUMANS DON'T BOTHER ANSWERING.
Thank You
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when we go on a holiday, do we ask why are we here ?.

Boy, I hope not. But just because you know why your action resulted in being somewhere doesn't mean you necessarily know why the action of someone else put something somewhere. Which is why I don't expect anyone really know why god supposedly did what he did unless he told them, but after coming across a couple of websites that claim they do know why god created humans, I was curious as to what people here might come up with.


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[Thief]

Why did god create humans?

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the body is a learning device
we are here to learn all that we can.....before we die

unique soul forms on each occasion

 

[Unveiled Artist]

I figured that anyone who didn't think god created humans would simply skip the thread. Obviously I was wrong, which led me to post the following in post 13.

Annoying, ain't it?

Happens all the time on my threads.

 

[Skwim]

The universe and sentient life were created to conduct a personality experiment. God wanted to become more. He wanted to experience many unique personalities. He could not do this by staying as He was which was all knowing God. So, He created a Son, they both created another being, Spirit. Then God created a universe and fragmented His form to give life to the life forms in that universe.

Got any evidence for these rather odd claims?


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[Skwim]

the body is a learning device
we are here to learn all that we can.....before we die unique soul forms on each occasion

So why did god bother to create these human learning devices in the first place?


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[Super Universe]

Got any evidence for these rather odd claims?


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Yes. The universe.

 

[Skwim]

Yes. The universe.

The universe "told" you that "[god] wanted to experience many unique personalities." Forgive me for not believing you.


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[Spiderman]

We are here to entertain God and play his stupid games

 

[Sleeppy]

The illusion of time (of free will), allows us lives and experiences of endless variety, in a space that is not only multi-dimensional, but expanding in the eye, and wholly unexplored.

 

[Skwim]

We are here to entertain God and play his stupid games

This sounds very rational. God was bored.


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[Thief]

So why did god bother to create these human learning devices in the first place?


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many believe God can be in more than one place at one time
that would be a Reflection.....and an Echo

the only way to form a unique spirit....
make a shell
breath life into it
turn it loose on the earth

 

[Skwim]

The illusion of time (of free will), allows us lives and experiences of endless variety, in a space that is not only multi-dimensional, but expanding in the eye, and wholly unexplored.

Nice, I guess, but why did god create humans?


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[jeager106]

Short answer without citations.
The first creation story in Genesis says that God created humans to have dominion over all living creatures. The second, and much earlier, creation story says that God created man to be the servant of the earth.

To date we have failed the second reason badly.
Perhaps that's why there is a Satan. Some entity to blame for human failings.

 

[whirlingmerc]

to reflect on and to reflect God's glory
to showcase God's glory and mercy
to enjoy God forever

 

[Kuzcotopia]

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TO EVERYONE: IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE THAT GOD CREATED HUMANS DON'T BOTHER ANSWERING.
Thank You
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Aww.

 

[arthra]

Why did God create humans?

We are on this plane of existence to reflect the attributes of God.

Among Baha'is is a daily prayer:

"I bear witness, O my God, that Thou hast created me to know Thee and to worship Thee.
I testify, at this moment, to my powerlessness and to Thy might, to my poverty and to Thy wealth.
There is none other God but Thee, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting."

Short Obligatory Prayer

 

[Skwim]

Short answer without citations.
The first creation story in Genesis says that God created humans to have dominion over all living creatures.

So god creates living creatures and figures he needs something (humans) to have dominion over them. Makes one wonder why these other living creatures need to be "dominioned" over in the first place, particularly when it was impossible to do---god never was able to make it happen.

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[psychoslice]

The question of why we are here has never been part of my thinking, it makes no sense to me, the same with the experience of being bored, I have never experienced it.

 

[Skwim]

to reflect on and to reflect God's glory
to showcase God's glory and mercy
to enjoy God forever

Pretty much an egoist then, this Christian god. "Praise me, revere me, honor me, extol me, exalt me, hail me, bow down and adulate me. I need to be liked." Hardly admirable an quality, but yeah, I can buy that.


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[Skwim]

We are on this plane of existence to reflect the attributes of God.

Among Baha'is is a daily prayer:

"I bear witness, O my God, that Thou hast created me to know Thee and to worship Thee.
I testify, at this moment, to my powerlessness and to Thy might, to my poverty and to Thy wealth.
There is none other God but Thee, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting."

So, what's in it for god to have humans reflect on his attributes?


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