Reading God\'s mind (The nature of a \'Creator\')

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Tuesday, December 18, 2012, 22:06 (4356 days ago) @ dhw


> 1) If God's intention in creating life was to create humans, what do you think was his intention in creating humans?-First, I must interject here that, at least from a biblical standpoint, the creation of humanity, in and of itself, may not have been the ultimate purpose. There are indications of this in the biblical texts. To point to the four most outstanding clues; there is the creation of mankind (and their purpose), the end of a creation cycle, the derailment of the intended plan, and the promise of 'opening new scrolls' or revealing more information later. All of these are laid out quite clearly in the text. -Reference: Gen 1:28 The purpose of mankind was to be the caretaker of the earth.
 Gen 2:3 God takes a break from 'all his work that god has created for the purpose of his making.(implies there is a larger purpose of which humans play a part)
 Gen 3 The whole show goes on pause as his right to universal sovereignty is questioned. 
 Rev 10:6,7 The seventh scroll was not revealed in the book of Revelation, but it was stated as relating to God's original purpose and specifically states that it had been 'delayed' and after this issue is settled up 'will be delayed no longer'.-The reason that I mention all of this is to offer a fourth possibility to your list of reasons that God created human's: That it is part of a larger plan that was put on hold to deal with this issue before continuing on with fulfilling a larger purpose of which we are ignorant of. -> 2) If the Big Bang was the beginning of our universe, but God is an eternal, self-aware energy, what do you think he would have been doing with himself in the eternity before he organized the Big Bang?-Who knows? Perhaps, initially he was simply thinking, reveling in the fact that he existed at all. Perhaps, after a time he got bored and began to create as a means of expressing himself. Perhaps, after seeing how wonderful it was, he became aware that he was alone and grew lonely, leading him to create his son, his firstborn. Perhaps the experience of love shared was so great, so intoxicating that he wanted to create more thinking creatures so that they could experience it as well, a sort of love amplified by numbers. I really do not know, and it is all speculation.

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What is the purpose of living? How about, 'to reduce needless suffering. It seems to me to be a worthy purpose.