If God exists, why did he create life? (The nature of a \'Creator\')

by David Turell , Tuesday, January 04, 2011, 00:46 (5071 days ago) @ dhw

David says that if God's purpose "was to create us, the plan is over." I would simply take it one step further, and ask why he created us ... and would suggest that if the plan is over, all that remains is the spectacle.
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> If we follow this line of reasoning, the important question then becomes, not whether God exists, but whether his existence actually matters. An impersonal God for whom individual lives are of no significance might just as well not be there, so why should we as individuals bother with him?-Theodicy is a tough area to think about. Whatever is God may certainly be impersonal. We don't know that the concerned God of religions is real. Adler left it at a 50/50 proposition that God cared for the individual. Changing the Earth from a big rock to what we have now, allows life, but it also requires all of the dangerous events that have occurred and are still ocurring. Even if God doesn't care, He has given us life to experience and enjoy. To my mind that is a great gift all by itself.