Why Did Yahweh Create Mankind

[manichunter]

Why did Yahweh create man.
Elohim is Yahweh "LORD", the self existing one who stands independent of anything else. However, this same God is love, hence He desired to share His affections with a people as His own that could love Him back in the same capacity He loved them.

1.Eph 1:3-11, He created us for His good pleasure. His nature is such that He is eternal, wholly spiritual, and unselfish. Hence He needed to birth, not create a creature that was compatible with Him. This creature would need to eternal, wholly spiritual, and unselfish as He is in order to eternally fellowship with a Holy God (Lev 19:2; 2 Cor 6:14, 1 Thess 5:5; 1 John 1:1-7).

2.Starting with Man Gen 1:26 and Gen 2:18-22, Man was CREATED as (Matt 19:4-6; Matt 22: 28-30) neither male nor female in a sculptured and reflective fashion that shared some of the attributes and aspects of God, but not His character . Man did have a limited glory that he lost (Gen 3:1-8). That was okay, because God's original plan had already incorporated this fall from position of man and man eventual redemption (Rev 13:8; Rom 8:28-30). It was never His end game in the first place starting with Adam (Gen 2:16, 17). God prophesied the fall because He did not say if, but when you do. Man was given an immortal soul, eternal spirit, but a temporal body from the start for a reason.

3.Now comes the Son Yeshua who is of and the same as the Father. Jesus is not in the image and likeness of Yahweh. He is Yahweh in completeness (John 8:58, 59). He is also man in completeness (1 John 4:3). Hence He the bridge between Yahweh and man that allows man direct access to God in an established birthed sonship.

4.Jesus was a first fruit and first begotten of the sons of Yahweh that came through Him by a spiritual birth brought about by Holy Spirit (1 John 4:9; 1 John 5:1; 1 John 3:1,2; John 3:3-8; 1 Corinthians 15: 20-50).

5.Now we shall be as He is, not a created image or likeness, but genuine sonship and kinship is established. The hier of salvation shall be revealed. The heirs of salvations are those who God knew would recieve His gift of sonship. The sons of condemnation are those who God knew would reject His gift of sonship. (Matt 22:1-14; Rev 3:5, 6)

6.This is why man was created to be a wholly spiritual, eternal, and unselfish creature existing in a loving relationship with Yahweh. This man will have the nature of God which the first Adam lacked but Jesus had as the second Adam.
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[cyberjosh]

I think, in a word, we were created (as the Bible says) for God's glory.

God Bless,

~Josh

 

[manichunter]

yes sir.................

 

[Vic C.]

I think, in a word, we were created (as the Bible says) for God's glory.

God Bless,

~Josh

Thread killer! :

 

[cyberjosh]

yes sir.................

Thread killer! :

Heh, now that I think about it this (glory) was the topic of today's sermon this morning at our Church. Our pastor was out of town so one of our elders preached, and he preached a phenomenal message on God's glory and started out with Isaiah 66:18 where it speaks of God's plan for all nations to see God's glory. God has a grand plan in action and it is unstoppable and exciting. It's a good thing to be among God's children.

God Bless,

~Josh

 

[Catholic Crusader]

I hope you guys don't mind if I answer the OP "Why Did Yahweh Create Mankind" by quoting my "second" favorite book:

CCC 1 - God, infinitely perfect and blessed in himself, in a plan of sheer goodness freely created man to make him share in his own blessed life. For this reason, at every time and in every place, God draws close to man. He calls man to seek him, to know him, to love him with all his strength. He calls together all men, scattered and divided by sin, into the unity of his family, the Church. To accomplish this, when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son as Redeemer and Savior. In his Son and through him, he invites men to become, in the Holy Spirit, his adopted children and thus heirs of his blessed life.

CCC 2 - So that this call should resound throughout the world, Christ sent forth the apostles he had chosen, commissioning them to proclaim the gospel: "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age." Strengthened by this mission, the apostles "went forth and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by the signs that attended it."

Source:
The Life of Manâ€â€To Know and Love God (Catechism Of The Catholic Church):
http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/prologue.htm

 

[Catholic Crusader]

I think, in a word, we were created (as the Bible says) for God's glory.
God Bless,~Josh

For once I strongly disagree with you. God is perfectly glorious in Himself, and our existance cannot add one drop to God's Glory. No, God created us in an act of love, and our purpose is to share in His life and love.

 

[DavidLee]

I think, in a word, we were created (as the Bible says) for God's glory.
God Bless,~Josh

For once I strongly disagree with you. God is perfectly glorious in Himself, and our existance cannot add one drop to God's Glory. No, God created us in an act of love, and our purpose is to share in His life and love.

I think you are both right:

“Everyone who is called by My name, And whom I have created for My glory, Whom I have formed, even whom I have made.â€Ââ€Â
(Isaiah 43:7 NASB)

“He said to Me, “You are My Servant, Israel, In Whom I will show My glory.â€Ââ€Â
(Isaiah 49:3 NASB)

““And I will set My glory among the nations; and all the nations will see My judgment which I have executed and My hand which I have laid on them.â€Â
(Ezekiel 39:21 NASB)

God created us to show His glory. We do not make Him glorious.

 

[cyberjosh]

I think, in a word, we were created (as the Bible says) for God's glory.
God Bless,~Josh

For once I strongly disagree with you. God is perfectly glorious in Himself, and our existance cannot add one drop to God's Glory. No, God created us in an act of love, and our purpose is to share in His life and love.

I think you are both right:

“Everyone who is called by My name, And whom I have created for My glory, Whom I have formed, even whom I have made.â€Ââ€Â
(Isaiah 43:7 NASB)

[quote:3edcd]“He said to Me, “You are My Servant, Israel, In Whom I will show My glory.â€Ââ€Â
(Isaiah 49:3 NASB)

““And I will set My glory among the nations; and all the nations will see My judgment which I have executed and My hand which I have laid on them.â€Â
(Ezekiel 39:21 NASB)

God created us to show His glory. We do not make Him glorious.[/quote:3edcd]

That is correct.

~Josh

 

[n2thelight]

Revelation 4:11 "Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created."