Why Are We Here? " God Perspective"

 Why are we here? This question has both plagued and challenged mankind for generations. Is there an ultimate answer, or is it all about mission statements and self-determination? If we are willing to accept the Bible as truth, then we know the answer to "where did we come from?" According to Scripture, we were created by God. So the next question is…why? After all, He is God, and as such, He certainly doesn't need us for anything, so why did He create us? For sure pleasure, or was the fact that he no longer found pleasure in being alone all the time? What ever his reason was it must have been a great one for him to want us to be here with him.

Why are we here? Is a question that can best be answered by looking at how the Bible explains it. Beginning in Genesis Chapter 1, we read that after each phase of creation, God "saw that it was good." According to Scripture, once He completed creating the heavens and the earth, the plant life and all the animals, He created man: So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them (Genesis 1:27).

 

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This tells us what God did, but still doesn't explain exactly why He did it. We read on and discover that He spoke well of the male and female and showed His pleasure by entrusting them with His creation:

And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth,

As part of His blessing, He gave us stewardship over the earth and its other life forms:

and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moved upon the earth. And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so (Genesis 1:28-30).

At the end of Genesis Chapter 1, we read how He felt about his completed creation:

And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day (Genesis 1:31).