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According to Dr. Buzzell, “of all the things God created, nothing mattered as much to God as you and me.” Why were we created?
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God created human beings to have someone outside of himself to be made in his image and likeness. God made us for fellowship.
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We were created to be in relationship with the Lord.
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We were created to have a loving relationship with God our Father. Our sin stands in that way.
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“According to Dr. Buzzell, “Of all of the things God created, nothing mattered to God as much as you and me.” Why were we created?
“In the beginning God created…” After creating an ordered world God created humans. By God’s own desire creating humans came last. Genesis 1:26 “Let us make man in our image.” This statement is made in conversation. I believe this to be our first glimpse of what the Church will identify as the Trinity; Father, Son and Holy Spirit. This image is not a physical image, but an image of spirit. So far in God’s creative process there are no beings made in God’s image. God created by God’s own design all of the earth for one purpose. and God created the world and all that is in it for His greatest of all creation; humanity.
Out of God’s great love was fashioned a being with whom He would form an eternal relationship. Dr. Stedman states, “If our spirit is made in the image of God, then it can do things that God can do, but which no animal can.” He suggests in Genesis we find that God alone, first; creates; next; God communicates and last; God evaluates. God evaluates by pronouncing some things good, not good and humans; very good. The image of God appears in humans as ones who can create, communicate (as no animal can do) and has a moral center with the ability to evaluate and pronounce things as good or bad. These attributes make the claim that humans were created in the image of God.
God exists without influence or input from anything outside Himself. God is a self-sufficient being. Prior to creation and apart of any creation God is completely and flawlessly God. The Trinity implies that God is already in eternal perfect relationships with Father, Son and Spirit and those relationships have always been of love. God has always been love. God did not need to create a world filled with living creatures to complete Him. As an extension of the all-encompassing, limitless, boundless, perfect love… I think God created us because it made Him happy and brought Him delight.
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We were created in the image of God to partially benefit us. God didn’t need us, but because of His nature He loved us and because of that great love, He wanted to have a personal, one on one relationship with each of us.