Why Did God Create Us?

He doesn't really need us, so why did he create anything?

Dawson McAllister

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For more information on this topic, check out our articles Who is God Anyway, Bible vs.
Science, Where in the World is God?, and Uncomfortable with Evolution.
Why did God make the earth and us along with it? He doesn't really need us, so why did he create
anything?
Great question, and you're not the first to ask it. King David asked essentially the same thing:
"When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers what is man that you are mindful of him, the
son of man that you care for him?" (Psalm 8:3-4).
Why did God make us? To answer that, we need to know three things:
First, and you mentioned this in your question, it wasn't because he needed us: "The God who made the
world and everything in it is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything" (Acts 17:24-25).
And he didn't make us because he was lonely. Long before we were here, God already had "company"
with his Son and the Holy Spirit, referred to in Genesis 1:26, "Let us make man in our own image."
And he didn't make us because he needed his ego fed. It's not like God made us to satisfy some craving
to be worshiped. God is totally secure in who he iswithout us.
Second, despite not needing us, God chose to create us anyway, out of his great love: "I have loved you
with an everlasting love" (Jeremiah 31:3). Yes, God loved us before he even created us. It's impossible to
get our heads around that idea, but it's true; that's what "everlasting" love means.
God is love (1 John 4:8), and because of that love and his wonderful creativity, he made us so we can
enjoy all that he is and all that he's done.
Third, God created us to fulfill his eternal plan. I could write pages and pages about this, but suffice it to
say that God, in his infinite wisdom, chose to make us a part of his eternal plan.
What part do we play in this plan? Well, the Bible is full of instructions for how we should live our lives.
But here are a few key verses to remember:

1. "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength"
(Deuteronomy 6:5).
2. "Love your neighbor as yourself" (Matthew 22:39).
3. "We are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in
advance for us to do" (Ephesians 2:10).

We're also part of the war between God and Satan, and God's ultimate plan to defeat Satan. By putting
our faith in God, we can defeat Satan and his lies (see Ephesians 6:10-18).
Finally, perhaps the most important part we play in God's eternal plan is to point people to eternal life with
Godthrough his Son Jesus Christ. The Bible calls this our "ministry of reconciliation" (2 Corinthians
5:18-19).
That's why we're here. But it's also important to note that we have a choice in all of this. When God
created us, he didn't make us pawns in some cosmic chess game. We're not his toy soldiers. God gives
us freedom of choice.
Bottom line: God may not need us, but we certainly need him. I hope you've made the choice to put your
trust completely in himand play an exciting part in his loving, eternal plan.

Genesis
2:7
Then the LORD God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the
breath
of
life,
and
the
man
became
a
living
being.
Genesis
2:22
Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to
the
man.
Genesis
3:16
To the woman he said, "I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will
give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."
Genesis
3:20
Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living.
1
Corinthians
For man did not come from woman, but woman from man;

Treasury of Scripture
For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created

11:8

Genesis 2:7,18,22 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed
1 Corinthians 11:8,9 For the man is not of the woman: but the woman of the man

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