Some people think that God created humans because He wants friends (but then what about the angels (millions of them), are they not His friends?). Some ask questions like; why did God create human? If God really didn't want Adam and Eve to sin, why did God place the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil right in the garden, probably in a position which they pass by daily? Why did He allow Satan to have access to Adam and Eve, knowing fully well that he would tempt them (He could have isolated them from him)?
Jesus came to this earth for at least three reasons: a) to reveal the true character of God, b) to show His great love for us by dying on the Cross and, c) to do away with sin. We are going to use these reasons (the first and the last precisely) to know God's reason for human creation.
¤ To Reveal The True Character Of God:
Before Adam and Eve sinned, they sure weren't able to understand and appreciate the beautiful garden God had given them for their home. Not suprised though, how could they, when they have never experienced anything else? They were never sick, so they could not know the value of health. They could not appreciate the things God made for them because they had never known anything other than perfection. It's impossible to be appropriately grateful for all you have if you have never been without them.
God is a wonderful God, full of Glory and great splendour. The Bible says that when God was about to create man, He said ''Let us create man in our own image and likeness''. This simply means that God wants such a scene that by looking down to the earth, He would see a complete replica of Himself in glory. Images are erected to display the original. God made humans in His image so that the whole world would be filled with reflectors of God Isaiah 6:3, "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory! "
A survey has it that there are more stars in the universe than there are words and sounds that all humans of all time have ever spoken. Little wonder the Bible says "The heavens declare the glory of God" (Psalm 19:1). Isaiah 43:6b–7 says, "Bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the end of the earth, everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory , whom I formed and made."
Humans are being made to glorify God, this does not mean to take something (in its plain state) and make it beautiful (which can be termed as to beautify). We don't glorify God by improving His Glory, but by seeing and savoring and showing His Glory (which is the same as knowing, loving, showing). We were created to see His Glory, be thrilled by His Glory, and live so as to help others see Him and savor Him for what He really is.
Adam and Eve would not have known the difference between good and evil. They would have been incapable of purposely choosing God for His goodness because they knew nothing else. It would have been impossible for them to glory in God's fabulous creation (nor be thrilled by God's glory) because they had no opportunity to know anything else. It would have been impossible for Adam and Eve to appreciate God's boundless love for His children, because Adam and Eve knew nothing of sin, calamity or utter wickedness. It was necessary for them to know evil in order for them eventually to choose "good," intelligently and willingly.
Without sin, Adam and Eve would never have experienced the opposite of "good," which would allow them eventually to understand and abhor evil. It is impossible to know good without knowing evil; it is impossible to learn right without understanding what is wrong.
So, the plan all along helped Adam and Eve to be able to willfully appreciate God's Glory and to magnify it. To show it to others, their children, that they also might understand and cherish it.
¤ To Do Away With Sin:
Before Adam and Eve were created, there was already sin in the universe. The Bible says that "the Lamb was slain from the foundation of the world" (Revelation 13:8). This means that the plan of salvation was already in place before the earth was even created. Satan and his evil angels were already sinners before any human being was created.
Mankind, Adam and Eve, were initially novices in the "sin" business which had been going on for some time in the heavenly realms before their creation on earth. God's plan was for Jesus to come as a "man" and die for the sins of the world. In order for Jesus to come in the form of an angel, to die for the sins of the evil angels, angels would have to be capable of dying. Do Angels Die?
". . .Neither can they die any more; for they are equal unto the angels. . ." (Luke 20:36). Here, Jesus said that angels dont die (i.e. all (both good and bad)). If angels dont die, then Jesus could not have come as an angel to die for the sins of the evil angels.
If sin entered the universe when Satan sinned, how then could sin be eliminated from the universe if angels dont die. Then how can the evil angels be destroyed from the earth and from the universe at the end? And if they cannot be destroyed, then how can sin ever be eliminated. Yet Jesus came to "do away with sin!" (John 1:29).
So how does this all work out? God created a new race of individuals, humanity, individuals with flesh and blood, individuals who were capable of dying, a necessity for the plan of salvation since Jesus' plan was to come in human form and DIE for the sins of the world. But human beings would be capable of dying ONLY if they sinned. Before sin there was no death, neither in Adam and Eve, nor in all of Creation. If neither Adam and Eve, nor their offspring, had sinned, there would be no death. In that case, there would be no need for Jesus to die for us, since no human being would have sinned.
'The troubles of the universe originated among the celestials, among the angels, long before man was created. Humanity was an entirely separate creation, made in the image and likeness of God, to be the form in which God's own Son could come to give up His life for the universe, and remedy what had gone wrong in that higher sphere'. (John 17:12).
CONCLUSION:
God created us to know Him, love Him, and show Him. Lets endevour to magnify the Glory of the Lord. Not like microscopes (which makes small things look bigger), but like a telescope (that makes unimaginably big things to look more like what they really are).
"God predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of His will, to the praise of the Glory of His Grace" (Ephesians 1:5–6). "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).
Finally, lets help others by pointing out to them the eternal life plan, i.e. eternal life with God—through his Son Jesus Christ, the Bible calls this our "ministry of reconciliation" (2Corinthians 5: 18-19 ). 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. But then, it will be best for us if we choose rightly.
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