why did god create

Why why why...did God create the world...hmmmm....HMMMMMMM....I don't think the Bible ever gives us a flat out "this is it" answer. I think the very fact that we can ask this question is more interesting than any of the answers we could come up with. Questions in general are in many ways more compelling than answers. Answers suggest an end to something - almost like a stop in the road. This piece of concrete here means that this is it, no further. That's not to say that answers are bad in themselves. Borders serve a purpose for whoever made them. But what they suggest is...finite.It is easy to take a novel idea that seems to answer questions like this and use it to reduce an infinite God to our finite expressions and perceptions - to cast an image that seems to resemble Him and is meant to honor Him (like the Israelites did with the calf they made and called it "Yahweh")...or like Russell Rathbun describes in one of his sermons, it's like pressing a flower between the pages of a book and later admiring the beauty of the flower as if it were still alive, forgetting that it never impregnated the ground with its seed...The nature of a relationship is somewhat uncontrollable and God is a Person, not an infinite, spirtual, ambiguous machine-like thing. Vanessa mentioned that we have clues from His Word as to what He is like. It is easy to take some interpretations of these clues that come from a human understanding that seems logical and satisfies the itching that we have to know the answer...but where does that itching come from? Is it our desire to humbly know and obey God, or is it an attempt to be able to light the way ourselves, to be in control? Does it really cause God to be glorified, or does it simply give us a sense of satisfaction in the power we have wielded with our knowing?If asked sincerely and in humility, questions have the capacity to lead us into the infinite - the discovery of someone other than ourselves.Emelia mentioned that it is not a mystery. I disagree - I think there's lots of mystery and necessarily so. What is a relationship without mystery? Do we ever come to understand everything there is to ever know about our best friend? That's all part of the wildness and the adventure and the beauty of the thing..."What makes you who you are?"So I guess my answer is...never stop wondering. You're an eternal being, you will never run out of time :)
Posted 12/24/2006 5:05 AM by Jerreemander - reply