God’s Reason for Humanity

It all started a long, long, time ago. “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters” (Gen. 1:1-2 KJV).

“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them” (Gen. 1 27). Why did God make us?

Our purpose is to praise God, who made all that is healthy for our enjoyment, placing necessary and predictable emotions and dangers to regulate our choices according to his will. However, regarding the Creator’s conundrum of the “origin” of disobedience, Romans 11:32-33 notes the Lord’s motivation as His mercy. According to the Interlinear Greek-English New Testament interpretation, this Romans passage shows the motivation for God’s human creation. The Old Covenant sacrifices and The New Covenant salvation together show how God “shut-up together “ or concluded all in “disobedience that [upon] all he might show mercy to.”[1] Notably, 1 Peter 4:2 says that Jesus lived for the will of God and that he “preached also to them that are dead, that they might … live according to God in the spirit” (1 Peter 4:6 KJV.)[2] The requisition of “humility and faith” is that God’s judgments are translated as “unsearchable” and his ways “untraceable.”[3] Theological scholars can agree that God’s supreme and unifying message of mercy flows throughout The Scriptures’ Old and New Testaments, which is why so many can have the beautiful hope, peace, and grace from “God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ” (Phil. 1:2).

Our job today is to love fiercely. The fact that God became man to redeem humanity is the tell-tell sign of his compassionate love for us (John 1:14). He counted us worthy; He literally paid the highest price a human could ever pay, their own life and the life of their children. He was fully man and fully God (John 1:1-3, 10:30; Colossians 1:15-16). Jesus was willing to lay down His own life as the payment for our sins.

Bibliography

Berry, George Ricker, and James Strong. Interlinear Greek-English New Testament: Numerically Coded to Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance with a Greek-English Lexicon and New Testament Synonyms. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Book House, 1981.

[1] George Ricker Berry and James Strong, Interlinear Greek-English New Testament: Numerically Coded to Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance with a Greek-English Lexicon and New Testament Synonyms (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Book House, 1981), 577-558.

[2] Unless otherwise noted, all biblical passages referenced are in the King James Version.

[3] Ibid.