Why Did God Create Us?
God created us because of love. God is a God of love. It
was because of that love that he created man and woman. He wanted a
relationship with us. In the beginning of the world, man and God had a
great relationship. Nothing separated them.
But rather than creating us programmed to love Him, God
created us with a choice. A choice to love and obey or to reject and
disobey. Because God wanted an authentic love relationship, he had to
create us this way. But with the choice came sin, rejection and
disobedience. With that choice also came separation.
So just like the first man, all of us, had a problem. We
were all separated from the one who loves us.
"For all have sinned and fall short of the
glory of God" (Romans 3:23 - NIV).
Separation from God is not a good thing. Sin does that
to a relationship. It also means that we cannot do anything good enough on
our own to get back to Him. Because God is holy (without sin) and because
we all have sin, we cannot have a relationship with Him. We are stuck to
live with the consequences of our sinful choices. The result of our sin is
eternal death.
"When people sin, they earn what sin pays for
-- death" (Romans 6:23a - NCV).
Wait a minute.
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