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Ask Pastor JohnEpisode: 1579Transcript: https://www.desiringgod.org/interviews/why-did-god-create-us
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The Real Reason You're Alive TodayIn this video, we explore the profound scriptures of Genesis 1:27 and Jeremiah 29:11 to illuminate ...
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Mar 18, 2021 · Why are we here? Why did God create / make people / humans / man? If God does not need us, why did He create us?
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So, at the theological and philosophical level, the question is important because the way you answer it has a huge impact on the way you understand the nature of God himself; that is, What does it mean to be God? The technical term here that people debate is God’s aseity. The word aseity is built on the Latin words a, which means “from,” and se, wh...
And I think the biblical reality and teaching of the Trinity — God is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit — is essential to that doctrine of God’s self-sufficiency. Because what the Trinity implies in the relationships between the Father and the Son and the Spirit is that God is love and has always been love. The Bible says, “God is love” (1 John 4:16). H...
All of that implies a negative: God did notcreate the world out of any deficiency or defect. Creation did not make God more God or improve upon his perfection. So we ask, “Is there any way to answer the question, Why did he create the universe? Have we described God’s essential being and his Trinitarian fullness and his happiness in such a way as t...
How, then, do we answer the question why God created? And I go to a passage like Isaiah 43:6–7 (and there are more, many more), remembering, by the way, that every promise of the Old Testament is yes in Christ for us Christians (2 Corinthians 1:20). For all who believe in Christ, those Old Testament promises are true. Isaiah 43:6–7says, Now, on the...
When the alarm goes off now at 5:00 or 6:00 or 7:00 tomorrow morning, you can know, and this is glorious — individually, personally, existentially so relevant — you can know the purpose for which God made you and why you should get out of bed. We exist to see and savor and show the beauty and worth and greatness of God in every sphere of our lives....
God, the Father of spirits (Hebrews 12:9), who knew us before the foundation of the world, gave us a body as He did Jesus. His purpose is that we should follow in Jesus’ footsteps, so that God’s will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Jun 15, 2023 · God is intimately involved in our creation: “The word of the LORD came to me, saying: ‘Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart and appointed you a prophet to the nations’” (Jeremiah 1:4–5).
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Jan 14, 2024 · In this comprehensive article, we will dive deep into biblical truths about why God created you and how you can discover your unique purpose. We’ll look at verses that reveal God’s intent and examine stories of biblical figures who sought their purpose.
