Comments on: Why Did God Make Us? (Questions Kids Ask)

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Jesus.org – A New Tool for Answering Kids « Gospel Children — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:42:55 +0000

[...] language) some of the deeper questions I have had kids ask me. I got through Who Made God? and Why Did God Make Us? but haven’t added to that series in a while. This site has inspired me to get back to that [...]

By: Wayne

Wayne — Sun, 16 May 2010 20:15:06 +0000

I’m so glad that you found it helpful. Thanks for letting me know!

By: Brennan

Brennan — Sun, 16 May 2010 17:59:06 +0000

This article has helped me a lot. I’ve been raised in the church and sometimes these simple questions come into my head like “why would God create us”. So it cleared up a few things. I thank you for letting God use you in this way

By: wdstocks

wdstocks — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:21:45 +0000

Thank you for your comment. First, I don't believe that if you believe in God you can believe in everything. This discounts all the evidence for a creator God and equates any type of faith with blind faith. This is simply not the case. God requires faith to believe in him, but he does not require blind faith. He provides us with plenty of evidence of his existence to support taking that step of faith. Indeed, it takes more blind faith to assert that there is no God than to accept the truth of his existence. Your argument on the potential for a higher power that created God reveals a linear type of thinking that does not apply to God. God exists outside of time which allows him to be omniscient, and he therefore does not require a creator. He is not a created being as we are. Furthermore, my belief in God is based on his revelation to us in the form of the Bible and his work in nature where his existence is clear. Whereas, with all due respect, your theory is based on wild speculation and flawed logic. Forced to choose between the two, believe in the living God seems like the only plausible option.

By: xxx

xxx — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 04:09:03 +0000

Isn't it possible that something of higher order then your christian god brought your god into existence. And this higher order gave your god his ablitlies. And your christian god doesn't have knowledge of this higher. So your god thinks he is the one and only, he thinks he has always been and always will be. But he is really just a puppet under control of something greater. If you can believe in god, you can believe in anything. Anything and all is possible, all you have to do is open up your heart, have faith and believe.

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By: Wayne Stocks

Wayne Stocks — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:53:05 +0000

Richard,

Thanks you for your comments. I’m glad you enjoyed the article. You are correct that the focus of the original article was on the things God does for us. I thought that this was the most appropriate way to address a question about why God made us. I couldn’t agree with you more about the benefits we derive from the relationship with God. After all, it is know surprise that we do benefit as God always has our best interests in mind in everything that he does for us. I particularly enjoyed your summary “…my life Glorifies God because of what God does in it. Everything I am, everything I have, my job, my car, my family — All of it comes from God.” When we remember this truth, it is hard not to worship the God who gives us everything.

I do have to disagree with you on the infinity of God. I’ve actually had a bit of a discussion on the infinite of God with a couple of people over on the first entry in the “Questions Kids Ask” series. You can find that at the following link if you’re interested in reading it:

http://blog.stocksohio.com/2009/06/03/who-made-god-questions-kids-ask/

I think my responses over there deal with the issue of the mathematical view of infinite and the infinite of God. I do disagree with your comment that “God had a beginning.” If something had a beginning, it had to have been created, and God is not a created being. He has always existed from before time began. You indicate that “God has a beginning, God also intended the bible to be relevant to a very wide audience, and for the most part I would think God’s beginning would be very hard for the majority of its readers to understand, making that irrelevant.” I would ask what scriptural basis for the conclusion that “God had a beginning.” I think that the scripture is clear that God existed before he created time and has always existed outside of time.

Revelation 1:8 says, ““I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.” God is, God was and God is to come. There is no indication of beginning or end in that verse. Quite the contrary, this verse indicates that God always has been and always will be. Similarly, when God talked to Moses as recorded in the book of Genesis, he identified himself as “I AM.” In identifying himself this way, he is stating that he is the eternal present. Psalm 90:2 tells us that God is from “everlasting to everlasting.” Again, this is not the language of a beginning and ending, but of eternal existence. There are numerous New Testament verses which speak to the existence of God from before creation. Those verses include Jude 1:25, Titus 1:2, 2 Timothy 1:9, 1 Corinthians 2:7 and Hebrews 11:3.

I am also confused about your comments regarding us and God having an “end” but at the same time living with God for eternity. Perhaps you could clarify those for me?

Thanks again for your comments, and I look forward to hearing more from you.

In him,

Wayne

By: Richard Masci

Richard Masci — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 05:41:36 +0000

Like this post, I agree with it totally, but you missed an important point. If we were made by God, for God, it sounds very one sided. Like we give to God, and don’t really get much in return. You state: “God has existed in the trinity in perfect communion with perfect love amongst the members of the trinity.” Don’t forget that we get to participate in that perfect love. We experience only a part of it now, but we’ll get all of it later,

Next my life Glorifies God because of what God does in it. Everything I am, everything I have, my job, my car, my family — All of it comes from God.

You mention that God is infinite, I don’t believe this to be true because it’s impossible to be infinite. For example, if you have an infinite number of marbles and you gave me half of them you would still have an infinite number of marbles and I would have an infinite number of marbles. And if I were to give you back half of my infinite marbles you would still have an infinite number of marbles. Now instead of marbles, let’s say they’re events. If you’re an infinite being, you’ve an infinite number of events that make up that life, and just like the marbles you can’t add additional events to it, because you’d still be infinite. God in the same way is not infinite, but He is eternal.

God has a beginning, God also intended the bible to be relevant to a very wide audience, and for the most part I would think God’s beginning would be very hard for the majority of its readers to understand, making that irrelevant so there is a reason why God didn’t tell us. God also has an end, as God describes himself in revelations by saying, “I am alpha and omega, the beginning and the end.”

Just like I will be living with God for eternity, I also have a beginning, and I also have an end, and both those belong to God. Make sense?