What was God's Purpose in Creating the Earth ?

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

Love is not new. After all, what moved Jehovah to begin creating? It was not that he was lonely and needed companionship. Jehovah is complete and self-contained, lacking nothing that someone else might supply. But his love, an active quality, naturally moved him to want to share the joys of life with intelligent creatures who could appreciate such a gift. “The beginning of the creation by God” was his only-begotten Son. (Revelation 3:14) Then Jehovah used this Master Worker to bring all other things into existence, starting with the angels. (Job 38:4, 7; Colossians 1:16) Blessed with freedom, intelligence, and feelings, these mighty spirits had the opportunity to form loving attachments of their own—with one another and, above all, with Jehovah God. (2 Corinthians 3:17) Thus, they loved because they were loved first.

So it was with mankind as well. From the start, Adam and Eve were virtually bathed in love. Everywhere they looked in their Paradise home in Eden, they could see evidence of the Father’s love for them. Note what the Bible says: “Jehovah God planted a garden in Eden, toward the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed.” (Genesis 2:8) Have you ever been in a truly beautiful garden or park? What pleased you most? The light filtering through the leaves in a shady alcove? The stunning array of colors in a bed of flowers? The background music of a gurgling brook, singing birds, and humming insects? What about the scents of trees, fruits, and blossoms? In any case, no park today could compare with the one in Eden. Why?

It was never God’s purpose that the earth be abused and polluted as it is today. Instead, God created the first man and woman, Adam and Eve, and placed them in a beautiful garden. Of course, their Paradise home would not have remained beautiful on its own. God assigned them “to cultivate it and to take care of it.” (Genesis 2:8, 9, 15) What delightful and satisfying work God gave to our once perfect parents!

But God’s purpose for the earth involved much more than caring for that original garden. He wanted the whole earth to be transformed into a paradise. That is why God gave this command to Adam and Eve: “Be fruitful and become many and fill the earth and subdue it, and have in subjection the fish of the sea and the flying creatures of the heavens and every living creature that is moving upon the earth.”—Genesis 1:28.

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The bible speaks about why God created the Earth, and the universe, and mankind. You have to consider a few verses to put it all together. You can type any word or phrase in the search box to see what the bible says about it.

God created the earth so that we could have a place to learn and grow so that we might be able to fulfill His plan. We were given this Earth as an opportunity to be able to learn and exercise our free agency that He has given to us.

For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.

(Isaiah 45:18 KJV)

Think of Sim Earth or the Sims. It's fun.

to make humans suffer through sexuality, hatred, money, poverty, natural diseaster, diseases, work, etc etc.

But actually, I think the purpose is to have a group of people for Himself, those that cry out to Him.

Well, he didn't give us the ability to move in a vacuum so instead he gave us something to stand on...

Wasn't that nice of him?

For us

why did He create us......to have a family of people who choose to be with Him forever