- The first reason God created man was for the purpose of relationship. God the Father wanted a family of children to share life with and to get to know in a personal way. Throughout Scripture God's desire for fellowship and communion with man is revealed. From the time God sought Adam 'in the garden in the cool of the day' God has been seeking fellowship with man (Genesis 3:8). However, the sin which caused Adam to hide from God has been hindering man's relationship with God ever since (Isaiah 59:1-2). It is only through the New Covenant that God's purpose of a relationship with man is fully accomplished. Now God indwells each believer making fellowship constantly available (John 14:16-20, 23).
- The second reason God created man was to produce His nature and character. God the Father wanted His children to look like Him on the inside. He wanted them to bear the family 'image and likeness' (Genesis 1:26). Character is one of the main thoughts in the word 'image.' In Hebrews 1:13 Jesus is described as being 'the express image' of His Father's person. The Greek word translated image in that verse is pronounced character and it is the word from which our English word 'character' is derived. God wants man to partake of His divine nature (2 Peter 1:4-7), to be conformed to the image of His Son (Romans 8:28-29), and to be changed into His image by the Spirit (2 Corinthians 3:18, 4:4)
- The third reason God created man was to have someone share in His function of ruling the universe. God the Father wanted His children to be involved in the family business. He not only purposed that man be something (character) but also do something (function). God wanted man to share in His dominion (Genesis 1:26). To do this, God told man to subdue, which means to conquer an enemy (Genesis 1:28). At that time the only enemy there was Satan, and in man's first encounter with him, he lost (Genesis 3). Man lost his dominion and came under bondage to Satan, sin, sickness, and death, Now, only through Christ, who has conquered all, can man's dominion be regained."
- The fourth reason God created man was to share some of His creative powers. God the Father wanted His children to reproduce more children to be in the family. He told Adam and Even to 'be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth' (Genesis 1:28). This speaks to reproduction by natural birth, but there is more to it than just bringing babies into existence. There is the factor of reproducing 'after our kind.' The seed of sin in Adam was reproduced in his first-born son Cain. This necessitates the new spiritual birth in which those who have been "born again" and have become the children of God by redemption, reproduce 'after their kind.'
Why did God create man? Kevin J. Conner writes in The Foundation of Christian Doctrine:
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