So many questions that
find their genesis in the theology of human being and God’s relation to us. Existential questions. Ones that drive at who we are, what our
purpose is, and the point of our otherwise futile lives. Some that even question God’s existence.
If God is so good, why did He create humans
(who
have great propensity towards violence/destruction/malevolence)?
If God is so perfect, why does He need humans to worship
Him?
To answer all, we begin with the premise that God is a relational being. As a perfect, benevolent being it is better [e.g.
more perfect and more benevolent] to be relational than
not; therefore, because God is absolutely perfect and absolutely benevolent, He
is relational.[1] Scripture teaches us that He exists, eternity
past through eternity future, in 3 persons all in perfect communion with each
other. God the Father, God the Son, and
God the Holy Spirit are perfect and complete in love and relation unto
themselves. They lack nothing.
And yet, the Godhead desired to express an outpouring
of His perfect and unending love through the creation of human being. Not
because God was lonely. Not because He needed to be
worshiped. Not because He needed to create.
Not because He needed to have
a relationship with something He created.
God needed nothing. Unto Himself, He is perfect.
Conversely, God didn’t need to create human because
His love was too big to be contained.
The Triune God contains and expresses infinitely perfect love all the
time, eternally. There is not an
over-abundance of love, uncontainable by the Trinity. There merely is the Godhead, expressing
infinite and perfect love, in eternity past, present, and future.
Rather, God chose to create human being because of His infinite and perfect love
and benevolence. Because as an absolutely
perfect and benevolent being, it is more benevolent to create human than it is to
not. And God is always the most loving,
most benevolent, most perfect of all given possibilities.
And so, the Triune God created human being.
As a perfectly loving and benevolent Creator, God’s
plan for His creation includes, dare I posit hinges upon, relationship.
Relationship with God, relationship with one another, relationship with the
rest of creation. Thus tomorrow, we will
examine why God elevates human being over the rest of His creation as we
explore the theology of the Imago Dei. And next week, we will consider how humanity broke
relationship with our creator, and why we are in need of that baby in a manger
to make it right.
Want to know where we've been in this series? Click the links below for more.
Why Theology? | How do we do this? | What are attributes? | What's Omnipresence? | What's Transcendence? | What's Revelation? | Is Scripture Inerrant? | Jesus as the Revelation of God
[1] I am purposefully
omitting a few premises here because I am not engaging in an ontological argument
for the existence of God, rather introducing how and why God is relational with
His creation. If you are curious as to
the missing premises, please comment below or message me and I will provide
these.
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