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So I've been thinking (at which words all who know me ought to run and hide), despite the various dangers of thinking, about why God made people. It's a rather large topic to think on, I know. Yet it's a questiong that most everyone thinks about at some point in time in their life, and I'm not exception. It's a topic that has been the basis of many songs, movies, poems, and books. I haven't been thinking about it in that great of depth, but I decided to get my scattered thoughts written down to see if I could possibly begin to understand.

I think that one of the reasons -- in fact, the main reason -- that God made man was so that man could glorify and worship God. Man's main purpose in life is, if naught else, to glorify his Creator. In all that people do, their aim ought to be bringing glory to God. Everyday, all day, people should worship God -- live a life of praise before His throne, as it were (I realize that this doesn't happen all the time, but I'm talking about what should happen.) God made man to glorify Himself. Why, though? The answerr is relatively simple -- He made man so He Himself could be glorified because He deserves it. While this would seem horridly proud and self-centred were it said of anyone other than God, He is perfect and magnificent and more than worthy of man's praise, so it is simply the truth that He deserves it, not a vain and conceited boast.

Another reason that God created people was, I think, for relationship. God is a relational God. How do I know this? History, the Bible, and my own personal experience point wildly to the fact that God wants to relate with people. He is constantly and consistantly involved both in history as a whole as well as individual lives. He didn't make the world, set it spinning, put a man on it, and then go incommunicado -- He got to know man! He walked in the Garden of Eden, forming a relationship what would help to set the course of all of history! He communicates with man through His Word -- and through other means as well.

God is a relational God, and man is made in His image. Thusly, man is also a relational creature. Man was made in a way so that he needs to connect, both with other people and with his Creator. God made man to desire at the most basic level what God desires, as well: love and friendship.

Also, I personally think (though I don't know that I could find a lot of Biblical evidence to support this particular point...but, shh! don't tell) that God wanted someone to laugh with. I strongly believe that God has an incredible sense of humour. The Bible doesn't say it, but creation certainly does. For one thing, everyone has some kind of sense of humour (no matter what type or how small). If everyone has a sense of humour and we were all made in the image of God -- well, that's something of a stretch, but I think He knows how to laugh. Honestly, I believe God made man to laugh with Him -- how else does one expliain the existance of an animal like the duck-billed platapus?

So, on that note, I come to this conclusion: God made man to glorify Himself, to have someone to have a relationship with, and to have someone to laugh with.