Hard to fathom that purpose given as you point out man’s limited and incomplete perspective. Yet from that perspective if an entity has fore knowledge of the consequences of a creation and yet goes ahead to make that creation, it begs the question: Why? For instance Fauci and Collins were fully aware of the danger of gain of function research on coronaviruses. Yet as officials of the US government ,they sanctioned such research at a Chinese biological weapons lab. Are they and the US government at least partly responsible for this pandemic? Is it sacrilegious to ask is God responsible for Hitler? Or is simply best to accept the premise that God exists, God is unknowable and what happens is consistent with His will and beyond our understanding. Such a conclusion is both humbling and disconcerting.
Go to the better question. Why did God create man?
He clearly tells us, though we may not like the answer from man’s perspective.
God is not unknowable, he tells us many things about him, but not everything.
Again, questions are good but some are better than others. But if we want to know God’s answers, we need to read His Word, not our own understanding.
Here are some big questions:
What are we saved from?
Who rules over hell? (it is not what we learned in the cartoons)
“such a conclusion is both humbling and disconcerting” is a valid view. The humbling should stay, the disconcerting is a natural human view, and changes as we get higher ground.
From your catechism days, “what is the chief end of man”?
http://thewestminsterstandards.com/q1-what-is-the-chief-end-of-man/
Is it sacrilegious to ask is God responsible for Hitler?
I can think of one good situation from all that. Corrie Ten Boom.
Why did God ordain all the evil against Israel? So that they would repent and turn to him again?
Jesus speaks to the situation here?
Luk 13:1 About this time Jesus was informed that Pilate had murdered some people from Galilee as they were offering sacrifices at the Temple.
Luk 13:2 “Do you think those Galileans were worse sinners than all the other people from Galilee?” Jesus asked. “Is that why they suffered?
Luk 13:3 Not at all! And you will perish, too, unless you repent of your sins and turn to God.
Luk 13:4 And what about the eighteen people who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them? Were they the worst sinners in Jerusalem?
Luk 13:5 No, and I tell you again that unless you repent, you will perish, too.”
Or is simply best to accept the premise that God exists, God is unknowable and what happens is consistent with His will and beyond our understanding?
What does God want?
After all my exploration in God’s Word, if you distill it down, it appears God wants a deep personal relationship with me. The creator of the universe desires a relationship with me. Why, I have no understanding.
Now, a proper answer should lead to another question. Do I want a deep abiding relationship with him?
It is important to note the God is in charge of this relationship not me. He chose me, I did not choose him.
Those that think they initiated a relationship with God and are in control, are headed for trouble
Mat 7:21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
Mat 7:22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’
Mat 7:23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness
Keep asking questions and run away from those who only have answers....................................