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To: SoothingDave
Only if you do not know WHY God created man .
Please, elaborate.

If you happen by many Sunday School classes or seeker friendly church sermons you will hear that God created man because He loves him. . It comes out something like God made man because he was bored or lonely . Creation revolves around the creature and the importance of the creature to God.

This places man in the center of creation not God.

I will" recite" my 2nd grade Baltimore Catechism regarding creation

Why did God make you?

Answer

"God made me to know love and serve Him in this world and the next."

My Wesminster Confession says it this way

What is the chief end of man? A. Man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy him for ever.

I love the confession, it is so God centered.

. 12. What is the third truth inferred hence? A. That it is the duty and wisdom of every Christian to renounce, deny, and forsake all inferior Interests and Enjoyments, when they come in competition with the glory of God, and our enjoyment of him, Luke 14:33: So likewise whosoever he be of you, that forsaketh not all he hath, cannot be my Disciple.

Q. 13. What is the fourth Inference hence? A. That we are to abhor and renounce all those Doctrines and Practices that debase the glory of God, and exalt and magnify the Creature.

AMEN

4,034 posted on 04/13/2004 1:44:57 PM PDT by RnMomof7 (Broomstick Jockey)
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To: RnMomof7; the808bass
"God made me to know love and serve Him in this world and the next."

OK, I thought you were onto something different. I can't argue with that. LOL

You could explain how that is relevant to what you said to bass.

For that matter, how can you say a man's chief end is to gloriofy God and enjoy him forever when God made some men specifically not to enjoy Him forever?

SD

4,038 posted on 04/13/2004 1:54:21 PM PDT by SoothingDave
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