“Indeed we were made in His image, but again the question is why did He make us at all ?”
Well, MOM, I’ve read your later post so I know your answer, and I agree wholeheartedly. I also think the simple answer you and I learned in the 1st grade is right on the money.
I will go on to say that I believe, along with most Orthodox Christians, that there is more to it than “simply” (there’s really nothing even remotely simple about it, is there!) glorifying God. I say this because within the economy of salvation we have the Incarnation, and as +Athanasius the Great tells us, God became man so that men might become like gods. Here’s a link:
http://www.ccel.org/ccel/athanasius/incarnation.ii.html
Our created purpose was and is to become sons by adoption of the Most High God. To be thoroughly and probably heretically anthropomorphic and simplistic about the matter, God wanted and wants, for reasons sufficient to Him, that we be His children.
“”Our created purpose was and is to become sons by adoption of the Most High God.””
Right on target,dear Kolo
“The possession most precious to God, and most fitting; Let us give back the image that is made after the Image, Let us recognize our Dignity; let us honour our Archetype;let us know the power of the Mystery,and for what Christ died.Let us become like Christ,since Christ has become like us.Let us become God’s for His sake,since He for ours became Man.He assumed the worse so that He might give us the better;He became poor,so that we through his poverty might become rich;He took upon Him the form of a servant that we might receive back our liberty;He came down,that we might be exalted He was tempted,that we might conquer;He was dishonoured,that He might glorify us;He died,that He might save us,He ascended,that He might draw Himself to us,who were lying low in the Fall of sin.
Let us give all, offer all,to Him who gave Himself as Ransom and a Reconciliation for us.But one can given nothing like oneself,understanding the Mystery and becoming for His sake,all that He became for ours.”- First Paschal Sermon of St Gregory of Nazianzen