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NASB | Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God (Elohim) created [by forming from nothing] the heavens and the earth. [Heb 11:3] |
Bible Question: Something I've been thinking about for a while. God is all knowing, and a loving, merciful God. So He knew all the suffering, pain, and evil that would happen in the world. Why then did He create it in the first place and put mankind on it. Why not just not create it, if He had not created it, we would have never none it, and look at all the suffering and evil that would have been avoided. Anyone have any thoughts? wdc |
Bible Answer: I believe that part of the answer as to why God created man is that he wanted to establish a Kingdom here on earth. He made man in order to give him dominion over the earth and to give him an inheritance. You also talked about suffering. Sometimes this is due to our own actions. Your question is two parts. I will address the question about man's existence. 26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all[a] the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” Jesus mentions kingdom a number of times during his life on earth. He also taught us to pray in this manner. Matthew 6:9-13In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. Thou kingdom come..Thou will be done On earth as it is in heaven... Daniel 7:27 And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him. |