Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. Romans. 6:4 KJV
Why did God make us? Evolutionists (who believe sentient life is the result of an endless string of accidents – the chances of whose occurring is 10123 to 1according to mathematicians) are at a loss to explain what we are doing here. Why these little blobs of protoplasm should exist in this vast, empty universe is an unanswerable riddle. This, of course, makes the moral intensity of the folks who believe this quite ridiculous. Who cares whether there is racial justice or not? Who cares whether unborn babies live or die? There is no purpose in our existence. So, do whatever you want to to feel good, and pretend you won’t die.
But if there is a God, and the evidence that this universe, and we, are the product of intelligent design, continues to be compelling, then we have to ask, why did he make us? As I have studied the Old Testament in the light of the New, I have come to this conclusion: God made us so that we, walking with him, abiding in him, sharing his character, might have fellowship with him. I believe this is the thread upon which all the diversely gorgeous gems of the Book are strung. God wants to “hang out” with us!
C.S. Lewis says, in his imitable way, “In the same way the Church exists for nothing else but to draw [humans] into Christ, to make them little Christs…. It is even doubtful, you know, whether the whole universe was created for any other purpose.”* Think of that! The whole universe created so that we could become Christlike. Is our becoming like him that important to God? Yes, it is. Are you? Am I?
*C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (London: Collins Press, 1952), 166.
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