Answering the Great Mystery: Why Did God Create Man?
"Astronomers looked 8,000 light-years into the cosmos with
the Hubble Space Telescope, and it seemed that the eye of God was staring
back"—National Geographic, April 1997
Scientific advancements like the Hubble Space Telescope have enabled
us to peer beyond the threshold of the earth into the secrets of boundless
space. Yet how do we puny humans fit into the limitless gulf of the universe?
Where does the Bible come into all this? Does our purpose here on earth
have anything to do with the infinite cosmos?
Do we have a rendezvous with infinity? Is our ultimate destiny so mind-expanding
that the human intellect can hardly grasp its grandeur? What is our purpose
on earth? What is our future?
The late American author Norman Cousins once asked: "How did the
conditions that make life possible originate? How did they come together
in vital confluence?" To many, educated in the Judeo-Christian ethic,
the real answer resides in the early chapters of Genesis.
But as Mr. Cousins also observed: "The primary question is not,
'Where did life come from?' but 'What can human life become?' . . . [Remember,]
we belong to an unfinished species" (Human Options, emphasis
added). When you really come to understand it, we were created to need
something we did not have within us when we were born.
What is our ultimate purpose—our role in this vast cosmos?
"For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits
for the revealing of the sons of God" (Romans 8:19).
"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation;
old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new" (2 Corinthians 5:17).
