Why Did God Create Us?  Some things cannot be fully
comprehended. Infinite things, eternal things, matters of God's
sovereignty—these transcend our finite and temporal minds. For
example, why did He create us? Certainly He doesn't need us, for
He existed in perfect love and unity before He even created
time. Furthermore, He even knew beforehand that His image,
recreated in man, would reject Him and His Kingship over their
lives, resulting in unthinkable pain and suffering and death of
all things placed in man's dominion. He foresaw ruinous
mutations, debilitating injuries, devastating cancer, etc., as
consequences. We can only approach an answer to this
unanswerable question by following the hints given in Scripture.
In a more ultimate sense, God knew that man's sin would force
His only begotten Son to die an unthinkably horrid death in
sacrificial payment for man's sin, and that ungrateful man would
even carry out the execution, for Scripture identifies His Son
as "the Lamb slain from the foundation of the