THE PURPOSE OF LIFE
Some people asked a question, “What is the purpose of life?”
For non-believers it is of course to be rich and wealthy, influential, powerful, to rule and to dominate, to run business, to be prosperous, to live well, have family, to have house, cars, and a lot of money.
What will be the purpose of life for a Christian? So I found the most important thing for the people of GOD is to find GOD, it means to understand Him through His Commandments and His Statutes, to understand His character and personality, to understand His will, and to implement His Ordinances, Principals, and Ideals in our own life.
How GOD relating and to human kind?
Psalms 115.16
16.The Heavens are the Lord's Heavens, but the Earth He has given to human beings.
Psalms 8.4-5
4.what are human beings that You are mindful of them, mortals that You care for them?
5.Yet, You have made them a little lower than GOD and crowned them with glory and honor.
For what purpose GOD created human beings and entire physical world?
Jude 1.6
6.And angels who did not kept their own domain, but abandoned their proper adobe, He has kept in eternal bonds under darkness, for the judgment of the Great Day.
According to a verse above, angels are not perfect beings and somehow they fail the Lord. So the idea of the purpose of creation of our physical world and physical beings probably lie in this failure of angels.
The angels never experienced anything that we experiencing here on Earth, they never knew what the diseases are like, illnesses, physical pain, torment of the body and soul, death, losing parents, relatives and friends, wars, sufferings, cruelty, and despair. And despite the fact that they created much more perfect than we are and they are immortal, they still fail the Lord!
Would be reasonably and logically assume that because of the failure of angels GOD decided to create much inferior creatures (us) and place us in the close special physical environment to see how we will behave and perform. For this reason GOD gave us conscience, Law of Moses, and Spiritual Commandments of Jesus Christ in order to test us and evaluate our actions and life as whole.
The point is that if inferior to angels physical beings will pass the test of GOD on Earth enduring everything, then surely they would not fail GOD in Heaven being in spirit and in the perfect spiritual condition and environment.
Is this would mean that we would replace the fallen angels?
1Corinthians 6.3
3.Do you not know that we are to judge angels, to say nothing of ordinary matters?
LIFE IS THE TEST
Job 23.10
Words of Job to Eliphaz.
10.But He knows the way that I take, when He has tested me I shall come out like gold.
Psalms 66.10-12
10.You O GOD have tested us, You have tried us as silver is tried.
11.You brought us into the net, You laid burdens on our backs,
12.You let people ride over our heads, we went through fire and through water, yet You have brought us out to a spacious place.
Jeremiah 17.10
10."I the Lord test the mind and search the heart, to give to all according to their ways, according to the fruit of their doings."
1Corinthians 10.13
13.No testing has overtaking you that is not common to everyone. GOD is faithful and He will not let you be tested beyond your strength, but with the testing He will also provide the way out, so that you may be able to endure it.
1Thessalonians 2.3-4
3.Our appeal does not spring from deceit or impure motives or trickery,
4.but just as we have been approved by GOD to be entrusted with the message of the Gospel, even so we speak not to please mortals, but to please GOD Who tests our hearts.
To Hebrews 2.18
18.Because He Himself (Jesus Christ) was tested by what He suffered, He is able to help those who are being tested.
To Hebrews 4.15
15.We do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize our weaknesses, but we have One Who in every respect has been tested as we are, yet without sin.
James 1.2-3.12-13
2.Consider it all joy my brethren, when you encounter various trials,
3.knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. (KSB)
12.Blessed is anyone who endures temptation. Such a one has stood the test and will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love Him. (NRSV)
13.Let no one say when he is tempted, 'I am being tempted by GOD'. GOD cannot be tempted by evil, and He Himself does not tempt anyone. (KSB)
Revelation 3.10
The message of the Lord to the church in Philadelphia.
10."Because you have kept the word of My perseverance, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, that hour which is about to come upon the whole world to test those who dwell upon the Earth."
Some people asked a question, “What is the purpose of life?”
For non-believers it is of course to be rich and wealthy, influential, powerful, to rule and to dominate, to run business, to be prosperous, to live well, have family, to have house, cars, and a lot of money.
What will be the purpose of life for a Christian? So I found the most important thing for the people of GOD is to find GOD, it means to understand Him through His Commandments and His Statutes, to understand His character and personality, to understand His will, and to implement His Ordinances, Principals, and Ideals in our own life.
How GOD relating and to human kind?
Psalms 115.16
16.The Heavens are the Lord's Heavens, but the Earth He has given to human beings.
Psalms 8.4-5
4.what are human beings that You are mindful of them, mortals that You care for them?
5.Yet, You have made them a little lower than GOD and crowned them with glory and honor.
For what purpose GOD created human beings and entire physical world?
Jude 1.6
6.And angels who did not kept their own domain, but abandoned their proper adobe, He has kept in eternal bonds under darkness, for the judgment of the Great Day.
According to a verse above, angels are not perfect beings and somehow they fail the Lord. So the idea of the purpose of creation of our physical world and physical beings probably lie in this failure of angels.
The angels never experienced anything that we experiencing here on Earth, they never knew what the diseases are like, illnesses, physical pain, torment of the body and soul, death, losing parents, relatives and friends, wars, sufferings, cruelty, and despair. And despite the fact that they created much more perfect than we are and they are immortal, they still fail the Lord!
Would be reasonably and logically assume that because of the failure of angels GOD decided to create much inferior creatures (us) and place us in the close special physical environment to see how we will behave and perform. For this reason GOD gave us conscience, Law of Moses, and Spiritual Commandments of Jesus Christ in order to test us and evaluate our actions and life as whole.
The point is that if inferior to angels physical beings will pass the test of GOD on Earth enduring everything, then surely they would not fail GOD in Heaven being in spirit and in the perfect spiritual condition and environment.
Is this would mean that we would replace the fallen angels?
1Corinthians 6.3
3.Do you not know that we are to judge angels, to say nothing of ordinary matters?
LIFE IS THE TEST
Job 23.10
Words of Job to Eliphaz.
10.But He knows the way that I take, when He has tested me I shall come out like gold.
Psalms 66.10-12
10.You O GOD have tested us, You have tried us as silver is tried.
11.You brought us into the net, You laid burdens on our backs,
12.You let people ride over our heads, we went through fire and through water, yet You have brought us out to a spacious place.
Jeremiah 17.10
10."I the Lord test the mind and search the heart, to give to all according to their ways, according to the fruit of their doings."
1Corinthians 10.13
13.No testing has overtaking you that is not common to everyone. GOD is faithful and He will not let you be tested beyond your strength, but with the testing He will also provide the way out, so that you may be able to endure it.
1Thessalonians 2.3-4
3.Our appeal does not spring from deceit or impure motives or trickery,
4.but just as we have been approved by GOD to be entrusted with the message of the Gospel, even so we speak not to please mortals, but to please GOD Who tests our hearts.
To Hebrews 2.18
18.Because He Himself (Jesus Christ) was tested by what He suffered, He is able to help those who are being tested.
To Hebrews 4.15
15.We do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize our weaknesses, but we have One Who in every respect has been tested as we are, yet without sin.
James 1.2-3.12-13
2.Consider it all joy my brethren, when you encounter various trials,
3.knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. (KSB)
12.Blessed is anyone who endures temptation. Such a one has stood the test and will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love Him. (NRSV)
13.Let no one say when he is tempted, 'I am being tempted by GOD'. GOD cannot be tempted by evil, and He Himself does not tempt anyone. (KSB)
Revelation 3.10
The message of the Lord to the church in Philadelphia.
10."Because you have kept the word of My perseverance, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, that hour which is about to come upon the whole world to test those who dwell upon the Earth."