Why did God create this Earth?

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To give you the opportunity to ask those questions and be on the wildest adventure of your life: finding your way to God to be with Him for eternity in more joy and glory than your human mind can possibly imagine.
 
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To give you the opportunity to ask those questions and be on the wildest adventure of your life: finding your way to God to be with Him for eternity in more joy and glory than your human mind can possibly imagine.

But if we only want to worship God in heaven, then we are basically brainwashed to want to do nothing else.
 
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The Bible clearly says that God created the entire universe, and therefore it is no mistake. We should exist to worship and live for God, and should love Him with all of our hearts, minds, souls and strength. When God finished Creation, He said, "IT IS VERY GOOD", "God saw all that He had made, and it was very good. Evening came and then morning: the sixth day" (Genesis 1:31)
 
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It was certainly not free will because we had none before being banished from Heaven. Is our existence the result of a mistake? Is everything that we live for a mistake?
Are we His creation or His children?

We don't know exactly why God created Earth, but we are told in plain detail why we were created, and that is to be the stewards of Earth and all that is here--to be the kindly rulers of this planet. By the way, we were never banished from Heaven, we were sent away from the Garden because we decided that we didn't need God, that we could be our own gods without him. We are indeed his creation and his children--and our destiny is to become one with the Godhead through Jesus as his Bride.
 
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It was certainly not free will because we had none before being banished from Heaven. Is our existence the result of a mistake? Is everything that we live for a mistake?
Are we His creation or His children?

We where not banished from heaven.. We started out on earth.. The only ones that are getting banished from heaven are satan and his angels..

I believe the universe was created as a stage, a place to sort out the contraversy between God and satan over satans claim to Godhood.. Through demonstration in our physical realm the contravery between satan and God can be worked out and satans claim to godhood can be shown to be false.. We humans play our part on this stage and we who play it right will recieve and eternal reward with God in His perfect eternity..
 
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The earth was made as an Eden, a "pleasure garden", for his angels, who shouted, and sang for joy, when the foundations were laid. It was their "estate", and, "habitation". The rest of the universe was a backdrop to show the majesty of God. God looked upon the earth 'from the sides of the north', the same angle that a king would gaze at his ornate 'footstool' from, as the 'apple of his eye'.

Man received the earth in a 'second-hand' restored condition after the rebellion of the angels caused the destruction of the perfect original, but will be restored to an Eden-like condition during the millennial rule of Christ.
 
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It was certainly not free will because we had none before being banished from Heaven. Is our existence the result of a mistake? Is everything that we live for a mistake?
Are we His creation or His children?

God created us for the very purpose of having a relationship with us, and sharing his love with us. The Bible tells us that God is love. It is his very nature, and God wanted to share that love with a creation. So that is why he created us, so that he could love us, and so that we would love him back.

That is also the very reason why Jesus died on the cross, in order to restore the relationship between us and God; and so that we could have eternal life (John 3:16), which Jesus defined later as, "knowing the father, and Jesus whom he sent" (John 17:3), or in other words, to have an intimate relationship with the father and the son.

Also, our existence was not a mistake, and everything we live for is not a mistake either. God created us for relationship, and we live to know God.
 
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It was certainly not free will because we had none before being banished from Heaven....

There isn't a basis to assume we had no free will in paradise, the Garden of Eden.
There is a strong basis that we did have free will there, else God needn't have instructed them with a warning (not to try to replace God, taking Judgement of even good and evil into their own hands as if ancient of days), nor could they have any need of such a warning (if there was no freedom to chose), nor an ability to reason and to choose, etc.

Why are we here on Earth?

Because here we get to choose whether to "love your neighbor as yourself" -- embrace the Good -- or choose not to and simply go the course of nature instead, that "second death".
 
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It was certainly not free will because we had none before being banished from Heaven. Is our existence the result of a mistake? Is everything that we live for a mistake?
Are we His creation or His children?

Consider --

38 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.’ 39 But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also. 40 And if anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, hand over your coat as well. 41 If anyone forces you to go one mile, go with them two miles. 42 Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.

43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 44 But I tell you, love your enemies..."


-- Jesus the Christ, Savior of humankind, and our only chance to avoid endless war....
 
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It was certainly not free will because we had none before being banished from Heaven. Is our existence the result of a mistake? Is everything that we live for a mistake?
Are we His creation or His children?
I think you are mistakenly locating the Garden of Eden in Heaven, rather than here on earth.
 
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I think one reason we are creatures was so that the divine necessity would not compel us to love God. we often make mistakes for a while as we are in the process of a seed sprouting into being a child of God. it seems to me that in order to experience a unique experience such as we are having that we must go through it.
 
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"In love did God bring the world into existence; in love is God going to bring it to that wondrous transformed state, and in love will the world be swallowed up in the great mystery of the One who has performed all these things; in love will the whole course of the governance of creation be finally comprised." - St. Isaac the Syrian

"God’s love is so complete in itself—he is lover, responding beloved, and union of the fruit of both—that he has need of no extradivine world in order to have something to love. If such a world is freely created by God, apart from any compelling need, then this occurs, from the viewpoint of the Father, in order to glorify the beloved Son; from the viewpoint of the loving Son, in order to lay everything as a gift at the Father’s feet; and from the viewpoint of the Spirit, in order to lend new expression to the reciprocal love between Father and Son. Hence, the one triune God is Creator of the world. If this creation is attributed specifically to the Father, then that is because, within God, he is the Origin behind which nothing more can be sought." - Fr. Hans Urs von Balthasar, Credo

With the explicit disclaimer that these are simply my thoughts, and arguably quite speculative ones, though intended to be rooted within the received and historic Christian teaching:

My answer would be "love", but not that God needed an extradivine world in order to love, but instead the creation of the universe is itself God's own loving made manifest--God is Creator of the heavens and the earth, neither by necessity nor by happenstance; but because He is Who He is. There can exist no subsequent "idea" in God, there was never a "time" when God suddenly decided to create as though it were an idea beside Him that suddenly then occurred to Him that He should do it; thus the creative work must be understood as in some sense intrinsic to God. We do, after all read that He has chosen us in Christ before the foundation of the world, "he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless before him in love. He destined us for adoption as his children through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of his will," (Ephesians 1:4-5). The creative act is an expression of love, of the very love the Father has for His Son, and the Son has for His Father; and in this love we are not excluded, but included; in the Father's own love for His Son He loves all who are in Him, and in the Son's love for His Father He brings with Himself all who are in Himself before the Father. There is therefore a permanence and completeness--a perfectness--of creation that springs from God's own interior, kenotic love, one that includes both the beginning and the end of all things.

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The Bible clearly says that God created the entire universe, and therefore it is no mistake. We should exist to worship and live for God, and should love Him with all of our hearts, minds, souls and strength. When God finished Creation, He said, "IT IS VERY GOOD", "God saw all that He had made, and it was very good. Evening came and then morning: the sixth day" (Genesis 1:31)

For His own glory.

How is all of this not narcissism?

Watch any human being attempt something along those lines and he/she will immediately be called selfish, egocentric, narcissist... how can these concepts be relative and absolutely not apply when it comes to god?

It's amazing how all kinds of supposedly moral values get turned upside down when it comes to god... talk about double standard.
 
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It was certainly not free will because we had none before being banished from Heaven. Is our existence the result of a mistake? Is everything that we live for a mistake?
Are we His creation or His children?
He did it because He is Love, and He wanted the whole of creation to know love and to love life and to praise Him for life and to share in the knowledge of His goodness. Of course, what we have now is a total corruption of what He created (Romans 8:19-21, John 10:10).

.. But I need to ask you, where did you get this idea that we were banished from heaven so that we could have free will? It sounds to me like it might be something that Mormons would teach, but I don't know of any scriptures in the bible that support this teaching. Did you have a particular scripture in mind as you said this?
 
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We where not banished from heaven.. We started out on earth.. The only ones that are getting banished from heaven are satan and his angels..

I believe the universe was created as a stage, a place to sort out the contraversy between God and satan over satans claim to Godhood.. Through demonstration in our physical realm the contravery between satan and God can be worked out and satans claim to godhood can be shown to be false.. We humans play our part on this stage and we who play it right will recieve and eternal reward with God in His perfect eternity..
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If your assessment of why is true, then isn't God losing?

Mat. 7:13,14
13) Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
14) Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
 
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I think one reason we are creatures was so that the divine necessity would not compel us to love God. we often make mistakes for a while as we are in the process of a seed sprouting into being a child of God. it seems to me that in order to experience a unique experience such as we are having that we must go through it.
I am intrigued by the idea that it is our humanity, in Jesus, that makes God fully God.
God would not be fully God, without the humanity of Jesus, including the passionate suffering of the Christ.

As admirable as an all powerful being of infinite goodness and infinite wisdom is, such a being who suffers with us is even more admirable. To transcend death and suffering is simply not as courageous and as brave as emerging triumphant from the experience of suffering and death.
It is like the Chinese tale of the lowly rock cutter and the mountain. The lowly rock cutter is greater, as the mountain is carved away into art that fills the palaces of the emperors.
 
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The Bible clearly says that God created the entire universe, and therefore it is no mistake. We should exist to worship and live for God, and should love Him with all of our hearts, minds, souls and strength. When God finished Creation, He said, "IT IS VERY GOOD", "God saw all that He had made, and it was very good. Evening came and then morning: the sixth day" (Genesis 1:31)


Good is not perfect.
 
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