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What are we supposed to do here on Earth?

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God made us for his pleasure.
We recognize we are corrupt, so we accept Christ, and we become more like Christ.

1. Learn about God, glorify God, and become like him.
2. Evangelize
3. Make a good life for yourself and others.

Why else are we here? and what are we to do now?
 
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God made us for his pleasure.
We recognize we are corrupt, so we accept Christ, and we become more like Christ.

1. Learn about God, glorify God, and become like him.
2. Evangelize
3. Make a good life for yourself and others.

Why else are we here? and what are we to do now?

That is generally what Christians have been doing since the days of Adam. But there are "punctuated events" in human history where Christians take on an added mission -

1. In Noah's day the mission was to warn the world of the flood and point to the way of escape - build the Ark.
2. In John the baptizer's day it was to warn the chosen nation of the approaching Messiah and prepare them to accept Him.
3. In Paul's day it was to launch the Christian church with the good news that the Messiah had come.
4. .Today at the end of time just before the second Advent - the appearing of Christ as described in Matt 24 and Rev 19 -- - it is to give the final warning message to the world as seen in the 3 Angel's messages of Rev 14 (The everlasting Gospel).

Just as the door of the ark closed in Gen 7 and the fate of all mankind was sealed - so also Rev 14 prepares mankind for the Rev 15:8 closed door that is the trigger event for the seven last plagues of Rev 16 - and then the appearing of Christ in Rev 19.
 
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God made us for his pleasure.
We recognize we are corrupt, so we accept Christ, and we become more like Christ.

1. Learn about God, glorify God, and become like him.
2. Evangelize
3. Make a good life for yourself and others.

Why else are we here? and what are we to do now?
Do you have a church?
God wants us to minister to each other in the Body of Christ, too.
While doing that, He starts to give us a vision for our specific calling.
(Your OP only speaks to our general calling.)
 
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God wants us to use our talents He gave us to serve those less fortune than us. Does that mean go to a different country than yours? Well sometimes but you can serve others in your own community with your talents. God also wants you to love others and to forgive others every time they hurt you. You just have to hear the voice of God to know what’s next in your life.
 
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God made us for his pleasure.
We recognize we are corrupt, so we accept Christ, and we become more like Christ.

1. Learn about God, glorify God, and become like him.
2. Evangelize
3. Make a good life for yourself and others.

Why else are we here? and what are we to do now?
We intervene in crisis times to rescue and sustain the lives of others living around us,
we act as God's ambassadors here on Earth,
we intercede in prayer for others who are living in need, whether it be physical need, or hunger, or danger.

We intercede for the souls of the dead, weather they died from murder, infanticide, or perished at sea, or in fires, or other acts of Nature.
There is no end to the good that we can do each day here on Earth for the benefit of the living, and for the souls of the dead.
 
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Mark Quayle

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God made us for his pleasure.
We recognize we are corrupt, so we accept Christ, and we become more like Christ.

1. Learn about God, glorify God, and become like him.
2. Evangelize
3. Make a good life for yourself and others.

Why else are we here? and what are we to do now?
The Reformed have logically deduced that there are 'two wills of God' as the Bible uses the phrase "will of God". One is the command, or revealed will. The other is his plan, or hidden will. While you can often reject or 'step outside of' his command, there is nothing you can do to change his plan. I personally don't care for the wording, "Hidden will", since there is quite a lot we can know from Scripture about his plan.

We know from Scripture something of why he made us, and of what he is doing with us here. We certainly are to do your list of 3 categories above, and while your question (and your list) implies our works and ambitions, attitudes and obediences, it needs to be understood that these cannot be accomplished by our will alone, but by God's will, and by that I mean his plan (which implies not so much our work, but HIS (Not at all meaning we don't work)). Apart from Him we can do nothing (see John 15:5).

He is working ON us, the Redeemed, making us suitable for each one's particular place in his Dwelling Place —there is almost no end to references to this, passages alluding in one way or another to it— and this, we know, WILL BE ACCOMPLISHED, with or without our cooperation. Yet, IN HIM, we must obey, and walk in faith. Trying to figure out what our job is, and how to do it, as if our part is separate from his, is useless. We do it because he is doing it.
 
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God made us for his pleasure.
We recognize we are corrupt, so we accept Christ, and we become more like Christ.

1. Learn about God, glorify God, and become like him.
2. Evangelize
3. Make a good life for yourself and others.

Why else are we here? and what are we to do now?
Walk with His Holy Spirit daily.
Blessings
 
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God made us for his pleasure.
We recognize we are corrupt, so we accept Christ, and we become more like Christ.

1. Learn about God, glorify God, and become like him.
2. Evangelize
3. Make a good life for yourself and others.

Why else are we here? and what are we to do now?

We exist to know God;
and in knowing Him to love Him;
and in loving Him to enjoy Him;
and in enjoying Him, to glorify Him.

Everything else is secondary to these things, given meaning, boundaries and purpose by them. There is no "good life" - at least as far as God is concerned - when He is not our Life.

Philippians 3:6-8; Colossians 1:9-10
Matthew 22:36-38; 1 Corinthians 13:1-3
Psalms 16:11; Psalms 34:8
1 Corinthians 10:31; Matthew 5:16
 
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Why else are we here? and what are we to do now?

Eph 4:11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
Eph 4:12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
Eph 4:13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
 
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