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What is God's eternal purpose?

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Here are the Adventist fundamental belief statements that deal with the questions you have asked. You can read more at http://www.adventist.org/beliefs/fundamental/index.html.

1. Holy Scriptures:
The Holy Scriptures, Old and New Testaments, are the written Word of God, given by divine inspiration through holy men of God who spoke and wrote as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. In this Word, God has committed to man the knowledge necessary for salvation. The Holy Scriptures are the infallible revelation of His will. They are the standard of character, the test of experience, the authoritative revealer of doctrines, and the trustworthy record of God's acts in history. (2 Peter 1:20, 21; 2 Tim. 3:16, 17; Ps. 119:105; Prov. 30:5, 6; Isa. 8:20; John 17:17; 1 Thess. 2:13; Heb. 4:12.)

2. Trinity:
There is one God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, a unity of three co-eternal Persons. God is immortal, all-powerful, all-knowing, above all, and ever present. He is infinite and beyond human comprehension, yet known through His self-revelation. He is forever worthy of worship, adoration, and service by the whole creation. (Deut. 6:4; Matt. 28:19; 2 Cor. 13:14; Eph. 4:4-6; 1 Peter 1:2; 1 Tim. 1:17; Rev. 14:7.)

3. Father:
God the eternal Father is the Creator, Source, Sustainer, and Sovereign of all creation. He is just and holy, merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness. The qualities and powers exhibited in the Son and the Holy Spirit are also revelations of the Father. (Gen. 1:1; Rev. 4:11; 1 Cor. 15:28; John 3:16; 1 John 4:8; 1 Tim. 1:17; Ex. 34:6, 7; John 14:9.)

4. Son:
God the eternal Son became incarnate in Jesus Christ. Through Him all things were created, the character of God is revealed, the salvation of humanity is accomplished, and the world is judged. Forever truly God, He became also truly man, Jesus the Christ. He was conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. He lived and experienced temptation as a human being, but perfectly exemplified the righteousness and love of God. By His miracles He manifested God's power and was attested as God's promised Messiah. He suffered and died voluntarily on the cross for our sins and in our place, was raised from the dead, and ascended to minister in the heavenly sanctuary in our behalf. He will come again in glory for the final deliverance of His people and the restoration of all things. (John 1:1-3, 14; Col. 1:15-19; John 10:30; 14:9; Rom. 6:23; 2 Cor. 5:17-19; John 5:22; Luke 1:35; Phil. 2:5-11; Heb. 2:9-18; 1 Cor. 15:3, 4; Heb. 8:1, 2; John 14:1-3.)

5. Holy Spirit:
God the eternal Spirit was active with the Father and the Son in Creation, incarnation, and redemption. He inspired the writers of Scripture. He filled Christ's life with power. He draws and convicts human beings; and those who respond He renews and transforms into the image of God. Sent by the Father and the Son to be always with His children, He extends spiritual gifts to the church, empowers it to bear witness to Christ, and in harmony with the Scriptures leads it into all truth. (Gen. 1:1, 2; Luke 1:35; 4:18; Acts 10:38; 2 Peter 1:21; 2 Cor. 3:18; Eph. 4:11, 12; Acts 1:8; John 14:16-18, 26; 15:26, 27; 16:7-13.)

6. Creation:
God is Creator of all things, and has revealed in Scripture the authentic account of His creative activity. In six days the Lord made "the heaven and the earth" and all living things upon the earth, and rested on the seventh day of that first week. Thus He established the Sabbath as a perpetual memorial of His completed creative work. The first man and woman were made in the image of God as the crowning work of Creation, given dominion over the world, and charged with responsibility to care for it. When the world was finished it was ``very good,'' declaring the glory of God. (Gen. 1; 2; Ex. 20:8-11; Ps. 19:1-6; 33:6, 9; 104; Heb. 11:3.)

7. Nature of Man:
Man and woman were made in the image of God with individuality, the power and freedom to think and to do. Though created free beings, each is an indivisible unity of body, mind, and spirit, dependent upon God for life and breath and all else. When our first parents disobeyed God, they denied their dependence upon Him and fell from their high position under God. The image of God in them was marred and they became subject to death. Their descendants share this fallen nature and its consequences. They are born with weaknesses and tendencies to evil. But God in Christ reconciled the world to Himself and by His Spirit restores in penitent mortals the image of their Maker. Created for the glory of God, they are called to love Him and one another, and to care for their environment. (Gen. 1:26-28; 2:7; Ps. 8:4-8; Acts 17:24-28; Gen. 3; Ps. 51:5; Rom. 5:12-17; 2 Cor. 5:19, 20; Ps. 51:10; 1 John 4:7, 8, 11, 20; Gen. 2:15.)
 
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1. (God's purpose) Love + see point 3.
2. (Bible) JESUS CHRIST and his mission to save sinners. - God's purpose in action
3.(purpose for man) Mat 18:14 Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish
1Ti 1:15 This [is] a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
4. (Purpose for himself) - to do points 1-3
 
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Yes, God is love and He wishes to save sinners, and we should do His will, but for a specific purpose:
I believe that the Bible shows us God's complete purpose and plan for man.


God's eternal purpose is to have a group of people filled with Him as life to express Him and represent Him.
God’s goal is to have many believers who are fully transformed by Christ (2 Corinthians 3:18: But we all with unveiled face, beholding and reflecting like a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory even as from the Lord Spirit) and conformed to His glorious image (Romans 8:29 Because those whom He foreknew, He also predestinated to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brothers.
But, God does not want a bunch of individual believers. He wants us to be built up together as His Body in oneness.
Together, the believers are the church, the Body of Christ. (Ephesians 1:22-23...the church, Which is His body, the fullness of the one who fills all in all.; Colossians 1:18 And He is the Head of the Body, the church; He is the beginning, the Firstborn from the dead, that He Himself might have the first place in all things.
Ultimately, our goalis not to die and go to heaven and walk on golden streets. Ultimately, God’s intention will result in the New Jerusalem (Rev. 21:10 And he carried me away in spirit unto a great and high mountain and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God.)which will be God and man together, which will exist throughout eternity as the complete expression of the Triune God in humanity.

What we need to do in order to help God achieve His goal (which He will achieve sooner or later - with or without you and me, but we can be part of it happening sooner, rather than later) is to watch and pray and be those who are eagerly awaiting His appearing. We need to be built up with other believers as the one Body of Christ in oneness. We need to preach the gospel of the Kingdom. We need to live a life of "no longer I, but Christ" - Gal 2:20. We need to go to the cross daily, read the Bible," always rejoice, unceasingly pray, in everything give thanks" 1 Thes 5:16-18.
We need to pray all the time in everything we do and turn to our spirit and allow the Lord to work through us and express Himself through us. Whatever we do in our selves outside of Christ is wood, grass and stubble that will be burned up. What we do in Christ is the gold, silver and precious stones. We need to have the Lord as our goal and His purpose (not what is good for me, but what God wants) as our goal in everything we do.
 
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Is not God's eternal purpose in creating MAN is to have eternal companions?

This can be gleaned when Adam was alone and God gave him a wife, Eve, telling them, "be fruitful and multiply..."

However MAN thwarted God's plan with the "original sin" that, thereafter, MAN no longer was in the "image of God," actually in the "image of Jesus Christ."
 
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[WIKI][BIBLE][/BIBLE][/WIKI] so we can stay alive cuz witout him we r dead if u r dead in christ 2 long u bcome dead in flesh
 
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