Was Man created to have and enjoy friendship with God.?

Answer 1

Man is made to be REBORN and to BECOME THE CHILDREN OF GOD'S IMMORTAL FAMILY!

When you think of the name "God"... think of it as His "FAMILY NAME," like the JONES Family, or the SMITH Family, or the BROWN Family.

In this frame of mind, then, as all of the children of the Jones Family are all JONES -- so are all of the Children in the GOD FAMILY - GOD.

"For His Holy Spirit speaks to us deep in our hearts and tells us THAT WE ARE GOD'S CHILDREN. And since we are His Children, WE WILL SHARE HIS TREASURES - for everything God [the Father] gives to His Son, CHRIST, IS OURS, TOO. But if we are to share His Glory, we must also share His suffering. Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the Glory HE WILL GIVE US LATER. For the creation is WAITING EAGERLY FOR THAT FUTURE DAY WHEN GOD WILL REVEAL WHO HIS CHILDREN REALLY ARE... ALL CREATION anticipates the Day when IT WILL JOIN GOD'S CHILDREN IN GLORIOUS FREEDOM FROM DEATH and DECAY. For WE KNOW that ALL CREATION HAS BEEN GROANING as in THE PAINS OF CHILDBIRTH right up to THE PRESENT TIME... We, too, wait anxiously for that Day when God will give us our FULL RIGHTS AS HIS CHILDREN, including the NEW BODIES He has promised us." (Rom.8:16-23 NLT New Living Translation)

All the false religions of this world CANNOT BELIEVE THE WONDERFUL PLAIN WORDS The Bible SAYS [and unfortunately, that includes the false religion this world calls "Christianity" -- the religion that claims to believe on Jesus, but DOESN'T BELIEVE A WORD HE SAYS. As He told those Jews who "believed on Him" but WANTED TO KILL HIM!]

"...many who heard Him say these things BELIEVED IN HIM... Jesus said to the people who believed in Him... 'And yet some of you are TRYING TO KILL ME because MY MESSAGE DOES NOT FIND A PLACE IN YOUR HEARTS... I told you the Truth I heard from God [the Father], but YOU ARE TRYING TO KILL ME... No, you are obeying your REAL FATHER... For you are THE CHILDREN OF YOUR FATHER THE DEVIL, and you love to do the evil things he does... So when I tell you the Truth, you just naturally DON'T BELIEVE ME!" (John 8:30-45 NLT)

Of course, all the other false religions in the world don't "believe in Jesus." But so does Jesus' rebuke of those Jews who "believed in Him" back in the day apply also, today, to the hundreds of denominations of modern professing Christianity that claim to believe in the name of Christ -- but somehow FAIL TO UNDERSTAND AND BLIEVE THE WONDERFUL TRUTH OF GOD'S PLAIN WORD when it tells us that we are MADE TO BECOME THE REBORN CHILDREN OF GOD'S OWN IMMORTAL FAMILY!

"...You should behave... like GOD'S VERY OWN CHILDREN, ADOPTED INTO HIS FAMILY - calling Him 'Father, dear Father.'" (Rom. 8:15 NLT)

"His UNCHANGING PLAN HAS ALWAYS BEEN TO ADOPT US INTO HIS OWN FAMILY by bringing us TO HIMSELF THROUGH Jesus Christ. And this gave Him GREAT PLEASURE." (Eph.1:5 NLT)

"...you Gentiles are no longer strangers and foreigners. YOU ARE CITIZENS ALONG WITH ALL OF GOD'S HOLY PEOPLE. YOU ARE MEMBERS OF GOD'S FAMILY." (Eph.2:19 NLT)

Scripture after Scripture reveals the Truth of why man was made... but the unbelieving human heart can find no place in it to accept it. The best most religions can come up with is something like:

"Man was made to have a relationship with God." Like these religions are perfectly happy to be destined to be some kind of DIVINE PET wagging our tails at the LORD's feet for all eternity. Even though the Bible reveals the wonderful Truth so clearly, that man is going to BECOME GOD... JUST LIKE THEIR FATHER.

Just like all the children of father Jones are ALL JONESES... so shall all of the Children of God BE GOD!

"See how very much our heavenly Father Loves us, for He ALLOWS US TO BE CALLED HIS CHILDREN, and WE REALLY ARE! But the people who belong to this world DON'T KNOW GOD, so they don't understand that WE ARE HIS CHILDREN. Yes, dear friends, WE ARE ALREADY GOD'S CHILDREN. and we can't even imagine what it will be like when Christ returns. But we do know that when He comes WE WILL BE LIKE HIM..." (I John 3:1-2 NLT).

So, all a person has to do to KNOW WHY MAN WAS CREATED is to BELIEVE THE SIMPLE TRUTH OF THE WORDS OF THE BIBLE.

"I am praying not only for these disciples but also for ALL WHO WILL EVER BELIEVE IN ME BECAUSE OF THEIR TESTIMONY. My prayer for all of them is that THEY WILL BE ONE, JUST AS YOU AND I ARE ONE, Father - that just as YOU ARE IN ME and I AM IN YOU, so THEY WILL BE IN US..." (John 17:20-21 NLT).

And, YES... we are made to enjoy FRIENDSHIP WITH GOD:

"I COMMAND YOU TO LOVE EACH OTHER in the same way that I Love you... YOU ARE MY FRIENDS if you OBEY ME... Now you are My friends, since I have told you everything that Father told Me... I command you to Love each other." (John 15:12