That God created man to give Him glory, and to fellowship with Him and to demonstrate the wonder of His grace, the scriptures absolutely confirm. The Genesis account tells us how God created man and woman, and of their relationship with God both before and after the fall.
But I believe an equally deep reason for why God created man is revealed in the first book that was written, the book of Job. Satan challenged God's love by saying that Job did not serve God because he loved God, but only because God had blessed him. Remove the blessings, Satan said, and Job's love for God would die. This challenge to God's love was directly connected to Lucifer's rebellion. Lucifer rebelled because of his pride, but this challenge to God's love implies that perhaps his pride arose because he had come to believe that God's love was not real. God accepted Satan's challenge because God desired to prove that His love for His tested creation, as well as man's free choice to love Him, constituted a power that absolutely nothing could ever break. Romans 8:31-39.
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