# For religious Dopers: Why did God create humans?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-religious-dopers-why-did-god-create-humans/233807>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [March 12, 2004, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-religious-dopers-why-did-god-create-humans/233807 "2004-03-12T00:13:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2004, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-religious-dopers-why-did-god-create-humans/233807/1 "2004-03-12T00:13:03Z")

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I’m personally not going to debate it (I’m an atheist but I don’t proselytize) but given the sensitivity of the topic it seemed more apropos for her than General Questions.

I wondered this even when I was religious: why would an omnipotent, omnisicent Being who was and is and e’er shall be complete unto Himself feel the need to create humans (or anything else, for that matter)? Is it for the worship? The companionship? An experiment?

I’m not mocking the views of anybody, but I am curious what they are.

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**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2004, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-religious-dopers-why-did-god-create-humans/233807/2 "2004-03-12T00:15:49Z")

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Dear Mods:

I’m sorry for posting this twice: I stopped the upload to correct a typo (“here” instead of “her” above) but evidently it had already posted. Could you please kill this one?