What is the eternal reason for
creation? This is the ultimate question.
Creation embraces both the spiritual beings
we know as angels from eternity past, and the physical creation of time and
space, the physical sphere in which we have our part.
What is the purpose of creation?
I would suggest it is to glorify God. To 'Glorify' God is to magnify, to expound,
to reveal the true nature of God. To expand
on a comment by one of my old teachers; glorification is 'revelation in the
interest of absolute truth'.
But why would a God who has everything need
to defend his person, why does he need to defend his truth? Surely he is sufficient in himself?
Lewis Sperry Chafer wrote (somewhere in his
Systematic Theology) a passage that went something like this:
'In eternity past before the creation of
angels, evil existed only in the abstract, as an antithesis to God. The creation of living volitional beings
brought about the opportunity for evil to take concrete form and in the
fullness of time to be destroyed, thereby leaving the goodness of God
victorious and unchallenged.'
To establish the supremacy of good over
evil necessitated a situation where a
lesser volitional creature could bring
about the reality of evil so that it became a fact not an antithesis. To then defeat evil by means of justice and
love would be clear indisputable revelation 'in the interest of absolute Truth'.
The angels were created and Lucifer, by his
own volitional choice, chose to rebel against Truth and so brought evil into
reality.
The rest is history AND eschatology. See both the Old Testament and the New.
