by Gary Maclean

Created on: October 19, 2009   Last Updated: February 21, 2011

What is the purpose, motive and intent of humanity? 

I like to think of life as the one greatest gift mankind has ever been given. I believe life comes from a higher power, which I like to refer to as God Almighty. I refuse to even get into a debate as to where God came from or how he got here. It's no different than believing evolution; you have to ask where did the first single cell thing-a-ma-jig come from? That very first beginning thing is the same quandary for whatever belief one has, so it doesn't affect the outcome anyway. 

For the sake of argument, let's say God is the source of life; he envisioned it, developed it, created it and gave it to mankind. Now, why would he do such a thing? What is his purpose? I try to mentally put myself into God's environment when I answer this question. If that were me, why on earth would I want to put little people on my beautiful earth?  

I am going to propose an answer that may not sound reasonable to many of you and it may sound like a joke to others. Believe me, I do not joke about God or his intentions. I really think what I am going to say has some merit when it comes to the question of what is the purpose of humanity; it helps me better understand it all anyway.

God can have anything, do anything, be anything, whatever, he simply "can." He is ultimate power and will. He has a following of angelic entities that is biblical, no pun intended. What more can he want? What more could he even envision? He could envision his own little experimental ant farm. 

Yes, I liken humanity to an ant farm. An ant farm I can understand, I can see it and touch it. This way I can take an untouchable concept and bring it down to my level to work with. I have an idea that God wanted companionship. He wanted to construct a little world and populate it with beings that resembled him so he could watch and study them. He built the earth. 

The real purpose of humanity started out to be nothing more than entertainment for God. He just wanted to see what a thinking, reasoning being would do in a place as beautiful and excellent as the Garden of Eden. For a test he placed on obstacle in that Garden. Everything else was available to man except that one tree; the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. 

You know how you might build a pile of sand in front of the ant's pathway just to see how he would work around it? Well, that's what God was doing with Adam and Eve. He wanted to see how they would

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