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Unsaved trash often pose the above question in a desperate attempt to disprove our holy faith. If they ever used their Bibles for anything other than steadying a wobbly table, they'd know that God has told us the answer.
All things are created for God's pleasure:
Rev. 4:11: Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.
God's elect were also created for His glory:
Isaiah 43:7: [Even] every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
But what about those people who won't be our neighbors in Heaven? Why would God create humanity when He had to foreknow that the overwhelming majority would be tormented eternally in the lake of fire? God created them not only for His pleasure generally, but more specifically to glorify Himself to His elect:
Romans 9:22-24: [What] if God, willing to shew [his] wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
All things are created for God's pleasure:
Rev. 4:11: Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.
God's elect were also created for His glory:
Isaiah 43:7: [Even] every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
But what about those people who won't be our neighbors in Heaven? Why would God create humanity when He had to foreknow that the overwhelming majority would be tormented eternally in the lake of fire? God created them not only for His pleasure generally, but more specifically to glorify Himself to His elect:
Romans 9:22-24: [What] if God, willing to shew [his] wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
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