Answering the Big Question

As I've already said, I believe the Big Question in religion is "why are we here?"  Ultimately, this is what I believe all religions are trying to answer in some fashion.  The problem is that (most?) all religions answer this question in an egotistical and anthropomorphic manner.  The answers that I've heard to this question basically come down to "give glory to God" which is a terribly small answer in my book.

To say that our reason for existence is to "give glory to God" makes very little sense to me.  To go thru all the effort to create reality to merely get followers who "glorify" the name of God is to reduce to nothing the importance of both Man and God.  It would seem to me that an all-powerful, all-seeing, all-knowing God could come up with a better reason for this creation.

I think a much more appropriate answer to the Big Question is that we are here to become God.  Note that this answer is not religious in nature and actually works from a scientific perspective.  I am not saying how creation came about in this answer and you could choose to say that it happened due to random events or the divine plan of God as both views can still lead to the same answer to the Big Question.

Also, note that the answer to the Big Question may not come about for billions upon billions of years.  This fits into the theory of evolution quite nicely in that it may take this long for us to evolve into being God.  This gives us something to aspire to over the long time of existence yet to come as evolution into God would represent the end of creation.  After all, where could existence go once it achieves being God?

The notion of becoming God may seem like a circular definition.  If God created us to evolve into being God, which came first -- Man or God?  Actually, that question is a non-sequitur in the face of an all-powerful, all-knowing, and all-seeing God as such a God could break the loop in any fashion he wishes.  The circular definition actually (to me) seems to fit nicely with the notion of everything was created from nothing as it just needs to be viewed in the reverse direction (everything was already here and created itself) which is no problem for God.

I'm sure there is much more to this theory which I'll need to work out in the future of this blog.  Let's see if it generates any interest...