Why did God create the universe

I really liked the old mystical "illusion of the world" idea that The Matrix converted into a modern, technological concept. A truly inspired idea. But I only liked it in the first movie. It got a little worn-out and over-drawn by the second and third sequels. Philosophically speaking, it's got alot of deep wisdom in it, but it should not be regarded literally with respect to the idea of some kind of domination by some machine-race, although I do believe we are controlled by a "system" of external forces that drive everything we do and shrouds us with illusions of the importance of physical material existence. The Matrix is a modern take on mysticism. Pretty cool, though.

"Each conscious mind is alone in the universe!"

Absolutely. I think most people get something out of that film, it's almost as though it's hooked into our world wide web of consciousness, downloading what's relevant to each individuals, kids love the action and religious people find it spiritually stimulating and scientific people love the techno stuff, it is a cool film.

""Each child holds the world in an open hand to mould it into any shape they choose.""

I think the best answer to why God created the universe can be found with the help of the hindu scripture Gita - http://www.lordkrishna.info/krishna/2007/03/20/why-did-god-create-this-un
iverse/

"God helps those who help themselves"

I think God is our nature,in fact, the God creat the world ,before human appear on the universe, the God have been there.So I believe God is exist ,I also think that do good things for helping other people can make our life happy more!

"striving forever!"

personally, my entire way of thinking is weird as far as this goes. the god that the majority of us believe in, I think, made this world in his own view of perfection. But this is not THE god (whom I call the divine creator), so he failed and made a flawed world.

now we can go into why this god is not perfect but I don't really feel like getting into it. Just wanted to post my view.

""All god's invited except jahova, 'cause hes a douche" -Dan the Man"

Yeah, I dont think there was a beginning. I dont think there will be a ending. I think this, as in you, me, this computer. I think were all this god you speak of. I think were only as reall as you dreaming. Maybe were all just dreams, thoughts, half-way recognized potentials. Some of us here some of us not.
I d k . No one does. However I hope whoever read this post and the post of some of the other people that posted are as eye widened and in awwd curiosity and questioning I am in.
Cause this is neat.

P.S. "God releated thread! lol, you know who you are."

Is God our dream or are we God's dream?

""Each child holds the world in an open hand to mould it into any shape they choose.""

I know this is a fairly old thread but this last question (by Sorceress) fascinated me so much, I had to pick it up again. I used to believe that the entire universe was a mental realm within the mind of what we consider God. However, there are times when I experience strange moments of realization that I can only interpret as glimpses of some esoteric truth. It's hard to explain, but I'll try.

A friend of mine was discussing the Big Bang theory, how anything could possibly happen in the first place if in the beginning there was no matter, space or time. It was at that moment I felt that my existence was somehow connected to the Big Bang, that the moment I became conscious was the moment that all existence came to be. Now I have some strange ideas about the nature of time, the most notable aspect of which is that time is a function of thought and perception and not an actual physical property of the external world. The real world, I believe, is timeless with the past, present, and future all existing simultaneously. Moreover, time is malleable in the sense that it can "expand" or "condense" so that the flow of time can be a totally different experience for different people and different beings, and that for different beings these differences are constant (as a fly who may experience time as moving much slower than a human being). However, it's more than that. I believe that if linear time (and three-dimensional space) are really functions of thought and perception then we all exist in the past, present, future simultaneously, which also means that all time and all space exist within us potentially and, therefore, we were in existence at the so-called time of this Big Bang. In a sense, nothing exists without our consciousness. Our consciousness is the source and cause of all existence. So in a sense, the dream of God is also our dream for we are God unrealized.

Hmmm...I guess you had to be there. Oh, well.

"Each conscious mind is alone in the universe!"