The Purpose of Life 

In the creation story of Genesis, we see the beginning of life. Life started from the Spirit of God, because as the scripture says, “the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.” There were darkness and “void” (which means chaos in Hebrew) and so God spoke and said, “Let there be light!” and it was so. Where there is light, there is life, and all the light comes from God. John the Baptist has told us that, “In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not.” Here is why he said that. After God saw the light, He notated that “It is good” and then God separated the light from the dark first and foremost. Now we know that the light from the Spirit of God gave birth to life and He announced that it is good. So, the purpose of life is to do good. The psalm of King David says, “Trust in the Lord, and do good; Dwell in the land, and feed on His faithfulness.”

Then God created all of His creation in six days, and on the seventh day He rested, and sanctified the seventh day as a sacrament to His work that He did alone. In the creation story, we see that after every finished work He looked back at His work and said “It is good”. The genetic code (or stamp) of all of God’s creation is goodness, once again seeing that the goodness of God is life itself. Everything that God has created works for the goodness of God. People often ask, “If God is so real why does He let evil people live?” and the answer that Christians should give is, “To show us how good He is when He saves us from all evil.” In the creation of Man, we are shown to be made in his image and likeness. First, water covered the earth creating a mist (because God works in secret), and then we notice that God took the dust of the earth and formed Adam. After Adam’s body was completed, God put the breath of life into Adam’s nostrils, once again showing that life comes from the goodness of God (which is light). Once the life was in Adam, and he became a living soul, God looked at His most precious and beloved creation on Earth and saw that “It was very good”.

Now the Tree of the Knowledge of good and evil is a monument of the handiwork of YAH, from separating the light from the darkness, and taking a hold of both the light and the dark, so they will not combine together like they did before the beginning. Where there is light, all things can be found, but where there is darkness, all things are lost. No man can be found in God with evil fully inside of him. For the scripture does say this, “…that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.” And in this division of dark and light, the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil was also created, capturing the chasm of good and evil in the form of a tree that did bear fruit. And just like Man’s blood contains the information of the genealogy of that Man, both good and evil information is stored in our veins just like the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Why? Because of the fall of Adam by disobeying God’s commandment which says “Of every tree of the garden, you may eat freely, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it: for surely the day you eat of it you shall surely die.” Evil cannot co-exist (perform together) with goodness, and if you are a lukewarm Christian, this is the reason why God will spit you out.

So, we need to understand what goodness is, because the power of God is in the understanding of His word, His ways, and His commandments. The goodness of God is to bring life to what was once dead. And the only way to perform the goodness of God is by doing what is righteous. Righteousness is believing in the Elohim and obeying Him. As Jeremiah the prophet prophesied of the coming of the Messiah calling him “THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.” and the Lord Jesus Christ is our Righteousness because He believed in God wholeheartedly and obeyed God by his ministry and his resurrection, where our ancestors of the Hebrews and the Gentiles failed to do so (which is obeying and believing in God) repeatedly. As stated by the Lord Jesus Christ himself, “...No one is good, but one, that is God”, because Christ knew that his Father God created all of His work with the intention to be good and God is goodness Himself. We are capable of performing the goodness of God by following the example of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, also the Son of Man. As the Lord says, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.”There is nothing that is good apart from God, only the pleasures of this world that leads to death.