The universe has been created so that we can exist. Our existence is an opportunity to see for ourselves what God has revealed about Himself and make a choice: 1. Do we want to be with God in eternity, 2. or not?
Hell is Real but God is Good
The Fall and Decay
The world was created in a corrupt state as a means to manifest free will. The Lord maintained the creation in a stable condition until the first act of disobedience. At that time he withdrew his physical presence fro the Earth.
Gravity of the Soul
We've introduced gravity as the mechanism by which the creation will be purified and how light will be separated from darkness. Gravity was created on the second day. Matter, space and time existed before that.
Good and Evil
The purpose of creation is to separate good from evil. A reasonable question is: Why were they mingled together in the first place? If God is good, then the evil had to be created from good. The sinless became sin.
Answering Secular Humanism
Giving an answer to secular humanists which is Biblically accurate, captures the spirit and the nature of God, and which is in complete harmony with our knowledge of the universe isn't impossible, but it may take some work.
Secular Humanism vs. God
It's one thing to talk about God with Christians, they know God from the Bible. It's something else to talk with people who don't go to church and whose knowledge of God comes from atheist propaganda.
Free Will
There are two issues that help us to understand the reason for why we were created with free will and how this is even possible given the nature of God as pure and holy, not to mention omnipresent and omniscient.
God: אֱלֹהִ֑ים – elohim
A word frequently translated God is the Hebrew elohim. What's interesting is that the word is plural, denoting more than one. It's not a problem because we can resolve it with God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
The Holy Trinity
1 John 5:7 gives us the Holy trinity. All three of them are present in Genesis 1:2 if "The Word" is God the Son, Jesus Christ, whom we have resolved with the deep.
What is Creation?
What is creation the verb, not creation the noun? The act of creation. Maybe we should say creating? Where does creating start? From nothing? Or is it the transformation of one form into another?