What is the purpose behind our existence?

Agape - unconditional LOVE.  But that does not mean that a payment must not be made for sins, bad deeds commited.  A debt must be paid.

LOL!!  Are we getting off topic again?

God gave us rule over all creatures.

Genesis 1

26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground." 

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Would GOD bless those if He did not love them?

Genesis 1

 28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."

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Psalms 8

martha wrote:  And how do we reciprocate His Love? By putting Him in a stone and worshiping Him? By associating Him with a man that He created? To me that is an insult to His Love and to His Majesty

Salam dear Martha,

Whatever we see in this world whether past or present are just creations of the Creator. From the furthest of the planets, to the tiniest of the veins or the minutest of a DNA. We can see His Majesty, We can observe His Power, we can talk to Him, sometimes we can even hear His words. We can feel His Love, but We cannot see Him physically. If we can see Him physically, then there is no purpose of Heaven where one has to strive to get there to see Him personally.

For me, God AlMighty has got no parallels, no match, nothing similar, nothing comparable. He created the stones, He created Men, it is not befitting for such MAJESTY to be placed in an inanimate object like the idols, or in the shape of a man, who himself needed his mother for a living.

To me a Supreme Being that is worthy of worship, does not need anything, nor anyone. He is Al-Hayy, - The Living, He is Al-Awwal, and He is Al-Akhir - The Last.

Am I being too harsh? If I am, please forgive me.

Salam.

Who said we only love Jesus, or GOD only loves Jesus?

John 3
16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

Yes, we all must repent every day for sins we have commited and for those we don't even realize!!  We can never repent enough to erase all of our own personal sins.  GOD is so holy and righteous that we can never come close to Him without Jesus.  With Jesus we can fight the sin, the temptation is much less.  We can put on the armor of Jesus

You are correct this is not right- Do you believe that a man can forgive the sin or crime of another man but the God cannot forgive any one without punishing him?? That is not right.

So in Islam there is no hell?  That brings us back to all the women in hell!!  LOL!!

believer wrote: GOD didn't need to come to earth in human form.  He wanted to!!  Jesus is just one manifestation of GOD.

The question is why Jesus? And why must he die? Sorry if I am being blunt, but dying on a cross shows a weak god, a helpless god, How are we to respect someone that we want to hold on to, to put all our hopes for the hereafter if he had shown his weakness.

Astaghfirullah - I seek forgiveness from Allah - ALLAHUAKBAR - ALLAH IS GREAT! It is impossible that He is weak, It is impossible that He dies.

Looking at the brightness of the sun, we can see the manifestation of God's power, looking at the rain falling, we can see the manifestation of His Rahmah or Mercy, looking at a mother suckling her baby with love is a manifestation of God's Love, looking at the tiniest of the veins in a brain, is a manifestation of His intellect. There are indeed many more of His manifestation that He showed us and many of us are too blind (spiritual myopia like someone mentioned).

Jesus was just a prophet, a creation of God, like you and me.