Stope
Puritan Board Sophomore
The Trinity has no need for anything, there is no shadow, etc... But by the very fact that they desired to create us APPEARS that there was something (love embraced/felt? praise? glorification, etc.?) that they couldn't otherwise have unless they were created by us?
This analogy is what I have heard; "You cant make an already PERFECT love more perfect (like the one the Trinity had in times past), but you can make it BIGGER", and alothough I like the sentiment here I feel it still displays a twice-removed sort of "need", or rather maybe a sort of scratch to itch...
All this to say, God has no NEED for us, but from whence came the DESIRE to create us - and is that desire a variation of a "need" that he couldnt have kept on being fine without if he had never created us?
This analogy is what I have heard; "You cant make an already PERFECT love more perfect (like the one the Trinity had in times past), but you can make it BIGGER", and alothough I like the sentiment here I feel it still displays a twice-removed sort of "need", or rather maybe a sort of scratch to itch...
All this to say, God has no NEED for us, but from whence came the DESIRE to create us - and is that desire a variation of a "need" that he couldnt have kept on being fine without if he had never created us?