[balrog666]

When we come to thinking about the Big One we are certainly faced with a great list of big and serious questions - the kind of questions we in this Church are concerned to deal with - and today I have turned to the scriptures to pose the question 'If God has and is everything, so that God cannot desire anything, then why did He create the universe?'. If God was complete with respect to everything before the universe existed - and it doesn't make any sense to think of God as being anything but complete with respect to everything - how could there be a reason for Him to create All-That-Is? The answer given by the great thinkers is that God was doing the only thing that remains when you've got absolutely everything: God was engaging in play.

[js1138]

The answer given by the great thinkers is that God was doing the only thing that remains when you've got absolutely everything: God was engaging in play.

One way of putting it. I think of it as creating something that would have actual freedom -- that is capable of becoming something unknowable in advance. but of course that gets into the question of whether God is completely outside of time.

[Ophiucus]

God was engaging in play.

People who don't read Heinlein probably won't find that humorous...made me laugh though. :-)

[betty boop]

The answer given by the great thinkers is that God was doing the only thing that remains when you've got absolutely everything: God was engaging in play.

This is an interesting theory, balrog. (Who are these great thinkers?)

Then again, maybe God just wanted to have a beloved.

Who can really, truly say, balrog? What mortal knows the mind of God?