Why, God? Why?!

[John V]

Okay...why does god, a wholly perfect and complete entity, want love and companionship from a source separate from himself?  Couldn’t god simply generate wholly satisfying feelings of love and companionship within himself?

Er, why do you assume that the desire is to receive love and companionship? Maybe the desire was to bestow those things on something separate from himself. Personally we had children because we had love to give, not because we needed to receive.

Could you expand on that?

For this thread the important point would be that there was a time that God existed before he created this universe. So, that he knows all points of time in our universe doesn't preclude him from having desired to create the universe.

Of course not, but I’m a human being, not a complete, perfect, omniscient, omnipresent god...

The Bible says that Jesus was made perfect through suffering. Contemplate that awhile.

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So, god was lacking something, or was unfulfilled in some way before creating humanity?  He was...lonely?

Wow, interesting how you're straining for a gotcha moment.