(February 8, 2018 at 2:37 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote:(February 8, 2018 at 12:20 pm)SteveII Wrote: Good questions.
Why do we desire friendship, spouses? How about the desire to have children? I think it is because relationships add a specific kind of value to the lives of both people. There is joy when the other person succeeds, there is a desire to help when the other is in needs, there is greater satisfaction in shared experiences, there is comfort when there is tragedy, and there is a feeling of peacefulness when everything is good between two people.
I think God created us for those and similar reasons: An eternal relationship has value both to us and to God.
So, god was lacking something, or was unfulfilled in some way before creating humanity? He was...lonely?
There are two senses of the word "lacking". One is a deficiency and the other is simply without. I don't think God was deficient in any way in what makes him a perfect God. In fact, God desiring relationships seems to be a perfection. Think about it, what is better--a God who does not desire relationships or a God who desires them because the experience has value? I think an argument for the latter would be more persuasive.
