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Why did God create the universe?

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RE: Why did God create the universe?

June 19, 2012 at 7:55 am

(June 18, 2012 at 7:58 pm)gomtuu77 Wrote: I would suggest that it was because it pleased Him to do so. In addition, it was another way in which He could express his only perfectly virtuous and just nature. And having more epxression of perfection is better than less, at least from my perspective.

Yep, sends bears to maul children to death.......

Very just and virtuous indeed. Undecided

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Sounds more like a petulant child having a temper tantrum than a supreme deity to me.

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