Was it necessary to create anything?

[emjay]

I would say that it's because he wanted to be loved but knew that love (or respect) only means anything if it comes from a position of free will, hence creating an independent, thinking being. But since it is 'implemented' - at least in the Old Testament - with the simultaneous promise of Heaven on one hand and the threat of Hell on the other, that suggests a very insecure being terrified of being rejected. That's one of the reasons that convinces me that the Bible is the work of petty man, not a deity.

Except one thing he doesn't value human lives since he can take it so easily and he hates anyone who is different. god of the bible isn't all loving by any stretch of the imagination he only loves a specific group of people and even still he betrays them he gotten his original favorites kill off. So yeah god of the bible is petty and malicious, seeing that is how the world and everything else is. I came to a conclusion as a child if there is a god and i am wrong it is a god who simply does not give a fuck about us he doesn't care about your petty worship, He doesn't care about your prayer requests, He doesn't care at all. 

No, you're right, he doesn't seem to value human lives. That was another thing that got to me - the fact that the many were punished for the sins of the few - a whole city here or there. And any Christian will tell you that any innocents caught in the cross-fire would automatically go to Heaven but that doesn't cut it - pain is pain even if something good comes after.