God does not need us for lack of something else in His Trinitarian life. Would not the “life” of God be less open to doubt if He were not encumbered with needing to explain just why He brought finite, evidently fallible human beings into His world? The biggest accusation against God is usually: “If He did not want us to sin, why bother to create us in the first place?”
Published on March 29, 2019
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