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Originally Posted by LMP
Yes, Helen, wants to. He wants relationship with us puny little bits of self-aware matter. He wants us to last forever, and not merely last but enJoy him forever. Omniscience seems to fit okay with that.
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But surely 'want' implies desire, which implies a lack, that something is felt to be missing in order for a sense of completion?
Such a God may well be Omniscient & Omnipotent, but is
Imperfect by nature of missing something.
By contrast, a God who creates because it is His nature to create is
not Imperfect in creating things, but is rather expressing His nature
fully. This does not deny that such a God would love what He had created (is God's Love separated from His Creativity, or are they 'one' & the same?). Meister Eckhart took the idea of God as Creator so far that he stated that God had not only
created all things, but was constantly
creating them, that past, present & future (& all things in them) are
being created by God, are in a constent state of being created - otherwise they would not exist (ie even the
past must be created by God 'NOW'- that is in 'Eternity'- in order for it to exist (or
have existed from our perspective) ie, if God wasn't constantly 'creating' the past it would cease to exist & we would have no memory of it.
If any of that makes sense....