Subject: Does God Need us like we need Him? |
Bible Note: Hi, sonofmom... The problem with expressing things that way is it implies that God's love is an incomplete attribute fulfilled only when His creatures respond to it. In reality, God is eternally, utterly, unchangeably, complete and perfect in Himself. God is not dependent on His creation for anything (Acts 17:25). Love is an expression of relationship. Love's epitomized in how the three Persons of the Triune God relate to one another. That relationship existed eternally before creation, lacking nothing. Then the expression of that love was made manifest to man before the foundations of the world (Romans 5:8; Ephesians 1:4). This intimacy of fore knowing is made manifest to us now and forever (1 Peter 1:20-21; Ephesian 1:4) for God's glory (John 1:14). In other words, His attributes are put on display; something entirely by His own work, rather than cinched into place by some human activity. In Him, Doc |