Perfect God

If God is perfect then he has not wishes, needs or desires. Then why did he create the universe?

Before God created the universe there was nothing - no sun, no earth, no people, no good or evil, no pain - nothing but God who was, according to Christians, perfect. So if God was perfect and nothing but perfection existed, what motivated God to create the universe and thus bring imperfection into being?

Christians will say that God created everything because of his love of man, but this is impossible. God could not love humans before he created them any more than a woman could love her children before she had conceived them. God's need to create indicates that he was dissatisfied in some way and therefore not perfect. Christians might then say that God created spontaneously and without need or desire. However this would mean that the whole universe came into being without purpose or forethought and therefore it would mean that God was not a loving creator.1

1Smith, M. (2003). Biblegod can not be perfect. Retrieved August 19, 2003, from http://www.jcnot4me.com/Items/theology/biblegod_can_not_be_perfect.htm

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