Opus 2026-264: Does God Have Needs?

The classic answer is that such a thought is heresy.  To declare that God has needs implies that He is incomplete and that makes Him less than the God of the Bible.  Okay.  I won’t make this a statement of doctrine…but I will speculate.

Who are we to declare that God does not have needs?  He is the one who is God.  Sure we were created in His image and that is why we have the potential to ask stupid questions, but that does not make us the Authority.

Did God create us because He craves the unpredictable?  Is that why free will exists and we are confronted with the philosophical problem of evil?  We are obviously not on God’s level but I would imagine that even God might get a bit bored creating universes that are predictable.

My son was postulating that the current discoveries in quantum physics said that even the laws of nature can vary.  To me these ideas are just theories and speculation but he has a point.  I am not confident that some of these things can be proven but evidently they are finding that physical matter acts differently when observed by a conscious mind.  How you would prove that is beyond me but let’s go with that.  It would mean that even the “evolution” of the universe would vary if God is watching.

This could be a feature and not a bug.  We tend to think it limits God’s omni attributes but again, that is our opinion, not necessarily His.  It may be why there are so few who will find the narrow gate of salvation.  It would be the result of a sifting process that produces Olympic athletes with the millions of wannabes dreaming in front of the TV set.

I believe that we bring joy to God’s heart by free will choices to love and obey.  Does God need that joy?  I don’t know that I would go that far but it would seem that He wants it.

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