According to St. Paul, God created everything for Himself (Rom. 11:36; Col. 1:16; Heb. 2:10), but God did not create man because He was lonely. God is three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. He has never been a lonely God. He has never lived in isolation. Indeed, God is love (I John 4:8) and love cannot exist in isolation. Without someone else to love, there is no love. Love must have an origin and an object in order to exist.
All three Persons of the Holy Trinity have always existed. Each Person is eternal, without beginning. Each Person loves the other two Persons of the Godhead unconditionally and self-sacrificially. Their love for each other is constant and eternal.
Out of love, They created more objects of love in addition to Themselves. They created the angels (Job 38:7; Neh. 9:6), the animals (Gen. 1:20-25), and later man (Gen. 1:26-28). The God who has always been love and has never been lonely created more to love.
This God of love "fills all things in all" (Eph. 1:23). God permeates His creation without ever becoming His creation. He is everywhere present but everything is not Him.
So then, we need to understand that God grants us our existence not out of necessity, but out of love. (Wisdom 11:24)
All three Persons of the Holy Trinity have always existed. Each Person is eternal, without beginning. Each Person loves the other two Persons of the Godhead unconditionally and self-sacrificially. Their love for each other is constant and eternal.
Out of love, They created more objects of love in addition to Themselves. They created the angels (Job 38:7; Neh. 9:6), the animals (Gen. 1:20-25), and later man (Gen. 1:26-28). The God who has always been love and has never been lonely created more to love.
This God of love "fills all things in all" (Eph. 1:23). God permeates His creation without ever becoming His creation. He is everywhere present but everything is not Him.
So then, we need to understand that God grants us our existence not out of necessity, but out of love. (Wisdom 11:24)
