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I don't recall seeing them. To be honest, I don't read every single post in the forum. I spot a thread topic that interests me, and browse through the responses, missing quite a few I'm sure. So if you've already answered this, I apologize. Can you re-state your position or at least link me to the other thread?
That's fine. That is typically how I read through this forum as well. I just didn't want to get into a post for you to respond "well, yeah I know what you think I just don't find it satisfactory"
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Even when I believed in a god, these were questions I had where I wasn't sure I was ever satisfied with the answers I could obtain.
Understood.
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As Deorum points out, I don't understand how a perfect god could be bored, or have needs (such as us to love him), etc. How you really thought about this for yourself? Or are you just going by answers you think you've found in a book. Don't you have your own curiosities?
I think about this sort of stuff constantly. FWIW, I do feel this is a legit question, but I can only answer from my point of view, which might not be satisfactory for you.
As far as why I believe God made us, I believe that it is an extension of his love. When talking about the most perfect being, probably the most loving thing that he could do would be to create other beings to "share himself" with. I would not say that God created us out of some necessity to himself (like boredom or loneliness), but out of a desire to give the greatest gift he could to other beings. If the world we lived in now was perfect, an absolute utopia, wouldn't you want to have children to enjoy this utopia? There is a little more to be said, but let's start here.
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Why would he make us so imperfect? So inferior to himself? Obviously, if you were creating something that you could love, you might not want to make that something greater than you, or give it greater powers than you have. But would you really want to make it so much weaker and flawed than you? If so, why?
As I have stated before, I believe that free will is necessary to have a love relationship with God. Which means that in order to share God's love he would have to risk the possibility of this world. Remember that at least in some christian theology, we did not start out this way, only ended up this way.
I think that you also have to take into account that in the scheme of eternity, this life is but a blip. In a nut shell, the ends justify the means. If it means that God could not share this eternal bliss with beings without risking the world the way that it is, then the risk would be the "moral" thing to do.
Also, I do not feel that we are "weak" in the sense that you seem to be describing. After all we have the power to go against our creator. In my opinion that is one of the greatest powers that God could give, and also gives him the most liability.
Ok, gotta eat, but this will get us started towards hopefully a fruitful discussion.