We, each of us, needs God. Without Him, we simply wouldn’t exist in any way whatever. Anyone who believes that God created mankind accepts that immovable reality.

Still, when we think of mankind as utterly subordinate to God and unalterably dependent on Him for our mere existence – we somehow conclude that because we so rely on Him, He has no corresponding need for us. But is that, too, reality?

The question raised here will undoubtedly present itself as sacrilegious to many – the very idea that God might actually be lost without mankind as His supplicants. But, one might ask, why did He create us? Was God lonely? Did He perhaps find Himself lacking purpose without mankind to admire, glorify and worship Him?

We are often disapproved of for anthropomorphically imagining God’s nature; but why? Why is it wrong to imagine that........

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