Now, God could not be love if there was nobody to love. He could not be a Father without a child. And yet it is not as if God created so that he could love someone. He is love, and does not need to create in order to be who he is. If he did, what a needy, lonely thing he would be! ‘Poor old God’, we’d say. If he created us in order to be who he is, we would be giving him life.
