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Originally Posted by Worldseries27
presuming you created children, did you do it to entertain yourself, or was it done out of love for one another?
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Both are examples of entertainment, in the broad sense of doing something that interests you.
Imagine being a disembodied intelligence with a billion years of nothing to do, and an infinity of more of the same. A being who entertains himself by engineering a universe as a thought experiment is so far beyond your imagination that you are about as interesting to him as an amoeba is to you. If God created you because he needed someone to love, it would be like you creating a brain cell in order to have a brain cell to love.
Which is not to say that God, at our level of experience, doesn't care about and love us. We ARE God, or at least an infinitesimal spec of God's imagination, like a neuron in God's mind. WE care about us. I think this even explains how prayer works. Our beliefs are part of God's dream. We can bend the dream, within our infinitesimally small limits.