“Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things.”
A God who needs worship is a God who creates out of lack, and a God who creates out of lack is not the God of Scripture. Divine sufficiency is not a decorative attribute; it is the hinge on which the moral question turns.
If nothing was gained by creating us, then our existence cannot be explained by divine self-interest. It must be explained by purpose freely chosen — and a freely chosen purpose can be examined, questioned, and finally understood.
This chapter argues that fullness, not need, is the beginning of the story. What follows is not God solving a problem for Himself, but God resolving a problem raised within His creation.
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