Creation Plantinga Ch 2

Almost everyone in the developed world has heard Genesis 1:1 in the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth. A question I have always wondered about not in real depth but in the back of my mind is why? Why did God create the Heavens and the Earth I mean I don’t dislike this fact entirely but I cannot help but wonder why he did? If we know anything about God it is that he does not need anything. We also know that there is infinity of time on both sides of our world (an arrogant term to begin with). This is a question that as I have already stated I had thought about but there never seemed to be an answer that made sense. Though if there is one thing I am glad for in this world it is that there are people cleverer than I in these different areas of study who write down what they find so that we laymen may understand the universe without dedicating our lives to its study as they have. Plantinga writes that “creation is neither a necessity nor an accident. Instead, given God’s interior life that overflows with regard for others, we might say that creation is an act fitting for God.” He also said that and this is the main point that “Creation is a way for God to spend himself” I could not ever have possibly imagined that the entire reason for everything was so simple. God is love and it was his will that he be able to spread that love to others so he created them. He did not need to do this he simply willed it. I had known the words God is love and the most famous verse that every child in Sunday school must at some point memorize for God so loved the world that he sent his one and only son so that whoever believes in him shall not parish but have eternal life. I knew that God’s love was so great that it was beyond human comprehension but I had never realized just what that meant and I believe now that this outlook on creation gives me a better understanding of just who God is and just how great of love he has.