When I was young, I feared that the effect creation has on God would dissipate over time. God might have to create the world all over again sometime in the future.
I came to realize that the effect of creation on God will never dissipate because God transcends time. Time is a feature of creation, so that all creatures within creation are moving in time. God is outside of time, and creation is also timeless if we could look at creation from God’s perspective.
From the beginning to the end, all moments in time for the whole universe and beyond are like one massive timelessly frozen cloud always in the face of God. The effect that creation has on God was always part of God and always will be part of God since creation is timeless and is always in the face of a timeless God.
Creation would have to provide something which is essential to the essence of God. Creation must provide something to God by which God is completed. God has infinite Righteousness, infinite Power, and infinite Intelligence. There is something else that God must have, and God does have but only because of creation. That something is wisdom.
Without creation God would have no understanding of sorrow, loneliness, or many other emotions. It seems ridiculous to suggest that there could be any knowledge or wisdom that God does not possess. Surely, God has all wisdom, but the essentialness of wisdom to God is why creation exists.
Emotions cannot be calculated; they must be felt. While God may timelessly possess the wisdom of the human experience, there must be a human experience. A world of conflict between good and evil must exist, contained within the borders of time for the wisdom gained by creation to be part of God.
When we are contrite or sorrowful, God is not merely with us, God is inside us, within our mind and soul. God feels precisely what we feel. God has felt the sorrow, loneliness, and anxiety of all His children throughout all generations. Because of this, God has a full understanding of love. God has wisdom that is essential to His essence by sharing the journey of life with billions of His children.
God did not create the world for us to suffer, but for God to suffer. It was not for us to experience sorrow and loneliness, but for God to experience sorrow and loneliness through us. God understands our suffering better than we do. He has experienced it billions of times.
There would have to be suffering if suffering is the whole point of creation, but God put as much distance between Himself and human suffering as possible. God allows suffering, but God does not cause suffering. Humans suffer, but humans are the ones who cause suffering. Satan does not directly cause any suffering, but by the influence of the devil, humans are born, and humans cause and experience suffering and death. Suffering is the result of the devil using humanity to grieve God, but God redeems the humans, who are children of the devil, and God responds to suffering with justice.
Our flesh is not evil, but it is influenced by the devil, and it is produced by that influence, but our spirit comes from God.
Creation is not a test, but a journey through a world of joy and suffering to provide an understanding of what love is. Creation provides God with an essential understanding of who God is. Our decisions can determine how difficult this journey is, but our redemption is not a result of our decisions. God will redeem all His children because creation is not a test.
