Francis: God cannot be God without us?
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Wrong. God has no need for human beings. "The God who made the world and everything in it … is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything" (Acts 17:24-25).
God did not make us because he was lonely. Long before we were here, God already had "company" with his Son and the Holy Spirit, referred to in Genesis 1:26, "Let us make man in our own image."
And he didn't make us because he needed to satiate His ego. He did not make us to satisfy some craving to be worshiped. God is totally secure in who he is—without us.
But, despite not needing us, God chose to create us anyway, out of his great love: "I have loved you with an everlasting love" (Jeremiah 31:3).
God loved us before he even created us. He loved us with an "everlasting" love.
God is love (1 John 4:8), and because of that love and his wonderful creativity, he made us so we can enjoy all that he is and all that he's done. He created us, as the Baltimore Catechism reminds us, to "know, love and serve" Him.
God created us to fulfill his eternal plan. But, He doesn't need us. And even if He had never created us, He would still be God.
God has always been. He has always been God. Francis is saying that, before we were created, He wasn't God.
