Moreover, because Mr. Andrews is asserting that the reason for God’s creation act is because God desires to share his love, such an act is ultimately for God’s own benefit – in order that his gift- giving desire be fulfilled. But, being a trinity of three persons, God doesn’t need to create finite beings with limited great-making properties that degrade the overall quality in order to share love and to have relationships. So, according to Mr. Andrews, The reason God decided to place a black stain on the overall quality of what used to be a perfect world was to achieve something that could have easily been done – and done much better mind you – within the rich, relational bounds of the essentially perfect persons of the Holy Trinity – a method that would have preserved the overall quality rather than degraded it and wouldn’t frame God as preferring imperfect relationships to perfect ones. Everything about this response is a rejection of God’s initial maximal greatness. |