Why Create the Universe?

[kain_kusanagi]

IIIIITHE1IIIII said:

kain_kusanagi said:
It's pretty simple. To bring light into the darkness. And by light I don't mean the countless balls of burning gas throughout the universe. Love needs souls to grow and free will needs conflict to mature. Everything exists for that purpose. God has no needs and we will never fathom the depth of God's complex motives. God saw darkness and brought light to it.

If God has no needs, why not settle with the "Darkness"? What would motivate such a decision?

And what would declare when the darkness should be replaced by light? If God has existed forever, why wait an infinite amount of years (somehow) until finally creating the universe? Why now?

Furthermore: Why create anything and watch as things happen when the final result can be achieved immediately?

You are making a lot of assumptions about but are limited to finite though, as we all are, which is a fallacy when questions God's motives and logic, if God even has anything resembling what we know as logic. God is too big for you to understand.

You ask "why now?", which assums time flows for God as it does for us. You ask why replace darkness with light, but light is a tool for a purpose we would be foolish to attempt to understand.

By asking an "if & why" question you limit the answers. God is "why" all is as it is, "how" might be a question humanity could solve partialy through science, but you aren't even going to be able to understand "why".