It's been said, often, that the point of God's creative activity is that God gets glory
("In general, Scripture teaches that God created the world and all that is in it for His own glory.." Bible.org, first response on internet search.)
Unless we reform the meaning of the word 'glory', a common understanding of that would be that God created so that creation would worship, honor, obey, etc. In other words, God was looking for exaltation.
But does God really need to be gloried? Does God need creation to be bowing and scraping before him? Is this the Biblical God, chasing glory? ..
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Perhaps Elohim God looked to extend Godlove.
Perhaps Elohim God wanted to share God's inherent beauty and unified community with other beings inclusively, invitingly, welcomingly, embracingly, not out of a desire for personal gratification, but because love is inherently an overflowing, a touching other.
Obviously they would not be God-equals, since created, but they would mirror God, receive and radiate the love of God into the cosmos, be transceivers of God's goodness, filling the cosmos with light, and goodness, and beauty, and truth grounded in Divine integrity, one massive organism, unified in being, understanding and purpose, all telling the Telling of this magnanimous Creator and sharing the love so obviously present ..
and there, right there, God gets the glory
not by dictating glory, but as a natural
consequence of the magnificence of
the God Who Is There.
The God that is there, the Living God, does not need accolade.
The Jehovah God that is Elohim only looks to share the love
because God is love.
