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Originally Posted by UntoHim
Ok, ZNP. I think you have made your point well.
Let's let some others come in and contribute.
Oh Cassidy...where art thou?
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I was on the sidelines watching the various arguments develop with great interest.
I don't think anybody here believes that God in His infinite greatness, power, majesty, omniscience, omnipresence, etc. needs us (created men) to display or execute those divine attributes. He spoke the universe into being and He bears and upholds all things by the Word of His power. It would be arrogant to say God needs man to be what He is in those ways.
Yet, in the Bible, we see that God has hinged His interactions with men through the cooperation of other men. The very act of creating the first man indicates God has something in mind that requires a man. That He was incarnated as a man cannot be dismissed as irrelevant either. And the whole Bible is all about God working through men for some purpose (Noah, Moses, Abraham, Peter, Paul, and Mary
, etc.). God binds His actions to man's cooperation. He may intervene on occasion supernaturally (like Balaam's donkey as you pointed out) or a blinding flash from heaven, but that is not His primary modus operandi. Rather, He says
"Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? Who will go for us?” Could He go Himself? Sure, but He chooses not to and that in no way compromises what He is in His Godhead or His divine attributes. God needs man as pertains to His executing His plan with man. He designed it that way.