God has not created the world out of a sense of his own interior need, or to bolster a failing ego. As Irenaeus said long ago, “in the beginning…God formed Adam, not as if He stood in need of any man, but that He might have [some one] upon whom to confer His benefit… For this is the glory of man, to continue and remain permanently in God’s service.”
—Noel Due, Created For Worship: From Genesis to Revelation to You, 38
