The world is not necessary for God's being or happiness. He could live without us-does live without us in the ultimate sense, but chooses not to live without us. It is not because God is related to (dependent on) the world that the world is related to him, but because he has related the world to himself, especially in a covenantal relationship, by the act of his own free speech. This means that love is the ground of God's creation of a world that is different from himself yet valuable as the work of his hands.
Michael Horton, Pilgrim Theology
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