There is God - Divine Love and Divine Wisdom Itself. Love cannot live fully in a vacuum. Love to be full needs to be reciprocal. So, God created a universe and all that is in it in order that there may be humans He can love and who can love Him in return eventually in heaven to eternity. See True Christian Religion 13[6] which ends with the following: “This vast system which is called the universe is a work coherent as a unit from things first to things last, because in creating it God had a single end in view, which was an angelic heaven from the human race; and all things of which the world consists are means to that end; since he who seeks an end seeks also the means.”
God's love and wisdom are shown in the universe as in an image. The universe is not God, but it is from God and nothing in the universe exists in itself. Each human being is also an image of God. “God created man in His own image, in the image of Go created He him; male and female created He them.” Genesis 1:27
We are created in God’s image and the universe is an image of God, and everything in the universe corresponds with everything in man - man is a kind of mini universe.
Divine Love and Wisdom 52 offers a nice sweeping explanation of this correspondence:
“So full of Divine Love and Divine Wisdom is the universe in greatest and least, and in first and last things, that it may be said to be Divine Love and Divine Wisdom in an image. That this is so is clearly evident from the correspondence of all things of the universe with all things of man. There is such correspondence of each and every thing that takes form in the created universe with each and every thing of man, that man may be said to be a sort of universe. There is a correspondence of his affections, and thence of his thoughts, with all things of the animal kingdom; of his will, and thence of his understanding, with all things of the vegetable kingdom; and of his outmost life with all things of the mineral kingdom….”
We have a chance to live in a way that this can keep on coming true: “God saw everything that He had made, and, behold, it was very good.” Genesis 1:31
(Izinkomba: True Christian Religion 13)
