Why did God need us? If God is perfect and complete, why did He need to create man?—A READER IN MARYLAND
A1 Looking perplexed and a little sad, a student in my college/career class in Sunday School burst out, "If God is infinite and fills all space, where is there room for me?" It was a poignant plea to know she was not only loved, but needed.
This important question points to the natural desire we each have to know our individual worth. One of the basic teachings of Christian Science is that man, the image and likeness of God including male and female, is just as essential to God as God is to man. God gives, man expresses.
