Statement: God created so that He would be glorified.

Reasoning: The whole Godhead is glorified in salvation process. Salvation requires things that need to be saved. Godhead created all things

Conclusion: God's highest priority is His own glorification

Problem: This sounds prideful and selfish

Answer: It is not prideful nor selfish, but rather the opposite because...

God the Father created all things through God the Son and nothing without Him. (John 1:3) "Through Him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made." God the Father created all things through God the Son with both of them foreknowing the fall of man. (1 John 3:20b) "For God is greater than our hearts, and He knows everything." God the Holy Spirit also knew of the fall of man. (1 Cor. 2:10b and through the following paragraph) "The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God." God the Spirit along with the Son and the Father made man. (Gen. 1:26a ) "Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness..." God the Son and God the Father were glorified in the Son's death and resurrection. (Phil. 2:11) "And every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father." The Death and resurrection of God the Son was an offering to God the Father through God the Holy Spirit as payment for sin. (Heb. 9:14) "How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!" God the Spirit is in that glorified in working with God the Son in the Salvation Process. The Whole Godhead is glorified in the creation, fall, and salvation of man.

God created us despite foreknowing that we would fall and it would cost His Son's life because He also foreknew that it would glorify the whole Godhead. It does so in a way similar to this. C.S. Lewis gave an analogy of a father giving his son sixpence so that the son could buy the father a gift. Was the father any richer monetarily when he received the gift? No, he was sixpence none the richer, however, he received something much greater, the son's love. The son received the sixpence and gave it back and so was also sixpence none the richer. But in receiving the sixpence from the father and being able to give it back received love from the father. This analogy must be completed. It's missing the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit's role is that of the maker and sustainer of the gift. "In the Father and Son's great love for each other, the Father presents the world as a love gift to His Son and the Son presents Himself/saved world to the Father as a love gift. The Holy Spirit is the continuing sustainer and worker of the gift of the Son to the Father."

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