Most people in trying to reason why God would have created humanity often conclude by stating that God must have been lonely therefore would have created people in His image to have a relationship with them.

The problem with this kind of reasoning is that it implies something lacking in God. However, if He is a perfect self-sufficient being, how can there be any lack in Him?

So was God lonely? To answer this, we first need to establish that God did not need us. If God never created us, it would not lessen Him.

Why do we say that? Christians believe God is triune, that is, one God manifested in three distinct persons, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. All three persons eternally existed within the God-head before creation, so we can conclude that within the Trinity, there was already a perfect loving and harmonious relationship.

God did not need to create a group of rebellious, stubborn people to feel better about Himself. Instead, He created us to invite us into that which was already established within the Trinity.

God now calls for you and me to be part of His kingdom, and He extends this invitation to us through His one and only Son, Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 1:9 (NKJV)

God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

Furthermore, God is love, and love by virtue does not focus on itself, but on others. Consequently with this in mind we can conclude that God populated the earth with people for whom He could express the greatest act of love: self-sacrifice. It was through Jesus that we were given the greatest gift in the universe: fellowship with Him.

In summary, the Bible does not depict a God who created humanity out of loneliness. Instead, it reveals a God who, out of the abundance of His love and self-sufficiency, sought to share the joy and fellowship of the Trinity with us. Our existence is a gracious invitation to experience the profound love of our Creator.