Why did God created the world?

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Why did God created the world, and everything in it? Can’t He just live by Himself? I mean, He already is God. Self-existent. Outside of time and space. All powerful. All knowing. And yet, He still created the world. He still created us. Why? What was His purpose? Why would a self-existent God create a finite world?
 
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Why did God created the world, and everything in it? Can’t He just live by Himself? I mean, He already is God. Self-existent. Outside of time and space. All powerful. All knowing. And yet, He still created the world. He still created us. Why? What was His purpose? Why would a self-existent God create a finite world?
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For the same reason He does anything, for His Good Pleasure…

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The Catechism answers this question explicitly:

III. “THE WORLD WAS CREATED FOR THE GLORY OF GOD”

293 Scripture and Tradition never cease to teach and celebrate this fundamental truth: "The world was made for the glory of God."134 St. Bonaventure explains that God created all things “not to increase his glory, but to show it forth and to communicate it”,135 for God has no other reason for creating than his love and goodness: "Creatures came into existence when the key of love opened his hand."136 The First Vatican Council explains:
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This one, true God, of his own goodness and "almighty power", not for increasing his own beatitude, nor for attaining his perfection, but in order to manifest this perfection through the benefits which he bestows on creatures, with absolute freedom of counsel "and from the beginning of time, made out of nothing both orders of creatures, the spiritual and the corporeal. . ."137
294 The glory of God consists in the realization of this manifestation and communication of his goodness, for which the world was created. God made us “to be his sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace”,138 for "the glory of God is man fully alive; moreover man’s life is the vision of God: if God’s revelation through creation has already obtained life for all the beings that dwell on earth, how much more will the Word’s manifestation of the Father obtain life for those who see God."139 The ultimate purpose of creation is that God "who is the creator of all things may at last become “all in all”, thus simultaneously assuring his own glory and our beatitude."140
 
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The Bible tells us that God is love

The Bible also tells us what the greatest love is…

John 15:13

“Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”

God wanted to express His love…imho
 
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