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The Knowledge of the Holy by A.W. Tozer

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The problem of why God created the universe still troubles thinking men; but if we cannot know why, we can at least know that He did not bring His worlds into being to meet some unfulfilled need in Himself, as a man might build a house to shelter him against the winter cold or plant a field of corn to provide him with necessary food. The word ' necessary' is wholly foreign to God.

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  1. On creation and God's purpose.

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