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Assuming the existence of a God (for the sake of argument), why would they need to create a universe?

If they truly knew everything as the Abrahamic God is said to do, then isn't it more probable that we only exist in their imagination because why would a god bother creating a physical universe when their omniscience would make them capable of knowing how every possible combination of parameters of universes would turn out?
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There is a complex and diverse history of work by philosophers and theologians about creation. But here are two typical sorts of respones to your proposal: One, that the hypothetical scenario you propose is deficient in that it involves no real relationship between things, no real plurality of things, no real diversity of things, etc., and this deficiency is incompatible to the power of the creator, whose creative act is precisely an act meaning to bring about relations, plurality, diversity, etc. Two, that the hypothetical scenario you propose is deficient in that it involves no real distinction between good states of affairs and bad states of affairs, both of which are conceived by the divine intellect, and this deficiency is incompatible with the goodness of the creator, whose creative act is precisely an act meaning to bring about a good state of affairs, so that the divine will would choose to bring it about that there is in reality only one of the many states of affairs the divine intellect can conceive, namely the one that is the best.