Believing in God and the creation of humankind creates a quandary for many people. More than that, however, is the need for humans to explain their concept of God and Creations reason for human existence. And unless one is a bona fide atheist it seems to be a necessary and unavoidable human exercise, one we will exercise here.
If you will, try to imagine what was before God's Creation. Consider that there was nothing except a sentient powerful energy or force we call God. Imagine, if you can, The Beginning, (absent the concept we call time) surveying the cold, empty, dark expanse of infinite space or whatever it was that this sentient awesome powerful energy surveyed or perhaps just felt.
And if this awesome powerful energy was sentient we might imagine that this self aware force had feelings. If we could begin to describe this sentient God's Feelings in terms humankind can understand, God may have had the feelings that comes close to the opening lines penned by the African-American poet, James Weldon Johnson, in his poem The Creation. "And God said, I am lonely. I think I'll make me a world".
Perhaps at that moment, absent the thing we call time, God The Beginning, became God The Creator. And if we could begin to describe God's Creation in terms even marginally literate nomads could understand, it may have happened in a way that comes close to the words of Genesis 1: in the Old Testament of The Bible.
"1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the Earth.
"2 And the earth was without form, and void: and darkness
was upon the face of the deep. And the spirit of God moved
upon the face of the waters.
"3 And God said, let there be light: and there was light.
"4 And God saw the light that it was good: and God divided
the light from the darkness.
"5 And god called the light Day, and the darkness he called
Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
"6 And God said, let there be a firmament in the midst of the
waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
"25 And God made the beasts of the earth after his kind, and
cattle after their kind, and everything that creepeth upon the
earth after his kind; and God saw that it was good.
"26 And God said, let us make man in our image, after our
likeness...
"27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God
created he him, male and female created he them.
"28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful,
and multiply, and replenish the earth...
"31 And god saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was
very good. and the evening and the morning was the sixth day.
Current scientific thought suggests that The Creation did not happen quite that way, or quite that fast in Earth time. However, is human relationship with God The Creator dependent on whether The Creation took six days, six years, six million years, or six billion years? One could speculate or affirm that God is still creating. Surely, human beings cannot be a finished product if our concept of God is correct.
One could also speculate or affirm that current scientific theories about creation and evolution are close approximations of how God's Creation works. One could affirm that without God's Will, the creation process stops.
What do you imagine?