"Creation cannot be conceived of as an emanation from the supreme Being; but neither must it be thought of as 'the work' of an arbitrary, capricious Demiurge.  Did God have a choice?  Did God throw dice?  asked Albert Einstein skeptically, seeing this as calling in question the reasonableness of the world and his confidence in it.  This criticism of an arbitrary God is justified.  So when we say that God created the world 'out of freedom', we must immediately add 'out of love'...


His love is literally ecstatic love: it leads him to go out of himself and to create something which is different from himself but which none the less corresponds to him.  The delight with which the Creator celebrates the feast of creation - the sabbath - makes it unequivocally plain that creation was called into being out of the inner love which the eternal God himself is."


- Jürgen Moltmann, God in Creation


Chewing on this one today.