Hi Bob, I wanted to address a couple of your thoughts.
Also, I don't believe that we are "worthy" of God's attention
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And yet you say -
Yes, it is apparent from scripture that God desires to be surrounded by beings upon whom God can devote God's love and with whom God can communicate. God does desire to share, in genuine love, all that God's power and wisdom can produce and God did develop a plan to do exactly that, but...
I'm seeing a bit of contradictory thought in these two statements If God did not feel us worthy of his attention why would he desire to share anything with us?
I can't believe it's only because he wants people to worship him, considering his very purpose was to create us in his image, and bring All into a family unit, yes he wants a family. Our worship of him is a result of his first.loving us.
1 John 4:19
“We love him, because he first loved us.”
Maybe I'm being presumptuous, but as a parent myself, I believe that his desire and purpose for mankind is more about love than gaining worshipers.
He must have thought we were worthy, why else would he have died so that we could live?
John 3:16 (KJV)
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.