Julie Canlis, in “A Theology if they Ordinary,” mentions a version of the garden of eden story where “When God created us—limited as we are—He said ‘it is very good’” and goes on to say that must mean God wants limitation for us. Obviously, the universe is fine with any limitation we think onto ourselves, but with that thinking comes great suffering, which creation has no need for. Acceptance of, but no preference for. The universe has no need for my suffering unless I need it. Then the universe is all for it. Otherwise...
No. Where did the “limited” part come from? Our own opinion, not God’s. God didn’t say “limited as we are...” We say that. And that’s the mistake, thinking limitation is something God “wants” for us. That is eating of the tree of knowledge of Good and Evil:” thinking limitation onto God’s limitlessness. All God said was, “it is very good.”
And the “He” is just “it,” meaning everything (including us), the “Way, the Truth and the Life,” the “Tao,” “reality,” the great “what is.” Nothing has been “said” with any words or opinion. That’s “story.” It just “is,” and the true “is” has no argument, only total acceptance, naïveté, innocence, peace, benevolence.