As far as your statement to me Betty, I try to think about what it was like for God before He created the physical world. And then try to imagine that God wanted a place where He could go to experience time and solid matter and to fly through the air as an eagle or swim through the ocean as a dolphin of run through the woods as a deer.......all these experiences and all the other ones on this planet could not be known without the physical realm. If I were God before the universe was created, I think that I'd want something to do and a way to have some experiences.
But why would "we" get only one ride at this wonderful amusement park?
Ray