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Nope, just extra dimensional cause for creation, no higher purpose required, for all we know whenever two rocks collide in that scenario they create a universe.
Also no, you're completely missing the point, if God is omnipotent he could have made humans to never suffer and still be free, in theory most Christians believe that Heaven is free of suffering, do you cease being yourself when you go to heaven then? Just because you or I can't imagine a world where humans are free but can't hurt one another doesn't mean that's beyond the realm of possibilities, and if your counter argument will be that then we wouldn't really be free, I tell you that humans can't explode someone by looking at them, so he already imposed some limitations on the amount of harm we could cause to each other, yet you don't see this as less freedom because you just accepted that's the natural state, I propose there could be a natural state where humans can't cause harm to each other and are still free.
No, you're picturing impossibilities because not every thought is rational, thinking they could become realities and being disappointed about it and finally blaming God for it. "If God were truly omnipotent he'd make 1=0 and A≠A!". And perhaps only those who were tested and showed, at least by the end of their days, that they were people who refused and would never cross (again?) major moral lines are accepted in a place with no lackings and no stress, which means Heaven can actually be entirely utopic. And if humans had lasers coming from their eyes from birth then we wouldn't have made it past our first cave and God would've just had to make humans like us so we could actually develop a little bit, lol. Thank God he didn't make us with lazerssss! 😂 Or claws or fangs, for that matter. At least we developed/were given moral codes that we can easily understand and willingly follow early enough in our civilizational development, cause we were dangerous and impulsive enough without them and now we have nukes... But of course He didn't, cause we might be stupid AF at times but He's on the opposite end, in a category of His own.