RE: PM: Jerusalem is the exclusive capital of the Jewish people
⁜→ ILOVEISRAEL, watchingfromafar,, et al,
BLUF: Will. I have to agree, that, "watchingfromafar's" answer (NO) is more plausible.
Wasn’t it the purpose of GOD to bring his only “ son” on earth to die on the cross?
From where I come from the answer to your question is
NO
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Mortals cannot really know how a Deity thinks, especially one that is all-powerful and all-knowledgeable.
You have to ask yourself:
- Why does a Deity need a sacrifice when an all-powerful Being just wishes it and it happens?
- Why does a Diety need a Temple, Church, or Sanctuary when an all-powerful Being just wishes it and it happens?
- Why does a Deity need to hear or see praise from its dedicated followers and worshipers?
- Why does a Deity need to hear prayers? The Deity is all-knowing.
- If the absolute creator, the Supreme Being, want compliant followers, why do mortals have free will?
Why did the Supreme Being need to create a child to be sacrificed to wash away sin, when the all-powerful merely wishes a cleansing and it happens?
These are all concepts invented by humans. Just as all other supernatural beings are inventions of man.
Can and all-powerfully entity have a "want" or a "need?"

Most Respectfully,
R
Yes, all very curious questions,
but You also arrange them to suggest a specific answer.
Basically all can be summed up in the last two about free will,
and the logical improbability in using terms as "G-d's need/ wish/ obedience".
And the answer to all of them is essentially simple,
the way of the good is to well...
Let's go back to Your questions, basically there're these two themes, mentioned above,
and the specific theme of worship, ritual in human culture.
Intelligently, I'm sure You understand these themes are vast in recorded observation
and detailed discourse, both in various fields of modern research and the literature written,
specifically on these subjects, discussing virtually every aspect and detail for last 5000 years.
But first thing first - does G-d need humanity?
A very old question, that bothers every generation.
There're essentially 3 ways to answer this, the way of the pagan, the way of the philosopher,
and the 3rd, correct and true way of Torah.
Paganism - the Gilgamesh story of the flood, god are "burning the club" because they don't get something they need from humanity. Humanity is in a way competitors to the gods, having something to provide for them as for powerful beasts in a cosmic zoo,
gods are not happy about the arrangement...neither humans much.
Philosophy - God is absolute perfect and in that state of "exaltedness"
engaging in an absolute cosmic Nihilism...interested only in the most perfect and exalted.
God doesn't need humanity, and in relation to this world, lest ridiculously insignificant humanity doesn't even "know", remarks and/or engages with this world.
Torah - consisting of basically three points:
a. G-d doesn't need humanity - in the way that the cause cannot be perfected by the causality,
which sounds like?
b. G-d's will was to need humanity.
c. Therefore G-d really needs humanity, which sounds like?
Now the fundamental question about the seeming contradiction in "G-d's need/desire/will".
There's an innate difficulty in discussing need and will/wish, for the two can change order as cause and effect in human perception, while the cause with the absolute Creator is initial cause.
In Hebrew, by definition will if free, i.e independent of external cause.
So when You're talking about will/wish/desire it's not superficial, it's absolutely divine.
Free will is initially THE G-dly expression,
and the way in which humanity is the expression "in the image of..."
Can G-d have will?
That's what Your will as a human with free will is expressing.
That's another logic contradiction that defy human perception.
Does "G-d need" ritual and worship in the way of sacrifice, praise, places of gathering?
Or is it just a human need?
Again, "need" no, desire yes.
But let's put aside desire.
Is this as ridiculous that we have to live on the 3rd rock from the sun to survive as a species,
and that the only only ones we can speak to are only humans? Or how ridiculous is gravity?
Having free will You would be critical of any framework, or take it as a fact,
the reality could be "pinker" imagined by the 'Joe' next chair in the bar...
But something has to be put out there for someone to criticize.
The infinity of options has put that aside for You,
so You won't have to be the 'donkey of Buridan'
Deal with what there is in real world.
Which the Torah emphasizes.
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Mortals cannot really know how a Deity thinks, especially one that is all-powerful and all-knowledgeable.
Agreed, now if instead of 'how',
we ask 'what', that's a more direct question.
You have to ask yourself:
- Why does a Deity need a sacrifice when an all-powerful Being just wishes it and it happens?
- Why does a Diety need a Temple, Church, or Sanctuary when an all-powerful Being just wishes it and it happens?
- Why does a Deity need to hear or see praise from its dedicated followers and worshipers?
- Why does a Deity need to hear prayers? The Deity is all-knowing.
- If the absolute creator, the Supreme Being, want compliant followers, why do mortals have free will?
Again, aside the remark about libraries full of material on these subjects,
how would You rationalize this primordial human behavior?
In Beresheet we read about Kain and Avel the archetypal brothers making an offering sacrifice, the Temple itself in Jewish tradition is the location of Adam's creation, the soil from humanity originated in this world, and the place where Adam made the first sacrificial offering to G-d.
Kain and Evel were the first male children born of Eve.
In Hebrew womb 'r-h-m' and mercy 'Rahamim' are of same root 'r-h-'m'.
I.e. the Eve gives birth by extending of herself for space of 'another' life in her midst,
and choosing for them to be born in this 'another' world to act independent of her will,
is an act mirroring the initial G-dly mercy of giving space in the absolute for free deviation.
That which absolute good decided to be the receiver in order to well.
Why did the Supreme Being need to create a child to be sacrificed to wash away sin, when the all-powerful merely wishes a cleansing and it happens?
That's Christianity, and why it's defined idolatry.
The bounding of Itzhak, for anyone who reads Torah and prays with Jews in the morning,
that was when it was clarified that G-d doesn't desire human sacrifice but that of their will.
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These are all concepts invented by humans. Just as all other supernatural beings are inventions of man.
Can and all-powerfully entity have a "want" or a "need?"
Invented, or observed, as the function of an eye and gravity?
Yes, see above.
P.S. For in-depth research I suggest finding a knowledgeable old Rabbi,
as guide to study of King Shlomah's
'Song Of Songs' for the romantic aspect,
Ramabam's
"Guide for the Perplexed" for the philosophically inclined, and Rabbi Yehuda HaLevy's
"Kozari" originally known in Arabic sources as
"Book for the defense of the humiliated and despised law" for theological apprehension and erudition.