I like how the Urantia book presents it. At the center of creation is Creator God. In paradise, where he resides with the personalities of renown. As souls in creation experience it, and in all its facets / fractals, souls or "personalities" move closer to paradise.

You live to become yourself. To truly become who you are, which is part "you are everything" and part "you are nothing".. you are your choices between those two polar ends of thought.

So you are born into realms, there may be more - infinite amounts - to learn and experience exsistence. Earth being one of the hardest planets in creation to attend.

So you become yourself. Past all the fear and love, that "you."

The goal is to return to paradise, whatever that is like )