You realize, of course, that you're trying to disprove creation ex nihilo here, right?Imagine baking a cake in which no ingredients currently exist. If you can't do that, then a creator can't create a universe in which He did not have intelligence. If it is a character trait that is valuable in the universe, versus not valuable, like evil. Then yes the creator would have to have that character trait. I look at this as basic causation.
You're calling "intelligence" and "love" ingredients of the universe, what about space, time, matter, and energy? The universe contains all of these things, so they must all exist eternally for God to make a universe out of them, otherwise you're baking a cake without ingredients.
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