CREATION and RECREATION chapter 1

                                         On The Nature Of God

Read John 1:1-3 Mark 1:9-11 Acts 10:38 Genesis 1:1-2 Genesis 2:4 Genesis 21:33 Colossians 2:2-3 Psalm 147:5 I John 1:7 (KJV)

God is one person with a triune nature. This truth is clearly revealed in God's Word. (KJV)

John 1: 1-3 reveals that the Word was both with God and was God. The Greek for Word is Logos. Logos means the thoughts of God with all of His reasoning behind them, as well as all of the expressions of those thoughts. Like God, the Word is infinite, but His thoughts were only partly expressed in His creation of the world.

For there to be infinite thoughts, there must be an infinite thinker. His Infinite Thoughts must be objectified by an Infinite Consciousness. But His Consciousness is also a Thought, being an Infinite Self-Consciousness. This means that every Thought of an Infinite Self-Consciousness must itself be Infinite. Taken together, this means that God must be an Infinite Consciousness with Infinite Thoughts, each one of which is in-itself Infinite.

These facts illustrate the necessity of dualism as being the basis of reality, for if one is to objectify one's own consciousness, one must pull-back one's consciousness to a consciousness not itself objectified. This means that self-consciousness must tend to retreat toward infinity. But dualism does not mean two separate entities. One unit of consciousness objectifying its object forms one unit of reality with two necessary parts. Consciousness must objectify something in order to be a real consciousness, and an object must be objectified by a consciousness in order to be a real object.

However, there can be only one Infinity because if there were more than one, each infinity would limit the other so that none of them could be infinite. This means that the Infinite Thoughts and the Infinite Thinker must be fused together into One Infinity. In other words: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."

The triune nature of the Being of God was revealed in the baptism of Jesus in Mark 1:9-11, and also in I John 5:7 and Acts 10:38. The Word indicates that the Father is the power of God's Infinite Consciousness, the Son is His Infinite Thoughts and Wisdom, and the Holy Spirit is the Infinite Unity of Father and Son. This means that God is omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent. The Infinity of God's Being means that there exists no power which He does not hold, no real thought which He has not already thought, and no place where He is not.

Since God possesses an Infinite Wisdom, then it also stands to reason that He also possesses an Infinity of creative plans and ideas. But since the earth and heaven are finite, God must have used only a part of His plans and ideas in their creations. Yet, the fact that God possesses an Infinity of plans and ideas insures that He will create forever.

God reveals Himself as Deity and Spirit in the first six days of creation. On the seventh day, after the creation of man, God reveals Himself as Jehovah, the eternal God who reveals Himself to man. This clearly shows that the second person of the Trinity, Jehovah, forever holds a special relationship to man.

                                             I John 4:8 I John 4:16
The source and unity of God's Infinity and all of His creative powers is Love. "God is Love." Love is not an attribute of God but is the very Being of God. Faith, truth, life, self-sacrifice, and all other good and creative powers emanates from Love. Love is the most powerful and enduring force in the universe.