Creation
Read: Genesis chapters 1&2 John 9:3-5 John 1:1-5 (KJV)
When God's Spirit moved upon the face of the waters, He found the earth to be in a "void" and a "deep darkness." This condition indicates that before God became conscious of the earth, it non-existed as an absolute nothingness. It non-existed in a chaos which was nowhere and at no time. This reveals the condition of anything which happens to be completely unknown to consciousness. When God created the heaven and the earth, the universe obtained real being because it became known to the consciousness of God. God has an Infinite Consciousness, and therefore knows absolutely everything; but whatever lies outside God's Infinity cannot limit His Infinite Consciousness because it is equal to absolute nothingness; that is, it does not exist. Non-existence causes any potential something within it to be absolutely useless in any creative way, and therefore, cannot limit God's Infinity.
If any object exists in the universe which is known to God but unknown to humans, then we would be completely in the dark as to what it is or where it is. As far as our limited consciousness is concerned, this object would be in a void and a deep darkness. This object would be real to God's Consciousness, but would never emerge from chaos to become real to human consciousness until such a time as it came into the purview of man's consciousness. Many galaxies, which were known to God, remained in a void and deep darkness as far as human consciousness was concerned until man invented telescopes which enabled us to see them.
Some believe that Jeremiah 4:23-26 and Isaiah 24;1 teach that God had formerly created the earth with life and mankind on it, but that He had completely destroyed it, covered it with water, and had cast it into "outer darkness" beyond His Consciousness. Jesus, in Matthew 8:12, 22:13 and 25:30, referred to God casting sinful persons into "outer darkness." When God cast Satan to earth, he may have so completely corrupted it that God simply destroyed it and cast it into "outer darkness." In other words, God put the former earth completely beyond His Consciousness, and therefore, beyond reality itself. This does not mean that God's Infinite Ideas and Plans which He had used as patterns for His creation of the former earth were put beyond His Consciousness, but only that the material earth was cast into "outer darkness."
Whatever lies beyond God's Consciousness cannot diminish God's Omniscience in the least because God's Consciousness is of an infinite reality. Within "outer darkness" or the "void," any potential something always equals absolute nothingness, just as within a black hole in space light cannot be separated from darkness. Absolute nothingness cannot diminish God's Omniscience because chaos, and everything that may or may not be within it, simply non-exists. Therefore, if God destroyed a former earth and cast it into "outer darkness," then it became completely unknown to God, and therefore, not real and non-existent.
If all this is true, then Genesis 1:1 refers to God's creation of the former earth, and Genesis 1:2 refers to God's recreation of the destroyed earth. The statement in verse 2 that "the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters," means that God began to feel the earth in the dark. Then in verse 3, God turned on the "light," so to speak, so He could see the earth. Only when God began to feel and to see the earth did it once again become real. Before this recreation, it non-existed nowhere and at no time.
There can be no reality without consciousness. Reality is absolutely dependent on consciousness, and consciousness is absolutely dependent on reality. This is the meaning of John 1:1: "In the beginning" connects to an Infinity of beginnings and endings as revealed in Revelation 1:8; "was the Word" means an Infinite Reality; "and the Word was with God," means an Infinite Consciousness of an Infinite Reality; "and the Word was God" means an absolute unity and interdependence of Infinite Reality and Consciousness."
It is quite significant that the Word of God states that God saw that His earthly creations were "good" and not perfect. That they were "good" means that even though they were limited physical creations, God had created them to be effective systems that would accomplish God's purposes. All of these good but limited creations were based on some of God's Infinite and Perfect Ideas and Plans. But the fact that these creations were good and not perfect left them open to possible corruption by Satan who had invented a method for turning good systems into bad systems by combining God's Ideas into false systems that produced ineffective and destructive effects. God had deliberately created His systems to be good but vulnerable to evil because He had decided to enter into an historical conflict with Satan in order to prove that Love, which is his Being, can never be destroyed or even diminished. This historical conflict would be centered on earth and God's creation of mankind to whom He would give free will just as He had given it to Lucifer. God would prove the omnipotent value of Love by His own self-sacrifice, death and resurrection as a human for the salvation of mankind from the destructive effects of evil. Those who chose to believe in Christ and love God would prove that Love is the most powerful and valuable Being that is possible. At the end of this historical process, after God had vanquished Satan's evil plans by His own intervention in it, then God will cleanse the world of Satan and all evil. God will then recreate a new heaven and earth that contains only eternal righteous systems.
Another significance of the Bible's account of creation centers on the phrase: "And the evening and the morning were the first day," continuing on to the sixth day. The meaning of the Hebrew word for "evening" is "dusk," and the meaning for "morning" is "dawn." Clearly, these words do not delineate a "day" but a "night." In verse five, God had already divided the "Day" from the "Night." Therefore, how could a night be called a day? The answer lies in the fact that one of the meanings of the Hebrew word for "were" is "to become." This makes the phrase mean that after each night a new day began. Each night was limited to a dusk to dawn bracket which probably meant that each night was only twelve hours long. But each day was not so limited which meant that each day of creation was of an unspecified length. Genesis 2:4 refers to a "day" as being of an unspecified length. In addition, in John 9:4-5 Jesus refers to His "day" as being equal to His time on earth. Thus, each "day" of creation could well refer to any length of time instead of exactly twelve hour periods.
However, the fact that each "day" of creation could have been millions of years does not lend credence to the theory of evolution. The Bible clearly teaches that God created every creature "after their kind," which is true to this very day. In addition, the fossil record demonstrates that every creature came into being and has always reproduced "after their kind" for the entire length of the "day" of creation no matter how long that may have been. No fossils exist which show any crossovers from one kind to another.
God rested on the seventh "day;" a day that continues to this day. As the Bible relates, God only rested from His finished work of creation. The finish of creation began God's new work of intervening in the history of mankind; first to prevent the annihilation of His people by Satan's evil minions, and second to intervene Himself in the form of His Son to save a fallen race from sin and evil. God sanctified the seventh day which shows that He meant to use it in His efforts to save mankind from sin and the Devil. Jesus taught in John 9:4, and in several other scriptures, that He came to do the work of His Father.
God's work on the seventh day consists of His efforts to save the human race from ruin. God's efforts continue to this day in the work of the Holy Spirit to convict those who hear or read the gospel that they are lost sinners who need to repent of their sins and believe that the Lord Jesus Christ has already done everything they need for their salvation. God saves and preserves those who believe in Jesus forever. In the future, after the final judgment called the Great White Throne Judgment, God will cleanse His universe of all sin and evil, and then He will recreate "new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness." Read II Peter 3:12-13.
Friday, June 22, 2012
Saturday, June 16, 2012
CREATION AND RECREATION chapter 4
Thoughts on Infinity
Read: Psalm 147:5 Job 22:5 Revelation 1:8 Psalm 139:15-16 Ephesians 1:4-13 I Peter 1:2
Revelation 22:17 (KJV)
One of the meanings of the Hebrew word for infinity in Psalm 147:5 is "innumerable," or that which cannot be numbered. Infinity cannot be a number because any number, no matter how large, must always be finite. Infinity has to be something that transcends number.
The significance of the meaning of Psalm 147:5 is that it states that God's "understanding is infinite." This means that God's knowledge, intelligence and wisdom are beyond measure. This means that God possesses an Infinity of Ideas which He can combine in an Infinity of creative ways. Each Idea is in-itself Infinite, the set of Ideas is Infinite, and the set of creative ways in which they can be combined is also Infinite. These infinities cannot limit each other because they are completely interdependent on each other. This Infinity can only be God.
The Word of God in Job 22;5 has Eliphaz accuse Job of having infinite iniquities. It is quite significant that one of the meanings of "infinite" in this verse is "non-existent." In this case, the Bible equates non-existence with infinity. Iniquity may be infinite, but it is a non-existent infinity. This means that when God found iniquity in Lucifer, he discovered that it was equal to an infinite non-existence. Lucifer became able to misuse God's Ideas in that he began to invent false combinations of His Ideas that resulted in nothingness, that in turn, indicated an infinite non-existence which could also be called absolute nothingness or chaos. This chaos, being a non-existent infinity, cannot limit God's Infinity in the least. The set of possible false combinations may be infinite, but Lucifer, being finite, was not intelligent enough to invent them all. One may object that a non-existent infinity is no infinity at all. However, an absolute nothingness must non-exist absolutely nowhere and at no time. This description indicates a negative infinity which cannot affect a real infinity except through false combinations of real Ideas. The Bible simply teaches that while false combinations may be infinite they always result in a nothingness which indicates non-existence which cannot be real, and therefore, cannot limit the real Infinity which is God.
God's Infinite Wisdom means that not only does God know each person's future and possible future; He knows every possible future for the entire human race. This means that every decision that each individual makes alters the history of mankind. The history of mankind consists of an extremely complex intermixture of decisions and systems of decisions in a constant flux, but which nevertheless, stabilizes into an invariant past history. Even though humans, singly or in groups, can make decisions which violate the will of God, nevertheless, God holds the Infinite Power to direct human history toward His own perfect ends. God's Word often demonstrates that God holds the power to turn even man's worst sins toward something good.
God's foreknowledge of every possible future of every individual, even though they possess free will, has deep implications for both predestination and each person's free will. As regarding each person's eternal being, God can simply wait for each person whom He brings under conviction for their sins to decide to repent and believe or not, knowing their eternal being no matter what they decide. This brings God's foreknowledge of each person's eternal being into complete harmony with each person's free will. This also makes predestination mean that when any person decides to repent and believe, then God never allows that person to revoke his or her decision. Once a person chooses to accept Christ as his or her Savior, then that person belongs, and has belonged, to God for all eternity. God allows each person's free will to determine not only their eternal future, but their eternal past as well. In a sense, every person's decision to believe or not actually occurs in every moment of eternity.
Some may object that no human has an eternal past since God created each one of us at a definite time in the past. While it is true that God assembled each one of us in our mother's womb, Psalm 139:15-16 clearly teaches that every one of us has always existed as an eternal plan in God's Mind. God's Infinite Mind and Wisdom makes this fact a necessary truth.
Because of our finite minds we humans see the past as behind us, the future as before us, and the present moment as a consciousness of decisiveness. But God sees eternity, and every possible eternity, in every moment of time. Thus God has no problem waiting for any particular person to believe in Christ or not because He knows their eternal future and past no matter what they decide. For these reasons, there exists no contradiction between that which Jesus taught us in John 10:9 where He asserts free will, and John 10:14 where he asserts predestination. However, once a believer has decided to accept Christ as Savior, then God never allows that believer to reverse his or her decision. That saved believer becomes a child of God, and God deals with that believer as His child forever. God never disowns His children. When one of His children goes astray, God will correct them as many times as it takes to get them to be finally right with Him.
Because of our finite minds, we humans can never come close to understanding infinity much less the Infinite Mind of God. However, by paying careful attention to scripture and by applying a little logic to it, we may possibly be able to glean a few ideas about the nature of infinity. In the first place, it seems logical to assume that infinity cannot be anything linear. Infinity cannot be an infinite line or an infinite number. Any line must always have two ends with a finite distance between them no matter how long it may be. Any number, no matter how large, must also be finite. Any point on the circumference of a circle could be considered as both a beginning and an end of that circle. If such a circle has a finite number of points, then circles cannot be infinite. If the passage of time is similar to a line, a number, or a circle, then time cannot be infinite. Indeed, in our world time is finite.
However, if God is like a circle, then this circle would posses an infinity of points within its circumference, and this would be a true infinity in time because it would be an infinity of pasts and futures. These points would not be like a number because each point would always start a new beginning with a new ending, or be an ending with a new beginning. But an infinity of pasts and futures can only be real if each point, within an infinity of points, becomes a new beginning with a new ending, which in turn, becomes a new beginning with a new ending and so forth to infinity. Such an infinity would make both free will and predestination necessary and interrelated parts of such an infinite circle. In this way, infinity could be described as a circle with an infinity of points with an infinity of beginnings and endings, with each particular beginning and ending being finite. Jesus described Himself in similar terms in Revelation 1:8. Since God is Infinite, He must possess an infinity of Ideas, creative Plans and Histories. Jesus seemed to be speaking of Himself as being like a circle possessing an Infinity of beginnings and endings within its circumference.
Every decision that each human makes causes a new beginning and ending in that person's life. Every decision causes a jump from one of the infinite points to another. This means that every humans future history is in constant flux, but leaves behind a past that never changes. This condition is also true of the human race as a whole. The fact that God knows every possible infinite history eliminates any contradiction whatsoever between predestination and free will.
Sin was invented as Satan's plan to destroy God and His infinite histories. Satan invented sin as false combinations of God's Infinite Ideas. Sin constitutes a destructive attempt to reduce God's Infinity to finitude and absolute nothingness.
To counter Satan's attempt, God has intervened in man's history to turn each person from destructive sin to salvation and everlasting life. God came to earth in the form of His Son Jesus to take the sin of every person on Himself on a cross, suffering the penalty of sin which is death, so that each person who decides to believe in His sacrifice and power over sin will receive God's grace and His everlasting life. God transfers every person who accepts Christ by faith from a point with a finite history to a point with an everlasting history, and God never reverses this transfer. Jesus took the destructive effects of sin and finitude on Himself knowing that it can never destroy the Infinite and Eternal Love that is God. For this reason, Jesus rose from the dead to prove that He has all power over sin and death.
All this means that by far the most important decision that any person can ever make is to accept Christ as their Savior. To do so is to be rescued by God from sin and death to a new beginning with everlasting life and an eternal freedom from sin and death. A saved person enters into an eternal relationship with the Jesus of Revelation 1:8 who possesses an infinity of new beginnings and endings.
But the life, death, burial and resurrection of Christ raises a seemingly insurmountable contradiction which Kierkegaard called "the paradox." How could an Infinite God ever condescend to become a finite person? Logic would seem to indicate that if God ever became finite, then this condition would cause a destruction of His Infinity, and thus of God Himself. Satan must have counted on this logical conclusion as his means for destroying God.
Satan's plan was foiled because he did not count on the fact that God's Infinite Logic and Mathematics are quite different from finite logic and mathematics. In God's Infinite Mathematics, He can subtract from it and still not diminish it in the least. The Infinite God can, as a mortal man, be nailed to a cross and die, spend three days in a borrowed grave, and yet be raised again to eternal life by an Infinite Father who can never come to an end or be diminished in any way. The finite mind can never even begin to understand the Infinite Logic and Mathematics of God, but each human can accept "the paradox" through the passion of faith and thereby receive the Eternal Life of Christ for themselves. Jesus achieved the greatest victory ever, a victory over Satan, sin and the finitude of death.
Read: Psalm 147:5 Job 22:5 Revelation 1:8 Psalm 139:15-16 Ephesians 1:4-13 I Peter 1:2
Revelation 22:17 (KJV)
One of the meanings of the Hebrew word for infinity in Psalm 147:5 is "innumerable," or that which cannot be numbered. Infinity cannot be a number because any number, no matter how large, must always be finite. Infinity has to be something that transcends number.
The significance of the meaning of Psalm 147:5 is that it states that God's "understanding is infinite." This means that God's knowledge, intelligence and wisdom are beyond measure. This means that God possesses an Infinity of Ideas which He can combine in an Infinity of creative ways. Each Idea is in-itself Infinite, the set of Ideas is Infinite, and the set of creative ways in which they can be combined is also Infinite. These infinities cannot limit each other because they are completely interdependent on each other. This Infinity can only be God.
The Word of God in Job 22;5 has Eliphaz accuse Job of having infinite iniquities. It is quite significant that one of the meanings of "infinite" in this verse is "non-existent." In this case, the Bible equates non-existence with infinity. Iniquity may be infinite, but it is a non-existent infinity. This means that when God found iniquity in Lucifer, he discovered that it was equal to an infinite non-existence. Lucifer became able to misuse God's Ideas in that he began to invent false combinations of His Ideas that resulted in nothingness, that in turn, indicated an infinite non-existence which could also be called absolute nothingness or chaos. This chaos, being a non-existent infinity, cannot limit God's Infinity in the least. The set of possible false combinations may be infinite, but Lucifer, being finite, was not intelligent enough to invent them all. One may object that a non-existent infinity is no infinity at all. However, an absolute nothingness must non-exist absolutely nowhere and at no time. This description indicates a negative infinity which cannot affect a real infinity except through false combinations of real Ideas. The Bible simply teaches that while false combinations may be infinite they always result in a nothingness which indicates non-existence which cannot be real, and therefore, cannot limit the real Infinity which is God.
God's Infinite Wisdom means that not only does God know each person's future and possible future; He knows every possible future for the entire human race. This means that every decision that each individual makes alters the history of mankind. The history of mankind consists of an extremely complex intermixture of decisions and systems of decisions in a constant flux, but which nevertheless, stabilizes into an invariant past history. Even though humans, singly or in groups, can make decisions which violate the will of God, nevertheless, God holds the Infinite Power to direct human history toward His own perfect ends. God's Word often demonstrates that God holds the power to turn even man's worst sins toward something good.
God's foreknowledge of every possible future of every individual, even though they possess free will, has deep implications for both predestination and each person's free will. As regarding each person's eternal being, God can simply wait for each person whom He brings under conviction for their sins to decide to repent and believe or not, knowing their eternal being no matter what they decide. This brings God's foreknowledge of each person's eternal being into complete harmony with each person's free will. This also makes predestination mean that when any person decides to repent and believe, then God never allows that person to revoke his or her decision. Once a person chooses to accept Christ as his or her Savior, then that person belongs, and has belonged, to God for all eternity. God allows each person's free will to determine not only their eternal future, but their eternal past as well. In a sense, every person's decision to believe or not actually occurs in every moment of eternity.
Some may object that no human has an eternal past since God created each one of us at a definite time in the past. While it is true that God assembled each one of us in our mother's womb, Psalm 139:15-16 clearly teaches that every one of us has always existed as an eternal plan in God's Mind. God's Infinite Mind and Wisdom makes this fact a necessary truth.
Because of our finite minds we humans see the past as behind us, the future as before us, and the present moment as a consciousness of decisiveness. But God sees eternity, and every possible eternity, in every moment of time. Thus God has no problem waiting for any particular person to believe in Christ or not because He knows their eternal future and past no matter what they decide. For these reasons, there exists no contradiction between that which Jesus taught us in John 10:9 where He asserts free will, and John 10:14 where he asserts predestination. However, once a believer has decided to accept Christ as Savior, then God never allows that believer to reverse his or her decision. That saved believer becomes a child of God, and God deals with that believer as His child forever. God never disowns His children. When one of His children goes astray, God will correct them as many times as it takes to get them to be finally right with Him.
Because of our finite minds, we humans can never come close to understanding infinity much less the Infinite Mind of God. However, by paying careful attention to scripture and by applying a little logic to it, we may possibly be able to glean a few ideas about the nature of infinity. In the first place, it seems logical to assume that infinity cannot be anything linear. Infinity cannot be an infinite line or an infinite number. Any line must always have two ends with a finite distance between them no matter how long it may be. Any number, no matter how large, must also be finite. Any point on the circumference of a circle could be considered as both a beginning and an end of that circle. If such a circle has a finite number of points, then circles cannot be infinite. If the passage of time is similar to a line, a number, or a circle, then time cannot be infinite. Indeed, in our world time is finite.
However, if God is like a circle, then this circle would posses an infinity of points within its circumference, and this would be a true infinity in time because it would be an infinity of pasts and futures. These points would not be like a number because each point would always start a new beginning with a new ending, or be an ending with a new beginning. But an infinity of pasts and futures can only be real if each point, within an infinity of points, becomes a new beginning with a new ending, which in turn, becomes a new beginning with a new ending and so forth to infinity. Such an infinity would make both free will and predestination necessary and interrelated parts of such an infinite circle. In this way, infinity could be described as a circle with an infinity of points with an infinity of beginnings and endings, with each particular beginning and ending being finite. Jesus described Himself in similar terms in Revelation 1:8. Since God is Infinite, He must possess an infinity of Ideas, creative Plans and Histories. Jesus seemed to be speaking of Himself as being like a circle possessing an Infinity of beginnings and endings within its circumference.
Every decision that each human makes causes a new beginning and ending in that person's life. Every decision causes a jump from one of the infinite points to another. This means that every humans future history is in constant flux, but leaves behind a past that never changes. This condition is also true of the human race as a whole. The fact that God knows every possible infinite history eliminates any contradiction whatsoever between predestination and free will.
Sin was invented as Satan's plan to destroy God and His infinite histories. Satan invented sin as false combinations of God's Infinite Ideas. Sin constitutes a destructive attempt to reduce God's Infinity to finitude and absolute nothingness.
To counter Satan's attempt, God has intervened in man's history to turn each person from destructive sin to salvation and everlasting life. God came to earth in the form of His Son Jesus to take the sin of every person on Himself on a cross, suffering the penalty of sin which is death, so that each person who decides to believe in His sacrifice and power over sin will receive God's grace and His everlasting life. God transfers every person who accepts Christ by faith from a point with a finite history to a point with an everlasting history, and God never reverses this transfer. Jesus took the destructive effects of sin and finitude on Himself knowing that it can never destroy the Infinite and Eternal Love that is God. For this reason, Jesus rose from the dead to prove that He has all power over sin and death.
All this means that by far the most important decision that any person can ever make is to accept Christ as their Savior. To do so is to be rescued by God from sin and death to a new beginning with everlasting life and an eternal freedom from sin and death. A saved person enters into an eternal relationship with the Jesus of Revelation 1:8 who possesses an infinity of new beginnings and endings.
But the life, death, burial and resurrection of Christ raises a seemingly insurmountable contradiction which Kierkegaard called "the paradox." How could an Infinite God ever condescend to become a finite person? Logic would seem to indicate that if God ever became finite, then this condition would cause a destruction of His Infinity, and thus of God Himself. Satan must have counted on this logical conclusion as his means for destroying God.
Satan's plan was foiled because he did not count on the fact that God's Infinite Logic and Mathematics are quite different from finite logic and mathematics. In God's Infinite Mathematics, He can subtract from it and still not diminish it in the least. The Infinite God can, as a mortal man, be nailed to a cross and die, spend three days in a borrowed grave, and yet be raised again to eternal life by an Infinite Father who can never come to an end or be diminished in any way. The finite mind can never even begin to understand the Infinite Logic and Mathematics of God, but each human can accept "the paradox" through the passion of faith and thereby receive the Eternal Life of Christ for themselves. Jesus achieved the greatest victory ever, a victory over Satan, sin and the finitude of death.
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
INFINITY AND CONSCIOUSNESS
Most of that which finite consciousness calls infinite cannot be infinite. Finite consciousness speaks of infinite numbers, but any number, by intrinsic definition, always means a quantity and all quantities must be finite no matter how large they may be. In fact, anything linear cannot be infinite because it must have two ends and these are always finite no matter how far apart they may be. A sphere cannot be infinite because it must have edges, and a true infinity cannot have edges.
The most that finite consciousness can say about infinity is that it can only be an unbounded volume. But this idea raises a paradoxical truth about infinity. The finite mind cannot imagine infinity, and yet, in a strange way the finite mind cannot not imagine infinity. If the finite mind imagines that it travels to the edge of the universe, then it must also imagine that something lies beyond this edge, and that something lies beyond that edge, and so forth. The finite mind simply lacks the power to carry this idea to a true infinity.
Some finite minds try to get around this paradox by claiming that the universe is all there is whether it is finite or infinite, and therefore, it is nonsensical to speak of that which lies beyond the universe because there is no outside. But those who make this claim do not realize that by doing so they unwittingly admit a very deep truth about infinity. This truth is that infinity cannot be restrained by anything or by nothing. An absolute nothingness, which in a broad way of thinking, lies outside the universe cannot restrain infinity in the least for the very reason that it is an absolute nothingness. But an absolute nothingness actually is not because it can exist nowhere and at no time. It cannot be either inside or outside the universe. In fact, it is wrong to say that it exists at all. That which does not exist can provide no restraint to infinity whatsoever. Thus, those who try to restrain infinity by using this nonsense argument actually fail because they are partly right. Absolute nothingness cannot restrain infinity because it is, strictly speaking, absolutely nonsensical.
Since absolute nothingness cannot restrain infinity, then a true infinity must encompass absolutely everything that exists. Consciousness exists. Everything that infinity encompasses must become equal to it because if infinity should encompass anything finite, then infinity itself must become finite. Thus, an Infinite Consciousness must exist. This also means that every Idea within this Infinite Consciousness must itself be infinite. Since self-consciousness is in-itself an idea, then the Infinite Consciousness must also be an Infinite Self-Consciouness. In other words, God exists. All of this goes to prove the absolute truth of God's statement in John 1:1: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
However, on the other hand, infinity may not exist at all. Everything may be finite. But this condition would mean that that paradox in the finite mind that it cannot get an idea of the infinite, and yet, it cannot not have an idea of the infinite, could never be realized. It could never be realized because any idea of infinity would be nonsensical; that is, equal to absolute nothingness. The fact that the finite mind does not possess the requisite power to experience the infinite, and yet has an idea of it, proves that the infinite must exist. It remains an absolute fact that any finite system cannot accomplish that which it is impossible for it to do. The finite system called consciousness does not possess the requisite power to experience infinity, and yet, we do have an idea of it. Consciousness can only get an idea of that which it experiences, and the fact that finite consciousness cannot reach to infinity proves that finite consciousness cannot experience infinity on its own, and therefore, can get no idea of it on its own. The only possible answer to this paradox is that an Infinite Consciousness must exist who gave this idea to us.
The most that finite consciousness can say about infinity is that it can only be an unbounded volume. But this idea raises a paradoxical truth about infinity. The finite mind cannot imagine infinity, and yet, in a strange way the finite mind cannot not imagine infinity. If the finite mind imagines that it travels to the edge of the universe, then it must also imagine that something lies beyond this edge, and that something lies beyond that edge, and so forth. The finite mind simply lacks the power to carry this idea to a true infinity.
Some finite minds try to get around this paradox by claiming that the universe is all there is whether it is finite or infinite, and therefore, it is nonsensical to speak of that which lies beyond the universe because there is no outside. But those who make this claim do not realize that by doing so they unwittingly admit a very deep truth about infinity. This truth is that infinity cannot be restrained by anything or by nothing. An absolute nothingness, which in a broad way of thinking, lies outside the universe cannot restrain infinity in the least for the very reason that it is an absolute nothingness. But an absolute nothingness actually is not because it can exist nowhere and at no time. It cannot be either inside or outside the universe. In fact, it is wrong to say that it exists at all. That which does not exist can provide no restraint to infinity whatsoever. Thus, those who try to restrain infinity by using this nonsense argument actually fail because they are partly right. Absolute nothingness cannot restrain infinity because it is, strictly speaking, absolutely nonsensical.
Since absolute nothingness cannot restrain infinity, then a true infinity must encompass absolutely everything that exists. Consciousness exists. Everything that infinity encompasses must become equal to it because if infinity should encompass anything finite, then infinity itself must become finite. Thus, an Infinite Consciousness must exist. This also means that every Idea within this Infinite Consciousness must itself be infinite. Since self-consciousness is in-itself an idea, then the Infinite Consciousness must also be an Infinite Self-Consciouness. In other words, God exists. All of this goes to prove the absolute truth of God's statement in John 1:1: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
However, on the other hand, infinity may not exist at all. Everything may be finite. But this condition would mean that that paradox in the finite mind that it cannot get an idea of the infinite, and yet, it cannot not have an idea of the infinite, could never be realized. It could never be realized because any idea of infinity would be nonsensical; that is, equal to absolute nothingness. The fact that the finite mind does not possess the requisite power to experience the infinite, and yet has an idea of it, proves that the infinite must exist. It remains an absolute fact that any finite system cannot accomplish that which it is impossible for it to do. The finite system called consciousness does not possess the requisite power to experience infinity, and yet, we do have an idea of it. Consciousness can only get an idea of that which it experiences, and the fact that finite consciousness cannot reach to infinity proves that finite consciousness cannot experience infinity on its own, and therefore, can get no idea of it on its own. The only possible answer to this paradox is that an Infinite Consciousness must exist who gave this idea to us.
Monday, June 11, 2012
CREATION AND RECREATION chapter 3
The Rebellion
Read Isaiah 14:12-17 Ezekiel 28:12-19 Habakkuk 1:13 John 8:44 Luke 10:18 Revelation 20:10
II Thessalonians 2:7 Revelation 17:5 Matthew 25:41 (KJV)
God created Lucifer to be a beautiful cherub of light. God created Lucifer to be a cherub whose wings would cover God's mercy seat in heaven. Thus, because Lucifer would be very close to the heart of God, God created him to be extremely beautiful and full of light.
Then one day, as Ezekiel 28:15 relates, "iniquity was found" in Lucifer. The Word of God does not tell us where this iniquity came from or how it was formed. The Word of God does not relate that this iniquity appeared outwardly immediately. It simply relates that "iniquity was found in thee."
The Word of God does not state that Lucifer was perfect, but only that he was "perfect in thy ways." God created him to produce only good and beautiful creations but something went terribly wrong inside of him. The iniquity that was found in him began to change his ways. Lucifer began to invent false combinations of God's true Ideas that had destructive effects. Lucifer rebelled against God, attempted to destroy Him, and tried to put himself in God's place.
In II Thessalonians 2:7 and Revelation 17:5, the Bible relates that iniquity is a mystery. The Bible means by this statement that iniquity is a mystery even to God. God does not know what it is or where it came from. God knows that it exists because of its destructive effects, but He has no idea of what it is or where it came from. Habakkuk 1:13 relates that God knows that iniquity exists, but also that He is too pure and holy to have any interest in studying what it is or where it came from. This fact does not diminish God's omniscience in the least. God still possesses an Infinite knowledge of His Infinite Set of Ideas and Plans which can be used for an infinity of creations. A destructive effect always reduces toward nothingness. Because of its destructive effects, iniquity pertains to nothingness and nothingness can only be known as an idea. Because nothing can never diminish something, then God's Infinite Knowledge cannot be reduced by nothingness.
When God discovered this iniquity inside of Lucifer, He found that Lucifer had become able, for reasons unknown even to God, to invent false combinations of God's Ideas that proved to be destructive and inclined toward nothingness. These false combinations were not true and not real. In short, these were lies that were intended to destroy God's true combinations of Ideas, and to bring God Himself down to absolute nothingness which is chaos. For these reasons, Jesus said of Satan in John 8:44 that he was a "murderer" and a "father of lies." In addition, Jesus taught in Mark 7:20-23 that man's outward sins come from a heart already defiled by sin. Jesus knew this because He, as God in heaven, had already seen the iniquity that was inside of Lucifer before he rebelled.
God had always known about the idea of nothing but God had always used it in creative ways. God had been too innocent to ever realize that false combinations of His creative Ideas could be invented which would have destructive effects tending toward a nothingness that, in turn, would both cover up and indicate an absolute nothingness. This was Lucifer's plan. He would invent false combinations of God's Ideas to be used in an attempt to destroy God and the Infinity of His Ideas absolutely, so that Lucifer could replace God with his own systems of false combinations, making himself a god. God had never imagined any other way of using His Ideas except in creative combinations. God is the absolute artist, scientist, lawyer and mathematician.
Because God had created Lucifer, He knew all there was to know about his creative potential. God had so much confidence in Lucifer that He even gave him free will to create whatsoever he desired. This generosity shows that one of God's greatest Ideas is called "innocence." Because of His Innocence, God could not imagine that iniquity could ever exist. Lucifer evidently came to believe that God's Innocence was a weakness that he could exploit by the use of his false combinations. Little did he know that God's Innocence was one of His greatest strengths. Innocence, like Love itself, can never be destroyed. Another name for God's Innocence is "The Lamb of God."
Lucifer found that he could use the free will that God had given him to invent false combinations that he could use in his coming attacks on God. No doubt, God was quite shocked when He discovered this iniquity inside of Lucifer. God had never seen this before and had no idea that such a thing as iniquity could exist. "Shock" is one of God's creative Emotions and Ideas which proved quite useful when God discovered this iniquity in Lucifer.
Perhaps one of the first false combinations that God could have found in Lucifer might have been this thought: "I might be able to kill God." Each one of these basic ideas and true combinations, taken by itself, is a true and useful idea or combination, but as used in this false combination it is meant to be destructive, reducing toward a nothingness which covers an absolute nothingness. Absolute nothingness is the opposite of God's Infinite Reality. God's Infinite Reality encompasses a complete creative order, but absolute nothingness is a mere chaos. Even the idea called "kill" is a true and useful idea. In God's use of this idea, it means "to eliminate." Whenever God creates a particular useful combination of ideas, He must eliminate all other ideas from participation in this particular system in order to make it effective in the way He desires. For instance, should God create a particular system called "beautiful," He must eliminate all ideas that pertain to "ugliness." In order to do this, He must use the idea of nothing in a creative way. He must consider all ideas that pertain to "ugliness" to be equal to nothing as far as His creation of His system called "beautiful" is concerned. In a sense, He "kills" the ideas of ugliness. He does not destroy the ideas of "ugliness." These ideas can be used in other creative combinations. He simply considers them to be equal to nothing as far as His creation of something "beautiful" is concerned. God uses the idea of nothing in creative ways but Lucifer used this same idea in destructive ways.
When Lucifer used the true idea "kill" in his false combination, he meant to use this idea to eliminate God from His own heaven so that Lucifer could take over. This demonstrates the essence of the criminal mind. The criminal uses even the kindness and generosity of those who try to help him against them, and uses the advantage thus gained to hurt the very people who are trying to help him. No one knows why criminals do this. It is a mystery even today.
When Lucifer realized that God had found iniquity in him, he knew that he had no other choice but to lead a revolt of a third of God's angels against Him. Lucifer knew that God would never allow falsity to remain in His heaven. God and His faithful angels won the war, and God threw Lucifer and the fallen angels down to earth where he became Satan, the god of this world.
Satan became the author of all sin in the world. Sin is more than just a disobedience of God's rules. Sin constitutes no less that a violation of the very Being of God Himself because sin takes God's eternal and infinite Ideas and combines them in vain and destructive ways. Satan has been very clever in his inventions of some of these systems. He has attached an intensified pleasure, and even bliss, to some of these false combinations so that when a human takes the bait, he will become hooked into a destructive effect that he does not fully realize is coming. The source of all sin is Satan's egotistical pride; his self-centered desire to rule the universe. Pride is far more addictive that any drug. Pride often causes humans to cling fiercely to their sin, refusing to give it up even when they know it will eventually destroy them. There exists some strange connection between pride and vanity which leads to self-destruction and absolute nothingness.
God will never allow Satan to repent, even if he should ever want to. Because of Satan's great power, God can simply never trust him again. He is just too dangerous and too clever. For this reason, God prepared hell for the Devil and his angels. Someday, at God's final judgment, He will cast Satan and all fallen angels into a lake of fire where they will be tormented forever. God's reason for doing this is because God knows that anyone in excruciating pain can think of nothing except his pain. Satan's mind and his ability to invent false systems will be forever muted by this tormenting flame. In this way, God will forever eliminate all sin and falsity from His universe, and then will be clear to recreate heaven and earth as places that are purely righteous and holy. Even though heaven is free of sin now, it was tainted by sin in the past when Satan rebelled. Therefore, God will create a new heaven and earth where there will exist no possibility of sin and falsity forever.
Satan knows all this and so he has no choice but to persist in his rebellion. Persistence is not a virtue with Satan. It is a necessity. He has no other choice but desperately to do everything in his power to try to stay out of the lake of fire.
Read Isaiah 14:12-17 Ezekiel 28:12-19 Habakkuk 1:13 John 8:44 Luke 10:18 Revelation 20:10
II Thessalonians 2:7 Revelation 17:5 Matthew 25:41 (KJV)
God created Lucifer to be a beautiful cherub of light. God created Lucifer to be a cherub whose wings would cover God's mercy seat in heaven. Thus, because Lucifer would be very close to the heart of God, God created him to be extremely beautiful and full of light.
Then one day, as Ezekiel 28:15 relates, "iniquity was found" in Lucifer. The Word of God does not tell us where this iniquity came from or how it was formed. The Word of God does not relate that this iniquity appeared outwardly immediately. It simply relates that "iniquity was found in thee."
The Word of God does not state that Lucifer was perfect, but only that he was "perfect in thy ways." God created him to produce only good and beautiful creations but something went terribly wrong inside of him. The iniquity that was found in him began to change his ways. Lucifer began to invent false combinations of God's true Ideas that had destructive effects. Lucifer rebelled against God, attempted to destroy Him, and tried to put himself in God's place.
In II Thessalonians 2:7 and Revelation 17:5, the Bible relates that iniquity is a mystery. The Bible means by this statement that iniquity is a mystery even to God. God does not know what it is or where it came from. God knows that it exists because of its destructive effects, but He has no idea of what it is or where it came from. Habakkuk 1:13 relates that God knows that iniquity exists, but also that He is too pure and holy to have any interest in studying what it is or where it came from. This fact does not diminish God's omniscience in the least. God still possesses an Infinite knowledge of His Infinite Set of Ideas and Plans which can be used for an infinity of creations. A destructive effect always reduces toward nothingness. Because of its destructive effects, iniquity pertains to nothingness and nothingness can only be known as an idea. Because nothing can never diminish something, then God's Infinite Knowledge cannot be reduced by nothingness.
When God discovered this iniquity inside of Lucifer, He found that Lucifer had become able, for reasons unknown even to God, to invent false combinations of God's Ideas that proved to be destructive and inclined toward nothingness. These false combinations were not true and not real. In short, these were lies that were intended to destroy God's true combinations of Ideas, and to bring God Himself down to absolute nothingness which is chaos. For these reasons, Jesus said of Satan in John 8:44 that he was a "murderer" and a "father of lies." In addition, Jesus taught in Mark 7:20-23 that man's outward sins come from a heart already defiled by sin. Jesus knew this because He, as God in heaven, had already seen the iniquity that was inside of Lucifer before he rebelled.
God had always known about the idea of nothing but God had always used it in creative ways. God had been too innocent to ever realize that false combinations of His creative Ideas could be invented which would have destructive effects tending toward a nothingness that, in turn, would both cover up and indicate an absolute nothingness. This was Lucifer's plan. He would invent false combinations of God's Ideas to be used in an attempt to destroy God and the Infinity of His Ideas absolutely, so that Lucifer could replace God with his own systems of false combinations, making himself a god. God had never imagined any other way of using His Ideas except in creative combinations. God is the absolute artist, scientist, lawyer and mathematician.
Because God had created Lucifer, He knew all there was to know about his creative potential. God had so much confidence in Lucifer that He even gave him free will to create whatsoever he desired. This generosity shows that one of God's greatest Ideas is called "innocence." Because of His Innocence, God could not imagine that iniquity could ever exist. Lucifer evidently came to believe that God's Innocence was a weakness that he could exploit by the use of his false combinations. Little did he know that God's Innocence was one of His greatest strengths. Innocence, like Love itself, can never be destroyed. Another name for God's Innocence is "The Lamb of God."
Lucifer found that he could use the free will that God had given him to invent false combinations that he could use in his coming attacks on God. No doubt, God was quite shocked when He discovered this iniquity inside of Lucifer. God had never seen this before and had no idea that such a thing as iniquity could exist. "Shock" is one of God's creative Emotions and Ideas which proved quite useful when God discovered this iniquity in Lucifer.
Perhaps one of the first false combinations that God could have found in Lucifer might have been this thought: "I might be able to kill God." Each one of these basic ideas and true combinations, taken by itself, is a true and useful idea or combination, but as used in this false combination it is meant to be destructive, reducing toward a nothingness which covers an absolute nothingness. Absolute nothingness is the opposite of God's Infinite Reality. God's Infinite Reality encompasses a complete creative order, but absolute nothingness is a mere chaos. Even the idea called "kill" is a true and useful idea. In God's use of this idea, it means "to eliminate." Whenever God creates a particular useful combination of ideas, He must eliminate all other ideas from participation in this particular system in order to make it effective in the way He desires. For instance, should God create a particular system called "beautiful," He must eliminate all ideas that pertain to "ugliness." In order to do this, He must use the idea of nothing in a creative way. He must consider all ideas that pertain to "ugliness" to be equal to nothing as far as His creation of His system called "beautiful" is concerned. In a sense, He "kills" the ideas of ugliness. He does not destroy the ideas of "ugliness." These ideas can be used in other creative combinations. He simply considers them to be equal to nothing as far as His creation of something "beautiful" is concerned. God uses the idea of nothing in creative ways but Lucifer used this same idea in destructive ways.
When Lucifer used the true idea "kill" in his false combination, he meant to use this idea to eliminate God from His own heaven so that Lucifer could take over. This demonstrates the essence of the criminal mind. The criminal uses even the kindness and generosity of those who try to help him against them, and uses the advantage thus gained to hurt the very people who are trying to help him. No one knows why criminals do this. It is a mystery even today.
When Lucifer realized that God had found iniquity in him, he knew that he had no other choice but to lead a revolt of a third of God's angels against Him. Lucifer knew that God would never allow falsity to remain in His heaven. God and His faithful angels won the war, and God threw Lucifer and the fallen angels down to earth where he became Satan, the god of this world.
Satan became the author of all sin in the world. Sin is more than just a disobedience of God's rules. Sin constitutes no less that a violation of the very Being of God Himself because sin takes God's eternal and infinite Ideas and combines them in vain and destructive ways. Satan has been very clever in his inventions of some of these systems. He has attached an intensified pleasure, and even bliss, to some of these false combinations so that when a human takes the bait, he will become hooked into a destructive effect that he does not fully realize is coming. The source of all sin is Satan's egotistical pride; his self-centered desire to rule the universe. Pride is far more addictive that any drug. Pride often causes humans to cling fiercely to their sin, refusing to give it up even when they know it will eventually destroy them. There exists some strange connection between pride and vanity which leads to self-destruction and absolute nothingness.
God will never allow Satan to repent, even if he should ever want to. Because of Satan's great power, God can simply never trust him again. He is just too dangerous and too clever. For this reason, God prepared hell for the Devil and his angels. Someday, at God's final judgment, He will cast Satan and all fallen angels into a lake of fire where they will be tormented forever. God's reason for doing this is because God knows that anyone in excruciating pain can think of nothing except his pain. Satan's mind and his ability to invent false systems will be forever muted by this tormenting flame. In this way, God will forever eliminate all sin and falsity from His universe, and then will be clear to recreate heaven and earth as places that are purely righteous and holy. Even though heaven is free of sin now, it was tainted by sin in the past when Satan rebelled. Therefore, God will create a new heaven and earth where there will exist no possibility of sin and falsity forever.
Satan knows all this and so he has no choice but to persist in his rebellion. Persistence is not a virtue with Satan. It is a necessity. He has no other choice but desperately to do everything in his power to try to stay out of the lake of fire.
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
FINITE MATHEMATICS AND INFINITY
The sign for zero cannot be a number, and yet, paradoxically, it is a part of the number system. The intrinsic meaning of a number is that it must have quantity. Zero has no quantity, and therefore, cannot be a number. Yet, zero is a vital part of the number system because it indicates the necessity of the idea of nothing. Without the idea of nothing, something cannot be separated from nothing, and without this separation, the reality of the number system would be impossible. While it is true that some number systems do not have a sign for zero, nevertheless, the idea of nothing must always be implied as the opposite of quantity. The human senses accomplish a task quite similar to the number system when we observe the world. Consciousness, connected to the world through the senses, must separate something from nothing in order to make sense of the world. Consciousness employs the idea of nothing as the opposite of quantity in order to begin to bring order to the world we observe.
Infinity must transcend all number systems since all number systems can only be finite. Infinity must transcend both the idea of nothing and quantity. Infinity must contain no nothingness and no quantity. Infinity can have no edges. It must be absolutely everywhere. There can be no one infinity since the number one would limit it. There can only be infinity.
Infinity cannot be mathematical in a finite sense. Infinity cannot be divided because each division would equal infinity. Infinity cannot be multiplied because there can be no more to it. It cannot be added to for the same reason. It cannot be subtracted from because it cannot be diminished. Yet, the finite exists in time and space. Since the infinite contains no finite mathematics, then how did the finite come into existence at all, if infinity exists? Only the finite may exist.
But if no infinity exists, then how did finite consciousness ever get an idea of it? Finite consciousness can only get an idea of that which it experiences, and it only experiences quantity and the idea of nothing. Finite consciousness can never reach to infinity because it is always subject to a mathematical limitation.
Since it is quite impossible for finite consciousness to ever get an idea of the infinite, then the infinite must exist in order to give the idea of the infinite to finite consciousness. But this means that the infinite must have infinite power. Since the infinite also knows how to give the idea of itself to finite consciousness, then the infinite must possess an Infinite Consciousness. That which possesses an Infinite Power and an Infinite Presence and an Infinite Consciousness can only be called God.
How then did the finite come into existence? Since an Infinite God holds the Infinite Power to subtract from infinity without diminishing it, then God holds the power to project a finite universe into existence without diminishing His Infinite Power in the least. The mathematics of Infinity must be completely different from finite mathematics.
Infinity must transcend all number systems since all number systems can only be finite. Infinity must transcend both the idea of nothing and quantity. Infinity must contain no nothingness and no quantity. Infinity can have no edges. It must be absolutely everywhere. There can be no one infinity since the number one would limit it. There can only be infinity.
Infinity cannot be mathematical in a finite sense. Infinity cannot be divided because each division would equal infinity. Infinity cannot be multiplied because there can be no more to it. It cannot be added to for the same reason. It cannot be subtracted from because it cannot be diminished. Yet, the finite exists in time and space. Since the infinite contains no finite mathematics, then how did the finite come into existence at all, if infinity exists? Only the finite may exist.
But if no infinity exists, then how did finite consciousness ever get an idea of it? Finite consciousness can only get an idea of that which it experiences, and it only experiences quantity and the idea of nothing. Finite consciousness can never reach to infinity because it is always subject to a mathematical limitation.
Since it is quite impossible for finite consciousness to ever get an idea of the infinite, then the infinite must exist in order to give the idea of the infinite to finite consciousness. But this means that the infinite must have infinite power. Since the infinite also knows how to give the idea of itself to finite consciousness, then the infinite must possess an Infinite Consciousness. That which possesses an Infinite Power and an Infinite Presence and an Infinite Consciousness can only be called God.
How then did the finite come into existence? Since an Infinite God holds the Infinite Power to subtract from infinity without diminishing it, then God holds the power to project a finite universe into existence without diminishing His Infinite Power in the least. The mathematics of Infinity must be completely different from finite mathematics.
Monday, June 4, 2012
CREATION AND RECREATION chapter2
Precreation
Read Ephesians 3:9 Colossians 1:15-19 Revelation 4:11 Psalm 147:5 Genesis 2:4-5 John 1:1-3 Revelation 21:1 Hebrews 1:3 (KJV)
The Word has always existed. The Word is God and has been with God from all eternity to all eternity. The Word constitutes the Infinite Wisdom and Understanding of God. Before God began His finite creations, the Word already existed as an Infinity of Ideas and combinations of Ideas. In other words, God was, and is, an Infinity of Ideas with an Infinity of Plans for those Ideas. All of God's finite creations have been based on some of the Infinite Ideas and Plans in His Mind.
When God created the world, He no doubt used only a small part of His Infinite Ideas and Plans as patterns for this creation. He pushed this finite creation beyond His Infinite Self into the form of a material world to be experienced by finite living creatures mainly through their senses. In other words, God patterned the world after some of His Infinite Ideas and Plans but the material world cannot participate in God's Being because He specifically created it to be finite. The finitude of God's creations cannot diminish His Infinity because infinity cannot be diminished or increased. In other words, the material world results from God's Ideas and Plans, but as finite, lies outside of God's Being.
God also created the heaven to be finite, but no doubt He used a greater number of His Ideas and Plans for its pattern. God also pushed the heaven beyond His Being but infused it with His Spiritual Presence so that those He created to live there may experience heaven on a spiritual level or a material level as they desire. God is also present in the material world but it is not a part of His Being, as is heaven in a spiritual sense. The day will come when God will create a new heaven and a new earth, but only that part of heaven which is not a part of God's Being will be recreated, and not God's Being itself, which never changes.
Certain phrases contained in such scriptures as Ephesians 3:9, Colossians 1:15-19 and Hebrews 1:3 indicate that in God's creations of heaven and earth, He drew His patterns from an Infinity of Ideas and Plans which is the eternal Word of God. In Ephesians 3:9, the phrase: "who created all things by Jesus Christ," reveals that God used some of His Infinite Wisdom and Understanding, which is Jesus the Word, as patterns to create the heaven and earth. In Colossians 1:15-19, the phrases: "And He is before all things, and by Him all things consist," and "that in all things He might have the preeminence," and "For it pleased the Father that in him should all fullness dwell;" clearly indicate that the Word of God who is Christ provided a part of His Infinity of Ideas and Plans as patterns for the creations of the heaven and earth.
In Hebrews 1:3, the phrase: "and upholding all things by the Word of His Power," clearly indicates that God's Living Word both caused and supports God's creations.
Although each individual Idea and Plan within God's Infinite Consciousness is itself Infinite, the Infinity of their interrelationships and interdependence causes them all to merge into One Infinite Consciousness which forms the Being of God. Also, since God's Self-Consciousness must also be Infinite, then each of His individual Infinite Ideas and Plans can only be an Infinite Reflection within His Infinite Self-Consciousness, causing God to be an Infinite Holiness. In other words, there can be no less or more with God. He is an Infinite Completion. Jesus referred to this when He said: "I sanctify Myself...." Read John 17:19.
When we finite humans reflect on the fact that we can be conscious of our consciousness, we demonstrate that God created us to reflect a finite section of His Infinite Self-Consciousness. To this extent, all finite creations reflect but finite sections of His Infinite Ideas and Plans. For these reasons, there can be no meaninglessness in saying such things as: "consciousness is conscious," or "red is red," or "reality is real," since such statements simply reflect the fact that each finite creation represents a section of an Infinite Idea or Plan. For these reasons, when God created the world, He did not state that each creation was perfect, but only that it was "good."
Every Infinite Idea and Plan can only be absolutely perfect since each one has been purified by an Infinite Reflection. Each of these absolute perfections can be considered to be quite similar to Plato's Ideas.
The word "generations" in Genesis 2:4-5 implies a descent, a coming down from one form of existence to another. This description of creation indicates that God pushed some of His Infinite Ideas and Plans into a finite reality when He created the heaven and the earth. Verse 5 relates "that every plant of the field" was already growing within God's Infinite Set of Ideas and Plans before He transplanted them to grow in the earth. Again, this description of creation reinforces the idea that God's finite creations comprise but small sections derived from His Infinite Set of Ideas and Plans.
Read Ephesians 3:9 Colossians 1:15-19 Revelation 4:11 Psalm 147:5 Genesis 2:4-5 John 1:1-3 Revelation 21:1 Hebrews 1:3 (KJV)
The Word has always existed. The Word is God and has been with God from all eternity to all eternity. The Word constitutes the Infinite Wisdom and Understanding of God. Before God began His finite creations, the Word already existed as an Infinity of Ideas and combinations of Ideas. In other words, God was, and is, an Infinity of Ideas with an Infinity of Plans for those Ideas. All of God's finite creations have been based on some of the Infinite Ideas and Plans in His Mind.
When God created the world, He no doubt used only a small part of His Infinite Ideas and Plans as patterns for this creation. He pushed this finite creation beyond His Infinite Self into the form of a material world to be experienced by finite living creatures mainly through their senses. In other words, God patterned the world after some of His Infinite Ideas and Plans but the material world cannot participate in God's Being because He specifically created it to be finite. The finitude of God's creations cannot diminish His Infinity because infinity cannot be diminished or increased. In other words, the material world results from God's Ideas and Plans, but as finite, lies outside of God's Being.
God also created the heaven to be finite, but no doubt He used a greater number of His Ideas and Plans for its pattern. God also pushed the heaven beyond His Being but infused it with His Spiritual Presence so that those He created to live there may experience heaven on a spiritual level or a material level as they desire. God is also present in the material world but it is not a part of His Being, as is heaven in a spiritual sense. The day will come when God will create a new heaven and a new earth, but only that part of heaven which is not a part of God's Being will be recreated, and not God's Being itself, which never changes.
Certain phrases contained in such scriptures as Ephesians 3:9, Colossians 1:15-19 and Hebrews 1:3 indicate that in God's creations of heaven and earth, He drew His patterns from an Infinity of Ideas and Plans which is the eternal Word of God. In Ephesians 3:9, the phrase: "who created all things by Jesus Christ," reveals that God used some of His Infinite Wisdom and Understanding, which is Jesus the Word, as patterns to create the heaven and earth. In Colossians 1:15-19, the phrases: "And He is before all things, and by Him all things consist," and "that in all things He might have the preeminence," and "For it pleased the Father that in him should all fullness dwell;" clearly indicate that the Word of God who is Christ provided a part of His Infinity of Ideas and Plans as patterns for the creations of the heaven and earth.
In Hebrews 1:3, the phrase: "and upholding all things by the Word of His Power," clearly indicates that God's Living Word both caused and supports God's creations.
Although each individual Idea and Plan within God's Infinite Consciousness is itself Infinite, the Infinity of their interrelationships and interdependence causes them all to merge into One Infinite Consciousness which forms the Being of God. Also, since God's Self-Consciousness must also be Infinite, then each of His individual Infinite Ideas and Plans can only be an Infinite Reflection within His Infinite Self-Consciousness, causing God to be an Infinite Holiness. In other words, there can be no less or more with God. He is an Infinite Completion. Jesus referred to this when He said: "I sanctify Myself...." Read John 17:19.
When we finite humans reflect on the fact that we can be conscious of our consciousness, we demonstrate that God created us to reflect a finite section of His Infinite Self-Consciousness. To this extent, all finite creations reflect but finite sections of His Infinite Ideas and Plans. For these reasons, there can be no meaninglessness in saying such things as: "consciousness is conscious," or "red is red," or "reality is real," since such statements simply reflect the fact that each finite creation represents a section of an Infinite Idea or Plan. For these reasons, when God created the world, He did not state that each creation was perfect, but only that it was "good."
Every Infinite Idea and Plan can only be absolutely perfect since each one has been purified by an Infinite Reflection. Each of these absolute perfections can be considered to be quite similar to Plato's Ideas.
The word "generations" in Genesis 2:4-5 implies a descent, a coming down from one form of existence to another. This description of creation indicates that God pushed some of His Infinite Ideas and Plans into a finite reality when He created the heaven and the earth. Verse 5 relates "that every plant of the field" was already growing within God's Infinite Set of Ideas and Plans before He transplanted them to grow in the earth. Again, this description of creation reinforces the idea that God's finite creations comprise but small sections derived from His Infinite Set of Ideas and Plans.
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