SPECULATION ON GOD'S INFINITE BEING

                     
Read: Revelation 4:11 Ephesians 3:9 Psalm 147:5 John 1:1-3 Galatians 5:6 Exodus 34:14 Psalm 90:11 Psalm 111:10 Psalm 19:9 (KJV)

Why would God create an historical process currently being played out on the earth in order to test His Infinite Love when He already knows that His Infinite Love has infinite value? One can only speculate since no one can enter into the Infinite Mind of God. All we can know about God He has revealed in His Word.

We learn from God's Word that He has absolutely "created all things." Every "thing" is simply any object in God's Consciousness, which makes every "thing" infinite since God's Mind is Infinite. This means that absolutely every possible thought, idea or emotion is already an infinite "thing" in the Mind of God. God's finite creations are but simply limited sections of His Infinite Ideas and Plans. God's Infinite Self-Consciousness makes Him an Infinite "Thing" to Himself. This means that God is an Eternal Self-Created Being. This constitutes the everlasting and absolute unity of God's Consciousness and His Word.

Faith is one of the infinite "things" that extends from God's Love. All of God's infinite attributes subsist in Love which is the Infinite Being of God. God's "Faith" is His infinite confidence in Himself. This means that God already knows that Love is omnipotent and holds infinite value. So then, why has God allowed His Love to be tested through mankind in an historical process occurring on the earth? The immediate answer is that God allowed this test for the purpose of saving a fallen race which needed this proof of His Love because its limited faith was subject to sin. God proved the infinite value of His Love through His sacrifice of Himself on a cross to save a lost race ruined by sin. Man often gives his faith to false gods and ideologies, which causes his faith to become sinful and destructive. Through His self-sacrifice, burial and resurrection, God redirected man's faith to Himself who is their Savior from sin and destruction. In essence, God tested His Love for the sake of mankind's salvation.

An imperfect example could be this. Suppose the leader of a group of people who are in danger of being destroyed knows that he can accomplish a very difficult task which will save his group from destruction. Most of those in his group do not believe that he can do it. Nevertheless, the leader then accomplishes the difficult task and afterwards stands on a hill and beckons that they should follow him because he has opened the way to safety. Some of his group believe him and follow him to safety. The others do not believe him and stay and are destroyed. The leader already had every confidence in himself that he could accomplish the difficult task but he did it anyway despite his group's lack of confidence in him. The leader proved his love for his people even though he did not need to. His love compelled him to put himself through the hell of accomplishing the difficult task even though he was not at all obligated to save a faithless group resigned to self-destruction.

Any of the limited "things" in man's consciousness are subject to false combinations called sin. Faith is one of the "things" in man's consciousness which will become sinful if it is given to anything but God. Doubt can become sinful if it is attached to a faith even in God. Jealousy will become sinful when combined with other "things" such as obsession and oppression. Man's limited love will itself become sinful when combined with lust and selfishness. Man was created in God's image but any of the limited "things" that God provided for man's consciousness can become sinful because of the power of original sin which often compels man to put his "things" into false combinations which is sin.

However, all of the "things" which can become sinful to mankind have been perfected by the Infinite Consciousness of God. God has perfected His Faith by His Infinite Self-Confidence. God's Doubt has also been perfected by His Infinite Consciousness. God's infinite Doubt must be considered in the light of His infinite Faith. God's Faith and His Doubt must seem contradictory to our limited consciousnesses but not to God's Infinite Consciousness. God's Doubt may be His Consciousness of the fact that He must actually enter into the historical process and suffer a terrible trial as a man in order to prove His Love for mankind and His compelling desire to save them even though He possessed an Infinite Faith in Himself that He already loved man and that He could save them. In other words, God absolutely knew that He could save man, but in a sense, He dreaded doing it because in order to do it He would have to expose His Holiness as a man to the horrors of bearing man's sin in terrible suffering on the cross. God's infinite Dread is very similar to his infinite Doubt.

Jealousy, which most often becomes sinful in man, has also been perfected as an Infinite Idea and Emotion in God's Mind. In fact, God's Word states that one of God's names is Jealous. God's Jealousy means His absolute guardianship of His people's welfare. All of God's Infinite Attributes extend from His Infinite Being which is Love.

Man's fear is obviously often sinful because it can be the opposite of faith. But Psalm 90:11 clearly refers to a Fear that is an attribute of God's Being. God's Word commands His people to fear Him. God's Word teaches the fear of God as being a prelude to wisdom and faith. But God's Infinite Fear is a perfect "thing." This Fear of God means to be so awestruck by His mighty Power that one submits to Him with trust in Him and love for His awesome grace and mercy, but also mindful of His awesome Power to punish. God's Infinite Fear has been perfected by His Infinity, and who should be more awestruck by His own Infinite Power than God Himself.

In the end, all truth depends on judgments. Man's finite judgments are often sinful because they are infected by original sin. But God's Judgments, which He creates from His Infinite Ideas, are always true and righteous.