Speculation on Creation
God can only create that which is good; that is, useful and beautiful. God creates each good system from Ideas that He selects from the Infinite Contents of His Infinite Consciousness. God can create or dissolve systems as He wills, but the Infinite Contents of His Mind constitutes Eternal Information which can also be called the Word of God. Despite the philosophy of the materialists, observation has always revealed that no good system can exist without consciousness employing information. The Word of God is both the same as God and also is with God. John 1:1.
The Infinite Set of Ideas in God's Mind are irreducible and basic. They are as basic as is the number one in mathematics. All numbers higher than one are merely systems that comprise the number one. To a similar extent, some of God's irreducible Ideas consist of shapes such as square or round. Others consist of basic colors such as blue, yellow, and red. Still others could be ideas such as solid or thin. Humans observe the world as composed of combinations, or systems, of these basic Ideas which God has put into macro form. God's Mind also holds basic abstract Ideas such as Justice and Liberty. Humans can use such basic ideas to invent good systems of law and government. All of God's Ideas are absolutely perfect and righteous. All of God's macro systems based on these eternal Ideas possess only a limited perfection because God can create or dissolve them as He wills.
While it is true that basic ideas can be reduced to mathematical frequencies on the quantum level, God creates on the macro level. God holds the power to transform mathematical frequencies into formed Ideas.
The system called mathematics, while based on the number one, would make no sense without another basic idea that limits it to specific numbers. That basic idea happens to be the idea called zero. Zero cannot be a number because it does not number anything, and yet this idea happens to be necessary for mathematics to make any sense. The number one can be no other number but one. The word no means nothing. The number two, and all higher numbers, can only be identified as particular numbers by the use of the idea of zero which is the same as the idea of nothing. This system does not mean that if one thinks of a particular number that all other numbers become nothing. This system simply means that in order to think of a particular number, one must consider all other numbers to be temporarily equal to nothing. In other words, the idea of nothing exists above and below every particular number.
If the basic idea of one can be considered to be equal to the idea of something, and the basic idea of zero to the idea of nothing, then all of reality must be based on the two basic ideas of something and nothing. When God creates a system which is something, He must use the idea of nothing to exclude all ideas which will not work in that system. When God creates the system called green, He must consider the basic color red to be equal to nothing and include only the basic colors blue and yellow. When God creates a landscape, He must include the ideas of solidity and shape and use the idea of nothing to exclude the ideas of thinness and formlessness. When God creates a gaseous system, He must use the idea of nothing to exclude the ideas of solidity and shape.
All of this put together means that God must use the basic absolutely perfect Ideas of something and nothing to create a reality of limited perfection. But all this also means that the idea of nothing has to be something as an Idea. All ideas, even abstract ones, have to be something because consciousness forms them as ideas in the mind. All ideas become more than nothing as information, and yet the idea of nothing limits information to particular ideas. This means Consciousness has to exist for reality to exist. Even though the idea of nothing equals emptiness, it nevertheless exists as the perfect Idea of formless extension in the Mind of God.
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