The Infinite Nature of God

Let us for a moment adopt heretical presumptions - may we all become, for just a short while, blasphemers.

Let us ignore God and his existence for a moment.

Now, imagine a being who is merely God-like - a non-human being who is self-aware and non-corporeal (non-material and outside of time). This being, having restrictions of neither time nor space, would be either nowhere or everywhere. If it was nowhere, it would not exist, so it would therefore have to be everywhere.
So, this creature, this being, is omnipresent - it is everywhere at all moments and at all moments everywhere.

This being, in being everywhere and everywhen, can see the largest heavenly objects interacting, and can see the behaviour of the smallest atoms and particles and quarks in utter detail. Due to this being's omnipresence - the fact that it is everywhere and everywhen (due to its non-corporeal nature (its immateriality and immunity to time)) - it would be omniscient, it would know all. As it can see all things at all moments, nothing would be hidden from it, whether great or small, natural or of man, actual or abstract.

Now, knowing all, this being would know exactly how change anything, it would know what nudge was needed to transform one element into another, would know how to transmute a star from one galaxy to another, would be able to create a universe at will. This being would be omnipotent. Due to the being's non-corporeal nature, it would be omnipresent; and due to the being's presence throughout time and space, it would be omniscient; and due to this being knowing everything, and how to do any and everything, it would be able to do anything - it would be all powerful.

Let's admit to ourselves once again the existence of God.

Four of the most impossibly wonderful aspects of God flow on from each other: God is omnipotent because he is omniscient, omniscient because he is omnipresent, omnipresent because He is not of time or space.

Now, due to this last fact, the fact that God is timeless, comes the fact that God has always been this way - there was no flowing in the way we would or could understand it. As soon as perfection was attained, God would have always been perfect, and since He is outside of time, perfection would have been attained at the first moment of existence - but, as God is outside of time, there was no first moment of existence, and therefore God has been perfect for eternity - imperfection has never existed.

Another impossibly wonderful aspect of God flows not from any of the others. This is the fact that he is omniamorous - He is all-loving and loves all. This is one reason why I hold onto God's love so tightly, and why, for me, it is so important to see God as a God of love - the Love exists because it exists! Sweet as.


Pontificating,
Sam D Grover