What I Believe: On Points and God

"What I Believe" is a series of posts on my current personal spiritual/religious beliefs. At least, my beliefs at the point of time of the post. These beliefs are personal and don't represent those of any larger group. I am proudly a member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), but this blog is no way endorsed by Friends or meant to represent that community.

“We are the universe trying to understand itself.”

Imagine a point, a single point. It has no width, it has no height, it has no depth. It has no size or color or any other descriptive qualities. It is just a lone point. It doesn’t even have a location. At least not a place we can describe. If we ask any of these questions about the point it makes just as much sense to say it is everywhere and everything as to say it is not. In other words, the point, by itself, is infinite.

However, what if there was another point. Now we can say how far the two points are apart from one another. We can draw a line between them. This line can extend beyond the points. Now we can talk about the lines that intersect that line. We can also talk about the lines that don’t intersect that line. Those lines form a plain. We can also talk about lines that go through one point, but not the other. These lines are at an angle to the plain. Now we have depth to our world and we can start to define the location of the point in space.

If we accept that God is greater than everything, then God must be infinite. Now if we look back, way back, before time began, we have something that is infinite but completely alone. God is our point. By itself the point has no definition. God, by God’s self, has no definition. What separates God from the point is that God is curious. God wishes to know about God.
How can God find out about God? God must create points of reference, but how. We have already defined God as greater than everything, so there must not be other gods to compare too. God only has God to work with. So God creates the universe out of God. The universe, which is God, who is infinite, results in an infinite number of points of reference. God can use each of these points to learn more about God.

There are a number of implications that arise from this. I hope to discuss many of them soon. However, I think there is one implication that is of utmost importance. God wishes to know more about God. This desire, to know something completely, is love. God loves God, not in an egotistical way, but in a truer love than we can comprehend. However, if everything is made of God then God must love everything. This is what I will refer to as God’s Love and I believe it is a fundamental truth.

This is really the essence of my belief: the universe is God trying to understand God, it is made up of God, and God loves all of it.