Pepsi Vs. Coke:What Else Makes God, God? (Part 3 of 5)
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How about ultimate creative source as a God attribute?
Most belief systems have a concept that there was some Stuff and out of it came the Gods and they were the ones who were able to create Other Stuff. Heck, the Gods in many belief systems are simply a byproduct of the Original Stuff—just one step closer to it than you and me.
Other belief systems might have a Great Cosmic Power, an Ultimate Mind that is completely spiritual and everything (including you, me and the Gods) came from it. So the God is just this huge mindless Being that consists of everything: good, evil, right, wrong, rape, babies, murder, birth. All is part of It and nothing in the end matters.
The Bible, in contrast to other systems, begins with God as the ultimate creative source, not answering to anyone else yet creating everything. He decides how physics works, he defines to what extent things co-exist, he specifies the codependency of physical spheres and does it all with a specific purpose in mind.
Kind of like You the Writer sitting down to do some World Building in fiction writing. You specify how the world, how the land masses work, the people that live in it, the way their hair is colored: everything. You do it with intent, you have a point to the story and you plan to carry it out.
In that same way, the Bible speaks of God, as the creator of everything with a description of it all being Good. That takes a darn lot of power, a whole lot of imagination, a completely rational conception of things, some amazing oversight of the Big Picture and a moral capacity unlike any other.
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June 1st, 2007 at 7:04 am
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