This is the fifth book of the Little Book Open Series. It describes the nature of human beings and how we are influenced by the things that grow in the garden of our heart. Then the book describes the existence of God and how God can help us through His Kingdom.
Excerpt:
Nature of God
Many people believe in God but exclude this opinion from their scientific thinking. God is too big to fit within an orderly universe. However to throw away data that is too great for our minds to comprehend is also not scientific and it limits our ability to understand truth.
Now this has not been an easy task describing God. It is akin to believing in the Celestial Spheres where the sun, moon, stars moved around the earth and then suddenly seeing the enormous vastness of the universe where the earth has disappeared behind a minor sun in the corner of one of an uncountable number of galaxies. The scope of this change of viewpoint takes our breath away.
And this task was tricky too. Many of us take our values and beliefs from our religion. And examining the nature of God forces a reexamining of these beliefs. This is very personal; you have to be sure of your beliefs to let go of them knowing they are going to return stronger, surer and real. But please note this, no one can tell someone else that their beliefs are wrong. That they must do as a part of their own discovery.
This is my exploration and you are welcome to join me. But read this with your eyes open, it is a dangerous journey. You may be left with misconceptions. And please shelve the religious arguments at least for now. This is more of a philosophical argument than a religious one.
The Essence
We have to go back to our starting point, the backdrop that has no space, no time, no energy or form. It is neither point nor universe. It is timeless but it is not frozen. It is something that is the basis of everything and it is not nothing since nothing doesn't exist. And it can obviously take forms of all sort, still being unchanged, as if there were an infinite supply since it is from this that we defined existence. It is what is, the basis of everything, time, space, energy, matter, thought, feelings; everything that we know that defines reality. And while we can not directly understand this starting point we can understand aspects of it from the nature of the universe generated from it.
For example since space originated from this starting point then from every location in space this essence has the same relationship. It would be omnipresent. And since time originated as well it would be omniscient. And again with energy and matter, omnipotence. These are all attributes that major religions assign to god.
The question we need to answer is how can God create the universe and everything in it? And the answer appears to be by taking a three in one nature. By having three views of reality at the same time and having these views react with each other. How can three views create the universe? At one level of thinking there is only God, there is nothing else. So is this, everything we see around us, a dream? Yes and it's reality too, however we want to define it, it is real. And God is even more real.
As we approach this question we must recognize our own limitations. We have concepts that are based upon our daily life which we consider to be the basis of reality; awake/sleep, here/there, now/then, and many others that we might have to let go of to discover the answer of the universe creation.
The Persona of God
The very essence of what we see around us is design. We call a lot of it natural and dismissed the beauty of its construction. The relationship of the circumference of a circle to it's diameter is always a fixed number, Pi. Distances in flat, none moving fields of reference are always the same. Mathematical operations are always consistent. Objects do not change their form unless it is in a unified consistent manner. The view of the physical universe is the same for all of us.
We don't think of these things as being designed but they are. As much as our cell actions, body parts interaction, thought processes. Why? Because there is only God, everything else was added. God is the designer, the mathematician, the artist. This is the very persona of God.
So the designer spoke, He is the very words He spoke. All He has to convince is Himself that these limitations were true. Himself in all three viewpoints. And He had faith that this was so, the very definition of existence. Note I won't imposed a gender identity on God but I have a limitation based upon the language.
The Witness
There is one who is the witness, who attests, manifests, the universe. He is the substance of everything, He is space, He is time, He is energy, He is thought, He is spirit. He interconnects everything and ties it all together. He is how you can be you and I can be me.
The Witness is between the Persona and the Essence in agreement with the faith of the creation. God is one, there is no separation in God. He is witnessing to Himself and we who are created can partially see this witness.
