The following provides an outline of the religious constructs of God:
Christianity: In Genesis 1:1, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” He is defined by others but no definition of himself.
Jewish: No definition of God.
Kabbalah: God is the creator of both matter and spirit but is himself, neither.
Hindu: God, whether in the form of Shiva or Vishnu has six attributes. Jnana (Omniscience), defined as the power to know about all beings simultaneously:
Aishvarya (Sovereignty), which consists in unchallenged rule over all.
Shakti (Energy), or power, which is the capacity to make the impossible possible.
Bala (Strength), which is the capacity to support everything by His will and without any fatigue.
Virya (Vigor), or valor which indicates the power to retain immateriality as the Supreme Being in spite of being the material cause of mutable creations.
Tejas (Splendor), which expresses His self-sufficiency and the capacity to overpower everything by His spiritual effulgence.; cited from Bhakti Schools of Vedanta, by Swami Tapasyananda.
“The simplest living cell is intricate beyond imagining…human brains seem ill-suited to grasp such multi-dimensional complexity.”
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“Each is a veritable micro-miniaturized factory containing thousands of elegantly designed pieces of molecular machinery…far more complicated than any machinery built by man and without parallel in the non-living world.”
If everything is the product of intelligent design, then it was all created from scratch, with the simplest, yet complex, forms of life.
From that point forward, more complex forms of life were created which ultimately led to the creation of man and woman.
So, for any god to exist before the creation is senseless.
It would know all of nothing (omniscience), it has power over nothing (omnipotence), has nothing to be good to (omnibenevolence) and nothing to love so how could it love?
Another possibility is found outside the constructs of time, as time is an element of being human.
Rich Deem stated it best by saying, ”God has no need to have been created, since He exists either outside time (where cause and effect do not operate) or within multiple dimensions of time (such that there is no beginning of God’s plane of time).
Hence God is eternal, having never been created.
Although it is possible that the universe itself is eternal, eliminating the need for its creation, observational evidence contradicts this hypothesis, since the universe began to exist a finite ~13.8 billion years ago.
The only possible escape for the atheist is the invention of a kind of super universe, which can never be confirmed experimentally (hence it is metaphysical in nature, and not scientific).”
Is it possible that God is neither male or female, but is an all-knowing, all-loving energy who decided to experience everything that could possibly be through his creations -
people
plants
animals
planets
universes
etc.?
Everything ultimately boils down to energy so in this premise, God is the ultimate expression of energy.
