Parakalein

In the Beginning God.....

After musing about parts from an experiential view in an effort to make the concepts of parts and Self understandable......(yesterday's musing) a mentor friend suggested a theology context.

God who is, ever shall be and was has been defined in many ways.  We have given the three attributes of God"  All powerful, Omniscient and Omni-present.

Yet a theology is not about how I experience God, or how God is perceived by humanity, or what I  might attribute to God that may be a refection more of humanity than a distillation of divinity.

God is.  If we try to keep it simple which is often a good idea according to Ockham's Razor, God is eternal, and all God is is internal.  In the beginning if all there was was God, then there was nothing God had to exert power over, nothing God needed to Know and so we are left with God was in every moment in a every way present as their was no time beyond or before.

One can imagine that in that moment there was perfect harmony and balance in God's internal and eternal system.  There was no fear, no longing, no threats, no demands, and no disharmony.  Perfect peace and perfect love was internal and eternal.  So a Theology of God sees intrinsic and eternal peace and love.

When God chose to create a world beyond the existence that world took on the form of an opposite existence.  Spiritual reality conceived and constructed its opposite: a physical reality.  God placed the very image that was and is God within the frame of the created physical being.  The created was given an internal spirituality and a physical reality in which and though which to express that spiritual reality.

God who was and is perfect peace and love created humanity into which he poured divinity. In Isaiah 26:3 and I John 3:8 these two constructs are found.  God purposed for humanity three things:  autonomy (freedom of choice), serenity (peace regardless of anything) and love (compassion for and toward all).  God would honor the creation and its right to choose freely, would be honest toward his creation regardless of anything, and God would take the role of humanity to model for humanity how to experience and sustain internal peace and love.

So a theology of God, a study of who God is and how we might define God from what we see and experience of God includes these three qualities, two traits, and these four characteristics.  The three qualities are honor, honesty, and humility.  The four characteristics are courage, creativity, compassion and calmness.

It took great courage and creativity to take a deep breath before there was breath and create a world and give it freedom to spin out of control or spin in control and either way God would maintain and sustain internal and eternal peace and love,  These two traits are at the heart of who God is in mind and spirit so he put them in all of us.

I believe God is calling humanity to embody that which was and is in the creator and the created.
It is on all of us, for all, and toward all.