Thursday, March 2, 2017

God's Name

     I find it quite astounding that the name God gave to Moses in reference to Himself is not only a verb, but the most basic verb in any language: Yahweh translated into English as "He Is."  The most basic of all actions is existence, to be.  God IS.  That is what He does.  That is Who He Is.
     Perhaps the best modern English translation of the Tetragramathon is the word "Existence."  God is not merely the Creator, the Source or Fountainhead of all existence.  God is Existence Himself.  Think it out, not with your reason, but with your soul.  Doesn't that concept feel more comfortable than the idea of some detached and uncaring divinity "out there," outside of, excluded from, all that is.  Our God is all that Is.  But that is not His limit.  For all that is is in Him, but is not the sum of Him.
     Physicists have discovered that consciousness has a direct effect on subatomic particles.  They act in the expected way most often.  But when there is no expectation, they remain undefined.  The Consciousness of God is the proto urge of creation.  God's expectation of matter made it so.
     Humanity, made in the image of God, has consciousness and has an effect on quantum particles.  But God's Consciousness is the cause of all energy and matter.  One could define energy as the Will of God expressed in His creation.  Matter, physicists have discovered, is merely organized energy, according to the theory of relativity.  Therefore, matter is the organized Will of God expressed in His creation.  That's cool.

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