Reflections about the Being of God and creation

Reflections about the Being of God and creation

This document is a continuation and complement of the previous one,

Identification with God. Please see it before.

Purpose of these Reflections. These Reflections have the purpose of facilitating religious practice, the actual "contact" with, or awareness of God, and to reflect on the rational and objective aspects of religion.

Strength of religious myths. It is unbelievable how myths, in particular religious ones, and a religious fantasy, have influenced human minds with equal or even larger strength than reality. This explains the history and religious practice of different cultures, Hebrew, Christian, Muslim, etc., of the past as well as of the present. Humanity always lives under this psychological and sociological phenomenon.

How to look at God. We are inclined to create with our mind an anthropomorphic God, a God "similar" to man, who acts as humans do. But the fact is that the only alternative that we have of looking at God is to look at him as the Being by himself, Who is.

We must choose between the God of cultures, or the God of reality, reason and science. Sometimes cultural interpretations are irreconcilable with reason and science, giving rise to myths. God is a divine Being, not as an adjective, but the Being and Existence itself. (For a development of this vision see essay My name is Existence, To Be, "I Am.") If we forget for a while this Universe, and other ones that might exist, then we might see this more clearly.

The being of creatures. One of the essential differences between God and creatures is that God exists by himself; he is the Being, Yahveh, Who Is, who has in himself the reason of his existence. Creatures instead, as we human beings are, receive existence from God. We do not have any control over our existence; we receive the existence by which we exist as "lent" from God. This is the conclusion of an intrinsic introspection of our being and self.

Separation from God. It is not possible for us or for any creature to separate from God; he is always present, "everywhere." Paraphrasing Paul's words, we might say that nor any created thing shall be able to separate us from God (Romans 8.39). The being by which we exist is Being of God. We, and everything that exists, is Being of God. God exists in us and we exist in God. We may say, "my being is Being of God."

Regarding the presence of God, please see essay Conversation with God about his presentness.

The point of identity between creatures and God is their act of existing, their existence, not the physical or spiritual. Physical things are like temporary manifestations of the Being of God in different forms, and different from him. According to pantheism, the physical world is God, or god.