Sunday, February 13, 2011

The Inifiniteness of God

This is probably a bit heady and I definitely don't have the theological training to back what I'm about to dig into.

Let's take the fact that God is omniscient, omnipresent and omnipotent. These three aspects are dependent upon each other in my eyes. Knowing everything is not possible without being ever present. Ever present includes space and time. Knowledge is required to wield power; and, with great power comes great responsibility. Thanks Uncle Ben. I'm gonna stop my digression there. With the omnipresence spanning time and implying eternalness, I want to focus on the omnipotence.

There are still sects of the faith that do not recognized that Christ was both fully God and fully human. People are baptized in the Name (singular) of the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. There is a slew of scriptural cross-references that make the assertion, Christ is the Word made flesh, and in the beginning the Word was with God and the Word was God. If Christ is the Word and the Word is God, guess what? Christ is God. Despite the Bible's outright declaration, people are just driven to go against the grain. I've heard the argument that you can't have 200% of something in a single item. I would argue that with money, not gambling, but a metaphor. Take the US dollar, for us it will only be worth a dollar, 100% of it's value. This is the physical representation. Then take into account the global market, depending on where that dollar goes it can actually be valued at 10x it's original worth. This would be the spiritual representation. One item physically, but carrying 200%(and higher) of worthiness. In Christ's case, a human body containing the spirit of infinite worth. I will go ahead and acknowledge this is not the greatest metaphor. Yes, the value of a dollar fluctuates and can actually be less than it's worth dependent on the market it is in. But if you get the point, thank you and let's move on.

Now, how can a human body contain the fullness of God? I can't see how people that can recognize that God is omnipotent but He can't put that power into a human body. All powerful and able to do ANYTHING, but putting the omnipotence and omniscience into a human body is off limits. The idea that the human body and mind can't hold the fullness of God makes sense. God even states that to Moses before revealing himself on the mountainside. (Exodus 33: 19-23) The important part is that God reached out his hands and braced Moses. God used his power to brace a human body for his prescience and maintained His omnipotence. So if God can brace the human body from the outside, doesn't it make sense He can brace it internally as well? How do we explain Mary's ability to carry God in the womb? My mind is blown when encountering people that want to limit God. Our minds can accept the idea of an all-powerful being but still limit it to fit our physical reality.

I hope that made sense.

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