James S Saint » Thu Apr 16, 2015 9:23 am[/url]"]Although the stories of God have created many efforts to describe God and tell of the features of God, there is but one actual definition of God. A definition is not a description of features (omni-this, omni-that,…), but rather a limiting description of properties;
A god ≡ who/whatever incontestably determines what can or cannot be concerning a particular situation.
The God ≡ Who/Whatever incontestably determines All that can or cannot be concerning any situation.
What other attributes of God that might apply are comparatively irrelevant and usually merely someone’s guess or more often, someones hyperbolic estimation, of power or ability. What counts most is what it is that determines the difference between God and anything else.
The word “God” is capitalized, not merely out of respect (as so many presume), but rather to signify the fundamental essence of the concept. A “god” is anything that has ultimate authority over a situation. It is the determiner of that one situation, eg “god of war, god of love, god of chaos”. The word “God”, being capitalized, refers to the essential property that permits a god to be a god at all - its ultimate authority. As it turns out, there is one thing, one ability, that allows any god to be a god. And that one property describes the ultimate nature of The God, without which there could be no gods at all.
So the question arises, what is that essence? What is there that could allow anything to be a god, an ultimate authority governing a particular situation? And I suspect that people in the past have known the answer to that question, but I can’t find any reference that confirms that they truly knew. The answer is perhaps surprising to most of you. Most people today think of God in one Santa Claus version or another. And perhaps people always have (although I still hold a degree of faith that a very few have always known the more exact details).
So we know the definition of God. The question now is whether there exists anything that fits that definition. Perhaps you imagine that “the laws of physics” fit it. But they actually don’t except in combination and presuming that they are accurately understood (which so far, merely out of arrogance, Man has not achieved).
So I propose to you, with far more than a modicum of confidence, that God, the creator of the universe and determiner of all that can or cannot be, is what you have previously known as “Impossibility” itself. God is not any particular impossible task, but rather the very principle of impossibility - “the fact that some things can never occur”. God is not the lack of occurrence, not an entity that is itself impossible, but rather the very existence of the limit to possibility.
If there is a limit to possibility, God exists as that limit.
It is, in fact, the limits of what can possibly exist that determines what does exist. Even the fairy tale known as Quantum Physics agrees to that. In a sense, Quantum Mechanics (not Quantum Physics) proves the existence of God.
It is the impossibility of certain situations that cause what we call “matter” to form. Specifically, it is the impossibility for random electromagnetic waves to travel at an infinite speed (producing the limit of the speed of light) and also the impossibility for such propagation to be free of interference or retardation, delay. It is, in fact, the lack of freedom that causes the universe itself to exist at all.
Similarly, it is a lack of freedom that causes every society to form, even Ahdam. The word “Ahdam” literally means the blocking, or damming up, of free spirit - the propose first governing of homosapian. No society has ever formed without something either being inherently impossible or declared forbidden by law (usually resulting in merely an improbability rather than an impossibility).
It is only by the certain that anything endures. The more certain an essential element is, the more enduring its dependents are. The more certain the dollar, the more enduring the dollar’s economy. All things are created and maintain by the degree of certainty within them. And God is that certainty via being the nature of impossibility itself.
Without God, there can be no reality whatsoever, because without the impossible, every possibility simply gets countered by its opposite. It is God that prevents literally everything from having an opposite in the same location at the same time … such is impossible. And thus God, the Creator of all, is. And shall forever be.
If you believe that there is anything that is impossible, you believe in God (impossibility itself). And as it turns out, if you believe that there is anything that is possible, you believe in God as well (the effect of the impossible - creation).