Deep Thoughts

[basildestiny]

When I'm thinking about God, it's like there should be something else outside of God and Satan (and his minions). And I wonder, in the beginning, other than God what else was there? And I start thinking in terms of God's creation. As though God's existence is bound by the rules his creations are bound by. As though God is finite or God has a "roommate."

Mundane thoughts like that. And then there's that question of why is God so perfect? What keeps him that way? And again, I start to get bogged down by the "rules" of this world. As though God couldn't simply be good. As though he has to have a reason to be good.

But then these are good questions. I look forward to the answers.

If God hadn't created us, there wouldn't be any My Little Ponies!
~Bas

Comments

[bloominglotus.livejournal.com]

We try to put things we don't understand into terms that we do understand so we can relate. Humans can't fathom the notion of something that always has been and always will be since we are short-lived finite creatures. So, yeah, your questions are really good questions and totally natural questions at that. You want to understand, so you will try to apply the rules of this world because it's all you know. We aren't solitary creatures as a rule, so the notion of a point and time where there was nothing and no one but God is unfathomable. It's the nothingness part that flumoxes me every time. I just don't understand how there can be nothing, nothing at all.


Whooo-weee, I'm feeling deep tonight.

[basildestiny]

Hooray for deepness! Sometimes it just can't be helped. The nothingness gets me too. It's just so... huge. Just a big black nothing if He hadn't decided to create, if He hadn't felt lonely.

Interestingly and unrelated to the nothingness deepness, I was reading how God isn't male or female. The article I was reading went into how some languages have nouns with gender. And how it doesn't translate very well. The point wasn't whether or not God should be referred to as "him" or "her," but rather a look at how marriage is the closest to seeing God as we can get. A functioning marriage anyway.

I was just like "whoa! Deep!" And then my head imploded. ;)