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Attempting to define God

Maybe its possible to describe where one is in relation to God and to generalize about what omniscience, omnipotence and eternal existence are so far as can be comprehended. Life and the appearance of this Universe is for people, phenomenal in scale,temporality and quality. It's possible to measure it in various ways and find something about its local and apprehendable characteristics-yet they are all given to appearances and designed from the eternal. What is that singularity conjectured about, or smaller extra dimensions leading to. Is it necessary to consider the starting point of any spatial-temporal line segment universe as just a particular finite segment, or more reasonable to speculate that it may be just one aspect of an infinite number of dimensions and relationships of aspects of qualities, appearances, universes and space-times possible.

If one considers the neural network of a human brain and its ability to remember the past and selectively, instantly identity and associate ideas and forms of the past already learned with things in the past-and the complexity of that happening automatically in healthy human minds, it forms a basis to extrapolate about the potential of the infinite power of God surpassing any limited neural network to originate dimensions, temporal universes and relationships in complexity. The simplicity of the One emanating all ideas within a spiritual context that appears material to contingent spiritual beings is still beyond understanding. The finite mind and finite Universe with boundary conditions seem to be an apparent way to make contingent things immanent and important with real spiritual and emotional values. Its a wonderfully creative actualization, and about the most I may conjecture about God with reasonable certainty, although the Bible relates how Jesus Christ is, and His attributes.

Definitions are limiting concepts and language matching of words and objects is largely tautologous or self defining. Consider the discoverer of what is known as Copernican theory...Can we define him accurately? Copernicus' name was actually Koppernik, or some such Polish version, he was a priest. Cope' was rather tall and had long blond hair and blue eyes (his D.N.A. was matched recently from a grave and a hair in one of his books). Would we provide this detail in 'defining Copernicus?

Copernicus wasn't the first to theorize that the world revolves around the sun of course, nor that it revolves for itself. The related idea


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