Wednesday, August 22, 2007

A riddle or corundum about God

While browsing around yesterday through my usual Internet favorites I noticed somewhere (I don't recall which blog or web site) someone posted a riddle or corundum about God. It asked, something to the effect of, can God create something that is too heavy for him to carry, if he is indeed all powerful? The answer is that everything that exists is within the body of God. All matter, all energy, all space, and the non dimensional realities are all actually contained within God. So no, God cannot create something that he cannot carry, because everything that he creates is within his bodily reality. There is nothing outside of God because even the nothingness is part of his body, which is glorified in its total nature. The largest galaxy and the smallest subatomic speck, and all the nothingness of potentiality of existence are all contained within God. The question comes from the understandable boundary of human thinking that God is "someone" "out there" rather than the totality of both existence and non existence of matter and energy, dimensions, and time.

Jesus Christ, of course, fell as he carried a cross too heavy for him, as he had been whipped and beaten prior to crucifixion. Obviously while Jesus explained that one could meet God the Father through him, God did not squeeze his entire existence into Jesus' body. This is incidentally why good faithed Muslims wonder how Christians can call Jesus God. They recognize that God in his fullness of power and total completion of existence did not occupy a human dimensioned body.