God the Creator

Everyone knows Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel painting, the commanding figure of God with wild hair and determined eyes. He leans out from his cloudy throne and from the end of his finger a Zeus-like spark awakens Adam with life. The image tells the story in a very powerful and memorable way. It takes your breath away. It makes you think. It is also very wrong.

The God of Abraham is not Zeus. Nor does his vastness look human. He does not have hair or fingers. No cloud or throne is needed for sitting. The worst part of the painting is God is depicted as being distant and untouchable. This kind of thinking leads people to believe God is too far away to hear prayers or is too lofty to care. It allows God to be dead.

One law of physics says that an object cannot be in two places at the same time. So, if God is with us, how can He be with others at the same time? Because the Creator of the universe is not watching from somewhere else: He is everywhere. He does not travel to you when you pray. He is already there. He is not Santa Claus who hides all year, telepathically taking notes from afar, then comes out on holidays to bring gifts to the good. God knows the number of hairs on your head. He cares about your pain and your happiness. At the same time, He knows and cares about everything in the universe. This makes God very big and very personal. He knows because he is there. He is here. The Creator is with you; always with you.

The Creator is with every particle of the created universe. This probably irritates Lucifer no end. He cannot exist without God’s company. No matter how hard he and his army fought, they could not expel God from their presence. The Devil is not lord of Hell. He is bound within creation. Hell is where God isn’t. The Hades Jesus describes[1] is where a soul goes that rejects God’s ways. These souls become isolated from God, but the Creator still surrounds them. Being apart is being alone. A painful aloneness that burns like fire. They can see what they rejected but everything good is removed. No peace, no solace, no joy, no love. – Haunted by your life, the solitary awareness will consume you. You forfeited everlasting life. – In the end, all contact will be cut off between theses souls and their Creator. That will be Hell. The pit of nothingness.

The Father, the Son, and the Spirit are one. The great I Am. God does not have three heads. Neither is he unified. That implies multiple parts. The Creator was, is, and will be a singularity. Church tradition has dissected Him into three entities for ease of explanation. We have been taught a false hierarchy of gods with angels, saints, and demons as demigods. Instead, His infinite singleness can be seen by our limited senses in a variety of ways. In the physical and spiritual realms there are only two categories: 1) the Creator; and 2) His created.

Jesus was God in human skin.[2] He lived as an individual, like we do. He was Jesus, the son, who spoke to the Father, the Creator. Yet the two were one. To become truly human, his brain could not hold the total knowledge of the Universe. It would explode. But he did know the plan[3]. More importantly he knew himself, the Creator within. He was one with God. And he knew[4] how he would return to that Oneness, through painful human death.

[1] Luke 16:19-31

[2] John 1:1, John 14:9-11, John 17:5

[3] John 5:19

[4] John 12:24-25