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God
(Part 3)
Text below comes from The Spirits' Book, by Allan Kardec
(Book First - Causes. Chapter I)
Can humans understand the essential nature of God?
"No. Humans lack a sense
required to understand it."
Will humans ever become able to understand the Divinity mystery?
"When they become free from matter darkness and when, by their perfection, they have brought themselves nearer to God, they will see and understand the Eternal."
Inferiority of human faculties renders
it impossible for humans to understand the
essential nature of God. As the earthly humans live their
spiritual infancy,
they often
confound Creator and creature and attribute to the former
the imperfections of the latter. But, as long as their moral
sense develops, humans penetrate deeper into
things of Nature and become abler to form a fair and
reasonable idea of the Supreme Intelligence, although
such idea will always
be imperfect and incomplete.
As we cannot understand the essential nature of God, can we have an idea of some of divine perfections?
"Yes, of some of them. Humans will understand them better as long as they raise themselves above matter. They will obtain glimpses of divine perfection through the exercise of intelligence."
When we say God is
eternal, infinite, unchangeable, immaterial, unique, all-powerful,
sovereignly fair and good, don't we have a complete idea of
divine
attributes?
"Judging from your
point of view, yes, because you think that you can sum up everything by
using these words. But you should understand that there are things
which
surpass the intelligence of the smartest human, and for
which your
language, limited to your ideas and sensations, lacks expression.
Reason tells you that God must possess these perfections in the
highest degree, because if one of them were lacking, or were not
possessed by
the Creator in an infinite degree, God would not be superior to all
and,
consequently, would not be God. In order to be above all things, God
must undergo no vicissitude. The Almighty must have
no imperfection that imagination can conceive."
God is eternal.
If God had a beginning, the Creator might have either
sprung
from nothing or been created by some previous intelligence. Thus we
arrive,
step by step, at the idea of infinity and eternity.
God
is unchangeable.
If God was subject to change, the laws which rule the universe would
lack stability.
God
is immaterial.
The Omnipotent's nature differs from everything that we call
matter, otherwise God would be changeable, as the Supreme
Majesty would be subject
to the matter transformations.
God
is unique.
If there were several gods, there wouldn't be unity of plan,
execution and control in the universe.
God is all-powerful.
This is because God is unique. If the Most High
lacked sovereign power
there would be something more powerful, or no less powerful, than
the Divinity. In such case, God wouldn't have created everything and
whatever the
Almighty had
not created would be work of another intelligence.
God
is sovereignly
fair and good.
The divine laws providential wisdom
is clearly revealed both in
the smallest things and in the greatest. Such
wisdom renders it is impossible to doubt the divine justice
and goodness.
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want that others do
to you. (Matthew 7:12)
You'll know the truth and the truth will make you free.
(John
8:32)
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Unshakable faith is only
that which can
always face reason. (Allan
Kardec)
