Who Is God?

Who Is God?

            No one knows or can ever know or understand God completely. Each can only know the bits and pieces of Himself that God wishes to reveal or that God knows each person is ready to accept. And that is part of the beauty of God. He is ever new to us. And the more of the bits and pieces that He reveals, that we accept, the more we can fall in love with God. Yet many, many have a skewed view of Who or What God is or is not.

            Before one can minusculely understand Who or What God is—and as humans, minusculely is our limit—it is essential to present the logic for His--God’s—existence. Logic dictates that God—or whatever name one wishes to attach to God—must exist. No one can ever prove or disprove God’s existence through science or human means. This point must be made perfectly clear. The attempt will fail.

Everything in our realm of existence is caused by some entity, whether it be gravitational pull, the intersect of galaxies, procreation, the Big Bang, or another occurrence within our realm. Every entity has a cause that caused it into being, that caused it into existence. I came into existence—was caused--because, through a loving intimate act, my dad’s sperm joined my mom’s egg. Thus me at the moment of conception.

Theoretically the Big Bang caused our universe to expand, to become what it is and is still becoming. But what caused the particles and laws of physics and nature that caused our universe to exist in the first place? Another universe? OK. What caused that universe? Another universe? OK. So what caused the very first universe—which could very well be ours—to come into existence?

For simplicity’s sake, let’s make the determination that ours is the only universe. What caused the particles and laws of nature and physics that became the Big Bang? In our realm, they could not have caused themselves. That is not the way our realm works.

So to repeat. Everything in our realm of existence—the universe, Earth, nature, animals, humans, and so on—came about as a result of some cause whether event, interaction, or physical particles. Each was caused into being by some other entity.

Thus, it is only logical to conclude that there must be an entity of some sort that had no cause, that was the original entity that caused the entities in our realm into existence. Logic dictates, as I have read It so named, that there must be an Uncaused Cause. And this Uncaused Cause, not being caused by any other entity, must have existed outside of our realm from all eternity. This Uncaused Cause must have had no beginning, no birth. It must always have existed. Else It would have been caused by some other cause. You may give this entity whatever name you wish, but we Christians and Jews know this entity as God.

Moving the logic forward, if there is no Uncaused Cause, then nothing comes into being. There would only be a void of nothing. Total nothing. Something had to have caused the first entity in our realm to come into existence, and that cause could not have been caused. The first entity to come into existence in our realm, likewise, could not have caused itself into existence. Thus an eternal Uncaused Cause.

Now that I have presented a frame of reference for the Uncaused Cause—God—I will do my amoebic best to explain Who God is. However, any attempt to explain or understand God in human terms, or from human perspective, with the human mind, will be totally inadequate, perhaps even futile. But I will try my best.

God cannot be fully explained through human thought. He--I, taking my cue from Jesus Who called God His Father and Himself the Son of God, will use the male gender. He, in reality, has no gender, except the human nature of Jesus. God is Spirit, God is so very far beyond the human creatures that He created. His nature is so vastly and infinitely different from and above the human, that we cannot even minutely explain or understand or know Him solely through the human, with the tools available to us in our realm. We cannot understand God within the reality of our realm. Thus faith.

We live in a time-oriented existence. However, God is outside of time. He created time with the Big Bang. To God, since He exists outside of time, every event—past, present, and future—is occurring right now as an eternal present. Don’t try to comprehend. You cannot. God is always in the NOW. Every event is now to God. That is why we can pray today for a person who died decades ago to repent and accept God’s mercy and that prayer will be “happening” now to God. It would be as if you prayed at the exact time of the person’s death, even though in reality it was decades later to you.

God is Trinity, the consubstantial union of three distinct persons—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. They comprise one substance, one single unit, yet three distinct Persons. These Persons are one, a Trinity consubstantially united and bonded together into one essence by infinitely perfect LOVE. The Father loves the Son and the Holy Spirit. The Son loves the Father and the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit proceeds from the union of the love between the Father and the Son. And the Holy Spirit, in turn, loves the Father and the Son. The Trinitarian LOVE is a single glue, so to speak, that fuses the Three together as one single essence. A consubstantial bond of infinite and perfect love.

But their love cannot be equated to human love, as the love of two parents and a child for each other. Human love exists between distinct persons, but these persons do not constitute one essence. They are each separate and distinct essences. The Trinity is three distinct Persons, yet One essence.

Again, don’t try to understand. It is truth that we cannot comprehend. God is the perfect bond of love between three distinct persons into one God. There are a multitude of aspects of God that, through faith and the revelations of Jesus and God’s Word, are truth. Aspects that we inadequate humans cannot and will never comprehend. Yet truths they are. They make God the magnanimous Creator that He is.

God, as the one essence of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, is the Uncaused Cause. As the Uncaused Cause, God is Being itself. God is Isness itself. God just IS, always existed and will never end. Was never born and will never die. God just IS. He created all else that is and exists. He created the laws and protocols necessary for all in our realm to exist.

God is an infinitely perfect all powerful Being and, as such, will never consider or choose to go against His nature, the nature that He freely chose. God will never choose to sin. God will never choose to not love you, no matter how grave an act you have committed. God will never choose to not think about you. If He did, you would cease to exist.

God will choose to love you infinitely and eternally, even if you turn away from Him. Even if you don’t believe in Him, He knows you. God can and does choose to forget your sins once you have felt sorry for them, repented of them, and have sought His forgiveness. Once forgiven, they are forgotten. Once He has forgiven, He has chosen to forget the sin.

It is we who remember the sin. And maybe that can be a good thing so that we never fall into it again. God only wants to draw each of us into His love, into infinite union with His love to live with Him for all eternity in Heaven.

All I need to know about God is:

God is magnanimous, so infinitely perfect and loving that He cannot be remotely fully understood or explained by us mere mortals.

God is infinite mercy. He will forgive and forget any sins for which we are sorry and for which we seek His forgiveness.

God is infinite Love. His sole desire is to bring us into union with His love, to envelop us in His love. The proof for this is the horrific death and total sacrifice of the Second Person of the Trinity—Jesus—for the sole purpose of opening Heaven again so that we can be engulfed in His love eternally.

This said, God is still infinite Justice. We cannot join totally in His love if we choose not to. He gives us total freedom to choose our own paths, whether toward Him or away from Him. Yet our actions, our poor judgements, come with consequences.

However, God’s justice is joined with His love and infinite mercy. In order to be eternally and totally engulfed in and joined with our Infinite Creator, His loving justice has allowed for ways in which we can make up for our indiscretions, our poor judgements, our sins so that we can become perfectly loving and united with Him in His total, infinite love—offering our earthly challenges in union with Jesus’ sacrifice, prayer, repentance, and after death purgatory. Yet the choice to join in God’s love or not is totally ours. And He will honor our choices. He will honor the free will that He gave us.

            God so loves you that He wants to be with you—completely. Thus, Jesus the Second Person of the Triune God, took on His human nature in order to walk and live among His creatures. God wanted to be with us and share our nature. Jesus has two distinct natures in His one person—the Divine God and the human man.

Jesus also took on a human nature and became one of us in order to save us and bring us back in union with the Trinitarian love. The sin of Adam and Eve was a sin of pride and rejection of God—original sin passed on to us through spiritual heredity. As such, it took humanity and divinity to heal the chasm in the relationship between the Divine and the human. Humanity by itself could not repair this tear. It took the God-Man—Jesus—to make the ultimate sacrifice in order to heal the split in the fabric that was the love between God and humanity. Through Jesus, God did this out of total, infinite love for the creatures whom He created out of total, infinite love.

However, some—I myself included—believe that God loved His human creatures so infinitely, that He would have taken on a human nature and walked among us even if Adam and Eve had never sinned, even if we humans would never choose to sin.

What I have written is not even the tip of the proverbial iceberg. God is much, much too great for us humans to even begin to fathom. Yet He loves us with an infinitely infinite love. He wants us to know of His infinite mercy and come to Him in sorrow and repentance to beg His forgiveness for anything. And I do mean anything. And He will forgive and forget.

We do have a stupendously, infinitely loving Father, a stupendously, infinitely loving Trinity Who only wants us to become one in His Love in Heaven for all eternity.

God, the Blessed Trinity, have mercy on us.

Mary, Our Blessed Mother, pray for us.

Note: A few titles for God that I have used in this essay, I have borrowed from other authors, the names of whom I do not remember—Uncaused Cause, Being, Isness, Is.