Understanding the Oneness of God |
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Bismarck
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Israil, All these numbers are confusing me. I do not believe that God is a fraction, like 1/3, or a reciprocal 3/1, or some other number like 13 or 31 or anything else just because they are "prime" or something. I understand that the Holy Quran says "God is One". Almighty God is one Principal, the Principal that guides all of Creation, here on Earth, and on Betelgeuse 500 light years away, and in the Andromeda Galaxy 1,000,000 light years away, out to the farthest limits of our telescopes and beyond. All ~1 trillion cubic megaparsecs of the Heavens obey one set of Physical Laws. We do not look out past some distance, or in some direction, and see a galaxy with a different law of gravity, for example. How could even the Earth and Moon interact with 2 laws of Gravity? If gravity pulled down on Earth, but pushed away from the Moon, there would be no stable interaction, but only chaos. So much more for clusters of galaxies interacting involving hundreds of billions of solar masses of gas and dust. All these obey One set of Physical Laws. Who made those Laws? Who made all the matter in the stars? Did you? Did Jack over there? Did Jack make all that? He did?? Can he do it again, with people watching? All the Heavens obey One set of Physical Laws that are, at root, simple and elegant. In Physics, you are taught that "Nature Prefers Simplicity". And what is Simpler or more Whole than "One". Almighty God is beyond our wildest imaginations. Try to hold in your mind the concept of "1 Trillion Cubic Megaparsecs of Visible Universe Alone". It breaks our mortal brains. But throughout is still the same One Principal, One Set of Laws, One Way of Doing Business, Everywhere, All the Time, All at Once. No Exceptions. Ever. Try and make one! Try to make Gravity stop working! Go ahead! You won't break God's Laws, it won't happen. Try! "And in the news today, Jack Smith made the Laws of Physics stop..." -- we haven't read that headline, yet, anyway. So Almighty God is beyond our comprehension. And Utter, Total, and Absolute, in His turf (all Creation). It seems to me to be a fine line between the presumptive arrogance of assuming we can "know God"... and denying the Infinte Gift of Free Will, Reason, and Mind that we have to prevent ourselves from trying to even answer obvious questions like "the nature of God". Can we mortal men not coin a word that conveys the very inconceivability of Almighty God? Perhaps our mortal minds are week and unseeing and unhearing and unfathoming -- but nothing in All of Almighty God's own handiwork is hard for Him to know. A microwave photon excites an orbital electron in a silicon atom on a grain of dust somewhere in the vast inter-stellar reaches of the Milky Way's unfathomable Galactic Disk, 50,000 light years away. Almighty God saw it, heard it, and knew it in Real Time. Men might not, but Almighty God, unfathomably, knows all. Nothing escapes His ever-watching gaze -- by definition, it cannot, and will not, ever. Can we say that, perhaps?, "Almighty God is One, Utterly Beyond All" |
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Israfil
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Peace Bismark, I wish you gave further review to my explanation and at least try to understand as brother Shamil has. OK let me explain.....God is One as we say, but we don't say that God is like the number one of course but what we mean is that God is the sovereign deity that exist and there is no other deity (or reality) that exist or assist God, thus this belief has already been established though. What I meant here is even when we say "God is One" we are still going back to that numerical table which is human created and which is not finite. Even our numeric system which has equations whose answers are indefinite (infinite in this case) all these numbers cannot be related to God. For example the moment we humans die our numeric tables cease to exist...... Even while in our existence because God cannot be attributed by humans anything physically comprehensible thus we cannot attribute any numerical value to God save he is the lone infinite principle. In actuality no words or expressions can be rightfully be attributed to God is we hold the belief that he is beyond any comparison. How can we compare God as One when the number One, is a human creation. Y4es you have read God is one in the Qur'an but as Allah has mentioned he had written things so that we may understand. When God speaks "our language" he uses "our methods of understanding to help us understand" the messages he is trying to convey. So the words such as "Say he God is One" are ways in which helps us understand the basis of monotheism however we must understand that even by saying he is one God the Almighty is above and beyond that statement. |
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