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GOD IS EVERYTHING

When I was in my teens, I wrote a letter to a newspaper asking in effect that isn't God just a personification of the good inasmuch as the devil is a personification of evil? The editor who replied did not answer my question directly. Instead he asked me to look around me and think where all the trees, animals and life came from. It was an answer nicely phrased but it was not complete. Nevertheless, it made me happy at that time because it supported my theory that God must be everything good. I had only to prove next that the bad things are the work of the devil and I would be on my way to perfect understanding of the universe. Of course it didn't happen that way because I never believed in the devil. Ever since I was a kid, I never believed in him. In fact, when I saw pictures of him in his bright-red, skin hugging suit holding his three-pronged fork I found it funny. And when I grew up, the more I found the concept of the whole "gang" more silly. I could not spend anymore of my time surmising on the existence of the devil and not getting anywhere so I just made the penultimate conclusion that God is both everything good and evil though He is biased on the good side.

It is very easy to conclude and be misled that God is everything. To surmise that God is everything and I form part of everything, therefore a tiny weenie bit of God is in me or has transcended into me is a very dangerous philosophy indeed. This can lead to delusions of superpower and grandeur, capitalizing on that iota of "godliness". Just think that if one iota of God is in one person, then it should also be in everybody, too, as well as in all animals, plants, stones, and both known and unknown substances in the earth and in the universe. To confuse things a bit further, if only a tiny weeny bit of God is found in man or animal, then what is the bigger part composed of? Is it still from the same God or somebody else?

Only a die-hard philosopher would fathom for the answer to these questions. And whatever answer he will bring out from the depths of his mind, it should never be that he is in some way related to God. As I have said this lopsided way of thinking will lead to delusion because if it so happens that he were able to get hold or contain a piece of God in himself, it is still his human mind that is acting as the container. Unfortunately, we cannot use this piece or tiny weeny bit of God in us for our own selves such as to increase our powers, health, wisdom, intelligence or understanding. It is completely useless and may even make us feel overconfident.

Assuming that a person dedicated his whole life to harnessing this tiny weeny bit of God in him, he would still not advance as a new, improved person. This means that a person who dedicates his life in the pursuit of God is not anymore holy than the person who tries to understand the world around him.

Trying to understand and live life as if God is everything is also a defeatist attitude, akin to making Him responsible for all unexplained phenomena, and usually, to ordinary everyday occurrences. He becomes a convenient excuse for indolence to seek and find out the truth.

The spirit of God entered into everything but we are so removed from Him and there are many levels of the hierarchy that we cannot just claim that the spirit of God is with us. If a tiny weeny bit of God is in everything, then it doesn't make any one of us superior or better than the other. It makes us equal with every other man, animals, plants, and nonliving objects. If anything is to be made out of this, it should be to make us humble. It manifests equality, a universal brotherhood.