WHAT IS THE MAIN CLUE TO KNOWLEDGE OF THE NATURE OF
GOD ERC?
The unique quality or factor that is the key in
knowing the nature of the true "ULTIMATE or FOUNDATIONAL" God is the fact that God has always existed. God
is PAST-ETERNAL.
In other words, it is possible or conceivable that once born
or evolved, individuals in a very technologically advanced civilization may
become immortal, that is, they may become FUTURE-ETERNAL. It is also possible that ELLAEL, our Ercian personal God is FUTURE-ETERNAL. However, only the
true ULTIMATE God is PAST-ETERNAL. ERC, the Infinite Source and True God, is the only
reality that has ALWAYS EXISTED.
When one initiates a long and profound meditation on
God’s eternal past existence, one realizes that whatever God is, God is “A
BRUTE FACT OF NATURE.” What do I mean by that? Well, have you ever heard of
cause and effect? Everything that exists is a product of something else. We are
the product of our parents. The same goes for animals and plants with some
species giving birth to others. That also applies to our universe. Before our
universe, there was another universe or something else that gave birth to our
universe.
Something does not come from nothing. Those who say our universe came
from nothing are mistaken. Something was there either in ACTUALITY or in
POTENTIALITY otherwise this universe would not be here. I will not deviate from
this theme altogether, but I need to mention that our universe may only be one
of an infinite number, but that is a much longer matter of study and analysis.
To continue, ask yourself, can a complex Being or living organism be a brute fact of nature? Never mind throughout an eternal past, but
just in the history of planet Earth, when life forms first appeared here, what
were they? Were they complex organisms or just simple cells which in turn were
the product of the natural physical and chemical environment that created them?
So now imagine no universe, no planet, nothing that gave birth to something
else. What could it be?
Okay, the first thing that comes to mind as being
past eternal is space. There are those who feel there was no space before our
universe, but I opine differently. I believe that space cannot be pre-empted.
That means that space is infinitely large. In my book “Ercian Testament,” I
explain the different kinds of possible space, at least two, PRIMORDIAL SPACE
being the kind of space that gave birth to our universe or to the ones that
came before ours and CREATED SPACE, space like ours within which the laws of
cause and effect apply.
In addition to being infinite space, God is TIME,
active either in both primordial and created space but behaving differently in
both. Finally, ERC, the Infinite Source and True God is ENERGY. God is
self-energized, and God’s energy will never run out. If one’s car battery dies,
energy must be borrowed from another source. That will never happen with God
because God is energy itself and there is no other source OUTSIDE. Nothing
exists outside of God. All things that are real have existence WITHIN ERC’s
Infinite Space and Time.
Furthermore, everything that is real is PHYSICAL.
Everything has a form of some kind, or it would not exist or be able to be distinguished
from other things that exist. The myths and legends perpetrated on humanity
about spirits or ghosts that are transparent but active in the world make
people believe that perhaps God is a spirit without form or body but a spirit
that can do whatever “He” pleases. Leave that kind of foolish thinking for
Hollywood. When it comes to knowing the nature of God, we have to be
brutally real or we wind up with billions of human beings separated by their
incorrect notions of the nature of God, and with many people killing each other
because of religion.
Our Ultimate God is a “brute fact of nature." The traditional popular religious concept of an
omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent being who (in order to have those powers, has to be an extremely complex being) cannot be a “brute fact of nature,”
something that was always there.
God had no Mama or Papa like we do. God had no
environment to give birth to God because, in that case, THAT environment would
be God. How can God be ONE and be infinitely present, a physical impossibility?
How can God know everything if nothing existed prior to God? We know some
things by nature or nurture. Nature gives us instincts, and then our parents
and teachers give us the knowledge to survive in the world. So, I ask you, if
nothing existed prior to God, from whence did “His” supposed knowledge come?
The answer is from nowhere because these are FALSE concepts of the "ULTIMATE" impersonal God. HOWEVER, this does not exclude the possibility that we may have been created by a personal God, a God that evolved from our ultimate God, a God such as the name EllaEl represents in the Ercian religion.
In my book, I also explain in detail why ERC is not the kind of omnipotent creator, a being with only one mind and one train of thought but
who can, however, know what zillions of beings want and need throughout
infinite space and time, and who can look after everyone’s needs. What I cannot explain is our personal God ELLAEL and the powers of Creation, if any, SHEHE possesses. I believe in ELLAEL through faith and my personal experiences, but ELLAEL remains a mystery to me as I imagine personal Gods are to a lot of people.
Look, my purpose is not to destroy the faith good
traditional religious people place on their concepts of God Personal, but to educate them
as to the nature of ERC, God Ultimate and Impersonal. Just because ERC is not a personal being, a creator with a brain,
does not mean our Foundational God is impotent. It does not mean ERC/ELLAEL through Nature cannot
find ways to fulfill our dreams if we are smart, although it can also renders
us extinct if we fail to come together as a civilization mature enough to face
Reality.
Joseph Marchante
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