Stephen, we cannot have a God that is a Cyclops. We cannot have a one-eyed God as you are proposing. With God willing creation from nothing, the setup is not based on solid logic.
Children can have unicorns and Santa coming around all year long. Adults have to keep it real, even when talking about God.
We would not be created in the image of God had God been a Cyclops. So, I have to reject your logic because your logic is structurally not most sound.
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This means that we have to discuss structure, and I will show you three different structures we all use at the same time without thinking about it, as if all are one structure while in reality they are not.
A/ The Decimal System: (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, etcetera)
B/ The Binary System: (0s, 1s)
C/ The System of 1: (1)
Let me just focus on 1, because that is where the problem lies. It is the number with which we think we can appoint the whole. All three systems have 1, yet in each system 1 is something different.
A/ 1 represents either a unit or it represents the group, the whole, Unity.
B/ 1 represents 'on' (in contrast, zero is then 'off'). Notice how there are many 1s in the binary system and none of them says unit or Unity. If we want to express Unity in the binary system, then we have to agree that it is a complex number, such as 111010011001011, for instance. It remains Unity but only for as long as we agree on that group of zeros and ones to represent Unity. It can get established but is not a natural basic feature of the Binary System.
C/ In the System of 1, there are no other numbers. There are just a few words that fit in this system: the Universe, the Whole, All, Nature, God, Life, Mankind. These are all words that point to some kind of whole, some kind of everything. There is no zero in this system; zero is made unimportant. Everything is covered, but there are no details expressed. Life, for instance, is well understood, but we can’t talk plants, animals or people here because that means we jumped from a System of 1 to another system. This System of 1 is just the overall label, the overall concept.
Let's go ahead and do the same, looking at zero in the three systems:
A/ zero is pronounced and while some make it very important others make it very unimportant. Still, as ‘010’ in the decimal system shows, we have a zero in front that we can leave out (as unimportant whether it is there or not), and we have a zero at the end that we cannot leave out (because ‘10’ becomes ‘1’ if we leave the zero out and then we have truly two different things, so we must leave that zero in ‘10’ to express that total.
B/ zero is all-important. The Binary System cannot be written without zeros. It is essential. It is one of the two legs of the system.
C/ There is no zero in this 'system'. Everything is covered in the System of 1 and details are simply not expressed.
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That means that the idea of God you are holding in your head exists in your head only. In the outside world, the God you have in your mind cannot be real; that God cannot be, it’s an impossibility.
Can we say that God did exist and is diminished nowadays after creation came about?
Yes, no problem. We can say that the original God has one eye.
But God today has two eyes. After creation occurred, God ended up having two eyes.
I hope my words are obvious, Stephen. You can believe what you want to believe, not a problem at all, but your belief as you pronounced it in your reply cannot exist outside in reality. I am not interested discussing a fantasy God, but if that is what you want, then you can have it. For me, you have to make God real otherwise you are not embracing the real God. God is not (or no longer) a Cyclops. God cannot will creation from nothing and be real.
