Spinoza in his own words is a bit much for us modern folks. Basically, what Spinoza says is that God exists but that we can then find God only at the abstract level.

Same is true for any ‘completed’ view, structurally, but many folks (including you) do not see the overall structure all that well. It may be complicated because it exists in two directions and each direction is distinct.

First the Scientific direction. We have as foundation the scientific ground rules, and they are quite fantastic. Anyone is invited to see and check these ground rules. Yet walk a little away from the Scientific Building and you'll notice that the roofline is not complete. The building is not finished.

That is one direction, starting at the agreed specific level and then while looking at the big picture finding that specific things are missing, cannot be pronounced using the same scientific language and ground rules.

Then the opposite modeling. The religious structure can be viewed as a whole, and indeed the building is picture perfect, completed roofline and all. But don't ask to see the basement because you may not live long enough to regret it.

In this direction the overall structure is fully agreed on but, when going to look for the specifics, then we see all of a sudden that Adam and Eve are wearing a fig leaf, exactly where they take up oppositional positions.

I hope you see the mother of all structures now. Things are unfinished at one end or the other, no matter the excellent starting points.

Starting from one agreed upon position (be it small or large), we walk it to the other end of the line and low and behold we cannot finish it in the same language as we started out with. Be it with Science or Religion, both are manners to be engaged in the big picture and both will then not help us recognizing that we cannot finish our own work as started (be it large or small).

Let’s quickly discuss dimensions because a system of dimensions is automatically a system set up from the largest levels. When taking away a dimension from 3D, we end up holding a picture in our hands, look at a flat screen or a painting on the wall. So far, all is fine. Yet take a dimension away from 2D and there is nothing to look at. There isn’t anything in the entire universe that is just 1D. It doesn’t exist but inside our heads.

Starting with System A, we cannot pronounce the larger (or smaller) level using System A (except in very warped manners). We have to use System B to pronounce that level in accurate specifics (or simply have our mouth full of teeth and be speechless, amazed, puzzled).

Gödel provided us this insight already (and so did Spinoza), yet many of us are not recognizing the miracle they worked.

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Interesting side-note is that Gödel may not have realized what he accomplished himself. He showed us that there is no overall 'unit' we can call the universe, and yet next he pronounced a (rather weird) idea as if the universe were a unit indeed. That is highly suspicious, and it is likely that he stumbled upon his Incompleteness Theorems out of curiosity, but that he did not recognize the implications of his own work. He was not able to use it correctly and declared the universe a unit instead, while in reality the universe is an aggregate of parts that do not have the same foundations among themselves; they are self-based of some kind, not universe-based.

As soon as a scientist declares that the universe is a unit, he or she walked into the religious realm (and made the biggest faux pas a scientist can make). By building a theory upon a theory upon a theory, scientists can end up seeing God. If they had listened to Spinoza, they would have known that what they found was an abstraction only.