"Let me tell you about the Lord. You have no concept. In truth, I fear none of us do. Our minds simply don't have the necessary architecture to encompass the Presence. But having been in the Presence, having once been a part of it and forged in its undying fires, I can tell you a little about it. However, I fear it will be like a child trying to explain snow with no knowledge of meteorology or weather systems. There is only thing one that we can all agree on about Him. He is the force of creativity in all its multifarious aspects, pure unrestrained creation.
In the third heaven there is an angel who would take five hundred of your lifetimes to climb and he possesses a ridiculous number of heads, some several thousand, and each head has a few thousand mouths and each mouth has a few thousand tongues, each speaking to praise his name. THAT, my friend, is creative boredom at work.
Many of us suspect that he created good and evil, selfishness and selflessness, head and heart, and other such juxtapositions to give his world, his creation, his ART some sort of dynamic tension. Artists!
The almighty LORD is on what some would call the Pure Creative Trip. Good and evil don't really enter into it. Just as he is the lord of light and order and justice, he also created insanity, thunderstorms, predators,Black holes, supernovas, embolisms,sharks, and so on and so forth.
He created angels. More than you can possibly conceive of. Consider any singular thing in the world. It has an angel that looks after it, and as like as not, has twenty or more. Did you know there are over forty-five Angels devoted to the creation of Earwax? I couldn't make up something like that. I simply don't have a mind that decides the chemical processes that go on in rotting fruit need seventeen Angels to look after it.
This sort of begs a certain question. God is, strictly big picture. He works on the broad canvas of the cosmos. It's sort of cute, this whole attitude, that God's eye is on the sparrow. It's not. He's got a few hundred angels for that. God doesn't KNOW you, beyond what he created at your conception. And you should understand, it means that individual lives mean exactly nothing in the face of the grand plan. I'll say this though; it's not that God doesn't care. It's just that he doesn't know. At least until he wants to.
Omniscience is an abstract idea, and an absolute at that. Like most things like that, it doesn't really exist in nature."
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