The Mystery of Creation: Chapter 2: Who or What Created the Universe: The Intelligent, All Powerful Eternal Something

The Intelligent, All Powerful Eternal Something

                If this is true then we know that the eternal something must be intelligent enough and powerful enough to control and prevent all of its base elements, all of its limited somethings, from destroying themselves.  After all, in order to be without beginning or end throughout time and space, this eternal something made up of an unlimited number of limited somethings must be able to prevent its own utter annihilation.  In order to have no beginning or end, nothing at all could kill it…ever.  That means, since it is made up of many limited things, that all of these limited things, that could be destroyed because they have limits, must be controlled so completely that even if they do change one another it does not jeopardize the overall eternal something.

                For example, let’s say that there is a lump of clay.  I can take pieces from that lump of clay and make new objects with them.  I can remold and reshape and break away pieces of that clay all day long and continuously come up with new things.  As long as I am in total control of the clay and as long as it maintains all of its properties, I can keep reshaping it and molding it. 

                However, if I change the consistency of the clay so that it no longer adheres to its original properties, the clay becomes unusable for changing and remolding.  If I accidentally drop the clay into a fire and bake it so that it hardens, it cannot change any longer.  The original properties are changed and it becomes like stone.  Only if I remain in total control of the clay so that it never accidentally gets dropped into a fire, so that it never loses its original properties, I can continue to break away pieces of it and reshape new things out of it.  I MUST keep the elements from losing their essential properties or everything is destroyed.

                So the eternal, collective something must be intelligent enough to manage all of the limited somethings that make it up so that their essential properties never change.  It must also be powerful enough that it can be in constant control of these essential properties.  Since it is an eternal something full of limited things, that means that this eternal something must have unlimited, eternal power and intelligence so that not even one base element escapes its knowledge and control.

                Perhaps giving you an example of what I am saying will help solidify all of this.  Let’s say you are in the military and you are tracking down a terrorist cell.  They are hiding somewhere in a city, but you just don’t know where.  As you are on patrol in the city, suddenly a grenade is thrown at you and kills you.  Why were you killed? 

                You were killed because you didn’t know the enemy was going to throw a grenade at you.  If you had known that the enemy was lying in wait to throw a grenade at you then you would have gone a different way and you would have slipped up behind your enemy and taken him out before he could harm you.  You were vulnerable because of a lack of knowledge.

                In the same way, if something could escape the knowledge of the eternal something then whatever that something is could potentially create something that could destroy the eternal something.  In other words, like the terrorist waiting to throw a grenade at you, an eternal something could be brought to an end because something it did not expect could bring it to an end, if it did not have eternal intelligence and knowledge.  In other words, if it can be outsmarted it can be destroyed, and if it can be destroyed it cannot be eternal.

                Likewise, if a terrorist organization is holed up inside a military grade shelter deep underground, the power of the terrorists to defend themselves would be beyond the military might of a handful of American troops.  However, even these defenses have limits.  A soldier with the knowledge of the layout of the facility and with the right firepower might be able to figure out a way to blow a new opening into the mountain and allow his allies to swarm in…or better yet, just cave the entire structure in upon itself.  Only if the facility is more powerful than the handful of American troops and all the resources they have at their disposal would the base be truly indestructible.