Divine Love and Wisdom #286
286. As for God's inability to create the universe and everything in it except as a person, this is something a discerning individual can grasp very clearly on the following basis. Inwardly, we cannot deny that love and wisdom, mercy and forgiveness exist in God. God, as the source of what is good and true, is their essence. Since we cannot deny this, we cannot deny that God is a person, since none of these things can exist apart from a person. The person is their subject, and to separate them from their subject is to say that they do not exist.
Think of wisdom, and posit it outside a person. Is it anything? Can you conceive of it as something ethereal or flamelike? No, unless perhaps you think of it as within these things; and if it is within them, it must be wisdom in a form like ours. It must be in every aspect of that form. Nothing can be lacking if wisdom is to be within it.
In brief, the form of wisdom is human, and because a person is a form of wisdom, a person is also a form of love, mercy, forgiveness--of whatever is good and true, because these act in complete unison with wisdom.
On the fact that love and wisdom cannot occur except in some form, see above, 40-43.
Genesis 1:1-8
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In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
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And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
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And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
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And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
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And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first Day.
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And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
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And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
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And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
