Opus 2025-381: Does God Mature

As I was reviewing my ongoing list of the attributes of God, I came across one which said God was eternal, He does not age or decay.  OK, we are good so far.  I haven’t crossed any heretical lines.  But on the next line, I had written, “does not mature”.  That got made to wondering.

Maturing involves growing in wisdom.  I can accept the fact that God does not grow in wisdom because he has already arrived at the ultimate wisdom.  Then I got to thinking about how if God were a scientist he would be seeking new knowledge all the time.  I was watching a podcast where Peter Robinson was interviewing James Tour and Steven Murray on the origins of life.  They commented on how every time you got a step deeper into the structure of the cell even deeper levels appeared.  My theory is that this will go on forever.  There will always be a deeper level.  That is from the human perspective.  From God’s level, He already has to know about all of these levels.  Because of that He can’t really mature in information.  Maybe He keeps busy designing even deeper levels.

It would almost seem that God is a static being.  We know He is a being.  We know that He is aware and has all the attributes that make Him not a rock, but a self-aware existence.  If He were static, how could He be alive?  That’s one of those questions that we can’t answer now.

This does however make me reflect that perhaps one of the reasons He created us in His image and gave us free will is that it introduces that element we call chance.  For us it’s just part of the daily adventure.  For God, our adventures may be the essence of enjoyment.  The fact that He gave us free will based on His image means that there must be at least a small element of unpredictability.

I often wonder if God gets bored.  That almost sounds like sacrilege, but it is a serious question.  I am suggesting that our kitten like antics liven up his eternity.

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