Hello,
I am god. Yes, that god, the creator of the universe. Try not to get too worked up about it, though; it's not like most of you imagine it to be. Some of you, however, are getting pretty close to ideas that are not too far off from the way things really are. I thought this would be a good time for making contact and trying to sort out some of the mess. Yes, it is April first, and there's humor in that, but for the most part, I want to share some ideas with you that you may find interesting.
The first thing I should say is that this is the first time I've contacted you. I'm not saying that the ancient, holy texts hold no meaning or truth, just that I, the creator of the universe, had no direct part in them.
The second thing you should understand is that you and I exist on such profoundly different levels, that much of what I want to tell you is only a severely simplified, blurred and distorted version of the way it really is, or to be more accurate, the way it seems to me.
Yes, you could accurately say that I created the universe. However, the universe you know is only a tiny fragment of a much larger, more complex reality. I am not alone. There are many others like me. Monotheism is essentially correct, in that there is only one "god" that created your universe, and that god is me, but beings such as myself are not at all unique.
Your existence is bounded by four dimensions. Three of those dimensions you perceive as space, the fourth you perceive as time. There are many more dimensions than the ones you are familiar with, some having similar properties, others that are fundamentally different. There is no way I can accurately convey to you what those dimensions are like, or how they effect perception. I happen to exist on several more dimensions than you do, and because of that, there are severe limitations to how well we can communicate.
As an example, you live in a world with only a single dimension of time. This limits your senses in many ways, which bring about certain conceptual frameworks like number and identity. If you only know a single dimension of time, than any given object has a single existence at a particular point in time (and in space, from your experience.) The whole idea of numbers and sets and groups and mathematics depends on the idea of singular individuality. When you perceive reality through two, three, four, ten or dozens of time dimensions, those kinds of ideas break down and become meaningless. Keep that in mind as I try to tell you a little about your universe and my part in it.
Some questions you might have; is god truly omniscient? More or less, yes. Since I am not restricted to the limits of space and time that you are, I can effectively know about any thing at any point in time if I choose to exert the effort necessary to gather the information. For practical purposes, though, I don't have any good reason to stay informed of every sparrow that falls in the forrest. The universe may be a small fragment of a greater reality, but I still have other things that hold my attention, and knowing your universe to that extent simply isn't worth the investment.
Which leads to the question: is god truly omnipotent? No. If I had the motivation, I could do some profoundly amazing things in your reality, but I can't do absolutely anything. There are laws and patterns of reality that everything in existence, including me and my kind, are subject to. Discovering what these laws are and how they work are the main reason I created the universe. There are other reasons, and I'll get into some of them later.
That's a lot to absorb with no notice, so I'll leave it at that for today.
The joy is in the patterns, so drink them in. Check out those daffodils!
- the creator
