My thoughts are not your thoughts: The dichotomy between God and human consciousness.

The struggle of man is to see things from his finite vantage point. Existence is more limited for humans because our worldview and schema are constantly in flux, which leads us to be incapable of true solidity in terms of identity because, at the end of the day, new knowledge, circumstances, relationships, and experiences rewrites our personality on a constant basis. How could man even relate to God in any capacity in terms of our worldview? That is the thing: the metaphysical and ontological divide makes this impossible. How do we get a clue for the mind of God then? The only way would be for God to relate to us about Himself, and/or examine his divine attributes.

Omnipotence- The attribute is one that man has struggled to grasp, analyzing it from the angle of human cosmological impotence. An omnipotent being can reconstruct, or, more importantly, manifest reality as they will, and God would do the same. The human mind is flustered with omnipotence as a concept because human creation is merely an act of recreation through a compilation of technological advances. As a result of this reality, not only is human ability limited by technological development and scientific discovery, man is dependent on all previous inventions, and discovered knowledge, to have a base for accomplishing anything. When science and technology are absolved of humanity, man is no longer master of nature, but mastered by it. If Genesis 1:1 is to be taken into account, physical reality can be written out as quickly as God made it, rendering human impotence futility itself.

Omnipresence- The ability to bear ones presence every place at once comes to the human mind as impossible as the human mind is limited by physical senses of the body, and, by extension, bodily presence, to make their existence known. We can only be present where our body is present. This is not an issue for an omnipresent being because such a being is not tethered to physical reality, and the limitations of presence that carry with it. Being spiritual and not physical in substance, dimensions of space, energy, matter, and time do not exist for such a being. To give other explanation to it would exhaust the human mind fruitlessly to give full understanding, but if all reality is perceptible to such a being, and nothing physical or spiritual can be hidden from Him, the human mind would be at no advantage to wit oneself against God. Such a thing can be grumbled against as thought police by humans, but if God is to met out justice across the universe, He would have to implement this attribute. Being His own eye witness, own lawgiver, own judge, and own executioner, all the Law is fulfilled in one person. God can wield absolute power because, as He has no capacity for evil, His nature is immutable, while man perceives power as godhood, and abuses his fellow man as such.

Omniscience- This is one that people fail to take into account when it comes to God and mind. The idea of the human mind is that a functioning mind has to change and adapt to new information in order to be functional. However, a being with absolute knowledge from the start would have no need for this. The completion of His knowledge from the start renders God the only being with a perfect schema, and, by extension, a perfect worldview. This renders the changing of God's mind in a true sense, rather than mere anthropomorphic language, counterproductive because He already lives where most humans strive. The knowledge of man is subject to previous knowledge acquired, refined, developed, and advanced, and with a brain to process and retain it. If both were taken away, the human mind would have zero ability to learn or know, and would be either a vegetable, or have a fixed identity. So in the truest sense, God has perfect mind, where man has imperfect, fallible, and perishable mind.

Omnibenevolence: How can one call God good and have reason to believe such a being is worth worshiping? This question falters on an error of logic constant to the human mind: God's conception of good being equal to the human conception of it. The human conception of good is tainted by finitude, impotence, and a propensity to evil commonly referred to as sin. With this set up, good is based on present understanding of the situation, what is within our resources to attain through various means, and what the human conscience will justify. A being outside the universe, and outside physical reality, would not suffer this absence of perspective. No concepts of greed, lust, pride, ambition, or petty jealousy because the other three attributes would make them pointless. The only jealousy He could possess is one of the husband who fears his wife cheating on Him, and denigrating the intimacy and sincerity He has expressed. Such a love for humanity as His ultimate creation would reflect His goodness, not any malice in His heart, and the knowledge of sin would pertain to the fact that He knows its meaning, in contrast to being motivated by it as humans are. In the end, God is good because He is the only standard of good that transcends human thinking, rather than merely perpetuating it.

No man know the mind of God. One can speculate to high heaven, but absolute knowledge of God would only come by entering His domain. Isaiah 55:8 speaks to the mind of God, and His ways, being ultimately removed from man. What does man actually need: to conceive of God as one would see fit? What if man needed a revelation of the ultimate being of existence to know who man was supposed to be, how far they are from that, and how to get back to that vision? Would the world be any worse for it. For the author, humanity is bad and getting worse everyday. It is only a matter of time and technology before man reaches the pinnacle of his evil. Human progress is not man's salvation, fellowship with God, and salvation through His Son, is the only turning point. Until heaven and earth are one and the same, man will continue to become the very evil they fear.