I came across an idea recently that I can’t stop thinking about. In a nutshell, it’s the idea that God’s nature, or his very essence, is changing as humanity changes and our universal consciousness further develops, or becomes ever more conscious.
The idea was founded on several premises:
- We (humanity) are “of God”—made by God, with the purpose of expressing God through our actions (love).
- Our journeys here on earth are defined, or at least characterized, by our growth of moving ever-more closer to God; our journey to achieve oneness with Him.
- As we are of God and we are connected to him, we are a part of each other, and we are all connected to each other through this oneness. (Universal, collective consciousness.)
And it can be stated that nothing in our universe—humans and all of its fabric—is static. As the day turns to night and the night turns to morning; as the tides move in an out; as the creatures and the plants on the earth are ever in some state of being born or dying, every speck of existence is in motion along its journey.
And as our journeys continue, and we develop a greater understanding of the nature of our existence and learn how to increasingly manipulate the existence around us through things like science, meditation, and advances in artificial intelligence, the universal consciousness is expanding, ever changing. And through that expansion, our understanding of God grows.
Since we are part of that concept of God…our growth means that God is also growing and changing with us. As we perceive more, he becomes more.
But does God actually grow and change?
In the sense that the things of this earth are constantly developing (albeit in constant life and death cycles), and we are of God, I can embrace for a moment that God must do the same. Why would we expect God to be static when none of things he created are?
But it has also been said that the God of today is the God of our ancestors and the God that created the earth, however many years ago. The rock of ages. That is the God who thought of me before I existed and the God that has held my hand at each step of my journey. I feel a bit like a child in saying it, but I don’t want God to change. He is and always has been perfection.
And I can’t forget the fact that, while we like to think of ourselves (humanity) as “of God”, this does not make us equal to God. God existed before we did. God created the universe we live in, and every existence in it, including us. We are painfully both of God and separate from God.
You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.”
St. Augustine, Confessions
Could it be, rather, that as humanity becomes more universally conscious, God is revealing his nature to us more and more? And that the “problem” (if there were a problem, and surely there is not), is more that our limited consciousness up until this point has only allowed us to perceive and understand God to the extent that he has willed.
Or maybe, we were born as infants already in a state of complete consciousness and union with the holy spirit, and it is the fetters of earthly existence that has pulled us farther and farther away from that state. And then we spend the rest of our lives restless, trying to understand and reclaim the union that we intuitively know we are lacking, and we naively expect God in his infinite nature and wisdom to evolve with us on that journey.
I don’t know the answer. And I don’t know that, even if the nature of God is changing as humanity changes—would we even perceive that change, as it feels impossible to feel the rotation of the earth or the blades of grass growing under our feet.
Does our manipulation and perceived understanding of our existence on earth truly mean that we are becoming more “of God,” or further from it?
