The state of reflective consciousness out of which pours the supply of the Creation is an amazing state. Mulling it over a bit can divine many reasonable presumptions (something believed without actual evidence) concerning that time frame. Remember though, dear tour companion, presumption comes from the word presume and can have a bit of an outrageous connotation to it.
I chose the word presumption deliberately because the assumptions I frequently make while blogging may or may not be literally correct, only God knows. Actually, in my desire to be descriptive I formally concede that I may well err in factuality. But since not a one of us knows the literal facts concerning God or pre-Creation, it seems to me that we can allow reasonable presumptions into our discussions of both and not offend God as long as our reason remains submitted to pure goodness.
If this reasoning suits you, then on we go.
Our tour of emotion continues its meandering way.
Today, we will explore, in more depth, how emotion in the Godhead in pre-Creation not only enriches His mind but also influences the function of His mind. Specifically, how emotion influences His choice.
In the time of pre-Creation when God’s active emotional range is first blissful while summering, choice is not active. Choice has put the Godhead into the summering state that I imagine as somewhat like suspended animation.
But after an aha-moment, the Godhead is roused to a state of reflective consciousness, gathers energy and embarks upon an inspired project: Creation. It is here in this state that stand-by emotions come back online automatically. Amidst a sudden storm of possibilities there appears a crowd of newly active emotions. God’s intellect responds gracefully, expanding seamlessly to accommodate the moment, more than able to grasp the challenges inherent in this new moment.
His capacity for all-knowing next presents Him with terrible scenarios lifted from the Creation. I can imagine His thinking flooded with swarms of previously irrelevant emotions, emotions consisting of yearnings, zeal, passions, sorrow, compassion, forgiveness, righteous indignation, revulsion, regret, even searing, raw and ugly emotions are momentarily unleashed. He deals with them all consciously, by instantly identifying and re-evaluating them in a mille-second, instantly choosing among them and instantly re-containing those that offend Him while allowing others. And simultaneously, His conviction that pure goodness is the antidote to evil suddenly coalesces.
Continuing to grapple with the aha-moment, a plan to compensate for malignancy embedded in the Creation arises in the mind of the Godhead. We, dear tour companions, have already been comforted by being allowed to encounter one of the many forms of God’s compensation for evil in the spiritual world (the ejection of Satan and angels who desert with him) and two forms of God’s compensation for evil in the physical world: God offended (caused to feel anger or pain) by the prospect of evil in the physical world conceives The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, and Reasonable Choice. But, there are more of God’s solutions to evil—many, many more.
I introduced this section by stating that emotion in the Godhead helps make God’s decisions what they are—molds them, fashions and polishes them. Thus I have just made the reasonable presumption that the prospect of evil pre-Creation instantly offended God, and as a result, His anger is provoked.
Let’s examine now how more of God’s solutions Pre-Creation are impacted by this anger—by His righteous indignation.
To be continued. . .
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