An interesting and enlightening paragraph from a book
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Peace all,
I think the following paragraph is interesting and enlightening.
In his book, "The Experience of God", David Bentley Hart, says:
"To speak of "God" properly . . . is to speak of the one infinite source of all that is eternal, omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, uncreated, uncaused, perfectly transcendent of all things and for that very reason absolutely immanent to all things. God so understood. . .is not a "being," at least not in the way that a tree, shoemaker, or a god is a being; he is not one more object in the inventory of things that are, or any sort of discrete object at all. Rather, all things that exist receive their being continuously from him, who is the infinite wellspring of all that is, in whom all things live and move and have their being."
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Once a reference to the definition of "Infinite" is mentioned then it only refer to only one, which is infinite and inclusive of anything and everything.
There cannot be many 'infinite', as by definition; infinity is border-less while in order to be 'many' a border need to be defined, the border that provide separation between here and there, me and not me, mine and not mine.The conception of 'infinite' is known and labeled by many names throughout planet earth; Brahman, Tao, Great Spirit, Hyang, Heavenly Father, Infinite Creator just to name a few. The similarity can be recognized as those names are merely a reference to the 'infinite'. Yet the 'true name' actually does not exist as 'false name' also does not exist.
"The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name."
-- Lao TseI deliberately not include the word "God" in that list, as the term is distorted in meanings.
To some people the term "God" is a reference to something that is "finite" or "has border"; as such the term "My God", "Your God", "Their God", "Other God" become meaningful. While such term is illogical as a prefix to "infinite". As mentioned; "infinite" is "inclusive" (includes all) and not "exclusive".
To the infinite; anyone is me, anywhere is here and anytime is now.