God is Spirit

God surpasses classification as a concept or physical form. God is neither a concept or a physical form. Physical forms are defined by human concepts. It is possible to naively assume that physical forms exists exactly as we might believe they do--the unexamined life does not necessarily offer the deepest or even superficial truth for-itself to the observer however.

Concepts are themselves a concept of a concept. With biochemistry in neurological researches it seems that ideas may be associated with particular neurons and synaptic transmissions of proteins, R.N.A. and chemical molecules that comprise data or information as they meet sympathetic receptors. It is fortunate that it isn't necessary to perform all of the chemical data processing consciously. God is probably not a phenomenal chemical process in anyone's brain.

It might be tempting to try to define the Spirit with terms of contingent materiality. Defining a whole by a few of the parts is an effort at reasoning from the particular to the Universal--a logical fallacy. When we say 'God is Spirit', we mean something different than anything that can be referenced in human experience of the Universe. Spirit is better than this temporal arrangement of appearances.

Our ideas about what God is simply don't capture the essence of The One who is Three. It would be possible to ask if God is an intelligent stone or a Platonic form of all forms of physical forms as against a concept of our imagination or a concept that contains all concepts including those humanity hasn't got. Such metaphysical structuring tend to be verifiable neither synthetically or analytically. Categorical errors are one of the erroneous construction issues of post-empiricist philosophical thought.

What is a physical form and what is a concept? In some ways they are each created with the same quarks and subatomic particles though concepts arise within human minds they yet do have forms that are real. Scientists have measured a single image firing a single neuron in the brain as it recognizes the image. Concepts have a molecular basis that appears for the mind as thought. When we turn our thoughts around to describe something as existing just as a concept we cannot mean that literally of course-not if we are referring to God.

Imagine if God where actually a concept living in the mind of some actor in Hollywood. What silliness we then have considered how and why that circumstance was brought into being. It is far better to consider God as some other form of form, although a form for us humans with our categorizing of 'concepts' about structure in brain synapse chemical virtual memory automatically classify everything as a form. In the beginning, the Bible book of John relates, the Universe/world was with form. With that helpful hint it is still not possible to make an inference that God was either a concept or a form, yet from later reading we learn that God is a Spirit.

Thankfully there is revealed knowledge about God- God is Jesus Christ. His appearance was grace and spirit. Not within human language may we classify God as this or that contingent, pluralist element. Before the big bang inn empty Universe cosmologists have speculated their existed virtual particles that could draw together to forma clump of mass to expand under a repulsive bounce into this universe. God presumably designed the entire temporal apparitious-like atomic reality that is real relative to everything else created and engineered human life in to it. Yet it is God we want to know about, so we can be sure that he wasn't made of categories of concepts or forms that were evolved into the cosmos.

It might be easier to speculate that the omnipotent being beyond space or time, mass or energy and all other created things simply cancelled out parts of His omnipotent presence to allow the creation of Universes emanated with simply non-dimensional windowless monads or strings of spiritual foundation that compiled with all sorts of protocol barriers to appear for sentient beings as larger mass structures.

Time is a phenomenal thermodynamically integrated process that occurs within eternity that is without time. That paradox is fundamental in a consideration of the nature of God who needs neither physical size nor temporal existence. Space-time mass and being are apparent existences such as the true speed of wind measured from a sailboat. Once the entire created Universe is set into being their is value added to the apparent constructions of reality.

What we can say about God is that He is One. The Universe is part of that infinite One that has actualized all possible things, yet never required that he do so. He surpasses all that might be said about His nature.