It is as if God were so full of high spirits that He is moved to whistle a tune, and that tune is the cosmos.
I suppose your representation of God as a Being with lips, a larynx, and so forth, is simply meant to reify (for the thread's benefit) a rather enigmatic abstraction. However, the imagery of high spirits (joy) suggests the capacity of a perfect Being to experience "low spirits"--the blues", being down in the dumps, despondency--etc.
"High spirits" certainly supposes the existence of "low spirits". Certainly, "high spirits" which overflow are of a different degree than spirits which have yet to sate the pattering heart. Prior to God whistling the cosmos, moreover, these "high spirits" would have been generated by self reflection and self satisfaction. This would suggest that God does not know His thoughts all at once, but is involved in a "learning" experience--that which would condition His wholeness, and His omnipotence.
Leaving aside the wonderful product of human imagination in her imagining of thousands of different gods--I agree that a rational explanation for the apparent absence of supernatural partiality for good over evil--could perhaps be served by the idea that God did indeed whistle, when He got into "high spirits"...and drank rather heavily when His spirits were low. |
