The Attributes of God

We have successfully established that the modern popular "gods" are nothing even resembling a believable, consistent God, and in fact are closer to a Santa Claus, Easter Bunny, magical and mythical thing. Furthermore, we have examined the postulates of atheist and agnostic viewpoints and found them to be equally inconsistent and often lazy rejections of the desire to know. Therefore, it is only logical to conclude that there is indeed a God, a perfectly consistent, fully logical, and believable God. Now it is time to examine the attributes of such a figure.

First and foremost, as has been repeatedly mentioned, God is fully consistent with reality. It follows that God is the happiest of all beings. This could be termed "blessed" but I prefer happiest because of the mystic mumbo-jumbo currently associated with "blessed". In order for God to be the happiest of all beings he must exist in absolute harmony with reality. Therefore, God must have a complete knowledge of reality. This is the first attribute of God; a full and complete knowledge of reality. God's knowledge must include an understanding of all physical governing laws, all events, all causes, etc...

In every instance, true knowledge converts to power. The more we understand the better we are able to mold and shape reality as we desire. The old adage that knowledge is power is true by definition. Every form of knowledge is power in some sort or other. God, a being with perfect knowledge, must therefore be a being of power. God, through knowledge, can accomplish anything that does not violate true laws. This does not mean God can do anything, only that God can do anything it is possible to do. Therefore, God is a being of power.

Currently, the definition of God we have arrived at does not limit the number of God beings in existence. There is no logical reason there cannot be a multitude of beings with perfect knowledge and power. However, in the former argument for God's existence, the point was made that God is the first cause of our current existence. A first cause cannot be a multitude of causes but is limited to singularity. (Explanation of this point is beyond the scope of my current topic but suffice it to say that if we suppose two or more beings concurrently acting as the first cause both equal in perfection of knowledge and power and singular in purpose and causation then they are not two beings but one, being similar in all things.) Therefore, though more than one God being may exist, the God with which we have to do is singular. Therefore, our God, is one God of perfect knowledge and power.

Finally, we will briefly consider what God has to do with us. God as a perfect being, cannot increase in knowledge or power. Thus, it is reasonable to ask, what does God purpose or desire. Firstly, it is obvious that God in order to be God must have progressed to that point of knowledge and power. However, having arrived at perfect knowledge and the limits of power, what more could God do to progress and increase in happiness? Not in knowledge, not in power, but in dominion. God can progress in happiness as beings created by God progress and increase thereby adding to God's happiness. Therefore, as we are happy because of increased knowledge, increased understanding of reality, and a consistent applicable philosophy, God is happier also. Therefore, God is intimately concerned with mankind's progression and desires our happiness as if God's own. Obviously then, within the bounds of natural law, God works to maximize and optimize our opportunity for lasting and true happiness.

This is a God worth believing in, a consistent, knowing, powerful, being who desires nothing but our everlasting happiness. The only God that could possibly be God.