Alan McDougall wrote on Aug 27th, 2008 at 6:08am:The question begs if “God” is not energy and matter where did it come from.
Hey Alan,
My own interpretation is to view "God" as basically a co-ordinating principle, or energy if you like.
The way I'd describe it would be to point at all the trillions of people and various other life forms that exist, but to then say that I tend to view "God," as an entity which is able to take all of those disparate perspectives and opinions into account, and still formulate a consistent plan of action for attaining the wellbeing of all of them, relative to their specific context.
Putting it more simply, an analogy which people here might be able to visualise more easily would be the Borg Queen, from some of the later depictions of Star Trek. The Queen was someone who took in all of the individual thoughts of the beings within the Borg Collective, and was still able to create a single, coherent plan from them on a course of action for the Collective to take, in terms of its' survival.
That's also where the definition of the dark and light duality comes in, in the sense that people complying with the above are said to be working with the light, and those trying to do the opposite, with the darkness. Then however you also find out that both of those halves ultimately serve the whole.
I make no claim about whether the above is accurate in any objective sense, either. It's basically an interpretation which I've found relevant as one individual.
The evidence seems to point to a scenario where what we refer to as "God" has the ability to give itself an entirely different appearance or cognitive interpretation for each individual, and yet maintain a consistent existence within, and over and above, all of them.
Hence, your own answer to this question will be different from mine almost by definition, because of God's ability to manifest to us in a manner which is specific to our own situation and background.