Logical questions can't he answered by figure deity god worshipers, the only rational description of that power and source of life is in describing it to it's most finite point.
That's why Abraham came to the conclusion that God can't be a figure or form nor wind nor sun nor idol, all things that had a further process in creating it. This is when they turned from idol worship to the concept of an Essence. That Essence being described in the holy YeruShalem.
Meaning city of Shalem (completeness and wholeness). Creation (life) is most finitely explained as that power to become complete and whole aka evolve to be all we could and should be. So when Sages, prophets write stories or record history non whitewashed over, they are doing so inspired in reflection and manifestation of this nature to be better and progress through learning and pondering through those lessons and repeated history and mans choices which can be dissected and discussed in order to improve and evolve from social and political behaviors of the past.
Sources God is not to be anthropromorphized:
we can't pray to any image of anything physical- Exodus 20:3-7 and Deuteronomy 5:8-10
God is not a man nor form-(Isaiah 2:22, 14:13, I Samuel 15:29, Numbers 23:19, and Hosea 11:9, Deuteronomy 4:11-12 and the 13 major principles of the Jewish faith based on the Rambam's teaching of "ain lo demus haguf ve'ayno guf" -- that Hashem has no physical form.)
An Essence nature is not something with form or tangibility and shouldn't be described as such because as you see it confuses people.
Source backing for Shalem:
YeruShalem would carry the name. (1 Kings 11:36 &
in dead sea scrolls: Words of the Archangel Michael scroll 4Q529, 6Q23)
The Gemarah (Baba Batra 75) Tells us Jerusalem is named after G0D and is the place commemorating his name and essence. In Sefer D’varim (12:5, 11, 14, 18, 21; 14:23,24, 25; 15:20; 16:2, 6, 7, 11, 15, 16; 17:8, 10; 18:6; 26:2; 31:11).the place that I will choose to place My Name. That is referring to YeruShalem because Sifri identifies the place which Hashem will choose (12:18) as “Yerushalayim”.
Torah, tanakah, bible is archaic and simplistic explanation of a simple people that had little or no grasp of science.
Everything has a beginning, time, the universe, even a god. It might seem so long ago to simple people that eternal was easier to grasp. now we seethe universe in billions and trillions of years both past and future.
Even if we think of the laws of science, math and time we want to know how and why they began, not some fairy tale or myth of early bronze age man.
Quoting and ancient text is not and answer, just repetition without understanding. It is like saying "god is great" as if that is an answer to anything. It is brainwashing not teaching or explanation.
There might be some "force" out there and life taps into and also re-energizes in some string theory or vibration sort if way, energy bouncing back and forth throughout the universe and possibly anything that might be beyond. Even that would need to be started or begin. Something to initiate a perpetual motion system.
We have already discovered the so called "god partial" and maybe some day we will understand far beyond that too. The idea of a god without beginning or end actually manipulating us is out dated.
The comfort of a god figure might help some who can't see beyond their nose, but if there is a something, it is so far beyond a thinking figure prone to temper tantrum and vanity.
Religion created god in our image, not the other way around. Someday we might have a name for the force, but it will be nothing like our "image" and would apply to any and all life far beyond this planet and our imagination that we could not be part of some creation in its image.
God or the idea of a god is a safety blanket, but we growing up and don't need to cling to it every second. Perhaps some day we won't need it at all and even forget we had it as we bravely move forward.
How did prophets explain images or dream they had without understanding the science or changes yet to be discovered, they use words as close as possible that are far from accurate. The bible is limited to the understanding of the world of the ancients and out dated to what we have discovered and expanded our minds.
Some will continue to cling to a safety blanket in fear while other can't wait to bravely run out into the vastness and knowledge yet to learn. Life is an adventure, not an anchor to the dawn of time.
There will be times when we need to slow down a bit, let out understanding catch up with our discovery, and use caution not to plunge off a cliff, but we should never come a full stop or go backwards.
What ever the idea of god or force is, it is part of all life, matter and laws of science. Always forward before whether the universe expands or later shrinks. Always more to learn and discover, even an eventual "end", of our life or the universe. Perhaps death will be a new adventure?
