How Does God Contract So Things Are Created and Form the Universe?

Yesterday, I used the symbol ‘contractedly’ twice to discuss panentheism. I should have defined the meaning of this word because, to my knowledge, it was a new symbol in the 15th century that was used first by Nicholas of Cusa. This is a basic symbol that is needed to distinguish and talk about an infinite God and His finite universe.

Unfortunately, the ancients thinkers thought that God and the created universe exists in the same world. For this reason, they thought incorrectly that God lived among the many stars we could see at night time. This is one of many errors made by the ancient thinkers.

Tody, most people do not realize that God’s wisdom deals with two ways of thinking: infinitely and finitely. At the same time, most people also do not realize that they must learn how to think finitely and infinitely. Unfortunately, most people never learn how to think infinitely. Such people turn into atheists.

To think about how God deals with infinities and finites, think about an infinite geometrical line. Now assume that your two arms can be extended infinitely so that both fingers can touch both ends of this line. Now, with your fingers force the two ends to contract. What is the result? By forcing the two ends to contract, you have created either a finite straight geometrical line or a finite curved geometrical line. These two different lines will be found only in a finite world.

So, to create a universe, God does not take different parts of himself so that He can add them to our finite universe. God is not partible. But, since a monotheistic God is inexhaustible, He can contract His infinities to finites eternally without exhausting anything since extractions from infinity do not change an infinite God. Essentially, contraction is like placing something where nothing has been before.