4. You cannot treat God as an object - God is an abstract concept. We are an aspect of this abstract concept, in the same sense that say happiness is an aspect of Mind (another abstract concept). Nature too is an abstract concept. Do you deny that Nature and Mind exist?
What is Nature? Nature is a descriptive term for the complex interactions of all the life-forms, environments, forces, laws of physics and events that are beyond mankind's control. Mind is similarly an abstract concept that describes the complex interactions of all the neurones of the human brain that together are responsible for such properties as perception, memory, thought and emotion.
Both of these abstract concepts do not intrinsically exist. They are not entities in themselves. They exist only in that they are an emergent property of a complex interactive system. Mathematically similar (though much less complex) situations are beginning to be explained by chaos and complexity theory. If one were to liken God to nature and the mind then that implies that, without the Universe, God cannot exist, because God is a property of the Universe. How can an emergent property of the Universe then be responsible for its creation?
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"God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we, the murderers of all murderers, console ourselves? That which was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet possessed has bled to death under our knives - who will wipe this blood off us? With what water could we purify ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we need to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must not we ourselves become gods simply to seem worth of it? There has never been a greater deed - and whoever shall be born after us, for the sake of this deed he shall be part of a higher history than all history hitherto."
