If it’s greater than…Wouldn’t infinite be the ‘great beyond?’ Yet God as infinite would be pantheism, rather than monotheism. The network, rather than the node.

Or would God be the absolute? As Pope JP2 put it, “The all-knowing absolute.”

Yet absolute is basis, not ideal. So God, as spiritual absolute, would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell. More the potential than the form. The new born, than the wise old man. Consciousness seeking knowledge, than any formulation or brand of it.The light shining through the film, than the images on it.

God, as this top down, father figure lawgiver and his ten commandments, is a useful social construct, validating cultural, social and civil authority, aka divine right of kings.

The problem with it though, is that it lacks moderating caveats. Which would seem to be the function of the Trinity, as a carryover of Greek year gods, as the cycling/resetting of the seasons. Which is what Martin Luther tried to do to Catholicism. Much as Jesus tried to do to Judaism.

Monotheism, without moderation, becomes fundamentalism. When the West went back to democratic and republican forms of government, which originated in poly and pantheistic cultures, it required the separation of church and state. A split between culture and civics, that some forms of monotheism don’t readily, or easily recognize.

Yet in our fragmented, atomized, individuated, quantized, monetized culture, seems natural and necessary.