It seems to me these descriptions of God tend to muddle the absolute and the ideal and that is part of the confusion.

For example, a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell.

The fact we are aware, than the details of which we are aware. More the new born babe, than the wise old man. The light shining through the film, than the images on it.

The ideal is aspirational, while the absolute is elemental. The Source would be an absolute, not an ideal. What it does from there is a function of this awareness, pushing out, evolving these forms called life.

Consider that good and bad are not some cosmic conflict between the forces of righteousness and evil, but the basic biological binary of beneficial and detrimental. The 1/0 of sentience. Even bacteria get it.

Yet what is good for the fox, is bad for the chicken. There is no more an absolute good, then there would be an absolute up.

Without the ups and downs, it's a flatline. Which is the absolute. The zero at the middle.

The price we pay to feel, is that much of it will be pain.

All the higher order social, cultural, moral, ethical configurations, such as honor, trust, respect, responsibility, love, as well as the negatives, are complex and evolved interactions of these elemental preferences. Much like a computer program is ultimately based on a bunch of binary switches. So trying to understand the process from a top down point of reference, seeking desired outcomes, is like thinking you are learning computer programming by playing video games.

Top score doesn't necessarily win. More is not always better.

When we view the good as aspirational, rather than elemental, conflicts tend to become a race to the bottom, as nuance and subjectivity become suspect.

Nature tends to be cyclical, reciprocal and feedback generated, while people are linear and goal oriented.

Consider that as mobile orgnisms, necessitating this sequential process of perception and having developed civilization out of narrative based cultures, we experience time as the point of the present, moving past to future. Physics codifies it as measures of duration.

The reality is that change turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns. Duration is the present, as the events come and go.

There is no literal dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, to inform and drive it. Causality and conservation of energy. Cause becomes effect.

Energy is conserved, because it is present. It creates time. As well as temperature, pressure, color, sound. Frequencies and amplitudes. Time is frequency, events are amplitude.

So energy, as process, goes past to future, while the patterns being generated go future to past.

As energy drives waves, while we perceive the fluctuations rising and falling.

Lives go birth to death, future to past, while life moves onto the next generation, shedding the old.

Consciousness goes past to future, while perceptions, emotions and thoughts rise and fall, future to past.

Suggesting consciousness functions as an energy. This flame within, seeking fuel to grow.

Science has the same problem with energy, as it does with consciousness, in that it can only be defined and described in terms of the forms it expresses.

As these biological organisms, we have the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems processing the energy driving us on, while the central nervous system sorts and orders the forms precipitating out. Thus this mental focus on form.

Not to get too involved, but to finish the argument, consider the three dimensional description of space is really the xyz coordinate system, which is a mapping device, like longitude, latitude and altitude.

If we remove all physical properties from space, it has the non-physical qualities of infinity and equilibrium. Infinity, as nothing bounds it and equilibrium is implicit in Special Relativity, since the frame with the fastest clock and longest ruler would be closest to the equilibrium of the vacuum. The unmoving void of absolute zero.

Making space the absolute and the infinite. Zero to infinity.

What fills space is this energy and the forms it expresses. As energy is dynamic, it expands toward infinity, leaving the forms to coalesce toward equilibrium. Both entropic.

The overall effect is this cosmic convection cycle, we refer to as galaxies.

So the absolute, the point at the center, exists in the context of the infinite. The node is the centerpoint, while the network stretches toward infinity. Organisms and ecosystems. Content and context.

The falling inward is balanced by the expanding outward. Energy goes toward the future, while form fades into the past.

So there are two sides to this coin of reality. More yin and yang, then God Almighty.

When we lose that, the focus on the center becomes obsession. Yet the eye of the storm is just that. All energy and life has radiated back out, by the time it is reached.

We fluctuate between everything cancelling out and everything fading out.

Ups and downs.

We need to learn to ride the waves, not just march off the highest cliffs.

The turtle is still plodding along, long after the rabbit has died.