God.

What does it mean, and how do we imagine living in God?
God is a unique being. If nothing else, he is invisible, for example. Why? Is he playing hide and seek with us? Or is the cause somewhere else? Scripture whispers an exciting insight. First, it tells us how the world exists: “The earth came into being by the word of God…[God] sustains all things by his mighty word” (2 Pet. 3:5; Heb. 1:3 ). And then he says where this world exists, “[God] is not far from us.
For in him we live and move and have our being” (Acts 17:27-28 ). If we put the two together, an exciting picture emerges: the world, the Universe, which exists as an idea in the mind of God. God imagined us – and thus created us. God thinks of us – and we live. If He thought of us, God forgot us – we would cease to exist. We would cease to exist.
Nowadays, we can liken it to something familiar: a computer game. When you play a computer game, there is a real world: there are mountains, there are rivers, there are cities, there are people; this world of the computer game has laws that govern its running and functioning. But it is a virtual world. Compared to us, it is unreal. It doesn’t exist in reality; it exists only in the memory and the computer’s processor. In a way, we can imagine ourselves in relation to God. God is spirit. You might also think to yourself as you say this that it means God has nobody. He is not material, as if he lacks something we, unlike Him, have. The terms “body” and “spirit” in ancient Hebrew thought, which permeates the Scriptures, mean the exact opposite: God is spirit, that is, the real, the real, the true, the One Who Is. This also means His Name, JHWH: the One Who Is. And we humans, the Earth, the Universe, are just a body, just something like the world of a computer game in a computer. The computer is real, it’s hardware, whereas the game world is just virtual, it’s just software. God is the spirit, the “hardware,” the real one – and we are just flesh, just “software” running in His Mind. So God is not even somewhere in the Universe, as Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin thought when he flew up a little over three hundred kilometers above the surface of our planet and said: “I have been in space, but I have not seen God there”; nor somewhere outside Universe, somewhere beside it or above it, whence he looks on like some researcher on a petri dish with his experiment, but it is the Universe that exists in God.
This has exciting implications.

1. INVISIBLE, BUT ALL THE MORE REAL.
A character from a computer game cannot “jump out” and look at the computer in which it exists or at the programmer or player. Therefore, The computer is essentially invisible to her and cannot be visible because it exists on a completely different plane from the computer game world. Although the computer itself is “invisible” to the virtual world of the computer game, it is nevertheless actual – more accurate than the game and its world!
In the same way, God is inaccessible to our senses, and we cannot meet Him “face to face” like some other creature in this world. He exists on a completely different plane of reality than our created world. Because of this, God is “spirit” and not just “flesh.” In the complete sense of the word, he is the accurate – the most real of all that we consider fundamental.
“Lord, what is man that thou shouldest confess him, and the son of man that thou shouldest think on him? Man is like a mirage; his days are like a flying shadow.” (PS 144:3-4 )
2. “HE WHO IS MANIFESTED IN THE FLESH
Suppose the programmer wants to somehow “manifest himself” in his created game. In that case, he can do so in various ways, for example, by using an “avatar,” or character, to represent him or herself in the game. This is, after all, how computer games work: the player is defined in the game world by the character through which he plays the game. But  It would still be true that he and the feeling that represents him are not the same thing: the player is NOT an avatar; he APPEARS to be one and thus makes himself “visible” to the game world!
Similarly, God sometimes reveals Himself through “visions” – often very symbolic “characters” or other visible phenomena, through which He makes Himself visible in our world and, simultaneously, reveals something of Himself (that’s why they are symbolic).
3. ALL THINGS
The computer and the programmer have complete sovereign, absolute power over everything they create. The programmer creates the very world and the laws of the computer game, which apply absolutely to its characters and world. But at the same time, the programmer himself can, at any time and in any way, do anything in the game (program) that can change, break, or bypass and is not bound by anything in the world of the game he has created. Similarly, in many games, players can do the same thing, called “cheating”: they put some code into the computer or press a secret key combination and cause a “miracle” in the game. There is nothing that a computer (and, through it, a programmer) cannot do, create, make, or cause within the world of a computer game – if only because it runs on the computer and only as the computer determines and “allows” it to run.
Likewise, by the very nature of things, God has absolute power and sovereignty over all He creates and exists in His mind. He makes the very natural laws of our world but is not bound by them himself. He can act outside them at any time, he can bypass them, he can change anything and in any way, in precisely the same way as the programmer of a computer game. When God “cheats” in this way, we call it “miracle.” “For you can always exercise your great power. Who can withstand the power of thy arm? All the world before thee is like powder on balance and like a dewdrop that falls to the earth before the dawn.”(Wisdom 11:21-22 )
4. THE ALL-FATHER
Anything that exists and happens in a computer game and its world exists only because it is constantly maintained and created by the computer’s processor, which is thus present in everything – down to the last pixel – and “permeates” everything. Without this “presence” of the computer, nothing in the game’s virtual world could not exist. Similarly, God is present in everything and permeates everything – from giant supergalaxies to the last quark – simply because of this,
if it weren’t in God, in God’s mind, if God wasn’t thinking about it, and if it weren’t “present” in this way in everything that exists – then it simply would not exist. Whatever exists only exists because it is in God, and God is in it that way. “God “sustains all things by his powerful word.” (Heb 1:3 )
“Whither can I flee from thy spirit, and whither can I escape from thy presence? If I ascend into heaven, you are there; if I descend into the underworld, you are there. Though I pin my wings to my eyes and find myself on the farthest sea, even there, thy hand shall lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. If I say to myself: “Perhaps the darkness will hide me, and instead of light, the night will cover me,” for thee even the darkness will not be dark, and the night will brighten like the day.
To thee, the darkness is as light. For thou hast created my bowels and woven me in my mother’s womb.” (PS. 139:7-13 )
5. OMNISCIENT (ALL-KNOWING)
The computer perfectly, accurately, and infallibly knows everything in the virtual world of the computer game it creates. In its very essence,
there cannot be anything in this virtual world of the computer game that the computer does not “know” – simply because the entire game exists only in its memory, and everything that happens in it happens only in its processor. If the computer didn’t “know” about something, it couldn’t even exist because nothing can exist outside of its memory, and nothing can happen outside of its processor.
Similarly, God not only knows but, in a way, “co-exists” with everything that happens in the Universe, including the fate of
every single human being. If He didn’t know about anything, it couldn’t exist because everything exists only in God’s mind and only because God thinks about it. So if God does not know about something, it is only because He is not thinking about it, and it is not in His mind. But in that case, it is neither does not exist. “Lord, you are testing me, and you know everything about me… You have perceived my thoughts from afar … all my ways are known to You. Though the word is not even on my tongue, you, Lord, already know what I want to say. You surround me front and back and lay Your hand on me.” (PSALM 139:1-5 ). Can we somehow “meet” this God at all? Based on all of this, it would seem that God can act at will in our world, and we can experience His Power on ourselves – Can we also encounter Him? Doesn’t that seem somewhat impossible from the above?
Everything in our world corresponds to the corresponding sense with which we perceive a given thing. We can see colors but not hear them. The music we can listen to but not smell. We can smell a scent but not feel it. But there are other, stranger senses. For example, why do we perceive the three-dimensionality of the space we live in? Sight shows us objects and the world – but how do we perceive three-dimensionality? Or beauty, aesthetics – by what do we perceive it? These, too, are forms of the senses we have. On the whole, we can formulate the following conclusion:
 Each reality corresponds to an appropriate way of perceiving and knowing it: colors to sight, smell to smell…
 We know some facts beyond the traditional five senses: beauty, three-dimensionality, mathematical truths,…
 Each reality is generally knowable in only one way and not in others – we can only hear music, we can only see the light, Mathematics can only be understood – it doesn’t deny its reality. Is there any similar sense by which we could “see” or perceive God? C. S. Peirce, philosopher and mathematician, said: “To see God, we have only to open the eyes and the heart, which is also a sense organ.” In our common parlance, we tend to identify the heart with Feelings. But Peirce uses the term heart differently- similar to how various mystics speak of the “depth of the soul,” the “tip of the soul.” all of which terms consistently describe the same experience: there is a sense within us that ‘heart,’ ‘tip,’ ‘depth,’ capable of perceiving God in the same way that the ear perceives music and the eye perceives colors. And this perception is just as accurate. The light does not become unreal because we perceive it only with our eyes and not otherwise. Nor is music fake because we only hear it but no longer see it, nor can’t smell it. Mathematical truths do not become unreal just because we also perceive them with a unique sense, while neither seeing them nor hearing them nor anything like them. In the same way, the perception of God is reliable, accurate, and confident because we also perceive Him with the sense by which we are equipped for this purpose – and it is in no way diminished by the fact that from the very nature of the thing itself, God, such as He is, can be within the world, neither to see with our eyes, nor to hear with our ears, nor to feel with our hands, nor to smell, much less to taste…
“There is an organ of knowledge of God which perceives Him in its way, just as there is a mental faculty that makes us agree with the principles of mathematical reasoning, but which does not coincide with another faculty, reason, by which we can deduce the proofs of propositions.”