God is of course an abstract construct. It must be, for a deity must transcend the mundane.
That doesn't mean that God isn't also concrete.
Concrete in what sense? Having a physical body?
Here's how I see it. All of these things that we speak about regarding the nature or being of God, are all
our perceptions.
Some perceive God in concrete-literal terms, as a literal person having some
objective form of some sort or other external to themselves the way you would separate John from Susan. That is a perception of the Divine that makes God an object of the mind for it to think about or try to relate to it as distinctly other to one's own self.
Others perceive God as beyond concrete-literal perspectives as more all-pervasive and
formless, somehow transcendent to this mundane reality, yet within this reality at the same time. To grapple with this sense or intuition or faith, the mind needs to conceptualize God in terms that are more abstractions than simple identifications of objects, like cat, dog, human,
deity, and so forth.
How does God interpenetrate reality, while being distinct from reality as we know it? These are highly abstract, even paradoxical considerations, out of sheer necessity. If you perceive God beyond concrete-literal, it has to become abstractions and more metaphorical in nature in order to think beyond boxes we wish to put reality into, including God as an object neatly tucked into our belief boxes we place everything else into.
And then there is where I am at personally, where one realizes that all of these are simply the perceptions of the mind, ways to try to translate experience into mental constructs in order to communicate them to both ourselves mentally, and others' conceptual frameworks. None of these are descriptors of reality, but "fingers pointing at the moon" and not the moon itself.
God, if God is God, meaning Infinite and Absolute in nature and being, cannot be separate to anything or anyone at all. But what separates God is the mind itself, trying to see God. It's like trying to think of yourself in 3rd person perspectives.
I can talk about myself in the 3rd person, but while I am conceptualizing myself as an object, I am actually the subject doing the perceiving of myself as other to myself. That is of course not actually reality, but a
perception of reality spoken of as if it were reality itself. It's a device of the mind, in other words, and not the actuality of reality itself.
In other words, thoughts about God, are not God's reality. All thought are perceptions.
BTW, how are you? It's been awhile.
