I've begun to embrace a weak God -- a God who existed in the universe that preceded the Big Bang, who could only fashion the conditions of the Big Bang such that there was a frail chance that planets like earth and creatures like humans would emerge in this new universe. The fact that this weak God's creative powers were limited would be why earth is a lone outpost of life in the bleak expanse of space. The weak God is likely no longer alive, and perhaps created our universe in the hope that creatures like humans would emerge to further its desire for reality to grow in harmonious diversity. The Gospels' teachings, by this view, are distinctively powerful expressions of a genuinely godly impulse to see reality thrive on each of its interlocking scales, one of which is the scale of humans, which is the focus of the Gospels.
What do you think of this notion of a weak God?
