Thoughts on the Divine Nature of Energy

Thoughts on the Divine Nature of Energy.

I don't remember what started me thinking along these lines the other day, but for one reason or another, I started thinking about the heat death of the universe, and then the line of reasoning took some interesting turns. The heat death of the universe is also known as maximum entropy, and I will start this from there.

Maximum entropy is when the water grows completely still and there are no more ripples in the pond. This isn't to say that the water is no more, it has simply achieved equilibrium and is able to be at rest. The same is true of all the energy in the universe. What we call the heat death of the universe would be all the energy achieving equilibrium so that it is evenly spread out. In other words, energy in its natural, undisturbed state is static. It wants to stop moving and be at rest.

Another thing about energy is that, according to the first law of thermodynamics, energy can be neither created nor destroyed. And, according to modern physics, all of the manifest creation boils down to energy in one form or another.

Perhaps the reason why energy can be neither created nor destroyed is because it is God Himself.

Perhaps energy is the "physical" being of God Himself.

So, here is my thought. To describe energy as the "physical" being of God (for lack of a better description) at first sounds bad because I'm equating God with a created thing. Except that the first law of thermodynamics explicitly states that energy can be neither created nor destroyed. It can change forms from energy to matter and back, but you will never have more energy or less energy in existence than you will at any given point in time. This, by necessity, means that energy is eternal. It has no beginning and no end. It is therefore uncreated.

To say that energy itself is inanimate is paradoxical and problematic at best. The presence of energy causes animation. That which is without energy is dead. How is it possible that an inanimate "object" is the cause and source of all life and animation?

There is nowhere energy does not exist because all matter is also energy in a different form, and energy transfers from point to point in waves in various forms. Because all matter is energy in a different form, if energy itself were intelligent, it would be in full contact with everything and everyone at the foundational level of existence, thereby making it omniscient. And an omnipresent intelligent energy would by its very nature be omnipotent. Also, energy itself must, by nature, be omnidimensional and extend outside of our own spacetime. If God is the foundation of all existence, and if He is eternal, omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent, and completely transcendent and yet imminent with His creation at the same time, then doesn't energy itself meet all of these criteria?

Furthermore, consider the metaphors used to describe Him in Sacred Scripture, "God is light", "God is a consuming fire" and so on. Consider Moses who spent so much time in the manifest presence of God that his face glowed so bright he had to wear a veil. Most of the encounters with the manifested presence of God involved some kind of description of a manifestation of energy in some way.

What if energy itself was intelligent, compassionate, and personal?

Is it so hard to conceive that energy itself is intelligent, personal, and also compassionate/empathetic towards everything that is comprised of it? We ourselves are also made of energy, and our intelligence is comprised largely of pulses of energy moving through organic circuitry that at its very foundational level is itself also energy. All matter is formed from energy becoming particles out of seemingly nothing at all, and it can be reasonably said that matter is simply a multidimensional disturbance of energy.

Perhaps it isn't entirely accurate to say that energy is God Himself (and certainly not comfortable), at least not in His totality. But, perhaps energy is the "surface" of God like the surface of a pond. You can see the surface of a pond, but unless the water is crystal clear, you cannot see how deep it is or what is under that surface.

These are only a series of thoughts that on the surface appear relatively logical, but they beg for even more profound questions to be asked if the basic premise is to be given as true. I leave that for you the reader to ponder and reflect on further.