The universe is a manifested property coming from a necessary, all powerful, conscious agent.
This conscious agent is God.
The properties of this universe has been finely tuned by this agent to create the climes required of me to post this.
This universe has been filled with other conscious, although lesser, creatures with free will.
However, through God’s infinite love and power, He can use these free agents to fulfill a beautiful tapestry—the supreme plan. God’s plan.
As this Anon (
https://boards.4channel.org/sci/thread/11955475#p11956321) says, the Universe is Love. However, it is manifested Love. It is not pure Love; for pure Love is an energy radiated from God, but in the same way creation is radiated from God. God lifts up creation to keep it sturdy, to stop it from falling. However, in this universe there is sin; death. O, death! Something that puts stains into the beautiful nature of life, and obliterates everything it touches. The entropy from death, emerging from vice itself, attempts to wax all love from it’s own internal hubris. It extinguishes all life from this, and yet there is an opposite to death. Something that fills the void left from death, and annihilates it from the inside.
And Love saves us, Love lifts us up and brings us to a better day. For God is Love, and God made us loving and merciful as He is merciful.
But there is a solution to this endless cycle of death and love. Christ. The God-man, the perfect archetypal masterpiece, begotten, not made; Light from Light, Love from Love, true God from true God. And yet, Christ died. He died, and overcame death with His supreme Love; For His Love is stronger than anything else, whether it be rulers, swords, or even death itself.
Hallelujah. Come quick, Lord Jesus!