Me too! Thank you. I am an artist. Is my work a part of me? I should hope not. An artist's work is his expression but not a part of him.My point was: what is the universe if it is not part of God? What else can it be?
I like the crazy way you write sometimes
Imagine if everything you made is a part of you. Whatever happens to it happens to you too. But in real life that doesn't happen unless a person has put too much heart into it. It is unhealthy. Isn't it? I am sure God is not unhealthy and certainly does not make Self unhealthy by being a part of everything. Everything shares it's own small part of God's memorial. But not God. God is Holy Three times says scripture.
So what is holiness? I hear it means "to be set apart". How can God be everywhere and in everything but also be set apart? So I looked it up.
"Be Holy for I Am Holy" - Beyond Today | United Church of God
“When pressed to describe what it means to be holy, adults gave a wide range of answers. The most common reply was ‘I don’t know,’ offered by one out of every five adults (21%). Other responses fell into categories such as ‘being Christ-like’ (19%), making faith your top priority in life (18%), living a pure or sinless lifestyle (12%), and having a good attitude about people and life (10%). Other response categories included focusing completely on God (9%), being guided by the Holy Spirit (9%), being born again (8%), reflecting the character of God (7%), exhibiting a moral lifestyle (5%), and accepting and practicing biblical truth (5%)” (www.barna.org ).
So just what does God desire when He commands that we “be holy for [He] is holy”? Let’s look closely at the original meaning of the word holy. The Hebrew is kodesh meaning “separated or set apart.” Bullinger’s Companion Bible comments that kodesh can also imply “consecrated, dedicated, hallowed, holiness, saint or sanctuary.” Some modern English dictionaries will include devout, faithful, God-fearing, righteous and virtuous.
The New Testament Greek for holy is hagios, and Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance translates hagios into the English words sacred, blameless and consecrated. We find the word holy used in the Scriptures 567 times!
Can The Holy God be considered blameless if the universe is just a "part of God"? No. God in the sinner makes God a sinner too. In my country being a companion to a murderer at a murder makes me guilty of murder too. I believe The Father to whom we pray holds The God's Self to a higher standard, not a lower standard than human law.