I don't think we are too far apart on this.
But if I understand you correctly, you are saying there must be a progression from a simpler state- even for God, which I understand logically. But the problem is entropy- without a driver, things don't just spontaneously design themselves for no particular reason. As before we can point to computer programs that in a sense 'create' complexity- but only by first starting with something even more complex than the result- the hardware, software, intelligent programmer. The software cannot write itself- that needs purpose to yes?
Similarly with life, the most complex 'software' needed to drive it, had to exist from the very beginning.
I think the hypothetical solution lies in the fact that God, as creator of time as we know it, must necessarily transcend that time, cause and effect as we understand- to have always been sentient. to be the 'The beginning and end'
I think that's a very good point, creative intelligence is an awesome- and as far as we can tell- unstoppable force, nothing is inherently beyond it's capability- perhaps even creating our own universe?, and creating our own collective intelligence, understanding, love, purpose and pouring it into that universe?- which would then be created independently from our time scale, and leave it's inhabitants scratching their heads as yto where they came from- if you see where I am going with this?!
I agree there also- love being the most awesome thing, purpose, motive for anything- and love, good cannot exist without hate/bad- no more than left can exist without right, they define each other.
Biblically speaking, God is said to have progressed from a
more simple state -but
the most simple state is not described.
I don't know -but I do not presently think that God (everything) was
necessarily always sentient in a very complex state -but was always the one who was in the most simple state and would become sentient in a complex state.
That would still qualify as being eternal -having "always" existed -but outside the frame of
any time. To be outside the frame of any time, one must have been that which defined and produced time by making the first move.
I do not believe time to be a thing in and of itself -but a description and product of relationships and interaction.
I do not believe anything necessarily preceded the first move except that which would first move -and "before" the first move need only exist as a concept which is false -as it defined and produced time.
With all things, the most simple software and hardware needed to exist from the very beginning. It can exist without the more complex -but the more complex cannot exist without it.
The most simple state could not have been similar to a bunch of ones and zeroes which could not interact and become rearranged -but could possibly be as simple as something akin to ones and zeroes with something to stir them up.
Technically, software cannot exist without hardware -without residing somewhere -and the most basic combination of software and hardware might be of a nature to write anything and everything -yet preferring a complexity indicative of the nature of the most basic simplicity.
I do believe software could possibly write itself until it became a simple self -and then make itself a more complex self -knowing itself more as it became more of itself to know.
(Knowing, etc., would require some sort of memory reference, I suppose, equal to or greater than that which could be known at any time. Memory could then be manipulated to model, etc..)
The chance that such could become a sentience might seem slim to none -but perhaps chance is not an issue when time is not an issue... if it was of a nature to eventually arrange into every possible increasingly-complex combination until it looked in a mirror, as it were.
If there is any chance at all -perhaps an eternity for such things to happen makes at least some chances inevitable.
Or something like that. "Everything" does seem rather "binary" in nature -with something able to compound it.
I do not believe good cannot exist
in reality without evil -but it cannot exist without the
concept of evil. Pure good can only exist when evil is prevented from existing -by understanding the concept and the particulars.
That is the difference between God knowing good and evil -and man knowing good and evil. God made man in his image -but when man became as God -knowing good and evil -mayhem ensued -because man has not yet learned to keep evil from existing in reality.
