I am mortal. If I were to question the existence of an infinite God, and if I were to seek alternatives, I might say that Humanity is God; perhaps not immortal; perhaps not all-knowing; perhaps not all-caring; perhaps not merciful; perhaps not just; perhaps not all-powerful. But yet, I can see my active individual hope for goodness and for continued existence beyond this Life, within the future of Humanity.

Perhaps it would be more pleasing to the ear, and less adversarial, to say that the whole of Humanity, past, present, and future, is my God to be served for the duration of my existence upon this Earth. If I were to believe in the existence of an infinite God beyond my physical existence, I would also believe that this God would be pleased with my service to the whole of Humanity; and I believe that this God would recognize my service as service to God.

Humanity is finite; with a definitive beginning, and a potentially foreseeable end. Speaking as Humanity, if I were to question the existence of an infinite God, and if I were to seek alternatives, I might say that Nature is God; perhaps not immortal; perhaps not all-knowing; perhaps not all-caring; perhaps not merciful; perhaps not just; perhaps not all-powerful. But yet, I can see my active Humanitarian hope for goodness and for continued cooperative existence, inseparably entangled with the future of Nature.

Still speaking as Humanity, perhaps it would be more pleasing to the ear, and less adversarial, to say that the whole of Nature, past, present, and future, is my God to be served for the duration of my existence upon this Earth. If I were to believe in the existence of an infinite God beyond the natural boundaries of this existence, I would also believe that this God would be pleased with my service to the whole of Nature; and I believe that this God would recognize my service as service to God.

God is proposed to be infinite, and immutable. Speaking as this God, (presumptuous as it is), if I were to closely examine the workings of Humanity and Nature, I might question the odds of continued existence. And if I were to question the odds of the continued existence of Humanity and Nature, I might say that the individual is God; perhaps not immortal; perhaps not all-knowing; perhaps not all-caring; perhaps not merciful; perhaps not just; perhaps not all-powerful. But yet, I can see my hope for transcendence beyond the existential, manifest as ineffable intuitive perseverance within the individual; within Humanity; within Nature.

The question becomes, in the immediately preceding sentence, where exactly does individual intercession take over? Is God seeing His (or Her) hope? Or is God seeing individual hope? Or is an individual seeing personal hope? I believe the perseverance in the second part of the sentence indicates a greater likelihood of (active) individual hope, and I believe that the perspective is (mostly) irrelevant. To rely on God's hope for or faith in an individual, or in the whole of Humanity, (from where I sit) has not proven universally productive. I believe one may attribute ineffable intuition as one chooses, as long as it is followed by an active individual hope that contributes to universal progress and productivity.

I am mortal. Humanity is God.

Humanity is finite. Nature is God.

Nature is bounded. Transcendence is God,

Transcendence is intuitive. Intuition is individual.

God is individual. The Individual is God.

I am mortal...