If the universe is being created and so changing, can the same be said of God? Traditionally, God is seen as perfect and so unable to change. We cannot know God in any way and so this question, like all questions about God, must ultimately be unanswerable.
The problem is that if we make the claim that God does not change, the temptation is to freeze God in whatever form I like to imagine God. Is it really too difficult to imagine that just as the universe changes, so does God?
Prayer itself is premised on a conversation with God where God might be persuaded to change. There are stories, such as Abraham pleading with God for Sodom, that suggest God can be persuaded to change God's mind.
The universe is about 14 billion years old and humanity is a few thousand years old. It is human consciousness that has enabled humanity to pray. Is it not possible that from the perspective of our place in time, God was changed by the appearance of humanity. Humanity is part of the universe and for the first time (as far as we know) part of the universe is conscious of its own existence.
Maybe as we learn more of the universe we will identify with God as a God of change. God is not a once and for all time God but a God whose relationship with humanity changes. I suppose I'm saying God is big enough to embrace these changes in relationship with humanity. The God of the living has to be a God of change because life is in continuous flux. A universe which in a small part is able to know its creator; must be in a continuing dance with its creator.
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