The Answer to Everything: A Biography of God

By Howard Ayno

A biography of God?
That would explain everything!
Why the Universe exists. Why the human race exists. Why everything exists!
So what does the old man know?
What does he claim God personally revealed to him?
Does it make sense?
Does it satisfy your mind?
You decide!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Howard Ayno
• Release date: Oct 24, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005736286

Book preview

1

Who is that at the door?

It's me. You know everything, right?

Who is me?

I am.

Yes, but who are you?

A boy from your neighbourhood.

What is your name?

I'd rather not say. Not just yet.

All right, I'll open the door and have a look at you. But I'm not inviting you in. So stand back.

I'm standing back already.

So you are. Good.

You think you know everything, right?

Great heavens, who gave you that idea?

A boy.

What is his name?

I'd rather not say. A boy from your neighbourhood.

That will be James. He never comes now. Do you know why?

No. Well, maybe.

So what did he say?

He said you told him why the world exists, why humans exist, why everything exists—

In my opinion, yes. Based on my own very faulty human understanding—

So will you tell me what you told him?

Sure. Come on in.

Thank you.

Wd you like a glass of milk? Or something a little stronger. Like coffee or tea?

No thanks.

You can sit in that chair. But you'll have to speak up. My hearing's not what it was.

I can see you are very old.

Well, yes I am. I'm glad you noticed that.

I'm very observant. Everyone says so.

Good. How old are you? Eleven? Twelve? Thirteen?

I haven't got much time.

Ah, tell me all you know, I've got a spare ten minutes.

I've got more than ten minutes.

That was a joke.

Oh.

Well, I was telling James how annoyed I was that all explanations for the Universe existing are all man-centred. And that really arose from this terribly humanistic thing that the greatest crises in the Universe are all seen to be human. They’re not. God is the centre of the Universe and the greatest crisis involved Him.

God. You believe there is a God.

Don't you?

I think so. Yes.

And the greatest crisis ever involved Him. Centrally. Right at the centre.

The greatest crisis ever?

The revolt of Lucifer. His attempt to dethrone God. Which still goes on. And is the reason why the human race exists. This is what history is all abt. The story of the human race and Lucifer and God—

Lucifer–

Perhaps the greatest created angel. Or maybe equal to Michael and Gabriel. And maybe Raphael is also an Archangel, but that's not in the Bible.

The Bible? Do you believe the Bible has no errors?

Of course.

Why?

Because it's true. It has what JB Phillips called the ring of truth. What about you? Do you–

I believe the Bible. I was nine when I asked Jesus into my life and they gave me a Bible. I try to read it every day, well not every day–

Good. Good. And you go to church?

I go to Youth Group. I don't like church. Church is boring.

So which church is that?

I'd rather not say.

That's okay. I guess that's okay. Why do you want to know why everything exists? Don't they answer that at Youth Group?

Youth Group is very ordinary. It's good, but too simple. I like meat. So I came to you.

Good.

God knows everything, right?

Indeed He does.

He knows everything that is going to happen in the future, right?

Yes.

By Lucifer you mean Satan.

Yes, I do–

Then He knew Satan would revolt, right?

Right.

Then why didn’t He just never create him? Wd’ve saved a lot of trouble, right?

Right. But you are forgetting the attributes of God—His character. God HAS to create. It’s part of His nature. And being God He has to create to the utmost of His considerable ability. He had to create beings almost as great as Himself—

Is it true that you once murdered someone?

What?

I don't believe him or I wdn't be here. But Lambert, a usually stupid boy in our class sd you murdered someone. Is it true?

No, of course not! But Yes. Yes I did murder someone. And so did you.

I did not. Then who did you murder?

Jesus Christ. And so did you.

I cdn't have. I'm not old enough. You're scaring me–

Everyone killed Him. He died for the sins of the world. Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.

Oh. That's different. But I didn't–

Yes you did. He died for your sins too–

Well then, Who made God?

That’s easy. God made God.

That’s silly. No one can make themselves.

God can. That’s why we call Him God.

That’s a cop-out—

You shd read Einstein and Physics. Einstein sd something like To us physicists the past and future are the same. We live in an eternal present. So does God. Time is an invention of His that only occurs because He made it a quality of matter. If there is no matter there is no frame of reference and time does not exist. Jesus said ‘God is spirit’ and that word in the Greek can also mean breath and wind. No matter, see? God inhabits eternity. He lives outside of time—

But everything has a beginning—

But not a Being who is not subjected to time. You look very dubious. But you must realise that when you are dealing with God you are dealing with the super-natural. Natural laws do not apply. God is above the natural laws He Himself created. Beginnings are time things. There was never a time when God was not—‘In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God….ALL things were made by Him and without Him was nothing made that was made’—including Himself, as I’ve just about almost pretended to say.

But why create Lucifer knowing–?

Because God’s attributes are infinite—

Which means–?

Well, for one, His creativity is boundless. It has no restrictions. If it did have He wdn’t be God. Therefore He MUST create to the best of His infinite ability. He already greatly wants to, but it also is incumbent upon Him, what you wd expect of an infinite God—

But Satan—

So He made what we call angels which included some to the very best of His infinite ability giving these beings attributes almost as infinite as His—

If He was such a great creator He shd have been able to make beings exactly the same as He is—

He did. He made two as great as He had made Himself. One we call God the Son and the other is God the Holy Spirit. He made them at precisely the same time as He made Himself. Only They too live outside of time so They too were never made as They had no beginning just as He does. Or rather doesn’t—

This is confusing. Were They made or weren’t They?

Of course They weren’t. I’ve just told you—beginnings are time things and They live outside of time, all One of Them.

One? You sd Three.

"If they were humans then yes, one plus one plus one equals three. But humans are finite and These are infinite. So They are One TIMES One TIMES One which equals…..?

One? One times one times one? One. I guess. I think. I hope.

You can’t apply human restrictions to Almighty God. ‘God in three Persons, blessed Trinity.’

So you are saying God was forced to make Lucifer—

I wdn’t say ‘forced’ exactly. He always only ever wanted to create up to the infinite level of His creativity. But from another angle yes, it was incumbent upon Him. God’s attributes are good. It is essential for Him to exercise them to their infinite capacity or risk being considered something less than God.

I still can’t see why a good God wd create someone who he knew was going to cause terrible awful misery and suffering to us humans–

And great misery to Himself. The choice to go bad was Lucifer’s and his alone. God created Him perfect. God didn’t want him to go bad. He wanted him to stay perfect the way God created him. You can’t blame God for Lucifer’s choice.

Maybe I blame God for creating him at all.

God had to create perfect beings with immense intellect and power almost as great as His own. Even if they had been called by any other name one of them for sure wd have revolted—

How many of them are there?

There may be only three. They're called archangels and we know their names: Gabriel, who was sent to Mary to tell her she was going to have baby Jesus, Michael, who seems to be a warrior archangel, and Lucifer. Some talk also of Raphael and Uriel. The short answer is we just don't know.

We should know. Why don't we know?

We just don't know because the Bible doesn't say.

2

Why is Satan so unhappy with God?

Well Lucifer is called the covering angel and in Isaiah 6 there are two covering angels which fly over the head of God on the throne crying HOLY HOLY HOLY IS THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE WHOLE EARTH IS FULL OF HIS GLORY. We see them again in Revelation thousands of years later and their cry is HOLY HOLY HOLY IS THE LORD OF HOSTS WHO WAS AND IS AND IS TO COME. So we see that these extremely intelligent angels repeat almost the same words for thousands of years. That wd brown anyone off, let alone these extremely brainy beings. Lucifer must have got very fed up after a year let alone a thousand years.

Why did God make him do it?

Well, I guess it was a tremendous honour to actually inhabit an area higher than Almighty God. And only the best angels shd have that honour–

Do they have any time off?

We don't know. But I hope so. And there is something worse. If they have any plans and ideas of their own, these super-intelligent beings called angels, they can't just act on them like we human beings can. They have to go cap-in-hand to God and get permission. Do you know how I know that?

No.

Well you should. It's in the Lord's Prayer that you learned at Sunday School. See if you can work it out.

The Lord's Prayer? OurFatherwhichartinHeavenHalloedbeThyName, ThyKingdomcomeThywillbedoneonEarthasitisinHeaven–

There! See? Got it?

No.

Thy will be done on Earth AS IT IS IN HEAVEN. Only one will is done in Heaven: God's will. No angel can do anything on their own initiative. Now you can see why Satan revolted. You can almost hear him shout GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH! Liberty! Freedom! I'm quite surprised that only a third of the angels revolted with him. And that two thirds willingly accept slavery–

But why wd God be so lousy and mean and not let them be free?

He has no choice. Can He help it if He has Infinitely Perfect Knowledge and Infinitely Perfect Wisdom? He automatically knows best. It must be incredibly annoying to those around Him, but He's the Perfect Know-All. They have less than Perfect Wisdom and cd unwittingly choose to do something less than Perfection thus make their Perfect Heaven less than Perfect. God, being Perfect, can't put up with anything less than Perfection, so He must vet all plans. It must be unpleasant to say the least for any amazingly incredibly super-duper genius-quality angel to have their plan rejected, especially as they can't see why. To them it looks perfect. It's only God who sees anything wrong with it. If that happened to Lucifer then that wd doubtless have been the turning point. He cd easily resent such treatment. He'd revolt.

I would too. What a lousy existence!

Yes, fallen human beings will feel that way. Especially Americans. This is what their War of Independence was all about. They wanted to be free to make their own decisions. And they were prepared to die for it. Americans are very Satanic, but don't for Heaven's sake tell them that or you'll get a black eye!

Well they didn't like the English. They weren't revolting against God.

True, but still Americans were revolting.

So why didn't God press the erase button on Lucifer the moment that he revolted?

Well what wd you think of a God who automatically wiped out any opposition to His rule? Perfect behaviour of a Perfect Ruler, do you think?

Yes, if He foresaw all the terrible misery and suffering Lucifer was going to cause for thousands of years.

Well, transfer God's situation to our human situation. Do we admire rulers who put their opposition in jail or even get them killed? Do we think that is acceptable behaviour say of a President?

I guess not–

"Of course we don't. God has a never-ending limitation. He must act Perfectly at all times or cease to be a Perfect God. So He acts Perfectly. He lets Lucifer live. Even worse, He allows Lucifer to go among the angels and campaign against Heaven's present Government. Just like a good ruler in a truly democratic country He allows His opposition free rein to appeal to those who will listen to him. He allows them freedom of choice. In fact, they have always had