How Big is God?

The title of this essay is something a pre-schooler might ask.

And the more churlish among us might be tempted to answer: “I’m not going to dignify that question with an answer because the question itself makes no sense.”

It might be akin to asking: “If God can do anything, can He create something so massive He cannot move it?”

One can think of several questions like that, including: ‘Who made God’?

Questions we cannot wrap our human heads around.

But the pre-schooler’s question may provoke some thought. Thoughts that, on one level, seem legitimate.

From Holy Writ, the way the Almighty has chosen to communicate with us, come some answers, albeit oblique ones.

We are told God is a spirit (as opposed to a creature composed of flesh).

Many of us cannot grasp what this means.

Most of what we think we know is composed of flesh and blood.

Or at least flesh.

Blood is another story.

We humans are used to red blood.

But consider.

The blood of an octopus is not red.

Neither is the blood of spiders, horseshoe crabs, snails and lobsters.

Because of copper-based hemocyanin, their blood is blue.

Sea cucumbers have yellow blood due to high concentration of a vanadium-based pigment called…