Hi Gallenwalsh,
I think God the Father as just simply beyond our comprehension. First off He is invisible spirit, He is not a being that is in a certain place, because He is everywhere, this is an enigma to us. He is self-existing and eternal, no beginning and no end, another enigma. By what ever means (Ray has explained this to some degree) He is or became perfect in wisdom and all goodness, yet another enigma. His power/spirit is holy and the means by which all things exist, which means His Spirit is everywhere and in everything.
So He determined to bring about humanity and would make us the way that we are (physical and temporary) and how we think and He knew that we could not comprehend who or what Him is. So in His great wisdom He created a being, a replica of Himself, but in the form of a man (like we are), so that we would be able to relate to Him, Jesus Christ. He is spirit and has an unending existence in the spiritual realm, a state of immortality. He made Christ as the Supreme Being (under Himself) to carry out this plan for the creation of this universe.
Col 1:15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
v. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him.
v. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.
The human race has been given a physical existence so as to experience good and evil (the tree of life) and of course there is the whole plan of salvation. This physical 'stage' is just that, the first stage/part of the process of being brought towards immortality and it is temporary. But it is an absolute necessary part of the process, we must first live in this world and be deceived, corrupt, dishonorable, weak to the pulls of the flesh, a sinner, this is the dark backdrop we all must experience. But God promises us this is not the end of it.
1Co 15:42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption.
v. 43 It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power.
v. 44 It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
v. 45 And so it is written, "The first man Adam became a living being." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
v. 46 However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and afterward the spiritual.
v. 47 The first man was of the earth, made of dust; the second Man is the Lord from heaven.
v. 48 As was the man of dust, so also are those who are made of dust; and as is the heavenly Man, so also are those who are heavenly.
v. 49 And as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man.
So the few at the first resurrection will receive immortality, be changed from these weak physical bodies to powerful, glorious spirit bodies and join Christ in the kingdom of heaven. I do not believe that God has put us through all that we experience on this earth to develop the good character traits, so as to bring us all together into one homogeneous mass. No, all this we are experiencing now is for a very good reason, to create individuals, separate or distinct with personalities distinguishable from one another. All of our different personalities are to be used to interact and deal with this huge amount of human beings yet to be saved. What God is doing is far greater than the Hindu, Japanese or any other understand.
Luke 8:10 And He said, "To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest it is given in parables, that
"Seeing they may not see,
And hearing they may not understand.'
mercy, peace and love
Kat