God and Relativity

In the context of the Alan Watts lecture World as Play, and the eastern notion of yin-yang, which Alan Watts refers to as relativity:

• In a universe that is just a solid ball, there has to be the space around the ball or there is just solid, and no ball
• So ball as monad carries within it non-ball (implying space around the ball and a boundary), or all-ball (implying zero differentiation)

Jared's insight:

• Replace ball with God and we get: for God to be in all and through all, either pantheism is true (nothing is not God) OR we get a limit to God of some kind, a delineation between God and not God, and that opens the space for the yin of darkness/evil/emptiness/death/not-God/Satan co-constituting or providing a boundary for God's yang of light/good/life/somethingness
• But this rule is eternal temporally, meaning that if the boundary between God and Satan ever collapses (or Satan/death/emptiness is destroyed), then all becomes God again (ultimate pantheism) and somethingness merges with nothingness. Eternal life attempting to eliminate death actually causes life and death to merge, destroying both in the process.
• OR another possibility is that Satan and God are both co-eternal and their boundary is defined by the negative space of the other. It takes a theology of eternal cycles of good and evil (where evil is never truly abolished, and good is never truly victorious, see A Good God of Limited Abilities as in Goff's Heretical Christianity, or even in Mormon cosmology) to avoid the collapse to ultimate pantheism, or to avoid the merging of good and evil.
• Note that in Christian theology, this is all heresy (God having a boundary and Satan being on some sort of level with God). But according to the premises of orthodox Christianity nothing is not God, which brings in the problem of ultimate pantheism, as outlined above. A God that is too superlative, we get the problem of Nothing is Not God, which also merges evil with God, merges sinful humans with God, etc.