God causes itself {causa sui}. However, causes must already exist, so causing oneself cannot cause one's existence. Most theologians state that God has no cause, because God is necessary.
God can have created universe {creator}, have only given form or laws to universe, or be separate from universe. God created one universe from nothing, and God can modify all matter and events. God can have created it all at one time or creates it continuously.
However, God is not creator of everything, because organisms evolve and physical things make random combinations. Universe is not a machine or body. Matter and energy had to have intrinsic laws to exist, so God cannot have added laws or form. God cannot be separate, because universe is what is.
God can be sacred and/or supernatural {divine, God}. People can have a divine essence or part that can have personal relations with the Divine.
God can be in everything {immanence}|. However, God is not immanent, because space is not continuous but quantized. Infinitesimal space parts are always different and always changing, because small volumes have tremendous energies. Space contracts, expands, and curves over time, because space is dynamic. Time flow is not smooth and continuous but quantized.
God can be all-powerful {omnipotence} {omnipotent}. However, God is not omnipotent, because physical quantities have quanta, are uncontrollable during transitions, have random elements, are relativistic, and take time, so God cannot act immediately and simultaneously.
God can be everywhere at once {omnipresent}|.
God can perceive and know all {omniscience} {omniscient}. God can know everything about past, present, and future. However, God is not omniscient, because Gödel's proof shows that one system cannot contain all true things. Physical quantities are relativistic, so no one viewpoint exists. Physical quantities have quanta, so instruments cannot observe transitions.
Because nothing has existed always, something makes and destroys all things, and that something must have supreme being {supreme being}, existing in itself with no other cause. However, there does not have to be only one.
God can be above or around everything {transcendence} {transcendent}. God can stand outside time, space, and mind and transcend universe. However, God is not transcendent, because signals cannot reach all space simultaneously but travel at light speed. There is no absolute space or time to occupy. Space parts appear different relative to different observers. Space itself can expand and contract over time.
God can be unknowable. People can only know what God is not {via negativa}, such as not animal.
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