Perhaps the most important question in religion is who God is. Christ was often questioned about his relation to God and the identity of God. Christ's response was to use himself as the example of God's characteristics saying he and the Father are one (John 10:30).

There are other competitors for God in terms of power, but they don't meet the moral requirements. The head of the spirit cannibals, who is called satan, has power which is associated with God; but of course he is a destroyer of life (See Spirit World page for satan's background). There are any number of gods who are not spirit cannibals, some of whom have a lot of power. But Christ taught the moral characteristics of the true God. The true God is true by two criteria: creating the material universe as clusters of galaxies and promoting morality.

Creating the material universe and promoting morality are linked, because the purpose of material life is to overcome sin. False gods and corrupters despise material laws of existence standing in their way, even though they must exploit all of the power of material life in their lust for power.

John the elder said sin is lawlessness (1John 3:4), which is perhaps the most significant feature of sin, even though I define sin in other terms, specifically anything which destroys life. Material life creates laws, as scientists study them. Corrupters despise being under the constraints of those laws, not to mention the humanly created laws designed to protect people from harm.

The recent drive for deregulation in government does not have a logic to it; it is an outflow of the hate for laws, while the consequences destroy vast sections of the social order, as demonstrated by Enron and the collapse of the banking industry due to derivatives. The promoters of deregulation didn't say the laws need to be improved in specific ways; they said laws needed to be eliminated.

Laws are an instrumental part of morality, which is why God began his instructions on morality with ten laws called the Ten Commandments. They could never be adequate in themselves, but they taught morality based on laws.

There are certainly contradictions within laws, but that doesn't mean laws can be defied, it means there are larger laws which override lesser laws. In fact, the lesser laws aren't really in contradiction to greater laws; it's just that material life is such an ocean of corruptions, being controlled by satan, that nothing, including laws, can be perfect enough.

So the real God attempts to creat ordered existence. Order has laws within it. Order is necessary to sustain the complexities of life.

All corrupt competitors for God destroy ordered existence in their lust for power. Corrupters do not entirely assume in their own minds that they destroy ordered existence. They assume that what I call sin is the only possible way to do certain things. Fraud, for example, is supposedly necessary in science for reasons only they know. Every sin perpetrated by satan and crew is assumed to be necessary, which supposedly makes it virtue.

Strangely, there is a half-truth to the fact that if the assumed sins really were necessary, they would be virtues. All law enforcement involves small injustices which are inescapable in preventing greater injustices. The real essence of the subject is in the necessity. Without the power mongering and related psychological conditioning aligned upon domination, exploitation, degradation and oppression, the corruption of power mongers is not necessary. It is sin when there would have been more constructive ways of doing something. The improvement of government did not have to involve the deregulation which allowed banking to become a pyramid scheme. (A pyramid scheme exists when the only value in something being sold is in the ability to con someone into buying it, which is what derivatives were designed for.)

What all of this adds up to is that the moral world creates life out of morality, while corrupters destroy life to monger power. On this basis, Christ described God as a promoter of morality who does things the way Christ does things, as he demonstrated with his life.