I've been very interested in German idealism lately. As we know, the movement started with Kant. The problem with his philosophy is that he left his antimonies unsolved. In the heart of his understanding of the world were contradictions, and he failed to explain how we can properly understand contradictions aside from being brute facts. Fitche came next with his attempt to reconcile materialism with idealism. His ambiguity over whether we create the world or rather matter creates us was a flaw which Schelling noticed. Schelling presented the world as Nature. Surely there is a nature to our globe, but he posited a nature of the universe, and this nature was divine. God is like our great great great.. (to infinity) grandfather and (this is key) is more us than we are ourselves. Much Indian philosophy says the same, calling the Fatherhood/Origin "Perusa" or "Brahman". We are mostly Atman and the part of ourselves we experience as Ego is what has entered the world to gain virtue and good karma. If our Egos can do true good than we can have a superabundance of goodness in our being through the light of divinity and our good karma. This seems to me a splendid system and one superior to the Christian ideology.

The Christians say God is infinite goodness. I would argue that my theory of God has no upper limit to how good WE can be. The Christian God is limiting and limited. The idea of perfect perfection which we can conceptualize is doing good in the face of infinite pain and suffering. Now the theist God can't have this by pure possession. This is obvious. You cannt own perfect action as if it were a thing even if God is that thing. He is said to have free will but he is caught on the other horn in that he doesn't face infinite pain and gain perfection with his will. Christianity has a "nature view" of God where he just sits there with all goodness in him. This can't be right because perfection comes from action. The God that lives in us is perfect and infinite, but there are different infinities, and I believe we can believe in the unity of Atman and Brahma without being a pure Quietest and in fact we can add to God's perfection by perfecting ourselves. There is no limit on how good we can be. That's my theology in a nutshell. Take from it what you like.