Summary: "Everything that can be known (the universe) comes from God, there is no good/evil framework outside of God. Good comes from God."
Previously I have thought of God as the largest thing in the universe. A supreme infinite potentate who made all things. He sits inside the universe. Maybe, even, he is the absolute, the summary, the epitome of the universe.
No.
He is the universe.
Not that I'm going native American or anything. The plants and rocks are not Gods in any way. But first and foremost there is God. He has no container. There is no universe in which he sits. There is God. Period. Everything in the universe, all the angels and demons, all material we see in the galaxies, all the physical laws, good and evil, emotions, thoughts of any sort, everything comes from him.
This means that we can't say "God is good." as if we could describe God by saying "oh, he's made out of good things", as if good can exist independently of God. No, rather than saying "God is good" we instead say "Good is God." We look at good, and because it comes from God (in a sense it is God in that it is a reflection of him, an evidence of his work) and with that we get an idea of who God is.
Got it?
There wasn't a definition of good before God came along. We can't look at good, as the perfect model without error, something we think we can figure out on our own, and say "oh, that's what God must be like."
God is not good. Good is God.
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