God's Nature and character

[Mudhammam]

So, I don't ascribe to belief in anything that I'd consider deserving of the title God proper, but I'll take a crack at your question as if I were trying to formulate a rational framework by which I might call belief in God intelligible.

As philosophers have long argued, God is a necessary being--scratch that though, I don't like the application of being here, so call it "essence" of... the supremely mysterious), so its (again, I can't being myself to attach a gender title to this essence of something greater than the Universe) source of omnipotence lies in the nature of its own existence. That is to say, "nothing" as in the non-existence of everything is a meaningless concept. Something must exist, and this something is an essence that within its omnipotence can bring forth material actualities such as time, space, energy, and matter. The omnipotence of this essence exists in a state of duality between actuality and potentiality, and given its existence outside of time, or at least any conception of time we can perceive, this duality appears utterly contradictory. But like the Universe does not bend to our notions of rationality, neither can we strictly apply them to the supremely mysterious essence we call God.

Well, I said I'd take a shot, so don't hold me to any of that too seriously.