God exists.  God's existence and presence are not dependent upon those who conceive of It.  God is, exists, and is universally present whether people think of God as existing or not.  God does not exist solely because people think of God.

Centuries ago several philosophers came to a conclusion that if people thought of God, God could exist, and that if they did not think of God, then God would not exist.  Both statements are silly because if that were the case, then the universe could not have come into existence until after God was thought of:    God, who created the universe, and the person who thought of God.  So, we say God's existence and presence are not dependent upon those who conceive of It. 

God is without gender.  Since God is eternal* and there is only one God, God was not brought into existence by any other power or being.  God has no gender or reproductive system, either to produce or create other beings, or as a remnant of Its existence.  God, therefore, is neither "he" nor "she," but more accurately an "it," an "it'' that more perfectly combines the attributes of father and mother without the biological and social hassles of hormones and sex organs.  Using "He," "Him," and "His" convey Jesus’ relationship to the fatherly attributes of God.  The male gender pronouns are metaphors that Jesus used intentionally so that we could understand our personal relationship with our Creator-parent.

* Eternal means without beginning or end.  It is outside the dimension of time. Infinite, on the other hand, means a beginning with no ending and is time-dependent.

God is without form.  Because God was not created and did not evolve, God does not have a body.  God is without form. 

God is pure will.  Just as God has will, so do we.  Our will has energy that emanates from within us, yet it is without form.  Many aspects of ourselves exist without form, yet we know with certainty they exist.  God is a fully developed being and has no need of form in the physical sense, but exists as a spiritual being.  In order to create the universe, God must be pure will and without form.

God is spirit.  No form, no substance, just spirit as far as we can understand what spirit is from our limited perspective.  God is spirit that is will and capable of creation and much more.  Without form, God can will to be anywhere as a whole or a fragment.  (It is beyond the scope of this text to discuss whether material matter is God manifested in material form, or whether God is "in" matter.)

God existed before creation.  We can say this as a fact, dependent upon the third original statement of belief, ''God is eternal.”  Before creation, God existed in the Eternal NOW, when there was no "when," where there was no "where."  God existed in the nothingness that was only God — all undeveloped potential — that leads us to a very ponderable situation.  When we think of a state of existence before creation, we must realize that there was NOTHING.  Nothing, except God.

It boggles the mind, doesn't it, to think that before time there was absolutely nothing:   No universes, no galaxies, no stars, no sun, no planets, no moon, and no air.  Nothing, not even time or space.  There was no expanse of the universe.  No then, no now, no future.  No place, no here, no there.  Only God.  Only God in the Eternal NOW, in the Eternal HERE.  All the potential of the universe existed in God:  The totality of all potential that would be material and invisible, temporal and spiritual, existent and undeveloped potential.

God created the universe.  Not to worry whether it was created by fiat in 6 days or by evolution over the eons.  It does not seem relevant to know whether God created the universe in 6 billionths of a second, 6 days, or 60 billion years.  Creation of the universe is not a closed-end event, but continues on and is a timeless phenomenon.