12. God is Life Itself

We are going to generalize the previous chapter and say that theism affirms that not only is love the substance of God, but that life itself is also identical to God. For this, the concept of ‘life’ will be defined. We will show in theistic science how this is connected with the Love that is God. That is a long demonstration that depends on many pieces of theory and evidence and will only be fully sketched out by the end of Part IV. For now, we simply affirm the central point:^12.1

• 12.1 Life
• 12.2 Life of created beings
• 12.3 But we do appear to live!
• 12.4 Appropriating life