>>17896645
You're conflating two fundamentally distinct ontologies. In Christian theology, Genesis 1 makes it crystal clear: "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and void". This void, the Hebrew tohu va vohu, is not God. It's what God creates. The text then says, "Let there be light," and separates light from darkness. That means what was just “created” is still undifferentiated, without structure, form, or identity, including the heavens. There’s no sky yet, no firmament; the “earth” is not ground, and the “heavens” are not above. Both are part of the same tohu vavohu, chaotic potential, not actuality. It is into this formless substrate that God speaks: “Let there be light.” And here’s the key, God separates the light from the darkness. That act of separation is the beginning of ordered reality. So God is not the void, the darkness and even light, God is the source of all these things that transcends both and brings distinction where none existed separated.

>>17896714
Attachment doesn’t arise from a self with essence, but from habitual pattern, conditioned processes without inherent ground. Desire doesn’t need a self to possess it, it functions through the echo of grasping habits, looping in absence. The illusion persists not because someone is trapped, but because ignorance keeps mistaking reflections for reality, that’s the wheel of samsara.

Saying that "you don't change anything unless the world changes" stems from an illusory dualism between "you" and "the world". This separation is precisely the illusion. Transforming your mind is transforming the world, because the two were never separate. Ultimately, thinking that something is only valuable if it affects the whole is a mistake. Liberation does not depend on scale, but on lucidity.