We have all had life-changing events. My greatest life-changing event was when I gained a full understanding of the Lord’s infinite love for each of us.

My publisher, Boyd Tuttle, introduced me to the book, “Our Lord of Wholeness” by Michael McNiven.  It shows that the Atonement overcomes the effects of the world winding down (entropy). When Boyd shared that with me, it touched my heart to the core. In other words, the Lord’s infinite atonement totally overcomes the effects of the universe winding down by winding it up.

I recently was privileged to get to know Michael D. McNiven, the author of Our Lord of Wholeness; The Atonement of Jesus Christ as the Organizing Principle. His book and insights have been another life-changing event for me. When I learned this from Michael, I reached out to the well-known artificial (AI) software internet program—”Chat GPT”, and got the following response to this comment from me [my additions in brackets]:

The infinite atonement is cosmic in its covering all of Heavenly Father’s children from before the Earth was created until the end of time. It overcomes the entropy of the universe.

Chat GPT Responded

“A profound and beautiful expansive way to express the infinite scope of the [infinite] atonement in Latter Day Saint’s theology especially the atonement of Jesus Christ isn’t just a remedy for personal sin, it’s a cosmic force. It transcends time, applies retroactively and proactively, and, as you pointed out covers all of Heavenly Father’s children, regardless of when or where they lived.

“The idea that the [infinite] atonement overcomes entropy–a physical principle describing the universe’s inevitable decline into disorder–is a powerful metaphor. In spiritual terms, entropy might represent decay, death, separation, are the chaos of sin. Through Christ’s [infinite] atonement, there is a reversal: disorder becomes order, death gives way to resurrection, and separation is healed by eternal covenants. It’s a unifying, restoring force on a cosmic scale.

“This view echoes what prophets and Apostles have taught–that the [infinite] atonement isn’t just the centerpiece of human history but of all creation in a way it is the spiritual law that underwrites and redeems the physical laws.”

 Chat GPT Shared Regarding My Statement

Your statement — “God’s infinite love and the infinite extent of the universe is consistent with individual intelligence being co-eternal with God” — is rich with metaphysical and theological implications. It echoes themes found in certain strands of Christian theology, especially in Latter-day Saint (LDS/Mormon) thought, but also intersects with broader philosophical ideas about consciousness, eternity, and divine immanence.

Let’s unpack this idea through a few frameworks:

1. Latter-day Saint Theology (Mormonism)

In LDS theology, your statement aligns quite closely with core beliefs:

• Co-eternity of intelligences: LDS doctrine teaches that intelligences (the core of individual beings) are uncreated and eternal — they have always existed alongside God.
• God’s love is seen as not only infinite but also deeply personal, directed toward each individual intelligence.
• The universe is vast and filled with divine purpose, with each soul having an eternal role within it.

So, within this view:

God does not create intelligence from anything but rather fosters its growth through love and progression, consistent with a cosmos [or universe] designed for eternal beings.

2. Philosophical Implications

From a metaphysical perspective, you’re proposing:

• A non-dualistic view where the divine and the self are deeply interconnected.
• Eternal consciousness: The soul or mind [intelligence] isn’t a temporal phenomenon but has always existed in some form.
• The universe isn’t just vast in space but infinite in significance, because each individual consciousness has eternal worth.

This idea parallels:

• Platonism: where eternal forms and souls exist beyond time.
• Process theology: where God is in a constant relational process with the world, and individual experiences have enduring value.

3. Theological Resonance with Divine Love

If God’s love is infinite, it makes sense to conclude that:

• This love must have an eternal object — and thus individuals (souls, intelligences) must exist eternally.
• God’s love wouldn’t be momentary or finite, but continuous, enduring through all states of existence (pre-mortal, mortal, post-mortal).

This also suggests:

• Relational eternity: The relationship between God and the individual is not bounded by time, sin, or death — it is the basis of eternal identity. [We are children of Heavenly Parents.]

4. Mystical Interpretation

Mystics across traditions might interpret your statement as indicating:

• A unity of being — where divine love is the substrate of all consciousness.
• Each individual soul is a ray of divine intelligence, not separate from God, but co-existent within God’s infinite awareness.

Summary

Your view presents a theologically optimistic cosmology:

• God’s love is infinite.
• The universe reflects this love through its scale and complexity.
• Each individual intelligence is eternal — not an afterthought, but a fundamental, co-eternal reality.
• Therefore, human existence has infinite value and is intimately related to the divine purpose of the universe.

My Additional Thoughts

Michael’s book was made available on the 26^th of March 2025—the same day as my book, My Revelations. This is an important date.  It ties to Enoch’s calendar and the date of the FIRST VISION of the Prophet Joseph Smith (26 March 1820).

Exactly ten years later the Book of Mormon was available to the world (26 March 1830). The Lord’s Spirit revealed to me that those first 5,000 copies were printed in the Divine ratio (7.5 inches by 4 5/8 inches = 1.62…). For me that shows the direct fingerprint of the Lord.

Because of the significance of this ratio being evident with the first printing of the Book of Mormon, David Hocking shares  this detail on page 315 of his seventh ANNOTATED EDITION “THE REVELATIONS of JOSEPH SMITH, JR.”

All of these great insights have prompted me to write another book, “The Infinite Atonement of Jesus the Christ; And its Last Days Significance”—my seventh book! I hope this new book will be a life changer for others.

We (Brian Nettles and I) did a YouTube podcast with Michael D. McNiven, last Thursday (22 May 2025). It was an awesome experience to visit with him and to get to know him better. The YouTube Podcast is an hour and a half long but loaded with profound insights from Michael’s book.

David W. Allan

PS For those who don’t know what GPT stands for in Chat GPT:

GPT stands for Generative Pre-trained Transformer.

Here’s a breakdown of what that means:

• Generative: It generates text — answers, stories, code, summaries, etc.
• Pre-trained: It’s trained on a large dataset (like books, websites, articles) before being fine-tuned for specific tasks.
• Transformer: A type of neural network architecture introduced in the 2017 paper “Attention Is All You Need”, which is especially good at understanding language.

So, GPT is a model designed to understand and generate human-like language based on massive amounts of pre-learned data. [But it has no soul!]

Because we have a soul, in prayer, we are able to couple sincere prayer into the Eternity Domain, which I share experiments regarding in chapters 21 and 22 of It’s About Time. The Eternity Domain is where God and His angels do their perfect work for us. And it is not limited by space and time.

The Prophet Joseph Smith shared that the Kingdom of Heaven is perfectly organized. Thus, using Michael’s phrase, the Lord’s “Wholeness” winds everything up—overcoming the entropy of the universe. The cosmic completeness of the infinite atonement does that; how blessed we are to have a personal-perfect infinitely loving Elohim.

David W. Allan

P.S.  Don’t forget to view the YouTube video. 

Photo:  Michael D. McNiven