Tony,
Thank you for the response.
Are you saying that Christians believe that God needs ears to hear and eyes to see? That has been rejected long ago by Augustine. Even blind people can “see” without ears, so why would God need physical ears?
I am not a panentheist because it is clear to me that the universe is not a part of God. God is separate from God’s creation, just as people are separate from, yet connected to, their creations.
God can perceive what is going on in God’s universe without ears and eyes because God is not inferior to God’s creations which are dependent on God’s power.
What I am saying is that the beginning of nature does not have a natural cause, because nothing by definition create itself.
You are right in saying that there does seem some confusion in saying that the universe does not have a rational cause and then saying that God must be the rational cause of the universe. What I meant to say is that if the universe has no (rational) natural cause, then it must have a divine cause, (which is rational.)
Since we do not know God directly but only through God’s revelation of Godself through nature and the Word, we know that God is rational because we and God’s Creation are rational.