As it turns out science has wandered into the realm of the miraculous. Particles can interact with each other across the Universe simultaneously. Light can seemingly come from nothing. And now we are seemingly on the verge some sort of superintelligent being that could either wipe us out or endow us with immortality.
However, nothing in scientific realm or human experience can really replicate or come close to explaining “holiness”. This is a concept not apart of most people’s daily experience. I am not talking about people who seem to be holy, or people who think they are holy. To really understand the ancient understanding of God (and for some modern reader’s) you need to grasp the concept of true holiness. Unfortunately, it’s not really something to be grasped, it’s something that needs to be experienced. If ancient texts are to be believed the experience would be not unlike having the Sun itself show up in your bedroom and begin to speak to you. Light and heat that shakes you to your very core. The normal reaction to this kind of holiness is to “fall down as if dead”. It’s often followed by a sense of one’s own unworthiness. It’s as if you suddenly realize your with the President and you’ve got tons of food stuck in your beard.. only on a much grander scale. Maybe you don’t just have food on your face.. but you are also naked.
I suppose it’s possible that we can imagine an alien vastly beyond our physical limits. Perhaps there could be a being even made completely of photons. After all, scientists have already created molecules out of photons.