Perhaps we don't have to be a "rocket scientist" to answer those tough questions. We just need to seek the answers with all our heart and we will find them. We get into trouble when we stop using our minds while we are searching for God. God gave us the ability to think logically and He expects us to use that. I see drugs, and hypnotism and those other things that turn off our brains as working against this basic principle. Perhaps, what we need is a model that explains each of these tough questions as far as the observable facts. Then, leaping in faith the rest of the way makes sense. Here's the model that works for me:
1) God is the Thinker and
everything else is His thought.
2) God has more than three dimensions, and this 3-D world is a physical reality
that is inherently contained within His "super-physical" reality.
Is it possible that our world has more than the three dimensions (length, width, and height), which we are familiar with? We can see evidence of this all around us. There are forces that act at a distance, such as Gravity; and other phenomena such as Magnetism, Electromagnetic Radiation, Light, and Electricity, which cannot be fully defined in three dimensions. Likewise, our thoughts are very real, but they cannot be defined by three physical dimensions either. Hence a "rocket scientist" could hypothesize that the connection we call gravity is in another dimension, and extra dimensions are required to explain those other phenomena as well. We can never fully comprehend anything outside of our 3D world. We must have faith to some extent. We believe in "electricity" because we can observe its effects and we can model it with equations involving electrons that correctly predict what it will do next. Still, we have never seen an electron, so we still need to have some faith. This is "reasonable" faith as opposed to "blind" faith. Unlike "blind" faith, "reasonable" faith makes sense in terms of the observable facts.
If there is a God, where is He? If He is all around us as we believe, why can't we see Him. Is He multi-dimensional (ie more than 3D)? Absolutely, if God exists, He must have more than 3D to account for all the things we believe about Him. We use the term, "dimension" to describe a feature that interfaces with all the other features, but is totally separate otherwise. Think of how Height is something that is totally different from Length and Width, yet it interfaces with them in their plane. I would like to use the term dimensions in describing those extra characteristics that only God, the First Cause, can have. As we said earlier, God has at least two extra dimensions that account for how He can be Eternal and All Alone in His universe. You might take a look at this independent article on this subject entitled, “Does God Think?”.
So now let's apply this concept to some of those tough questions and see if we
can make sense out of them.
a) Is God Personal?
If God can think at least as well as we, who He created, can then He is personal.
26 July 2001
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