APPENDIX C2:
What’s in an Email?
We get all kinds of
questions, but sometimes the simplest are the hardest to answer.
At 04:34 PM 11/19/02 -0500, you wrote:
Why universe bothers existing at all?
I want to know how God created the world.
Bible is religion fiction in my point of views.
Sorry,
Zer0reX
Here are my responses:
We both agree that the universe does in fact exist,
right?
It is at least as real as you and I.
Logic demands that there must be a First Cause that
itself has had no cause, ie the First Cause must be eternal with no beginning
and no end. [It would also have nothing
outside Itself.] Perhaps you can find
some other explanation, but so far as I know, no one ever has found a way
around this logic.
Let's agree to call this First Cause,
"God".
The question now is whether this God is Personal or
not.
I suggest that God is personal because a God, who
can think at least as well as I can, would be personal by my definition. I suggest that God can think because then I
can understand how thought got into this universe in the first place. If I am correct, then this God creates
simply by thinking and thus everything in this universe is indeed in the mind
of God. I can support this derived
conclusion because I am a subset of this universe and I can think. In my own
mind I can create another universe as long as it is of a lower order of
dimension than I exist in. I am 3D and
I can only visualize my thoughts in 2D. Nevertheless, I can create in my own
mind, where I am “all-powerful”, “omni-present”, and “all-knowing”.
It is clear that a God, Who is thinking of me is
actually visualizing His thoughts in 3D, so according to my logic, He must have
more than 3 dimensions. This is
probable because He certainly is the only thing that is eternal and that unique
characteristic is what I mean by a dimension.
[Because He is all alone in His universe, He has another unique
dimension – ie no outside.]
See if you can come up with a better explanation
while I proceed along this line of reasoning:
Here is God in a universe unto Himself with more
than 3D, and in His mind, He is creating our 3D universe.
Why is He doing this?
If God is intelligent as I am suggesting, then His
motives must be revealed by Himself. We
can only guest at motives when intelligence is involved. We would require the Doer Himself to give
His own motives for His actions.
Realizing this, we now turn to the Bible as the
written word of God for humans to understand His motives and plans.
Could this be true? All we can do is read it and try to understand it, and then see
if what we understand makes sense.
This has traditionally been a big problem, because
so many readers of the Bible interpret it so differently. I was (like many scientists) inclined
originally to believe that the Bible must be religious fiction, not to be taken
literally. This then leaves us with
nothing but our own guesses. Hence, so
many different and conflicting religions are generated according to the
doctrines of men. Same thing goes for
many scientific theories as well – doctrines of men.
All of them cannot be right, but they all can be
wrong. In fact all but one of them must
be wrong, and as I said that one itself may also be wrong. Not much to hang your life on is it?
My approach is to go back to the Bible for answers
instead of following any of these doctrines of men. But I too need an interpretation that makes complete sense in
terms of the observable evidence as well as what the Bible texts indicate. The truth is in the gray areas of our
interpretations of both. I realize that
virtually no one to date has had a Big Picture view of everything that makes
complete sense without having to admit that there are gaping holes. None of us 3D creatures could understand a
God with 4 or more dimensions completely.
Yet, the Bible tells us that we can know this God well enough to gain
something called “Everlasting Life”.
Very Interesting.
Now I direct you to start with the conclusion from
my book-online at,
"http://www.nasamike.com/main/book/conclusions.htm"
for the rest of this story. Read this and then RSVP
NASA Mike
19 Nov 2002
For
more on this and a response to any questions, please email any comments to nasamike@nasamike.com