CONCLUSIONS:
God, the First Cause, must be all alone in His universe. If God can think, then we know how He creates. He creates for companionship. He wants thinking beings with free will to experience His creation in an endless variety of ways and to share their experiences with Him. Like a loving parent, He does not want to give them a script to follow, to control their every action. He gives them resources and opportunities and situations to experience and asks them to write home, send email, talk to Him, ie to have a relationship with Him. He thought Himself into this world as a human Himself to demonstrate that even humans can have a deep, close relationship with the Almighty Thinker God. He died a human death to show His love and concern for humanity.
Yet, God is outside of our 3 dimensions. We are His thoughts and we can never see the Thinker face-to-face. Hence, there are certain things about God that we can never hope to understand. Some of those things might be road blocks in that we may lose hope and believe that God is totally unreachable. For that reason, God reveals some of these things to us directly, via His Word, the Bible. We know this Bible is linked to the Creator because it uniquely contains enough verified prophecy to be statistically incredible, without ever being wrong.
With these hints, the remaining faith needed is "reasonable" - it need not be "blind". Without these hints, there are several equally mysterious possible explanations. His hints in His Bible tell us which ones to believe so we don't go too far astray. He is helping us to understand His Big Picture view well enough for us to know that we can seek Him with all our hearts and find Him.
Yet, there is a real drama playing out on this planet, which all the inhabitants of other worlds outside this 3D universe of ours can observe. In that sense, Earth is the "center of attention" even if it is not the "center of this universe". The drama is for the benefit of those beings, who existed long before we did and who must have more dimensions than we do. Our lives in this universe are destined for death. Yet our God has a plan for us to join them one day if we choose. There, He can continue to think of us in a form that they have now. The Eternal Gospel Message is that God creates intelligent beings to live happily ever after in a perfect kingdom of heaven. He can’t just do that, because intelligent beings must first develop a knowledge of good and evil without being destroyed by the consequences of experiencing evil. His plan unfolding here on our Earth is going to ensure that eternal goal for all His created beings, who choose Life.
He can indeed give us everlasting life by continuing to think of us. Yet, even though He keeps us alive by thinking of us, He will not override our free will. We will be doing our own thing and loving to share the experiences with our God. For those who cannot deal with that kind of relationship in this limited earthly life, that's fine. God will grant them their wishes as well and one day He will just put them “out of His thoughts”. He will still know them, but will no longer think of them in any active situation. They will cease to exist - not burn in hell forever, for that would just be an unhappy but everlasting life (John 3:16).
Indeed God is logical and He has a Plan for His created beings, where all who elect to will continue to experience His creations with Him for time without end. His Word is truth and it is consistent. There is a logical interpretation to everything He has told us in His Bible and it is His responsibility to ensure that Word is preserved. It is our responsibility to seek the truth with all our hearts, and to decide whether or not to accept His offer of everlasting life. Our path to everlasting Life is to develop a relationship with the true, Creator God during our human lives. We do this simply by talking to God when we are good or bad, happy or sad. Take God with you all the time as Jesus demonstrated humans can do during His earthly life.
PS: One problem we have is distinguishing the True God from the many alternatives. It’s easy to attribute strange feelings and supernatural experiences to God. We would think they must be good and true, because, after all, they happened to us. We are all very adept at creating false gods to worship. It comes as naturally as superstitions and, it also happens by default when we are consumed by the pursuit material things. For altruistic reasons we could easily find ourselves saying, “Lord, Lord” to the wrong Lord.
The Key to everlasting happiness is in our developing a relationship with the true Creator-Father God during our human life. We need to talk to God all the time: when we are good or bad, happy or sad. Take the God, Who gives you the advice you know you need, with you wherever you go, and share your experiences with Him as you would with a loving parent. Get to know this God by talking to Him when you’re in the middle of a grave temptation, because then you’ll know He’s the real God by his advice. Then hang on to that relationship in general, talking to Him as Christ demonstrated we humans can. If you do this, then in the End Times, when the truth is so obscured even the elect can be deceived, you at least will know the real God and you can trust His advice.
3 November 2001, appended to Sept 14, 2002
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