Thomas
Brooks in 'Precious Remedies to Satan's Devices' examines one
particular Satanic device to snare the soul that has wide-spread use
today. One use of the device occurs in the attack upon Genesis in
order to make just-worldly cosmology opulent and desirable in
comparison to parchment of Genesis.
“DEVICE 1: By
presenting the WORLD in such a dress, and in such a garb to the soul,
as to ensnare the soul, and to win upon the affection of the soul.”
Satan seems to use confusion
about the construction of the Universe today as a way to draw people
to faithlessness and frustration with the Bible. Those that wouldn’t
know a proton from a quark leap to faith in electrons and football to
disdain Genesis. The media love that. There is no need for
frustration.
It is true that some theologians
use 12th century scientific assumptions in interpreting Genesis and
limit God a priori to means of construction readily understandable to
the 3rd millennium man. That wish to a void scientific research and
rely entirely upon the theological work of the past to understand
Genesis tends to reinforce secular, atheist, arguments that the
Genesis story is obsolete-when of course it is not; it is the
interpretive paradigms or scientific assumptions shaping hermeneutics
that are obsolete. Though cosmology and physics require intellectual
effort to understand, a theologian should not defend his own
intellectual sloth.
Brooks councils that Christians
ought to have humility in spiritual matters in order not to leap into
error for-themselves. Brooks writes that Christians should not go
beyond scripture. Regarding spiritual concerns I agree. Speculation
about spirit that is not revealed by God can lead to error. The
Universe however is more of a physical concern although it is
possible to infer a spiritual foundation for matter. That question of
how God who is Spirit creates mass that is not something else
(probably) is likely an unanswerable question. It may even be
improperly formed. With humility though it is useful to know enough
about cosmology such that Satan cannot back one into a corner and
dictate one’s hermeneutic to oneself, perhaps requiring that one
have a three or four thousand year old scientific database and accept
that God too is limited to that.
There
is a theoretical cornucopia for considering God's spiritual means of
constructing energy, mass and dimensions. The Bible says that He said
the word and that was enough. One can understand that vibrations of
string theory could have commenced then with particular frequencies
given to strings fluxing an inflation of the Universe with the new
content. particular means might be inferred logical from what Genesis
says to only a limited extent. One also has the material Universe to
consider as a kind of artifact of God's creative impetus.
Scientists
consider only the remnant of creation that is the familiar Universe
of mass and energy, form and substance and extrapolate with theory
from the observable about what makes it work. The question of how it
originated is entangled with how it works. Because science is not
theology it cannot meaningfully address abstract theological
speculations concerning creation. Contemporary M-Theory, Emperor
Theory and String Theory do consider hypothetical meta-physics of
extra-dimensions as if they were mathematicians considering abstract
forms of geometry, algebra, and topology with calculus, yet that has
some verification issues. This is just another of what I
am sure are millions of potential credible methods that God could
create and sustain a Universe that is conformable to Genesis. I will
not strictly correlate the physics to Genesis day-phases herein.
This is just the technical presentation for another theoretical
mechanics outline version 7.1.
Spatial
dimensions add up to time. This is a conjecture about reality and the
construction of the Universe. That is, to clarify, about the content
of how it exists-not a question about if God created it or not. The
Universe outside Wal-mart has some sort of means of being not made in
China. Physicists contemplate an infinity of Universes, Higgs fields,
particles, waves, quantum uncertainty and so forth as content
enabling stuff comprising mass and energy. Cycles of shaping and
forming the play-dough of matter with wonderful illustrations of
stars and galaxies producing wonderful dust, elements and etc.
replete with smart creatures able to think and watch football or shop
at Wal-mart, even listen like programmable fuzzy robots to NPR. I am
not writing about all of that nor making ontological arguments. I
believe God created what is through one means or another. This paper
is more like asking the question; did God use a 9 iron or a wedge to
get the ball into the hole?
Space
and time seem to coincide in expansion. One wonders about the nature
of time and how it differs from space, or if it does; as time appears
to increase like space in another way-a dimension called time where
one can move forward.
If just spatial dimensions are
moving and a conscious observer experiences the intersection of
moving dimensions as time, can time be said to exist externally, or
isn't time just a subjective perception of the observer even though
it is a real experience?
If
none of the dimension sheets intersected there would be no
possibility for the existence of time. Maybe consciousness requires
change of intersecting dimensions and the experience of time to
exist.
It
seems possible that like two-dimensional ants living on a
two-dimensional world-sheet pushed forward by a large finger, it
would not be possible to measure the force moving the entire
dimensional world sheet from outside the world sheet-even if another
world sheet is passing through it, such that there are really just
two one-dimensional world sheets that added together seem to be a
solitary two-dimensional Universal world-sheet. If the world-sheets
have changing topology, of the dimensions generate energy through
inter-dimensional contact, there is still no way to measure the power
of God pushing the world sheet dimensions along their course.
So
as a Christian thinking about this, and about the perennial matter of
what component of the experience of reality is subjective and what
objective, the 'let there be light' matter indicates that light was
perceived by God when it was made to exist. For human beings or other
beings in-a-Universe light would be a way of experiencing an energy
field of a particular sort. Such energy would not appear as light
does to a human though without an observer experiencing photons as
human do, unless of course some other particle or wave in a field
could cause a sensation similar to that caused by photons such that a
human would think of it as light. That energy could be caused when
dimension plates intersect as virtual energy to stimulate Higgs field
quanta, and time could be thought of as discrete, relative positions
within the temporal transition of dimension sheets.
Physicists have a term-concepts
named configuration space and phase space that I can use to refer to
the condition of dimension sheets. The configuration of content and
form of a dimension sheet is static or fixed. When dimension sheets
intersect they stimulate changes, and the changes can be called phase
space. Phase space with energy and matter thermodynamical changes is
an emergent phenomenon of intersecting dimension sheets. I suppose
the relational angles at which dimensions intersect might effect the
phase space configuration (a useful retro-term).
A
question I would have about phase space is to what extent
constructions in phase space are more that emergent phenomena of
time? Would phase space constructions exist in a meta-phase
configuration? Could emergent matter-energy construction in phase
space redistribute content from one dimension sheet to another? Might
dimension sheets change relative size in that event?
Plainly one has no idea how many
dimension sheets could exist or why they should 'in the beginning'.
It could be like an infinite deck of dimension-sheet cards the Lord
used to construct a 'house of cards' of a temporal, expanding
Universe from a singularity of one dimension; increasing until His
purposes are served; perhaps after determining what souls will go to
eternal heaven, and for whom the bells will toll in hell.
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