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A Multiple Universe Paradox |
In quantum mechanics, one may come across a multiple universe theory or two,
such as Multiple World Theory, and others. It could be Schrodinger's Cat,
for example. Is it actually possible that the cat in the box is both
dead, and alive at the same time, and that until one opens the box to look in,
both possibilities are valid? Then, once one observes, the probability
wave collapses into either the cat being alive, or deceased. Perhaps the
cat was/is still both dead and alive right now. Perhaps it's dead in one
universe, and alive in another.
The trick is, I don't see any inkling of multiple universes as standardly
described in the Scriptures. I see multiple dimensions, but that is
different than multiple universes. In order for the above cat scenario to
actually happen, we have to add when/how it happens.
When we make a decision, does that collapse multiple other universes into
ours; universes where we made all other possible decisions? Yes and no.
Let's turn to the first verse of the book of Genesis:
"In the beginning of God's preparing
the heavens and the earth" -Genesis 1:1
Beginning - this can denote the beginning
of linear time. Certainly Jehovah (which means 'Self Existent One')
doesn't need any time construct in which to exist.
We see after the beginning, the preparing
(creation - Hebrew bara) of the heavens. This could be when God created
Aether. Aether has several different names, especially since the Michelson and
Morley experiment disproved how they thought the Luminiferous Aether behaved. Most scientists strayed from the term Aether, but many still included it in
their theories, just under different terms, and with some variations in its
properties. Other terms for Aether being: The Fabric of Space, Absolute
Space (pre-Michelson/Morley), and perhaps a field of strings in String Theory.
If we see that "beginning" is
the beginning of the arrow of linear time, creating a past, moving forward to
the present, and on to the future, and we consider the heavens being created
first with Aether to create a resonance field, then we may go further to apply
other quantum-like theories to the Creation account, such as how God spoke
things into existence. The resonance of the creative voice of God would
resonate the strings in the Aetheric field to then resonate to specific string properties, leading to specific particles,
attaching to other particles to create specific molecules, which come together
to create specific matter.
Matterless particles, such as photons, may actually be a reaction, or
excitation in the Aether, meaning the speed of light travels at the speed it
does, because that's the speed of Aether.
Now, coming back to multiple universes:
There were/are/will be multiple universes, each has/is/will collapse into
ours. There are no multiple universes and at the same time, there are a
near infinite amount of universes, all collapsing into ours. The trick
here is time - these multiple universes are all the past, the present, and the
future right now.
When God created everything, he saw every
possibility, and every decision everyone would or could make. He saw
Hitler wining World War 2, and Nazi soldiers becoming a global police
state. He saw Adam choosing not to partake of the Tree of the Knowledge
of Good and Evil, which Eve still did. He saw neither Adam nor Eve
partaking of the Tree.
Before our God was every possibility, and
every timeline laid out, all at once. If this is true, then man had to
fall. Adam and Eve had to sin, and Jesus Christ had to die on the cross.
Why? Because God saw every single outcome to everything
simultaneously. He saw which shirt you chose to wear today, which shoes
you chose to buy at the store, the annoyed look you gave the bad driver you
passed on the road, etc. He also saw all of your alternate choices, reactions,
and decisions in your life.
In order for all the people in the
history of humanity who are God's children to be born, and then born again (saved,) all the other universes
had to collapse into this specific one: Our Universe. There is not
another me in another universe who is not saved. I was/am/always saved in every
single universe, and there is only one me. We are each our own person. There are not different us-es in different
universes, just possible, unplayed-out futures set by our making different
decisions.
Salvation pervades beyond time and dimensions. It is a
universal, cosmic thing. When one truly gets saved, their
resonance changes to match that of Christ's. Christ was sinless, and when
we resonate to Him, we take on His sinless properties in relation to the
cosmos. Meanwhile, He took on all of our sins, and cancelled out our sins
with His Love and Sacrifice. Only God can do this, and He did.
I'm not propounding Calvinism,
here. I'm saying every person who got saved, chose so in every scenario,
unless they died before they could do so, or never got a chance. In this
universe, every child of God gets the chance to become a child of God, and does
so. Everyone who isn’t saved and
doesn’t get saved, never chose salvation in any alternate universe scenario, either.
In order for God not to lose any of His
children (except for apostates, because we all have free will) God chose the
universe in which all of His children (who chose so) make it. This means our universe had to
include the fall of man, and the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ,
etc.
Since God is not bound by his creation of
a linear time construct, nor is He limited to our four dimensions, He saw all
possibilities, sees all possibilities, and will see all possibilities - at the same "time." He chose
this universe, He is choosing this universe, and He will choose this universe,
and it is all happening right now.
There are no multiple universes - just
this one, yet there are an almost endless supply of multiple universes, but
they have all collapsed into ours, and they are collapsing into ours, and they
will all collapse into ours.
"And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified." -Romans 8:28-30
"It’s like a person building a house by digging deep and laying the foundation on bedrock. When the flood came, the rising water smashed against that house, but the water couldn’t shake the house because it was well built. 49 But those who don’t put into practice what they hear are like a person who built a house without a foundation. The floodwater smashed against it and it collapsed instantly. It was completely destroyed." -Luke 6:48-49 CEB
"The Lord lives! Bless God, my rock! Let my God, the rock of my salvation, be lifted high!" -2 Samuel 22:47 CEB
"Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." -John 8:32 CEB
"Jesus answered, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." -John 14:6 CEB |
The terms "Christian" and "personal relationship with Jesus Christ" have been thrown around so much, that for many people, they have lost their original savor. What is a personal relationship with Jesus Christ? Is it going to church? Is it being a "good person?" Is it via doing certain rituals, or following certain traditions? No, it is so much simpler than that.
Jesus says:
"Look! I’m standing at the door and knocking. If any hear my voice and open the door, I will come in to be with them, and will have dinner with them, and they will have dinner with me." -Revelation 3:20 CEB
Let Jesus into your heart and life. Put your faith and trust in Him, and in Him alone.
Why did Jesus Christ come to this earth? He came to pay for our sins. Have you ever broken any of the Ten Commandments? Did you know that Jesus taught in the Sermon on the Mount that just looking at someone with lust in your heart is the same thing as committing adultery in your heart?
Many people will say I'm a good person. Sure, I've stolen a few paper clips in my time, and I've told some lies, but I've never killed anyone, so I'm good enough for heaven. Don't be so sure. Have you ever felt hatred toward someone? If so, then you are guilty of committing murder in your heart:
"Everyone who hates a brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that murderers don’t have eternal life residing in them." -1 John 3:15 CEB
If you have stolen, lied, lusted after someone, hated someone, loved someone or something more than God, etc., then you have broken at least 5 of the Ten Commandments. Do you really think you'd make it to heaven? Not according to God's Word:
"Don’t you know that people who are unjust won’t inherit God’s kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Those who are sexually immoral, those who worship false gods, adulterers, both participants in same-sex intercourse, thieves, the greedy, drunks, abusive people, and swindlers won’t inherit God’s kingdom." -1 Corinthians 6:9-10 CEB
But there is good news:
"That is what some of you used to be! But you were washed clean, you were made holy to God, and you were made right with God in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God." -1 Corinthians 6:11 CEB
We are all sinners:
"All have sinned and fall short of God’s glory" -Romans 3:23 CEB
Even Mary, the woman chosen by God to be a vessel that would carry Jesus in her womb, was a sinner, and in need of a Savior:
"In the depths of who I am I rejoice in God my savior." - Mary said this in Luke 1:47 (CEB). Only sinners need a Savior, and Mary also accepted Jesus Christ as her Savior.
We are all imperfect, fallible sinners:
"This is the message that we have heard from him and announce to you: “God is light and there is no darkness in him at all.” If we claim, “We have fellowship with him,” and live in the darkness, we are lying and do not act truthfully. But if we live in the light in the same way as he is in the light, we have fellowship with each other, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, cleanses us from every sin. If we claim, “We don’t have any sin,” we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us." -1 John 1:5-8 CEB
The blood of Jesus Christ is what cleanses us from all sins. Jesus came to this earth to die to pay for our sins. You see, Leviticus tells us that 'the life is in the blood,' and that it takes spilt blood to atone for sin.
When we choose to truly believe in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, and to live our lives for Christ, then Christ's spilt blood cleanses us from our sins:
"Come now, and let’s settle this, says the Lord. Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be white as snow. If they are red as crimson, they will become like wool." -Isaiah 1:18 CEB
Jesus tells us this:
"God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him won’t perish but will have eternal life. God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him isn’t judged; whoever doesn’t believe in him is already judged, because they don’t believe in the name of God’s only Son." - Jesus said this, in John 3:16-18 (CEB)
Paul gives us a simple "step by step process" on how to be saved:
"Because if you confess with your mouth “Jesus is Lord” and in your heart you have faith that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. Trusting with the heart leads to righteousness, and confessing with the mouth leads to salvation. The scripture says, All who have faith in him won’t be put to shame." -Romans 10:9-11 CEB
Jesus is our one and only mediator:
"There is one God and one mediator between God and humanity, the human Christ Jesus" -1 Timothy 2:5 CEB
Jesus is our High Priest:
"Also, let’s hold on to the confession since we have a great high priest who passed through the heavens, who is Jesus, God’s Son; because we don’t have a high priest who can’t sympathize with our weaknesses but instead one who was tempted in every way that we are, except without sin." -Hebrews 4:14-15 CEB
We are to follow the Lord and the Bible, not traditions of people:
"Jesus replied, “Why do you break the command of God by keeping the rules handed down to you?" -Matthew 15:3 CEB
Jesus is God:
"Without question, the mystery of godliness is great: he was revealed as a human, declared righteous by the Spirit, seen by angels, preached throughout the nations, believed in around the world, and taken up in glory." -1 Timothy 3:16 CEB
If Jesus isn't the Lord of your life, then I hope that you will let Him into your heart and life this very moment.
"But God shows his love for us, because while we were still sinners Christ died for us." -Romans 5:8 CEB
Have you built your foundation on the Rock of Salvation?
Jesus is the way. If you would like to receive Jesus into your heart and life, then let Him know. Pray to the Lord, telling Him that you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, and that you believe that Jesus died on the cross to pay the death penalty for your sins. Tell this to God in your own words, from your heart.
"The wages that sin pays are death, but God’s gift is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." -Romans 6:23 CEB
Believe, and Receive:
"You too heard the word of truth in Christ, which is the good news of your salvation. You were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit because you believed in Christ." -Ephesians 1:13 CEB
When you believe on Jesus Christ, you receive the Holy Spirit. You are sealed as a child of God.
If you have accepted Jesus Christ into your heart and life as your Lord and Savior, and you believe that Jesus died on the cross in your place, to pay the death penalty for your sins, and that Christ rose from the dead three days later, and you are ready to let Him lead your life, and you will live for Him, then you are saved, and born again.
