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Wednesday, April 21

The consistency of creation reflects God's character

The laws of the universe do not make a convenient Quantum leap, to explain for the mysteries of God.

God is the ultimate absolute, the only ultimate constant in all the universe. All things are relative to Him and yet that principle still does not violate Einstein’s relativity principles. God is not a quantum particle, an aberration that conveniently violates the laws of the universe that explains away everything that is otherwise too hard for us to understand.

The dark ages resolved troubling mysteries, by burning dissidents on the pretext of heresy, such that many subsequently disproved theories were just accepted in spite of contradictory evidence. Well God is not a blanket explanation for all that cannot be explained, because the laws that define the universe is ruled are never violated by Him, but upheld by Him. He is not an abstract idea but an empirical fact.

God is not bound by time and space but is in all places at all times and is therefore able to be relative to all moments of time and space. Einstein accepted that time is fixed and light is absolute, but he introduce the notion that space-time could be warped or bent, a phenomenon that has been observed for distant objects that lie beyond a black hole. The light from the object is bent by gravitational forces inside the black hole leading to misinterpretations about the location and movement of the observed object – it basically is not where it should be, giving rise to distortions that are not unlike the phenomenon we see when a stick is pushed into water – the light passing through the water travels slower and makes the stick appear bent.

Although God is independent of His creation, He remains constant through all the twists and turns of our complex universe. He is simply constant, but He is never some form of divine exception to the laws of the universe. It is not that he has become the servant of such laws. Rather it is because the created universe became subject to His pre-existent laws or the objective and consistent principles by which He rules all things – it is just the way He is. We are merely a subset of an eternal dimension, but physical laws remain constant across both dimensions, because God is constant across both dimensions.

As such, all things are judged to be relative to Him. The function of the Son of God was to reconcile us back to the unmoving, unchanging absolute value of a righteous God. God cannot move to accommodate us, but through His Son He has enabled us to shift our posture or position from a place of condemnation and spiritual bankruptcy to a divinely assured position of acceptance and reconciliation.
 
(c) Peter Eleazar @ www.4u2live.net

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