The Revealing Science of God © 2000 The Church of Yahweh

PART 7: "WHERE?"

Where is the universe? We continue to explore the fundamental questions of existence; who, what, when, where, how and why?

When it comes to the where of the universe mankind has wondered for centuries. Where is the Earth? The ancient Chinese theorized that it was on the back of a hare which stood on the back of a turtle. Upon what the turtle stood they never asked. We may find this amusing but even in Biblical times it was not at all clear to people where we are.

They spoke of the Earth and the firmament. The Earth being conceived as being flat. And the firmament being a fixed location up above. The stars for the longest time were felt to be holes in Heaven through which the light of God would shine.

While we can look upon these ancient cosmologies with amusement today we nevertheless face the same ultimate questions. We now know that the Earth is essentially a ball or a sphere which rotates on it's axis creating our days. Which evolves around the Sun creating our years.

We know that the Sun is one of several billion stars in a local island of stars which we call the milky way. And we know that every 160 million years the milky way makes one complete cycle. It is spinning almost like a flaming fire work. Or perhaps it's being sucked in to the center. Just like water swirls into a whirlpool before it disappears down the drain.

And we know that this milky way is one of billions upon billions of uncountable galaxies. There is a project being done in astronomy that is attempting to map and count all known galaxies. And they are working on creating a three dimensional model to represent the arrangement and alignment of galaxies in the universe.

I remember in college days seeing a wall sized poster in one of my religion teacher's rooms that had thousands upon thousands upon thousands of dots. And the caption of the poster taught us that every one of those dots was not a star, but was rather a galaxy. And the title of this poster was "1 Million Galaxies." And I was always held in awe, and as you can tell, still remember that poster, because of it's immense power, it's immense distance. It's immense size.

So when we ask the question "Where are those things?" we have a very challenging time. For one thing distance and location are always and only knowable relatively speaking. The term North has meaning only in reference to the globe. The term up has reference only in terms of the Earth.

If you are out in the middle of space then there is no North or South, there is no up or down, there is no East or West. Down is simply the attraction of a gravitational field. And without that gravitational field there is no down. Up is only an ascent into the sky. And without any sky to ascend to there can be no up.

So if we are going to attempt to answer the question, "Where is the universe?" we will be hard pressed to give any sort of definitive answer because we must understand our framework, our perspective. From the Earth's perspective the universe is all around.

Man's mind is capable of expanding until it at least hopes to conceptualize the totality of the universe. And once we reach the farthest galaxy, what lies on the other side of it?

If you want to take a totally atheistic approach and discuss the big bang, all of this cosmic stuff that got condensed to form the big bang, where was it? Was it North of us, South of us, East, West? Where would you go? Where is the center of the galaxy? Where is the center of the universe?

Conservation of momentum requires that there is actually a center for the universe, if there was ever a big bang. Why is that? All mass behaves as though the totality of it's mass was localized at the non-dimensional point, which is the balancing point, if you will, of the object. The very center of the sphere, the balancing point of the fulcrum etc..

If you have a mass of hundreds of billions of cannon balls, place them all together in a huge pile and then explode them, the center of mass which is the balancing point where all of those cannon balls were centered, does not move at all by causing them to explode. The center of mass remains unchanged within closed systems across all permutations, combinations and transformations.

Therefore if there was a big bang there must an actual geometric center of the universe. Where is it? Scientists do not know. And even if we found where that center point was, what is it located within?

Well, these and other speculations I can give you my answer to. I cannot claim that this is the absolute definitive answer, but I can tell you that this answer appears upon all examinations to be 100% in harmony with all of the other theories which we are formulating in The Revealing Science of God.

We do not have actual proof of the existence of electrons. All we know is that we do not have any data that will contradict the theory which the electron is.

Properly understood a neutron is much more of a theory to explain mathematical relationships then an actual particle. So what I'm going to present I cannot prove anymore than we can prove the existence of a photon. However, I have been able to find no evidence that would contradict it.

In the Mind of God

The answer to the question, "Where is the universe?" is, "Inside the mind of God."

This is in complete agreement with other things we have discussed.

The universe does not share the same ontological status that God does. By ontological status I mean the way in which something exists. That is the study of ontology, the forms and manners of existence. A symphony does not exist in the same way that a cactus plant exists. A cactus plant does not exist in the same way that the United States of America exists. And the United States of America does not exist in the same way that Alice in Wonderland exists. They all have different ontological grounds.

If anything that we have said is correct about the nature of God the creator, that using his own energies is the way in which the universe came about, then it is clear that the universe must have a different ontological status than God does. It's ontology is a subset of the divine.

The best analogy I can possibly give you is, as I have said before, the analogy of an author. An author first tells his or her story inside of his or her mind and then puts it down on paper. The paper is merely the transmittal form to get the information from the author's mind into the reader's mind. The paper is simply the servant. It has no ultimate purpose.

In the same way God has fashioned everything out of his own energy and exists in his image and is therefore his imagination. This is all the visible image of the invisible God. In exactly the same way that words type on a page are the visible image or reflection of the invisible thoughts and concepts.

God is forever sustaining the universe by means of his thought. Where are we? We are inside of God's head. But how does that make any sense? What does it mean to say that the universe is inside of God's head? Isn't there at least the appearance here of reality?

When I knock on a table it certainly feels solid, it certainly feels real. Aren't we just playing verbal games to say that the world is nothing more than God's imagination? The best answer I can give you, is that the imagination is a forming of God's energy into what we call time and space. If an author sits in a chair, that author has, with a clear mind, the infinite potential for thought. The author can think about anything.

The author then takes his mind, focused through his brain and arranges the electrical energy in his mind in such a fashion as to focus his energies into a leprechaun, a green leprechaun. That's going to be the focus of his story. To say that that green leprechaun does not exist is a falsehood. That leprechaun may not have been projected yet into the external physical world but that green leprechaun does exist. That green leprechaun is nothing more then the author's thought condensed and formed and focused. What is the leprechaun made out of?

The leprechaun is made out of something more real than physical matter. The leprechaun is made out of the very mind stuff of the author. The leprechaun is made not out of rock or stone or clay or wood, but the leprechaun is made out of the author.

At this stage in our development we worship the physical creation. And if anything is going to be real it has to be put into physical form. An interesting thing has happened with the electronic revolution. Since we now communicate so quickly and easily electronically, and since so many of our documents in the industrialized world are simply transmitted through computer, we have actually discovered that we have more paper rather than less. Because, it is not until the document becomes printed into what we call "hard copy" and is physically on the page, that it appears to the user to be real.

In the same way we worship this physical matter. That is where we are localized. That is our centering, that is our base. For many people what they cannot feel and see has no reality at all. But if you will leave that frame of mind for a while and contemplate upon the higher things, you see that a leprechaun in my imagination is actually made out of the most glorious stuff in the universe.

The reason for this rather lengthy explanation is to hopefully enable you to see that the universe being made of God's imagination does not make it less real, it makes it more real. It makes it made of a higher more glorious substance. The universe is not created out of rock or stone or electrons or neutrons or photons. But the universe is created out of God's mind.

Now, this is our theory. The theory gives us many wonderful results.

#1. This would explain why God is everywhere.

Because, everything is inside of God as we have said so often before, and everything is inside of his mind. Therefore, there is no where that could be gone to leave God.

#2. It explains where we are.

We are inside of God's mind, we are a focusing of his energies.

#3. It explains what is outside of this physical universe, the answer is nothing.

And now we can see why that nothing can be real. In a physical sense it is very hard for us to imagine there being something outside. It is hard for us to imagine there not being something outside. In every physical relationship there is always something on the opposite side of where ever or what ever we are.

However, if our theory is correct and we are all inside of God's mind and simply God's imagining, then the limits of the universe stop where God stops imagining.

To illustrate, most people are familiar with Louis Carol's "Alice in Wonderland", and they know that there was this large mysterious world that Alice explored. You have the Duchess's house and the rose garden and the Caterpillar and many, many creatures and many lands. What was on the other side of the wall at the Queen's rose garden? The answer is absolutely nothing. Absolutely nothing. Because Louis Carol never conceived of it, never shaped it, never molded it.

Therefore there was simply nothing there. That's why we can say, that right now at the ends of the outer boundaries of the universe there is simply nothing there.

#4. The universe is infinite.

The reason it currently appears to be 12 billion light years across is because that is as far as we can see. If we were able to get into a spaceship and travel to the outer regions of the universe, then we would all of a sudden discover that there was a lot more universe to explore. How can this be?

Currently, Louis Carol never thought about what would happen to Alice if she went over the wall in the Queen's rose garden. But, if Louis Carol had Alice do that, then as a process of forming that image he also would have had to know what was on the other side of that wall. The wall would not come into being until Alice crawled over it.

In the same way it is possible, though frankly unlikely, that the physical universe extends only 12 billion light years. But that once the human race or any other race of creature's comes to explore or see any of those other galaxies beyond the known galaxies, that they will "magically" come into existence. For you see we are the condensation of God's thought and he is pouring out an immense story here for all of us. Ultimately for himself. When he comes to the point that he is now ready to explore areas beyond what is currently formed then those areas will exist.

I realize that none of this appears in the Bible. I realize that much of this must seem like idle speculation. And I freely grant to you that it may very well be. But I also present that these are the best results that I have. Where is the universe? The universe is inside of God. It is in his mind, it is his consciousness which is molding and shaping it from the beginning until the end.

What is on the other side of the universe? Only God. This is a theory meant to try and explain many things, the vastness of the universe. The incomprehensibility of how it got here. And also some of the mysteries as to how God can be everywhere and inside of everything. The highest heavens the lowest sea, how can be the first, the last. The same yesterday, today and forever. Louis Carol remained the same author regardless of what journeys he put Alice through. And there was not a single bud on a single rose in that Queen's garden that was not there because of Louis Carol's concentration.

But God of course is a much, much higher profound being, much more powerful then we are. And therefore our imaginations only dimly reflect his. And we must extrapolate. Louis Carol could so immerse himself into his imagined world that it could for him actually become real. Some authors can become so lost in their little world that they lose touch of what we call "reality."

And all that is left for them is the fantasy life of their creation.

God in some respects, you can say, has lost part of himself, within this world. And he is concentrating on it so clearly that it all has immense detail, shape and form.

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