Mar 30, 2014

If God is Love, part 3

If God is Love, why do such bad things happen? That question is one that is asked repeatedly: God why you did you let — die? My child, my spouse, my loved one — hard question and difficult to answer. We see bad things all the time: accidents, even more so are natural disasters killing sometimes thousands, other really difficult things that in a perfect world created by a God who Loves, we believe should not occur. And this is not to mention the horrible things humans do to other humans.

What is the purpose of life? Did we come for a reason? Are we supposed to do something? If so, how do we know what that is?

These questions are difficult to answer without sounding condescending or pompous. I have read on these questions for years, asked God many of these same questions, received some answers that satisfy me for a while, then I have to ask the questions again. I am not sure there are answers that will satisfy all, but the writings in the Conversations with God (CwG) series by Neale Donald Walsch tell pretty much what I have arrived at over my 80 year search, and in better language than I had arrived at during the search. So I will borrow, with permission, some of the thoughts that came through to me after reading all nine CwG books, on these and other questions, and put them in these blogs, using the thought process of CwG, usually not the same words but the concepts presented. I want to emphasis that I had arrived close to the same answers on many of the questions, but CwG presents a more complete set of answers, and clarified in my own mind what they meant. I have conversed with Neale Donald Walsch, at least by email, and received permission to copy and use as much of the material as I need, as his purpose in life is to spread the message of God given him during his conversations with God that went on for many years, so we can freely use his material if it will aid in spreading the message of God.

I will be combining these thought that are God-centered with thoughts based upon my study of the physics of the beginning of the universe (cosmology), combined with particle physics, the study of the smallest of the small of what the universe is, the study of what the atom and it's constituents are.

God is!

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God Is! That is the definitive statement that comes through all mystics and all who have had visions and other insights, and is expressed clearly as that in CwG. God is All in All. Nothing that is, is not God. That statement flies in the face of all we have been taught. We are taught that God created the material side of things outside of God. But why would God do that? For all eternity God was All in All, why would God deviate from that? Yes, I know that the bible, particularly Genesis, talks about creation, but does it say it is outside of God? No, it just says that God created: it was only in our arrogance we decided we, and all of the universe, are separate from God. And even if Genesis (written and assembled from Jewish lore handed down for a thousand years in the seventh century BCE), had said there was a separation from God, that would have been only voicing what had been for thousands of years a firm belief based on observation: God(s) was (were) there, all else is here, obviously separate.

But humanity, in our thirst for knowledge of how this universe came to be, understands now that it burst out of nothing (talk about creation!) from in an infinitesimally small singularity, that is, that is from a point of no dimensions (hard to image, but a singularity has a mathematica definition with a meaning in this context of coming from nothing). Cosmology is clear on that: the Big Bang is now considered a fact, especially in view of the latest discoveries of the gravitational waves on the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) that confirm cosmic inflation and as predicted by Einstein in 1915 in his General Relativity formulation. No other theory can pass all the known facts of our universe but the Big Bang. (No, Einstein did not predict the Big Bang or CMB, but once they were presented years later and general relativity applied, the gravitational wavy imprint became a necessity if the Big Bang theory is to be considered correct, and finding the gravitational wave imprint, announced in March 2014, confirmed that the Big Bang theory is correct.)

Not only that, the basic equation of the universe as stated by Einstein's General Relativity equation, E=mc(2), where E is energy, m is mass, and c is the speed of light, that is, so many kilometers per second, includes a factor of time (kilometers per second), and this results in the astounding conclusion by physicists that before the Big Bang there was no time, for time is a measure of the duration from one event to another, and before the Big Bang there were no events, as there was nothing! And if there was nothing, space did not exist, and what the Big Bang did was create space from nothing, surrounding it with with intense heat (heat is energy) that when cooled became matter, similar in nature that when steam cools it becomes water. This is one of the great puzzles in cosmology, the study of the universe. No mathematical theory of the universe, that matches what the universe is today, has any meaning before the Big Bang. Nothing! Zero! No time or space!

That equates to God, for God just Is! God does not have a time or space factor! God just IS.

For anyone interested there are very good books available on the development of the universe. One of the most readable is The Goldilocks Enigma, by Paul Davis. Even though this book is 10 years old, it defines the problem of the extreme conditions that had to have been met for life, our life, to exist.

Back to the universe: Albert Einstein said the following: “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent illusion.” That statement has been proven by those studying the basic particles of the universe, where they have moved from atoms to electrons and neutrons, to quarks and other exotic names of even smaller items, to understanding, using the giant colliders to discover the Higgs Bison particle, often called the God particle, from the laws of quantum, that only energy exists, and that even energy is only fields of relationships that form bonds that form particles that form atoms that form the visible universe, including all we see, the sun, rocks, and everything, including you and me. So all is an illusion! On the micro-micro level we, or anything else, do not exist, except in layers of relationships. Kind of boggles the mind!

That seems to me to be a discussion of the nature of God, a series of relationships (Love) that work together to create Life as we know it. This thinking leads to understanding that ALL is life, the stars, light, material things like rocks, gravity, ALL is life, including you and me. (No, you won't find this in any science book. This is my metaphysical understanding of the universe, based on my understanding of the cosmos and the quantum space, and I believe, a gift given to me by God, as I did not read this anywhere.) Much of this, in general, you will find in CwG books, but not stated from the scientific and metaphysical viewpoint.

The way CwG puts it, we, you and me and the seven billion souls on the planet, are individualizations of God, like in 'You are the vine, we are the branches'. Yes, God has been trying to tell us this throughout history, (“Jesus said 'Greater things than this shall you do' ” John:12). and it is only now that God has led us through understanding the universe to the point that we begin to understand who we are: a part of God, as is every other part of our universe, but we have been given the Breath of God (Genesis 2:7, “and God breathed Life into his nostrils, and so man became a living person.”) to now Understand Who We Are.

What this clearly states, when we think about it, since everything, including ourselves, are all parts of what we call God, moving from one phase to another, is that what we call death is also an illusion. Death has no meaning, for the truth of what and who we are continues, always, as we move in and out of the ultimate relationship with our very being, God.

This is a condensed version of what I understand. I will be discussing much more of this, including the pain we feel when things are changing that we don't understand, as time goes by. If you have questions, please comment back to me. I will answer, and the discussions will prove enlightening for all.

I will continue this discussion of why our world seems so messy, and what we can begin to understand why bad things happen to good people.

I have other musings on God at my journal on God in Beliefnet.com, under Dave434.