Past, Present, Future
By Eddi - click here to go to my blog
This comes in three parts, not including some supplementary notes
Chapter 1: Past
There was no overall beginning. Existence has always existed. There has always been something rather than nothing. God has always existed. He transcends causation and time. He is the un-moved mover. God configured the universe so that it was to be to be able to support intelligent life. He fine-tuned it. And he made it occur through what we know as The Big Bang. The Big Bang was the beginning of all that exists within this universe. Universes come and go but God remains constant.
The events of The Big Bang caused Earth to form. Although it grew out of the chaos of The Big Bang its development was guided by God. He intended it to be a place where life could develop and evolve. He therefore made its conditions hospitable to life. And, thankfully, life happened to develop there as he hoped it would. And flourish. Eventually, a species capable of comprehending God evolved. Humankind was born and Planet Earth got itself a civilisation.
The whole point of the universe is to be an environment in which intelligent life can live. It was made for the benefit of intelligent beings. It was created out of God’s divine creative imagination. I am a bit of a dualist. I believe God is made out of a divine substance (which has always existed) and that the universe is made out of a created substance (which was created out of nothing). We can therefore say that the universe has both always existed and has also come out of nothing! But I don’t want to get bogged down in theology…
I believe that God created intelligent life because he wanted intelligent company. I class God as being a life-form even though he is non-organic. He therefore has the drives of a life-form, one of which is the drive to reproduce. Granted, not all people chose to reproduce, but their reproductive drives can be directed towards other things. Some say that humankind was “made in God’s image”, indeed it says so in The Bible. I don't believe that only humankind “evolved into God’s image” - aliens did too! - I don’t think it literally means that we look like God, indeed I don’t think God looks like anything, I think he is entirely unseen. But we are in his image in that we can know, reason, have free will, and can plan. We can therefore have a relationship with God. And other civilisations.
God created countless civilisations of intelligent beings, each of which originating on a different planet - although some planets are host to more than one intelligent civilisation! I believe God’s relationship with any planetary civilisation unfolds in three steps:
By Eddi - click here to go to my blog
This comes in three parts, not including some supplementary notes
Chapter 1: Past
There was no overall beginning. Existence has always existed. There has always been something rather than nothing. God has always existed. He transcends causation and time. He is the un-moved mover. God configured the universe so that it was to be to be able to support intelligent life. He fine-tuned it. And he made it occur through what we know as The Big Bang. The Big Bang was the beginning of all that exists within this universe. Universes come and go but God remains constant.
The events of The Big Bang caused Earth to form. Although it grew out of the chaos of The Big Bang its development was guided by God. He intended it to be a place where life could develop and evolve. He therefore made its conditions hospitable to life. And, thankfully, life happened to develop there as he hoped it would. And flourish. Eventually, a species capable of comprehending God evolved. Humankind was born and Planet Earth got itself a civilisation.
The whole point of the universe is to be an environment in which intelligent life can live. It was made for the benefit of intelligent beings. It was created out of God’s divine creative imagination. I am a bit of a dualist. I believe God is made out of a divine substance (which has always existed) and that the universe is made out of a created substance (which was created out of nothing). We can therefore say that the universe has both always existed and has also come out of nothing! But I don’t want to get bogged down in theology…
I believe that God created intelligent life because he wanted intelligent company. I class God as being a life-form even though he is non-organic. He therefore has the drives of a life-form, one of which is the drive to reproduce. Granted, not all people chose to reproduce, but their reproductive drives can be directed towards other things. Some say that humankind was “made in God’s image”, indeed it says so in The Bible. I don't believe that only humankind “evolved into God’s image” - aliens did too! - I don’t think it literally means that we look like God, indeed I don’t think God looks like anything, I think he is entirely unseen. But we are in his image in that we can know, reason, have free will, and can plan. We can therefore have a relationship with God. And other civilisations.
God created countless civilisations of intelligent beings, each of which originating on a different planet - although some planets are host to more than one intelligent civilisation! I believe God’s relationship with any planetary civilisation unfolds in three steps:
- The stage of revelation and prophecy - in which God interacts directly with the species and also sends inspired prophets and scriptures. During this stage, God is very much involved in the affairs of the civilisation in question.
- The age of non-intervention. God stops sending prophets and scripture, although of course people emerge claiming to be prophets and claiming to have scripture who were not sent by God. People grow used to God not intervening. Some write him off as having never existed or intervened, whereas others declare his intervention in human affairs to be over. Both I believe are wrong!
- “The Future” - God once again makes himself available to intelligent species once they come of age. He does so by selecting people to be his Contacts. He works with each civilisation to help them make contact with other civilisations and to form an inter-planetary community of civilisations, under the guidance and rule of God. I Call this organisation COP - the Community of Planets. Later on, he sends Saviours.
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