Welcome to my blog on a Theory of God. Let me emphasis this is just what I believe. I am not asking anybody else to believe the theory. I am sharing it because I think others may find value in it and because I think it’s a paradigm that could bring peace.
There are seven sessions planned, so far;
1. An Introduction to the Theory of God
2. Where is God?
3. A look at our soul.
4. What did God Create?
5. Social Issues through the lens of the Theory of God.
6. How did I get here?
7. How to Lighten the Soul with hate loss.
In a previous session, an introduction to my Theory of God was presented.
This session, the second session, covers ‘Where is God’. We’ll consider; if God is present, why can’t we see God?
The third session will look at the soul. From the perspective of the theory, souls are not binary and through our choices, we are in control of it.
The fourth session explores creation. What did God create; one blue planet, or a vast universe? Did God tune the strings that made it all work?
The fifth session explores social issues through the lens of the Theory of God.
The sixth session covers how I came up with the theory, and why I am sharing it now.
The seventh session will look at forms of love and hate to help steer us away from hateful behaviors.
I hope you find the theory compatible with your own beliefs and thought provoking. I’d love to hear what you think of the theory.
Once again I am starting with the question; “Where is God?”
Do you know how you would you answer the question, in your own words?
I believe God is right here in dimensions that overlap our 3D world.
I’ll begin again with the disclaimer that this is ‘My’ Theory of God because it’s what ‘I’ believe. But I don’t own it, so if you like it, you can call it yours. If you don’t like it, you can just call me some kinda crazy. I am NOT a religious scholar nor am I a saint. So, I am not sharing this theory from a position of authority or some moral higher ground. This is simply my paradigm of God, for your consideration.
I have, for the most part, kept my Theory of God to myself for the last 40+ years because it is my personal belief. I have chosen to share it now because I think there may be value in it for others, whether they are affiliated with a religious organization or not, and because I think it’s a paradigm that could bring peace.
The theory is based on the premise that God is real. To me that means that God exists even if all the religious text did not. God does not exist because men wrote about God in ancient texts. The ancient texts were written because God exists. Which is why my theory of God had to be independent of the ancient texts.
To reiterate from the previous session; the theory is that God is a sentient or intelligent force in dimensions that overlap ours. They are dimensions that are here. We just don’t have a way to see them. In other words… God is here. Which is why throughout the ages, people of every culture have had experiences with God.
God seeks the senses of life and is the soul of life. ALL life. Humans are a great place for senses. We have the basic senses of sight, hearing, taste, touch and smell, and we have the capacity to feel love and joy, to appreciate beauty, and so many other wonderful emotions.
No two souls are alike. It’s not ‘You have one or you don’t’. Souls vary in size and hue and change over the course of our life. Our life choices and our actions establish the size and hue of our own soul.
I believe there is symmetry in nature and that Evil, the symmetrical opposite force of God, also exists.
In my opinion, the theory provides multiple benefits. One of them is that the theory emphasizes the common ground that all religions share. They share that common ground because God was present LONG before religions were established. If God, by any name, is the common ground of all religions, people should accept that different religions are just culturally different ways of connecting with God. One is not better than another. It’s just a different means to the same end. So, there should be mutual respect among various religious beliefs.
I believe my Theory of God is NOT in conflict with ANY of the world’s religions. As I see it, It can’t be. God is at the core of all religions.
I think the theory provides an understanding that enables anybody to build a closer relationship with God individually or through organized religion. There are simple things that anyone can do every day that enables each of us to do our own part to make the world a better place.
It also gives a deeper appreciation for all life on earth. And I use the theory as the basis by which I assess contemporary social issues such as capital punishment and abortion which will be discussed in the fifth session. It also has given me a new perspective on death.
To me, those are valuable benefits. So, my beliefs are offered here for your consideration. Once again, I hope you find the theory compatible with your beliefs and enlightening.
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So, if God is here, why can’t I see God?
Consider for a moment what we do see.
We see our world in 3 dimensions as revealed by light.
But what are we NOT seeing?
If you didn’t know about radio and wi-fi and Bluetooth, would you have believed that the Japanese garden pictured above is filled with radio waves carrying broadcast signals from cell towers and dozens of radio and TV stations? Even knowing that it is there, it’s hard to imagine that this garden is bathed in a vast spectrum of electromagnetic signals that we can’t see. But we know they are there because we use them every day. Unless, of course, if we get out a range of our cell service. Then we know what’s NOT there and might realize how much we have grown to depend on those invisible signals.
Now, imagine yourself going back 200 years. Back before phones. Back when horses were the primary form of transportation and were also used to pull plows. Back when ‘turning on the lights' meant lighting a candle or kerosene lantern. Now, imagine telling people from that time, that in 200 years it would be common for people to have instantaneous video conversations with people on the other side of town, the other side of the country, or even the other side of the world, on a device they can carry in their pocket. They’d look at us like we were some kinda crazy. Nobody would take the idea seriously. Nobody. But here we are. Homo sapiens went from candles and kerosene lamps to Facetime-ing with friends on the other side of the planet in 200 years.
I believe God exists in dimensions that overlap ours. We can’t see dimensions other than the 3 we live in, just like we can’t see radio waves. But that doesn’t mean they’re not there. Perhaps in another 200 years we’ll know more.
Let me explain why I believe God is in overlapping dimensions.
It started with James Clerk Maxwell in the 1860’s. He was studying electricity and magnetism, building on the work of Ampere, Faraday and Lenz, and was able to quantify the relationship between electric fields and magnetism. He called it A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field. It says the electric field in a closed boundary is equal to the change in the magnetic field through the surface created by that boundary, which is precisely what the mathematical formula above states. He was also able to calculate the speed of electromagnetic waves and immediately noticed that it was close to the speed of light. Too close to be a coincidence. He concluded that light must be electromagnetic waves, which was quickly proven to be correct.
Maxwell had discovered the electromagnetic spectrum, most of which we cannot see, but we are very familiar with.
It wasn’t long after Maxwell’s work that radio waves were identified and studied by German physicist Heinrich Hertz and by 1896 home schooled, 22 year old Guglielmo Marconi was demonstrating wireless telegraphy to the British government. That was the beginning of a communications revolution that continues to improve to this day, 127 years later.
But Maxwell started more than just a communications revolution. The speed of light raised some interesting questions. What happens when we measure the speed of light coming from a star when earth is zipping away from it at 67,000 mph? Is it 67,000 mph slower when we are moving away from the light source? It is not. Six months later when Earth is zipping toward that same star at 67,000 mph, will the light appear 67,000 mph faster? It does not. Oddly enough, the speed of light is always the same. That fact that the speed of light from a source is always the same no matter how fast you are moving to or from a light source is counter-intuitive. Some might even say ‘impossible’. But it is easily proven to be true. Special Relativity explains why this this is true and can be used to predict the outcome of events.
So Maxwell may have started a revolution, but Einstein taught us that the universe is not as simple as it seems.
So, what do we see when we look to the cosmos?
For one thing; it’s huge. So huge that the size is beyond our ability to comprehend just how big it is. But we are able to show that Einstein was right. Relativity accurately predicts relativistic affects including mass warping time and space and the expansion of the universe.
But there is a fly in the ointment. Close observation indicates that something is affecting the rotation of galaxies which suggests that there is matter there that we can’t see. In fact, it is estimated that 85% of the matter in the universe is unobservable. It’s dark matter. So why can’t we see it? Could it be in those other dimensions that we cannot see? We don’t know yet. But I haven’t heard a better explanation and it makes sense to me.
Now let’s turn our attention to the other end of the scale. What happens when we examine the smallest bits of matter?
Our latest technology enables scientists to smash atoms into tiny bits to see what they are made of. It's not just protons, neutrons and electrons anymore, it's quarks, leptons, bosons and more, much more.
Quantum Theory reliably describes and predicts the relationships between particles, but they can’t be nailed down precisely. There is a probability that a particle is where you expect it to be. But never any certainty. It’s as if particles disappear and reappear. If they do, where do they go? Could they be going to another dimension and returning? Based on Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, we can’t know.
Quantum Mechanics and Relativity have both been confirmed experimentally to great accuracy. But they are mutually exclusive. Both can't be right in 'conventional' physics.
String Theory would appear to resolve the conflict between Quantum Mechanics and Relativity and provides possible answers to a lot of questions. But String Theory is only a theory and may be difficult to prove.
String Theory suggests that the smallest bits of matter are tiny vibrating strings. It also suggests there are 10 dimensions. We have no way of observing those other dimensions, at least not with the tools available to physicists today, and our current math is inadequate to work in 10 dimensions. So, scientists are stymied. How do you study what you cannot observe or describe?
If scientists are right that we cannot see 85% of the matter in the universe, our view of the universe is extremely limited. If there are other dimensions, can they be detected by means other than atom smashers and telescopes? Who knows.
What lives in those other dimensions? Or do you assume there is no life there, simply because you can’t imagine more dimensions, much less life in other dimensions? Could a sentient force exist there? Why not?
We’ve grown up with radio & TV, so it’s no big deal to us. We can accept that radio waves are real. But 200 years ago, our use of radio waves would have sounded like some kind of crazy. So, we should ask ourselves, what else exists that we can’t see? If I told you we live in a 10-dimensional universe, would you believe that? Probably not. We can’t see it. We can’t even imagine a 10-dimensional universe. Just some kind of crazy.
But just like those radio waves, just because we can’t see other dimensions, doesn’t mean they aren’t there. And there is scientific research which suggests there are 10 dimensions. My Theory of God is that God exists in those dimensions and those dimensions are right here. We just can’t see them.
For those that have a tough time conceptualizing 10 dimensions, don’t worry about it. Knowing ‘Where God Is’, is not important. Conceptualizing God as a sentient force that we can connect with, is important. That is how anyone can use the theory to bring joy and peace.
Sounds like some kind of crazy, huh? But if it is true, can we benefit from that understanding like we have benefited from discovering radio waves? Me, being an eternal optimist, believes ‘of course we can’. And hopefully, the benefit is that we can make the world a better place.
The topic of the next session is Our Soul.
From the perspective of the Theory of God, it’s not binary,
and by our choices, we are in control.
You are invited to share your thoughts on the theory in the discussion board on aTheoryofGod.com
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