Creation, Physics, and the Spirit (eBook)

Understanding Yahweh, The Christ, and the Children of God

Brent R. Hurst (Autor)

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2017
391 Seiten
Publishdrive (Verlag)
978-1-5080-7091-7 (ISBN)

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This book begins by following the account of Creation in Genesis, but not from a linear perspective as is common with so many commentators. The seven days of Creation, as I understand it, is not so much an historical event as a picture of how the Creation is presently sustained. 'Time' is an intuitive experience we have as we are subject to the laws of the Creation, but God exists outside/transcendent to His Creation as He exists in a timeless state, as such this Creation is sustained even now, as His Spirit still hovers over the formless void, and His breath resonates upon the surface of the symbolic waters stimulating the laws and dimensions that we recognize as this universe. To understand this one must explore WHAT God is, what it means when we say He is Infinite and Boundless, which are not the same as eternal, first we need to understand God's BEING.

Next, I follow the account of Adam and his wife in the Garden, and how this couple is a symbolic expression of the soul within us, or rather the created soul that we are, and how our nature, even the nature of our existence, differs from that of our Creator. Simultaneously we are introduces to YHWH, who is of the same Spirit as the transcendent Father, as the Father determines to enter in to His own Creation, ultimately for our salvation. Once again this knowledge is not to be understood merely in a historical context but to reveal how it is that we exist and what the limitations imposed upon our own Being are. 

Lastly, following parts of the Book of John, I explore the nature of the Christ, as He is begotten of the Father, and how the Spirit interacts with ours bringing about our salvation as the Spirit imparts to us eternal life. 

Our minds are from birth, conditioned by our senses, we hear the sounds around us, those tones which are finite and quickly fading, but we do not consider the Silence to be a greater reality. When we see with our eyes, we are drawn to the objects that obstruct space, but we do not see the space itself nor think it to be of more value than the object which exists only for a short time. As we lend our value of reality to that which is merely finite in nature, we do not see with the same regard that which is mirroring the infinity surrounding it. And so Jesus equates the Spirit with the wind, unseen itself, and us percieving only its effects. 

What I hope to accomplish with this book, as I follow the flow of God's Spirit from His transcendent estate as Father, to His Heavenly personage as YHWH, to its embodiment in the one we call Jesus, the reality of the Spirit. Through the eyes of our doctrines and senses we read the scriptures and the 'Spirit' and its work is translated by our minds metaphorically rather than substantially as we do not discern the SUBSTANCE of it. Just as we see no substance of the space surrounding us, nor of the silence without which no sound could exist, so the Spirit in scriptures, being understood as non-physical, immaterial, has also loss the value, the substance of its Being. Spiritual sight is in seeing the Spirit as more substantial than that which is passing away, but this is at odds with our natural sense perception, and so in tracing the descent of God's Spirit, I hope to refresh it's reality in your eyes.

  

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This book begins by following the account of Creation in Genesis, but not from a linear perspective as is common with so many commentators. The seven days of Creation, as I understand it, is not so much an historical event as a picture of how the Creation is presently sustained. "e;Time"e; is an intuitive experience we have as we are subject to the laws of the Creation, but God exists outside/transcendent to His Creation as He exists in a timeless state, as such this Creation is sustained even now, as His Spirit still hovers over the formless void, and His breath resonates upon the surface of the symbolic waters stimulating the laws and dimensions that we recognize as this universe. To understand this one must explore WHAT God is, what it means when we say He is Infinite and Boundless, which are not the same as eternal, first we need to understand God's BEING.Next, I follow the account of Adam and his wife in the Garden, and how this couple is a symbolic expression of the soul within us, or rather the created soul that we are, and how our nature, even the nature of our existence, differs from that of our Creator. Simultaneously we are introduces to YHWH, who is of the same Spirit as the transcendent Father, as the Father determines to enter in to His own Creation, ultimately for our salvation. Once again this knowledge is not to be understood merely in a historical context but to reveal how it is that we exist and what the limitations imposed upon our own Being are. Lastly, following parts of the Book of John, I explore the nature of the Christ, as He is begotten of the Father, and how the Spirit interacts with ours bringing about our salvation as the Spirit imparts to us eternal life. Our minds are from birth, conditioned by our senses, we hear the sounds around us, those tones which are finite and quickly fading, but we do not consider the Silence to be a greater reality. When we see with our eyes, we are drawn to the objects that obstruct space, but we do not see the space itself nor think it to be of more value than the object which exists only for a short time. As we lend our value of reality to that which is merely finite in nature, we do not see with the same regard that which is mirroring the infinity surrounding it. And so Jesus equates the Spirit with the wind, unseen itself, and us percieving only its effects. What I hope to accomplish with this book, as I follow the flow of God's Spirit from His transcendent estate as Father, to His Heavenly personage as YHWH, to its embodiment in the one we call Jesus, the reality of the Spirit. Through the eyes of our doctrines and senses we read the scriptures and the "e;Spirit"e; and its work is translated by our minds metaphorically rather than substantially as we do not discern the SUBSTANCE of it. Just as we see no substance of the space surrounding us, nor of the silence without which no sound could exist, so the Spirit in scriptures, being understood as non-physical, immaterial, has also loss the value, the substance of its Being. Spiritual sight is in seeing the Spirit as more substantial than that which is passing away, but this is at odds with our natural sense perception, and so in tracing the descent of God's Spirit, I hope to refresh it's reality in your eyes.

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CHAPTER II - CREATING CREATION

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DAY 1 – TIME

GE 1:3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.

On the First day God creates Light (something), and divides it from Darkness (nothing), and so in the first act of creation God designs into the foundation of the creation a reflection of His ultimate and prior reality as originally there was God who is something, hovering over that which is nothing. Next He separates and names them Day and Night, which was and is the foundational measurement of Time for all cultures, both modern and primitive. Centuries are understood by counting decades, decades by counting years, and years are understood by counting days and nights. Seconds are divisions of an hour, hours are divisions of a day; either larger or smaller the universal measurement for Time is Day and Night and with the Creation of Light comes the beginning of Time. Day and Night speak to our experience, but Time is the principle that comes into existence first.

Eternity itself is timeless, God does not experience a past and a future, but for anything other than God to exist, time is the first necessity because the timeless eternity is already filled with God. If for example I were to theoretically ascend upwards beyond the creation into the very presence of the Father I would instantly cease to exist the instance I was to enter eternity because God alone inhabits the eternal realm, fully expressing His infinitude. Just as there is simply no room for anything else, neither is there time for anything to come and go because eternity/infinity remains always complete.

“Time” is experienced also as a dimensional duality, one consisting of our experience in measure, counting day and night as they are seen to be passing by. But Time is also experienced as being itself divided, the divisions of which are the Past and the Future, darkness relating to the future as it is invisible and unknown, light relating to the past as the past is knowable and established reality.

On the first Day God creates Light, which scientifically happens to be the standard and equivalent of Time, yet even in simple prose to say God created Day and Night is the same as saying God created Time and it is Time as a principle reality that is brought into function before all else.

DAY 2 - SPACE

GE 1:6 And God said, “Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water.” 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.

Once having established a past and future, now all we need is a little elbowroom, a little space to stretch out. The Hebrew word for “expanse” as it applies to what God is creating is Raqiya, its definition according to Strong’s concordance is “1 extended surface (solid), expanse, firmament, a) expanse (flat as base, support); and it is this solidity that is worth focusing on. Next to the Principle dimension of Time, what is required most for existence is space, space and a place for Being to arise, and space and a place for that Being to exist in as environment. Although there is a tendency to think of space as emptiness, space as in space/time, is both extended as regards its three dimensional breadth, and solid as it provided us with a supporting context in which to exist. For a cube to exist as a cube it needs Space, both within as regards its cubical form and substantial body, and without as regards the environment to accommodate such a body.

Although it is often cited that we live on Earth even as we refer to ourselves as Earthlings, more accurately we live in an expanse of space, and that space is called Sky, hence in reality it is more accurate that we should call ourselves Atmospherians. After all what is the greatest supporting structure for our existence, Earth or Sky. It would have to be Sky because we can live in space with no land beneath our feet for months or years, but we cannot live a minute there without atmosphere around us.

In the physical sphere of our existence as regards the body we exist because we possess our own spatial dimensions, our own solidity and density, and that spatial form restricts the Sky from closing in on us and denying us room for existence. Likewise the Sky, even as it is spatial also possesses solidity; an elemental body and density that holds back the nothingness of outer space allowing us room to move and breath and exist on the Earth. These examples look to the external, but even for the “I” within us in order to exist, requires the nothingness of non-existence, like space, to be divisible to either side as to make room for the “I”, and this is also true for any Identity of any-thing in Creation to exist.

Fundamentally from a planetary point of view it can be observed that God, on the second day, is creating the space in which we are to live. But as regards a universal view God is creating the very principles of dimensional space whereby any “thing” can thus come into existence. Without space there is no body, no here nor there for that body to occupy, no room for planets, no room for any-thing, Space gives not only substance to things as things are defined by their spatial dimensions, but also generates the greater context of provision for those things to exist in.

Apart from God there is no-thing, the Father exists in fullness, beyond dimensional space, He does not experience left or right, up or down, any more than He experiences past or future, He simply IS and there is nothing else. And so creation begins by defining those necessary principle dimensions that allow for some-thing other to exist. Our temporal existence and the multiplicity of it demand the initial introduction of Time and Space as each defines parameters, parameters that are configurationally the framework that supports existence.

The division and creation of Sky on this second day results in three specific distinctions, namely the waters above, the waters below, and the expanse in between, and I suppose I could relate these three with the three dimensions associated with Space. In physics, Space can be illustrated as a cube with its three dimensions. On the horizontal axis two lines cross over each other at right angles, this cross measures out a two dimensional square in a flat plane, thus length and width.

This flat square turns into a three-dimensional cube as a third line ascends vertically determining height or depth. Placed upon the unidirectional RED arrow of time, these four dimensions become the basic reference points for the existence of any-thing. Whether it’s the three-dimensional cube as it is known by its mass, or individual Identity, existence itself depends upon this intersection of three dimensions of space and this fourth dimension of Time, as all things if they are anything at all, must possess identity (Form) and remain for a time (continuance), and so it is we say they exist. Remove any one of these dimensions and the self, vanishes.

DAY 3 (PT. 1) - GRAVITY (LAND)

GE 1:9 And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good.

Consider again the Cube which I used to exemplify the dimensions of Time and Space, imagine that Cube to be our universe but with no stars or any-thing anywhere, just the black emptiness of Space. Now that I have this Cube I can pinpoint any number of possible “locations” to put different things at I want to create. Such things I might want to create would be dental floss or coconuts, but for now let’s say I want to create three stars. So I pick out three points in space as the location of my stars and I command for the first star to appear, two things happen, first the nothingness of space withdraws as the star appears, and there is a force like condensation, a vortex where matter accumulates around that point in Time and Space. For any-thing to exist there must be Time and Space so that a Location is possible, and then a force (Gravity) to condense the necessary Light into Matter. And what I mean by Gravity is that condensation into a location of any-thing from an atom, to a toaster, to a star.

By the way, we might actually live in a square universe, if all the stars were created across space as they are now, and only three thousand years ago, then we would only see the light from stars that are three thousand light years away in all directions, it is our perception that is circular.

From our Heavenly perspective, the Waters and Nothingness recede, then the appearance of Land as the Formlessness of Space gives way to Form and Density. Because of Time and Space and the resulting creation of a nearly infinite number of Locations and intersections, apart from the Oneness of the Father, there...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.12.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
• Schlagworte: Christ • Christianity • God • Mysteries • SPIRIT • Theology • Yehweh
• ISBN-10: 1-5080-7091-1 / 1508070911
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5080-7091-7 / 9781508070917