3e) What is Reality?
Well one thing is for sure - anything that lasts forever is more "real" than something finite. God lasts forever, so God is the highest form of reality. His thoughts create a lower level reality, because they only exist as long as He is thinking them. We exist in His thoughts, so we are physically real, but not as real as our Creator. Likewise, our thoughts create an even lower level of reality.
We know from how we think, that our thoughts cannot be solid. When we think
of a solid object, we see it as a hologram or a drawing or perhaps it is
analogous to a movie. In any event, we see it in 2D. This observation leads me
to suggest that a thinker's thoughts must have fewer dimensions than the
thinker has. Their thoughts can be as big as they imagine in length and width,
but because they have no depth, they are not solid. That's how they can fit in
our 3D mind (brain).
God has more than our three physical dimensions as we said earlier. He is
eternal and all-alone in His universe with no outside. He must have at least
five dimensions. If this model is correct, then we can understand how God can
think of a physical 3D universe with all of us humans in it. It's as big as He
wants it to be in length, width, and height, but it still fits in His 5 or more
dimensional mind.
Everything in the 3D universe that God is thinking of is as physically real as we are. Our entire universe and everything in it is in the mind of God. (You were probably taught that as a child. Now can you see why it makes sense?) Now consider the chair we are sitting in. Which is more real - this chair or the image we have of it in our mind? The image of the chair in our mind will go away when we stop thinking of it. However, the chair we are sitting in will not go away if we stop thinking of it. That chair is in the mind of God. It is as real as we are. Both will continue to exist as long as God continues to think of them. If God stops thinking of anything it goes away. The reciprocal of this is also true. God can give us everlasting life by continuing to think of us.
God has been thinking forever, so He has thought of other worlds beside this 3D universe we know. Those other universes could have more than the three dimensions we know. Since God has at least 5D, He could be thinking of a 4D universe and of our 3D universe at the same time. Why not? If God is also thinking of a 4D universe of thinking beings, then they have a reality of their own. I suggest that they would thus relate to us as we would to a 2D movie. Notice that you can show an entire audience the contents of a book at one time, if you make it into a movie and project it onto the wall. The movie is only 2D. Likewise, if we were in the floor (ie two dimensional), we could not see all of the floor at once. However, being 3D, we are outside of the floor and we can see it all at once.
This introduces a different concept. We are relating to God through our thoughts. Our relationship to Him follows the relationship between a thinker and their thoughts, as we have said. However, if God is also thinking of angelic beings with four dimensions, then their relationship to us is more like watching a movie. The higher order creatures can see and reach into the movie screen, but the movie characters cannot see nor reach out into the auditorium.
God is unique because everything else is in His mind. There is none other like Him. He is the Creator of all else. If you understand this process, that's as close as you can get to a full understanding of God's reality. Yet that's enough to leap in faith the rest of the way.
26 July 2001
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