Inequitable Distribution of Wealth

by | Apr 25, 2025 | Physics/Christianity/Life

by Thomas Lee Abshier, ND
12/14/2008
4/5/2019 rev

Summary: The formation of pockets of dynamic stability in turbulent flow provides an analogy and insights into to the macro & micro economic processes involved in the formation of stable pockets of inequitable wealth distribution in a land of plenty.  The economic forces acting inside the flow of an economy (production and consumption) act on the individual person in a manner somewhat akin to the forces acting on a molecule in a stream with various types of stationary obstacles, suspended particles, flow restrictions, channel bends, and merging flows.

The individual has internal psychological characteristics, such as the motivation to avoid pain and pursue pleasure, which is the central driver of all human action.  Humans have degrees of freedom of action such as the ability to communicate, think, act/work, feel and move to satisfy emotional and physical needs (e.g. survival, friendship, mating, reproduction, warmth, shelter, hunger, love, peace, etc…).  The individual’s external environment includes 1) the economic climate (recession or boom, inflation/deflation or stability), 2) the availability of resources (energy, land, minerals, water, skilled and unskilled labor, sun…), 3) the climate of international relations (open/restricted trade, war, cultural affinity/opposition), 4) the political climate (scandal/corruption, investigations, environmental fear/care, news polarization, stratification of wealth, identity politics, illegal immigration, moral legislation (abortion, homosexuality, divorce, pornography…), and 5) the cultural climate (e.g., unity vs balkanization, spiritual/religious/theologic principles reflected in the law), etc.  The internal environment of the individual interacts with his external environment, resulting in a flow where he either contributes and participates with the bulk of society and is rewarded according to the magnitude of his contribution, or he marches to a different drummer and finds himself engaging at cross purposes with those in his world, contributing little, and associating with those who are likewise disaffected.

  • (The Phenomenon of Turbulence) Turbulence results when the ratio of the kinetic energy and the viscosity of the fluid rise above a certain value (e.g., at a Reynolds number over 5000).  In other words, when the velocity becomes high enough relative to a surface, collisions between the particles in the fluid flow and the surface results in particle velocities perpendicular to the flow.  In short, collisions resulting in velocities of particles perpendicular to the fluid flow produce turbulence if the fluid doesn’t damp out that velocity.

The collision of the individual with the larger environment creates a disturbance in the flow of production and consumption.  The local conditions of the individual’s environment (local business profitability, marital satisfaction, education, family or personal illness, etc.) interact with the person’s individual capabilities and character to produce a stable flow of wealth if he is able to contribute significantly to the overall welfare of others.  If the individual has developed antisocial habits, adopted a self-focused narcissistic perspective, or habitually behaves according to the vast family of traits such as breaking contracts, denigrating his fellow man, using substances that dull the mind and disconnect him from the external and internal reality.

These pockets of poverty can be family, local, regional, national, or worldwide.  The point being that forces, internal and external, predictably interact to create stable pockets of wealth inequity that do not reflect the larger economic welfare.

This essay took its inspiration from the article: “The Long Arm of the Second Law”, Scientific American, Oct 2008, pg. 62-68.

Economic, Political, Moral, and Natural Forces as Determinants of Wealth
by: Thomas Lee Abshier, ND
12/14/2008
4/1/2019 revision

In general, wealth accumulation is dependent upon a society.

Thermodynamic theory has now been given mathematical understructure and variable names to describe the formation, persistence, and decay of local pockets of order and disorder.  The conventional calculation of entropy only applies to systems at equilibrium, but turbulent systems of moving particles (and economic systems) are neither linear nor in equilibrium.

The concept of entropy is examined for those interested in understanding thermodynamics.  Understanding entropy is not necessary for understanding the metaphor of economics.  Systems in thermodynamic equilibrium systems are those in a steady state of temperature distribution, and such systems have a well-defined entropy.  But, dynamic, non-equilibrium, chaotic, turbulent systems cannot be easily assigned a value for the entropy of the system.

Entropy is defined as the amount of heat in a system divided by its temperature.  This rather abstract term has been used more commonly to describe the degree of randomness in a system, but this conception does not capture the real essence of entropy.  Entropy, using a strict definition increases each time a new possibility is introduced into a system.  For example: the entropy of a system increases each time one of its sub-elements goes through an irreversible process.  This happens when the kinetic energy of a single mass collides with a system with many particles, and the directed motion of the single particle is converted into the random/chaotic motion of many masses.  In other words, in the state before the collision, the system had only one degree of freedom, the movement of one mass in one direction.  After the collision, the target masses were moving in many directions, which means that the degrees of freedom of the system increased, and hence, the entropy of the system increased after the collision.

Another example of an entropy-increasing process is friction. At its elemental level, friction is a series of inelastic collisions. An inelastic collision converts kinetic energy to thermal energy – in other words, the coherent, single-direction motion of one large mass is converted into the randomly directed motion of many atoms.

  • (Elaboration of the physics of friction:  A mass M1 composed of a large number of atoms has a kinetic energy KE1 before it begins to slide on the surface of M2.  The irregularities on M1 and M2, high points called asperities, collide as they slide over each other.  The collision causes them to deform and reform repeatedly.  To the extent that the deformation does not spring back completely and return that energy of deformation to the KE of M1, that energy is retained by the atoms of the lattice of M1 and M2.  The retained compression of the lattice atoms and the motion imparted to the atoms of the asperities is transmitted by further micro-collisions to the atoms composing the molecular lattice.  Thus, some kinetic energy of M1 is lost to friction, which turns into heat and permanent deformation of the atoms on the surfaces of M1 and M2.  Energy is conserved, in that it was converted from kinetic energy to thermal energy.  Thermal energy is merely kinetic energy on a micro-scale directed randomly.  The original kinetic energy of M1 is transmitted to atoms in the lattice, thereby increasing the average vibratory rate of the atoms in the molecular lattice.  Thus, a portion of the KE1 of M1 is dispersed through M1 and M2.  The higher random kinetic energy of the atoms of M1 and M2 is perceived as a higher temperature.  This random, non-directed energy of the atoms in the molecular lattice means that the system has more degrees of freedom than the single-direction motion of KE1.  The strict mathematical definition of entropy is an algorithmic summation of the degrees of freedom of the system.  Obviously, when all the atoms of a mass are going in the same direction, there is only a single degree of freedom.  But, after the collision, there are many degrees of freedom with every atom having its own direction and its own velocity.  Thus, the system went from a low entropy system to a high entropy system through the process (innumerable inelastic collisions) of friction.  The concept of entropy is a high-level summary (a single number that reflects the degrees of freedom of a system) of a very complex underlying state.  But, in even more complex systems, such as water flowing over a rough surface and past obstacles, the concept of entropy is not sufficiently granular for modeling such complex systems, thus the need for the more recent advances in theory of turbulence and chaos theory.)

Linear systems are defined as changing properties at a constant rate with distance or time.  But most real-world systems are non-linear, given the complexity of surfaces and environments, with their associated inelastic collisions, changes in direction, and interactions between the individual atoms composing the stream.  For example, consider the case of water molecules in a stream flowing over a rocky river bed and shoreline.  The complex surfaces alter the velocity and direction of flow changes in a  complex, chaotic, turbulent, non-linear manner.

Most of life is composed of nonlinear interactions between people, objects, concepts, and spirits.

Atoms and molecules behave differently depending upon the state of the system.  For example, at high temperature, water changes state from a liquid to gas, and at a low temperature, it changes state from a liquid to a solid.  Fundamental to the bulk behavior of water is its dipolar nature due to the 109-degree angle bond between the two hydrogen atoms as they bond to oxygen.  The hydrogen loses its electron to the oxygen for a portion of its orbital and ends up with a partial positive charge, and the oxygen becomes partially negative.  The polar nature of water causes the hydrogen atoms on water molecules to be attracted to the oxygen of other water molecules.  This attraction between water atoms is due to the attraction between the partial positive and partial negative charges of the different portions of the water molecules.  This low-energy attraction between water molecules is called a hydrogen bond.  Even though this is a low energy bond, the attraction influences the local movement of the water molecules as it is jostled about by Brownian Motion.  The macro-effect is seen in its unusually high freezing and boiling point compared to other dipolar atoms.

This example was pursued in detail to illustrate that small forces at the molecular and atomic level affect the behavior of a bulk system.  The dynamic interaction with gross macroscopic objects (such as the rocks on the river bed and shore) depends largely on how water molecules interact with each other and with the masses at the surfaces of the stream.  Expanding on this concept: the atoms on a water molecule exert different forces depending on their proximity to other molecules and the forces associated with the water’s velocity, purity, and environmental conditions such as pressure and temperature.

By analogy, people are different in their affinities and repulsions and react differently to other people based on the inner forces that drive them to act, repel them from interacting, drive unusual effectiveness, and cause significant weakness.

Thus in general, each molecule will have a different reactivity associated with its type/weight, shape, charge distribution (and its associated affinities and repulsions to other molecular shapes and their charges).  This fundamental force of attraction is in turn modified by its local environmental conditions, which causes the bulk behavior of the molecule to change.  For example, a higher temperature molecule will have greater velocity, and thus will get closer to other atoms and molecules before being repelled by the like charges of the electron clouds.  Closer proximity may allow the molecules to temporarily bind and resist the process of dissociation, causing water to have an abnormally high boiling point.  The force-distance relationship will also change in the presence of contaminants, causing the bulk material properties to change.  Interaction with large external forces, such as colliding with a rock in the stream, will redirect the water’s downstream energy, causing turbulence and a stable micro-environment.  On its surface, turbulence does not appear to be a stable environment, but if we view “turbulence” as a state, and the water stays in that state, then the local condition has created a stable local condition.  The particulars of that state will be produced by the combination of the micro-forces of the molecular interaction (hydrogen bonds) and the macro-forces of the environment (water colliding with rock).

By analogy, note how the characteristics of an individual interact with family, city, corporate, governmental, international forces and create the turbulent sensation of being out of control.

At lower flow rates, the disturbed local states’ stability and order depend more upon subtle forces (water flow rate, rock size, rock roughness, water temperature and purity, etc.).  The system will come to turbulent stability as it forms a turbulent local microenvironment of the stream water.  These local pockets of order are not equilibrium, nor linear, but they are a type of stability in the midst of a turbulent, and high energy system.

Individuals face multitudes of factors that exert force upon their lives.  The greater the force, the more turbulent, chaotic, and unpredictable will be the local environment.  There will be limits to the chaos, and there are elements of predictability, but the linear predictive cause and effect nature of the system will be limited.

  • In systems exhibiting turbulent flow (e.g., chaotic, non-laminar flow, in a liquid), patterns of “order” form.  Turbulence is any pattern of “order” (i.e., the relationship between the velocity of molecules is chaotic rather than laminar in relation to the boundary conditions of the system).  Turbulence is based upon inelastic collisions between objects which increase entropy.  Turbulence is caused by collisions vigorous enough to produce a rebound which projects the individual elements (e.g., molecules) out of a stream’s laminar flow (roughly parallel particle velocity). The order formed in turbulence may be difficult to identify as ordered.  But, when “order” is defined as any pattern other than total randomness, we realize that even the most complex motion is “ordered”.  The “order” of a turbulent flow arises because of the collisions with walls, barriers, and other fluid-particles.  The pattern of this “order” is not easily identified as a repeating pattern or a volume of disturbance that holds a particular shape.  And, the chaotic “order” cannot be currently predicted using numeric or algorithmic methods to predict the volume, location, and periodicity of stable areas of turbulence.  Still, even though complex, when a sufficiently high-velocity stream strikes an obstacle to flow, quasi-stable volumes of turbulence will form in response to that collision. When particles strike obstacles, regions of dynamic stability form, that are “ordered” in some way.  These areas of rebound may look like swirls, ripples, or zones of stasis.  The volume of the chaotic “order” may migrate over a volume and repeat that pattern, change shapes, or move unpredictably within a volume and set of behaviors.  Zones of correlation are identifiable as stable domains of organization that arise from random collisions with the environment and mutual interactions between the particles.

The same is true of people when their lives collide with (are influenced by) large external forces, such as war, recession, off-shoring of industry, health-care costs, advertising campaigns for addictive substances, changes in technology that obsolete skills and labor, etc.  In response to these forces, some populations of people will be disproportionately affected.  These groups of affected individuals form a domain within the larger population.  They may form a colony where their life continues with little change, but other areas will suffer huge impacts and large stable turbulent variations in function and routine form.

For example, when the economy goes into recession, hygiene and sleep may be unchanged, but marital stress and discord may be elevated.

A non-equilibrium state exists when a set of particles is divided into isolated subsets, and those subsets are altered in state from the bulk or average state.  Subsets may form because of the interruptions of communication (breaking of bonds) with the larger body.

Particle subsets form due to forces converging to compress a system of particles.  This results in local bonding and forming a region of stable self-interaction.  And, given that the bulk medium is dynamic, such as in flowing water, the system has particles leaving, and coming into the stable turbulent region at the same rate. Any accumulation or depletion of the state is only temporary.

This corresponds to life experience where one problem is solved, and another arises; it does not appear that progress is being made because the same large external force is disturbing the routine, resulting in a never-ending struggle to maintain a constant output or production.

These turbulent volumes remain stable as long as the dynamics of the system remain constant (e.g. an eddy in a stream forms and remains within its parameters of chaotic variation as long as the water flows at a particular rate, pressures, temperature, purity, etc.).  But, no flow, and no system of turbulence will endure forever.  Regardless of the system’s stability at constant flow conditions, the system will eventually change because the source flow will change.  No source is infinite in its capacity, everything exhausts its supply eventually.  Dynamic systems such as streams and turbulent eddies depend upon a source and a gradient of concentration.  Thus, the universe, the ultimate source of all energy and concentration, began with the highest source concentration of mass and energy at the Moment before the Big Bang. In any portion of the universe, the energy gradient that allows for turbulent chaotic systems to exist, the source will exhaust, and the turbulent systems dependent upon its flow will cease.  Energy does not generate and flow eternally from the same source in the physical world. Thus, every local microenvironment will eventually lose its stability and form new states of order or disorder.

While, no dynamic system can maintain bulk stability forever, an intelligent system with a survival instinct and detection systems, and mobility, can seek new existent energy-gradient systems, such as stars, to maintain the energy flow environment required to maintain life.

The same is true in the life of the suffering human.  For example, his life may become chaotic due to the forces of government, economy, and nature.  The one refuge a man can always take is the fact that the circumstances and forces operating in life will eventually change.  The misery may change from one form to another, but life will not maintain eternal stability in one form.

This thermodynamic concept has applicability to economics and human drama because the market is composed of billions of people-particles.  Each person acts with his own set of rules of action and reaction in the marketplace of consumption and production of goods and services.  Each people-particle acts according to his own inner ruleset of action and reaction as dictated by his aversion and affinities, needs, will, and ability.

Economics is defined by the bulk behavior-flow of production and consumption.  The limits and characteristics of the economic flow are determined by the nature of the constituent people-particles.  The individuals of any productive system may be of high potential, but with enough force can be overwhelmed and rendered ineffective.

A local environment, such as a company, city, state, nation, or world can be overwhelmed by outside forces and fall into dysfunctional low productivity.  The subprime mortgage crisis, in combination with the high oil prices, has delivered a blow the world economy.

The convergence of these two forces delivered a large force to the normal flow of the economic system.  The raising prime rate pushed up interest rates for mortgages, putting people who were marginally qualified for home ownership, and financed by ARMs, close to the edge.  When oil prices rose, that extra expenditure put a number of mortgages in default, making the Mortgage Backed Securities go into default when Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s credit rating dropped.  Such a sequence of economic facts and forces creates a change in the flow of compensation, consumption, and production.  The size of the force, in this case, was so large that the entire world economy was thrown into turbulence, with some points of the system maintaining stability.  Again, the point being that various forces can bring instability to various parts of an economic system.

Other strong forces that disturb the invisible hand of the market are monopoly, corruption, legislation, and taxes.  These forces distort the normal flow of production and consumption by introducing cost disincentives that influence the behavior of the individual in protecting his self-interest.

In a system with good communication and a Godly sense of service, education in right principles, and leadership in the promotion of right principles of living, the concentrations of local stable poverty could be dispersed.  With sufficiently strong intervention, coaching, training and support, virtually all poverty could be eliminated.  With such intervention, the pockets of poverty could be raised to the average levels of prosperity.

Leadership introduces forces that produce open and properly compensated knowledge transfer.  Corruption (e.g. bribes, dishonest measures, theft, slander, perjury, revealing secrets) reaps its appropriate consequences, such as deficient quality and quantity of goods and services, and the breakdown of affinity and trust among men.  Leadership confronts and motivates sloth receives no support other than education in a skill that produces a return on the investment.

When Godly character is instilled in the perpetrators, manipulators, cheats, cons, criminals, and sloths, the largest internal source of social distortion is eliminated.  The monopolistic distortion of the market is eliminated when people are willing to play fair, and take personal accountability for the actions and moral judgments of the corporation.

In a transparent system, the important pieces of the economic engine coordinate with each other.  Finance, energy, transportation, communication, and regulation, etc are applied morally, moderated, and appropriate throughout the system.  When people care about raising the quality of life of those caught in locally depressed states, the inhomogeneous domains of the economy eventually smooth out.  Every individual should be trained to produce at optimum, consume modestly, and receive appropriate compensation.

When individuals are separated into isolated environments that create or reinforce fears, anger, and sorrow they can develop stable suboptimal behavior far from normal, optimal, and moderate.  Rehabilitation should include the development of proper behaviors, desires, activity, and will, so as to bring the stable dysfunctional individual into the group norm.

The forces of perversion and destruction produce suboptimal conditions of economic flow, political organization, and restriction of freedom.  Changing a local system after it has established a dysfunctional stability requires penetrating that system with an organizing energy.  Energy can be injected as education in life and trade skills while withdrawing support for dysfunction.  The heart must be changed to effect such a change, so integral to training must be tutelage in the Word of God, accountability and consequences, both reward and punishment for following the way of Right thought, speech, and actions.

Monopolies, governmental corruption (bribes), dynastic ownership, societal ignorance, worship of false gods and idolatry all produce stable systems where a few profits while many suffer.  To overthrow the conditions that allow the continuation of these suboptimal economic eddies, the system must be disturbed.  Prayer, forgiveness, love, and Righteousness are the foundations of any proactive action.  Having clearly identified the pathological disturbing forces in a family, business, corporation, judiciary, legislature, administration, we may then choose the best strategy for interceding in eliminating the disturbing forces.  Many common tools have been used including counseling, personal meetings, expert testimony, peaceful public demonstrations, letters to the editor, lawsuits, boycotts, strikes, and media campaigns.  Each of these may have their place, but most important, it must be guided by a sense of propriety and service, rather than revenge.  Once the perverting social/economic/political force is eliminated, the Godly patterns of conduct may reemerge and bring the larger system to a greater state of health, relationship, and productivity.

When the bulk system is decaying, the natural sequences of pain require confronting all the players in the system, both leaders and followers.  When large systems are in states of extreme inequity of wealth distribution, such as corporate executives versus workers; dictator versus the serf and peasant class; an intervention must break the habitual stability of the inequity.  Revolution is one way, but education, public education through the media and passive resistance can also produce change.  There is a time for force, but all other options should be exhausted.  When people will not participate in the immorality of a nation, corporation, or family, the system has lost its power.  The best revolution is led by God and overthrows the false gods in men’s hearts.

The capitalistic system of commerce lends itself well to a natural gradient of proper compensation for production.  The reward of work should be related to production in rough parity.  If an executive makes millions, we must be sure that his compensation is not being used as a Faustian bargain, which gives him the courage to sell his soul in various ways.  Again, the compensation across the entire economic system should be roughly commensurate with production, and all market advantage should be motivated by service, rather than simply profitable.  Since the prurient and avaricious drives of men can be used to appeal and make profits, each entrepreneur, executive, and the worker should take the fruit of his production personally, and say “no” to giving life to the immoral and unGodly.

There should be no a fixed maximum compensation for a man’s service, rather, there should be a market-based relationship between compensation and production, and the market should be fairly open to movement by allowing the disgruntled to relocate to a competitor.  Such mobility should be executed on the individual business level, rather than forced by administrative law.

When the wages have become inequitable, the employee should intervene and advocate for fairness.  Ideally, such clear communication may be the only force necessary to disturb the system and bring equitability to the individual system.  The same standard should be applied to the other systems of life, including family, boss, employees, corporation, and government.  When we hold Godly standards, speak our truth with love, expect to be heard, and relentlessly advocate for Righteousness, the disturbing forces of the system will eventually crumble, and goodness will rule.

1 Comment

  1. Nathan H.
    Thomas Lee Abshier on March 30, 2019 at 10:13 pm

    Comment from Nathan by email:

    Thinking of both the entropy of the entire system and turbulence as intrinsic to its internal dialectic, and then re-framing local inequality of wealth in light of that dialectic — seems helpful.

    But what maintains the stability of the system as a whole?

    I kept honing in on segments like these:

    “In a system with good communication, and a Godly sense of service, education, and leadership, local stable poverty could be raised to average prosperity over time.

    “When Godly character is instilled in the perpetrators, manipulators, cheats, cons, criminals, and sloths, the largest internal source of social distortion is eliminated.

    “Energy can be injected as education in life and trade skills while withdrawing support for dysfunction. The heart must be changed to effect such a change, so, integral to training, must be tutelage in the Word of God, accountability and consequences, both reward for following the way of Right thought, speech, and actions, and punishment for their violation.

    “Prayer, forgiveness, love, and Righteousness are the foundations of any proactive action.

    So maybe because of my own recent background reading Alisdair MacIntyre and pondering current trends in light of Solzhenitsyn’s prophetic warnings, I understood your words above in the context of virtue theory, where practices (such as love, justice, truth-telling, selfless service, self-restraint, etc) are fostered by and embedded within social communities of practice toward common ends, (e.g. tutelage in the Word of God, etc.).

    The thermodynamic model drew Solzhenitsyn to mind also because it put the long view and a picture of the net energy and stability of the whole system before me. One reviewer summarized his thought on this as follows:

    “Likewise, Solzhenitsyn argued for a sane economy providing civilization with stability, instead of an “uninterrupted rise in the level of material existence.” Solzhenitsyn spoke favorably of traditional, repairable, crafts replacing shoddy manufactured goods intended for consumers to replace at the slightest defect. Products and technology, he argued, should be measured by how well they serve our needs, particularly our spiritual ones, as our primary concern must be for our inner development, which frighteningly had shifted at the hands of a society bent on material acquisition or outer development. Production should flow as an agent which is subordinate to our inner development within a society sheltering the soul first and foremost.
    https://distributistreview.com/the-distributist-thinking-of-aleksandr-solzhenitsyn/

The Theory of Absolutes

by | Apr 25, 2025 | Physics/Christianity/Life

A Physics Theory Connecting Nature with God and Man
An Apologetic for the Congregation of Believing Physicists
By: Thomas Lee Abshier, ND

Timeline:

  • 1987 The vision/inspiration/insight for the Theory of Absolute concept
  • 2009 initial manuscript publication and copyright
  • 2019 publication of major revision and refinements of the physics and spiritual concepts

This preprint draft is provided to the scientific and religious community to provide documentation of the theory’s evolution for the purpose of eliciting discussion and critique.

This Essay is:

  • An Unconventional apologetic and justification for belief in the existence of God
  • A Rationalization for the role of Jesus Christ as Lord & Savior
  • An Argument for the consistency of Biblical text & science
  • A Justification of the logic of His moral Law
  • A Hypothesis about the creation of Space, Mass, Time, Energy, and Life
  • A Theory connecting God and Creation through His consciousness

Methods of Proof of Theory:

  • Consistency of the proposed Theory with the body of physical experiments
  • Broad applicability of explanatory mechanisms to physical phenomena
  • Logical connection of the Theory with conventionally accepted theory and mathematical models

The Theory of Absolutes is a physics theory based on God’s Word, a perspective of science with God at its center.

Inspiration and Foundation for the Theory of Absolutes:

Gen 1:1  In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.  The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.  Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.

John 1:1  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.  In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

Introduction to the Physics and Metaphysics of the Theory of Absolutes:

  • The physics of the Theory of Absolutes cannot be separated from the metaphysics that underlies it. I have based the Theory of Absolutes on Biblical revelation, experimental results, established scientific theories, and my own experience of reality. Using this parallax, I have attempted to develop and present a possible rational/methodological explanation for how God created the universe.
  • Central Thesis: God the Father begat the Son, and the Son created the universe. I asked, “How did He create it?” I propose that the Son populated the universe with innumerable Conscious Points (CPs), each embedded with rules for moving in response to other CPs. The CPs densely populate the background substrate of space.  The Conscious Particles (CPs), in turn, mediate all physical phenomena. The CPs are the substrate that fills the background of space. The CPs assemble to form all particles of mass. Their displacement in response to charge and magnetic poles produces the Electromagnetic force. The Weak force is a catalytic conversion of , the Strong force, and Gravity.  The Theory of Absolutes is to a large degree an exercise in deducing the rules of interaction of the Conscious Particles from the observed field, wave, and particle phenomena.
  • By a Conscious Particle, I mean a point of awareness in the spirit realm, a point of consciousness capable of perception, processing, and action.  The Conscious Particle is the elemental unit from which I shall attempt to construct a model of the entire universe of matter, waves, fields, and life.
  • The Conscious Particles serve as the mediators of all waves and field phenomena and are the elemental constituents of mass.
  • As per John 1, the universe was created by Christ/the Word/The Son by a spiritual method.  The scientific community has not come to an agreement as to the actual sequence of events by which the universe was created.  Thus, I do not wish to wed my theory too deeply with the current speculation. Nevertheless, I shall attempt to superimpose my theory upon all the the well-accepted theoretical/conventional physics concepts such as the Big Bang, black holes, quantum mechanics, the Subatomic Zoo (photons, leptons, quarks), force (gravity, electromagnetism, weak and strong force), charge, energy (kinetic & potential, work, thermal, mass, electromagnetic, nuclear), space, and time.  Regardless of the method, the universe was created and it had a beginning, which current theory and observation calculates at 13.8 billion years ago in a Big Bang. (For those who take the 6 days of creation literally, possibly the universe was created very recently but with a history.)  The universe may have had epochs where God intervened strongly in the shaping process (e.g., the creation of life in its successive forms).  And it may have expanded for eons after the point of creation, during which time the mechanics of cause and effect proceeded without divine intervention, or been guided every Moment to produce the divinely ordained/desired outcome of each Moment.
  • Strict Darwinian evolution holds that life arose from a sequence of chance collisions over a long period of time.  Intimately connected with the theory of evolution is the hypothesis that the universe arose from nothing, possibly from a quantum fluctuation in the nothing/space/void. Neither theory of evolution nor the cosmological hypothesis about the origin of the universe, posit a creative intelligent-force purposefully creating the substance of the universe from nothing, or guiding its chaotic randomness to its current state of order, supportive environment, or life.  Associated with the evolution and atheistic cosmological theory, the experience of life is its own end.  There is no transcendent purpose other than the experience of the thoughts, feelings, and actions of each Moment.
  • In Theism, the theory held by those who believe God created the universe, the meaning of life is also experienced by living in the Moment.  But, unlike the Deist/Atheist, the Moment also includes consideration of God as the ever-present partner in the life-relationship.  Living with a belief in a God-created universe, the Theist strives for a mutually satisfying experience of love between the Creator and creature.  In God’s world, the goal is not heaven, but a satisfying journey of mutual satisfaction of our desire for relationship with self, others, and God. The contents of the drama of life include the tasks of maintaining life, avoiding the temptations of excess, and proactively choosing service/caring/love of others.  A life lived according to the revelation of God can be satisfying, long, prosperous, and healthy.
  • Deism posits that God created the universe like a clock, which was 1) wound-up and released to run without His further intervention.  Having created the creation, earth, and man, the universe was released to follow a lawful sequence of field interactions, collisions, and conservation of momentum and energy according to the rules governing Conscious Particle interactions, all without further direction, intervention, or interference by God.  A Darwinist version of Deism considers God’s involvement was only present in the initiation of the universe, by giving the universe sufficient energetic content to generate all the mass, field energies, and kinetic energy in the Big Bang.  A slightly more interventionist version of Deism granted God the initial organization/configuration of all the Conscious Particles at the Moment of the universe’s initiation.  The most interventionist Deist allows a God which organized the galactic, solar, planetary bodies, and all human, plant, animal life and man.  But after that, all of history evolved without God’s miraculous intervention in the lives of men or nature.  The flow of life continued mechanically as it was mediated by the lawful interactions of the Conscious Particles which constitute the universe.
  • The deist sees the universe as created by God, but he believes no divine intervention or action was taken after the creation of the earth, its hospitable environment, and life.  This scenario is almost identical to the Godless creation (e.g., by universe arising from quantum fluctuation and then arriving at today’s universe only by random chance and forces).  The radical Darwinistic deist universe differs from the Godless creation only in one consideration, believing there was intent and purposeful placement of the particles by God at some point (e.g., a) in creating the particles that participated in the Big-Bang).  Thus, God is irrelevant in the life of the Deist, other than being accountable to Him after death, there is no relationship with God other than attempting to follow His rules, or believing in Him.
  • The Deist theory is not congruent with the Biblical revelation of God’s character, which relates God’s plan for the salvation of Man by the sacrifice of Christ. This plan is indicative of a God which desires a relationship with mankind which is the object of God’s love. In 1 Thessalonians 5, Paul exhorts us to pray without ceasing, rejoice, and give thanks.  Such acts are consistent with a universe of an ongoing relationship of mutual service between the creature and the Creator.  Thus, in the Theory of Absolutes, I will assume that God is constantly involved with creating and guiding the universe into its desired physical and spiritual configuration.  God may have guided the galactic, solar system, and planetary configurations to create the temperate conditions and hospitable environment needed to sustain life on earth.  And almost certainly, divine intervention guided the assembly of the cell and the various species of plants, animals, and man.
  • One common objection to the hypothesis of a God which intervenes miraculously/supernaturally in the affairs and lives of men is the lack of controlled experimental evidence of any violation of the conservation of energy or momentum.  But, if miracles are a real/actual phenomenon, that intervention requires a violation of this law.  That is, miracles require a movement of mass and/or alteration of fields.
  • For example; when God created Adam from the dust of the earth, this required moving mass and then changing its atomic structure.  Lifting 60kg of dirt to fashion a man requires a small amount of energy, and requires a large amount of energy to convert the silicon in dirt to carbon, nitrogen, sulfur, and oxygen.  In the natural world, conservation of energy requires the loss of energy from somewhere else to produce these changes.  A miracle is by definition not a natural flow of energy and could be detected by careful experimental analysis.
  • But, science has not measured or observed a miraculous creation.  Thus, it has rejected the notion of a God which creates something from nothing, or a God which intervenes in the progression of the momentum and existence of particles. Miracles require violating the lawful progression of mass and fields.
  • Regarding conservation of energy, God could do miracles by transferring energy from other sources to balance the energy introduced by a miracle.  For example, 1) He could destroy mass elsewhere to balance the mass-energy created.  This would balance out or reduce any gravity variation effects at a distance.  2) He could add equal and opposite momentum to other nearby particles to conserve momentum in the local space.  Momentum would appear conserved inside the boundary.  And, 3) He could break the bonds of bonded particles in the near-local space to increase their potential energy to compensate for the new bonds formed.  But all the above balancing interventions would still be measurable on a sufficiently small level.
  • Thus, miracles could be detected, even with compensation applied, with a sufficiently small measured system boundary.  But miracles are never measured, so here are some possibilities, 1) God does not want to be seen doing miracles so He adjusts the system boundary to avoid detection, 2) God does not do miracles when being watched, or 3) miracles do not happen.
  • Recapitulating: any acceleration, anywhere in the universe, and any movement of bonded particles, will affect the motion of the universe inside the speed-of-light-sphere surrounding that acceleration (i.e., forceful interaction).  Thus, miracles unavoidably disrupt the natural flow, and cannot be fully disguised, as they will inevitably/unavoidably introduce new potential and kinetic energies into the universe, which will change the natural lawful flow of mass and strength of fields.  That is, a scientist observing this transaction could measure the energy content of each volume of space and identify the non-conservative asymmetry of the interaction in the before and after state.  Changing the trajectory of a mass or the field strength between two particles in a space requires that energy is added to, or subtracted from, the universe.  A net change of energy or fields within a closed space violates the conservation of energy.  Such a violation has never been observed in a controlled experimental setting, which implies, but does not prove, there are no miracles.
  • If miracles exist, and they are never observed, it appears that God intends to hide them, which means that God is doing a lot of work to prevent being seen.  This may be the case, as it makes faith necessary since conclusive/irrefutable scientific evidence/proof of God can never be found in such a world.  And, our faith in His existence and the promises of the Bible must be based upon an inner knowing that He is and by the remarkable handiwork of nature.
  • We cannot prove or disprove the deist or the theist hypothesis.  Upon creation of the galaxies, planet, and environment hospitable to man, the creation of the species and man himself, God may continue to operate in the affairs of men on the smallest of levels.  God may continue to act every Moment in the mental/emotional states of men.  Such structures are sufficiently subtle and submicroscopic that His ongoing intervention can be easily disguised to avoid detection by current technology.  The thoughts and feelings of men are mediated through the physical structure of the brain and thus, a supernatural intervention will unavoidably leave some fingerprint.  Still, in the complex environment of the brain, the movement of the hand of God to intervene in man’s thoughts and still maintain His plausible non-existence.  By disguising His presence, He maintains the requirement of faith as the key to a relationship with Him.
  • Continuing our analysis of the fingerprint of miracles, any change in the position of a particle that requires a change of velocity leaves a characteristic trace.  A change in the field generated by each CP propagates out from the point of intervention.  This small signature of miraculous intervention is seen by every particle in its environment.  Again, this unavoidable change in relative velocity produces a change of field which is communicated to every other particle in the universe at the speed of light.  The effect is small for isolated particles, such as an electron or proton miraculously moved to a new location.  But, the same electron or proton which was coupled strongly to another particle by a field (e.g., gravity, strong, or electromagnetic) would require a greater force to alter its trajectory or break and remake bonds.  But if, as noted above, energy and momentum were transferred from corresponding local environment, miraculous interventions would go unnoticed at a sufficient distance.  There will still be a trace of the intervention, but it can be made arbitrarily small so as to avoid detection.  The local violation of the conservation of energy or momentum can be disguised so as to avoid all but the most purposeful direct and indirect conscious observation.
  • (Note: we measure a parameter indirectly by measuring another parameter which was clearly altered without cause.)  But, a miraculous intervention isolated from direct and indirect observation would not disturb the flow of the universe enough to betray its existence.  While this is a tautology (if you don’t notice it, then you don’t notice it), the point is that the conservation of energy is only meaningful in when observing phenomena.  The flow of the universe will not be significantly disturbed by local small scale, far away, or long ago miracles.  Thus, God is free to command the movement and relocation of particles outside the view of man.  He can create from nothing, command Conscious Particles that fill space and reorganize CPs already organized as dirt to form the subatomic particles, atoms, and molecules that compose cells, tissues, organs, systems, and organisms. Thus, creating life required a sequence of divine commands to organize the intricate assemblages of the molecular machinery that enables and constitutes life.
  • Throughout the Theory of Absolutes we shall examine the implications of the assumption that life was created by a divine command which overrode the embedded Conscious Particle rule-set.  In other words, God created the universe with particles that followed their embedded laws, but He overrode that law when He created the universe.  His command moved and placed the Conscious Particles into a configuration corresponding to the molecular structure of life.  The soul, the extra-physical aspect of physicality, arose as a natural consequence of the structure of matter (i.e., mind is composed of spirit-mind points of consciousness). The spirit of man is a point of consciousness, specially created by divine intent, given the same attributes as God, and associated with the body and mind of each man. The spirit of man is the observer – the point of awareness that is of the nature and essence of God.
  • Matter, energy, space, and time are the natural macro-effects associated with the creation of the Conscious Particles and their ongoing movement in relation to each other.  The effect of the forces applied by one particle upon another is the aggregation of mass to form stars, planets, and moon.  A much finer manipulation and organization of the mass-substrate is required to assemble the plants, animals, and man from the particles of creation.
  • Upon completion of the creation to at the level of earth, life, and its manifold species, less ongoing novel macroscopic supernatural intervention was required.  The rules embedded within the Conscious Particles are sufficient to generate the phenomenon of nature (the physical laws and maintenance of bodily life and its mental-emotional processes).  De Novo creation of new species to fill the various ecological niches by supernatural intervention requires little disturbance of the flow of the natural physical world.  The spiritual implication of the creation of species, their variety, type, behavior,  is reflective of the mind of God and His nature.  After the creation of life and the species, probably the majority of supernatural intervention by God is in the minds of man.  In general, the Conscious Particles interact with each other mechanically and predictably according to a divinely established set of rules.  This is the flow of physics, and it is this consistency that gives the appearance of the mechanical, clockwork, hands-off relation between God and His universe.  But, according to Biblical revelation, God still/continues to intervene in the course of human history.  It is my hypothesis that He intervenes by impressing the mind of man with desire and concept, which in turn directs human action.  ***
  • The rules of interaction between Conscious Particles underlie all of the physical phenomenon seen in modern and classical physics.  Thus, all physical phenomena in the fields of Newtonian Mechanics, Quantum Mechanics, Relativity, Field Theory, and Particle Physics follow directly from the rules embedded within the Conscious Particles.
  • God can intervene in our daily lives and influence events, minds, bodies, health, and emotions, but almost all divine intervention is unseen and unnoticed.  The spiritual world acts constantly upon the mind of man, presenting temptations and fears as well as the perfect pattern of life that reflects the Righteousness of the Father.
  • Men have free will, as they can accept or reject demonic temptations and guidance from the Holy Spirit/Christ.  Life works best when we recognize our flawed nature and humbly submit to Christ working out His perfect plan in us.

The Physics:

The foundation of the physics of the Theory of Absolutes is the hypothesized existence of the Conscious Particle, a particle which was created by God (the Son).  Speculation as to how spirit creates another spirit and is visible to other spirits is fundamentally unknowable in its ultimate essence. But, describing it in terms of its apparent function, the Conscious Particle exists by virtue of His creative declaration of its existence. Its function is consistent with His Law, and its presence, type, and movement are perceivable by other Conscious Particles. Thus, all “physical” phenomena are ultimately and actually spiritual phenomena.

The physics of the Theory of Absolutes is a study of how the Conscious Particles move in relationship to each other according to the fixed set of rules which are divinely implanted into each particle’s consciousness.  For the Theory to be true, this set of rules must produce all of the macroscopic and microscopic structures and effects seen in the physical universe.

Physical phenomena (interactions among matter and waves) are composed at their elemental level of concentrations and assemblies (stable and transient) of Conscious Particles.  Thus, the macroscopic behavior of waves and mass is only a reflection of the rules governing the individual Conscious Particles.

The phenomenon of Force is reflective of the willing/obedient movement of Conscious Particles in response to messages (Force Particles) sent by and received from other Conscious Particles. Thus, the acceleration of mass and constructive/destructive superposition of waves are reflective of the fundamental processes/laws/rules of the Conscious Particles which compose it.  The Conscious Particles (CPs) move voluntarily in response to the messages received each Moment within their own Zone of Detection, which will be called the Planck Sphere. The messages (Force Particles) will be a mixture from both local and far-distant CPs, and the receiving CPs will respond to those messages only according to the rules governing their responsive action. The rules of interaction (attraction and repulsion, as modified by local concentration and movement ) result in generating the experience of space (distance, direction, separation/other) and time (change, transformation, process, rate, past/present/future).

The Conscious Particles respond willfully/obediently to messages received according to their embedded rule-set, with an appropriate displacement and direction each Moment.  The processing proceeds in an intermittent fashion, one cycle of processing following another, which generates the appearance and experience of time. The Conscious Particles are not pushed or pulled by an Electroweak, Strong, or Gravitational force.  Rather, Force is a macroscopic concept that describes the appearance of particles of mass, composed of Conscious particles, each responding obediently/mechanically to the receipt of Force Particles/messages from other Conscious Particles. The macroscopic phenomena of electromagnetic attraction or repulsion between particles is simply an appearance of a force field attracting or repelling a like-charge or opposite-charge.  In actuality, the underlying process is simply the obedient movement of CPs in response to information carried by the Force Particles. Thus, Conscious Particles do not have a force acting upon them, rather, each Moment they voluntarily and lawfully move a distance in a particular direction based upon the summation of all the commands/messages from the surrounding universe of Conscious Particles.

The messages (Force Particles – FPs) emitted by the Conscious Particles are generated de novo each Moment.  These messages carriers (FPs) are another type of Conscious Particle, but a distinction is made between the Conscious Particles which are the source and generate messages (the CPs), and the Conscious Particles which carry messages (FPs).

  • Definition: The Planck Number: The Conscious Particles (CPs) emit a large and fixed number of Force Particles each Moment.  We shall call the number of FPs emitted each Moment the Planck Number.
  • Definition: The Moment is the fundamental unit of time, the name for one information processing cycle.  The cycle includes, 1) Perception, 2) Processing, 3) Projection.
  • Every CP emits the same number of FPs each Moment, and each FP is connected to the FP emitted the previous Moment from that CP.
  • Each FP is connected back to its source CP, thus forming a ray or line extending back to its source CP.  We can follow the movement of a CP in response to the FPs from the Beginning of Time, which implies that any/every Moment in time can be reconstructed.  Using this key may be one of the processes involved in memory retrieval. Possibly the brain makes imprints in physical organization each Moment that allows the reconnection with the points of the desired past reality.
  • Each FP at its moment of creation has a radial direction from its source, and it will maintain that trajectory from that point of origin regardless of the subsequent movement of its source-CP.
  • Each FP travels at the speed of light, which is determined by traveling increments of the radius of one Planck Sphere each Moment.  Every FP advances one Planck Radius every Moment.
  • An example of the generation of the movement an electron that creates a kink in the chain of FPs emitted from a CP is the emission of a photon from an orbital drop.  The orbital system converts a quantum of potential energy into a quantum of photonic energy when it changes orbital states.
  • The CPs emit FPs each Moment, but until there is a change in the velocity (acceleration) there is no change in energy associated with the CPs motion.
  • The relative motion of two CPs will result in the generation of a magnetic force between the two CPs, and a transfer of energy (i.e., a change in the organization of the space around the CP).
  • The  FPs mediate the transmission of any relative velocity and any change in relative velocity. That disturbance will automatically and unavoidably pass the message of that disturbance at the Speed of Light,
  • Definition: The Planck Sphere is a sphere surrounding each CP.  The Planck Sphere Radius or Planck Radius is determined by the distance corresponding to a Planck Number of FPs in its vicinity.
  • Definition: Direction is defined in terms of the relationship of the FPs to each other at the time of origination from the CP’s Planck Sphere. Using spherical coordinates, each FP’s next position at the end of the Moment will be a radius, a polar angle, and an azimuthal elevation.
  • The originating FPs carry a spin vector, a command to move in a tangential direction.  In effect, the CP appears to be spinning because of its command to displace an angle each Moment.
  • Definition: Spin is the polar angular displacement each FP commands each Moment. This manifests on the macroscopic/experimental level as a detectable angular momentum and magnetic moment in the electron, and the other elementary and complex particles.  The effect of the spin of the CP, in aggregate, is to produce the effect of electron spin, which has the effect of producing a magnetic force on other charged particles with relative motion.
  • The particulate nature of the FP arises because each FP is a node/point/particle, carrying information about the state of the originating CP at the Moment of the FP’s creation.  But, the FP is not really a particle, in a strict, independent entity sense. It is more of an information storage point on a long string of beads of other information storage points that together reflect the movement of the electron and thereby inform the universe of its motion.
  • Information about the rate of change of any source-CP’s position can be extracted by a recipient-CP by reading the history of any/every FP present within its zone of detection.
  • Distance is defined in terms of Planck Sphere Radius units.  The Planck Sphere Radius is equal to the radius of the Zone of Detection and is defined as the radius from a CP that encloses a Planck Number of FPs.
  • Thus, distance is a dependent principle, a macrophysical appearance reflecting the underlying process of each CP allowing the advance of the next volley of FPs to the radius of its Planck Sphere.
  • The phenomenon of length contraction arises at relativistic speeds due to the accumulation of Force Line bends during acceleration.  The standard against which velocity is measured is the passage of free CPs through the Dipole Sea.
  • There is no gridpoint system in space against which distance is measured.  Rather, distance is an artifact of the number of FPs and CPs present in the Planck Sphere.
  • Kinetic Energy is carried as Force Line Bends.  Kinetic Energy is a relative quantity since the CP only has velocity in relationship to another point.
  • The emission rate of the FPs is constant each Moment.  But, the density of CPs and FPs in a volume is dependent upon the attraction of charges as well as the relative velocity between CPs.  The speed of light will always be the same in any reference frame.  Therefore, there is no evidence of absolute motion in the speed of light.
  • Relative motion will away.   and hence proximity, their relative velocity, the space through which information travels.  To the CP, no distinction is made between the densities of space, the “distance” gt. Comparing the speed of light in a less-dense FP zone with one in a denser FP zone, the distance to the denser FP zone will appear contracted in comparison.  This principle is at the base of the time dilation and length contraction phenomena we see in Special Relativity. There is no absolute distance metric, only an absolute number metric. Distance is relative, and the total density of space between two points determines its apparent distance.

Again, the Conscious Particles do not exert a force on one another to compel the movement of another CP.  Rather, every CP simply moves lawfully according to the summation of the information/instructions it receives from all the other Conscious Particles within its zone of perception each moment.  The CPs follow the instructions flawlessly, according to the law or response embedded within their minds. But, God can intervene supernaturally, taking authority over the position, direction, and velocity of any and every CP in the universe.  Anything can be manifested by His will.

Thus, by divine command, God can direct miraculous/supernatural changes in the creation.  It is by such divine will that habitable planets were formed, lepers healed, the blind see, life is restored from death, prayers are answered, species are transformed, and the heart is comforted.  By His hand, and according to His sovereign will and plan, the command of God is implemented by supernatural intervention and acts of creation. But, in the mature creation, the intervention is usually subtle, and plausibly coincidence.  God stays hidden behind the complexity of chaotic interaction, thus His presence and existence must be accepted by faith. The mystery of His existence and plausibility of His non-existence is an important element in the creation of meaning.

Having pulled back the veil and noted that God’s law directing Conscious Particles and Force Particles to manifest the physics of nature is the motive force behind the interaction between every particle and field, we can return to the macro reality, and simply know that God is present behind it all.  We can read the Bible, see the story of how God has manifested the creation, worked in this world and drawn us to Him by faith, and choose to live our lives according to the standard which He has revealed in the Holy Bible.

All additional study of the manuscript beyond this point is simply for the purpose of interest or for deeper analysis to validate that in fact, this basic thesis (of God’s connection to the creation through Conscious Particles and His embedded Law) reflects reality, and its implications for faith and behavior/morality/meaning, stand up under scientific scrutiny.

Thus, we shall consider a wide swath of physical phenomena in terms of their consistency with the Basic Thesis, by examining how the Basic Thesis is implemented in those phenomena.  It is by the application of the Basic Thesis, using the same implied Laws/rules of interaction to all real phenomena, and finding an explanatory mechanism in each, that our confidence in the reality of this Theory is given validity.  The Basic Thesis is proven false by the inapplicability of it to any natural phenomenon.

Therefore, as we proceed with our study of normal reality, the study of macro physics (anything larger than the Conscious Particle), we shall use the shorthand concept of “Force” to pretend that particles are exerting a force, creating fields or exchange particles and thus causing movement, but know implicitly, that all phenomena take place in the realm of the Mind of God, and are reflection of relationship and interaction within the creation.

At this point in the manuscript, the expression of the intention and Basic Thesis of the Theory of Absolutes is complete in its introductory form.  The Basic Thesis is a universe whose source is God the Father. The Father separated Himself from directly relating with evil by spiritually begetting the Son.  The Son acted according to the Father’s direction, creating all things that were made. The Conscious Particles are the points of consciousness declared into existence by His Word, and it is they which mediate the appearance of the creation.

Thus, the study of the physical world, and elaborating the ultimate understanding of the cause-effect basis of empirically observed phenomenon is based upon the lawful acts of the Conscious Particles.  Deduction of the behavior of the CPs and the rules governing their transmission and reception of messages is the ultimate study of the physical world. Any questions beyond that barrier involve metaphysic considerations such as why these rules were made, how consciousness can perceive consciousness, the origin of God, etc.  All such questions are beyond the physical realm, and as such are more subjective, given the lack of empirical data upon which to triangulate.

In summary to this point, the Conscious Particles are the vehicles of consciousness, and each CP emits a volley of messages each Moment (as Force Particles – which are connected in communication about their previous state) and receives an equal number of messages each Moment.  The Conscious Particles respond by moving in relationship to the other CPs each Moment based upon the summation of the instructions they received from local and distant Conscious Particles across the universe within the zone of reception and transmission defined by the local density of messages.  The fact that the summation of random distant influences can affect the next Moment’s position of a CP gives plausible understructure to the statistical nature of Quantum Mechanical jumps in position.

By limiting the reach of influence of each CP to exactly, and always, the Planck Radius each Moment, the speed of light is thus defined as the de facto maximum distance of influence each Moment.  And likewise, the Planck Radius displacement of FPs each Moment defines the speed of the propagation of the message informing the universe of a CP’s movement, which we observe as the Speed of Light.

Each CP processes the same set number of messages each Moment.  In so doing, the existence and relationship of all Conscious Particles are defined and acknowledged by their action and participation.  From the creation and implementation of this system of CP-CP communication and response, space, time, and distance arise as emergent properties of the universe.  That is, none of these seemingly fundamental properties of the macro-physical universe were created as primary entities. Rather, all arose as de facto consequences of the existence of CPs and the limiting of their relationships to a fixed number.  Thus, existence and number are the primary principles composing the creation. The medium carries the messages of movement to the Conscious Particles, and in response, the CPs move, and messages of their movement are then communicated. and manifestation of all physical phenomena has been introduced.  The intention of the Theory is to supply a plausible theory of the understructure of creation which is consistent with all known phenomena, thereby unifying the origin of life and its processes to a single source, a creator of the structure, and lawgiver. , implies the existence of God as the prime mover, the author of all creation, and the legislator of all life and happiness-giving moral principles.  Many many chapters could follow elaborating and applying the Basic Thesis to physical principles, given the near-infinite number of combinations of elemental principles into complex configurations and effects. Thus, this work will never be exhaustive, and there will always be an element of uncertainty, which is the gap we must fill with faith until God manifests and reveals His reality openly. Therefore, each person must decide at some point whether the amount of logical causation and plausible applicability of the Basic Theory to all of life is adequate to accept the thesis as reflective of the reality of God’s existence and His sovereignty as Lord and Judge of all.  At that point, we may stop the analysis for the purpose of making a decision, and use our faith to enroll others in the family of faith and its associated obligations to right thought, speech and action. Thus, the purpose of this essay/manuscript/book/epistle, to give confidence to the believer that his faith has merit in the realm of reality, and to boldly follow the Great Commission and proclaim the Good News.

The remainder of this essay is for those who wish to take the argument for God’s existence deeper, to explore the plausible mechanisms by which God has implemented physical phenomenon at the most elemental level.  The motivation may be curiosity/interest, or to answer the apologetic questions that justify our faith in Jesus as Lord as revealed in the Holy Bible.

One of our first indicators that modern physics is built upon high-level axiomatic assumptions (i.e., theories and explanations of elemental principles without a base other than assumption or an empirical observation) is the fact that the concept of force refers to no more fundamental principle than its observed existence.  The question, “What is a force?” cannot be answered more deeply than with the tautology that force is the gradient of a potential field. This is true, but a potential field only has a gradient because one must move against a force to establish the potential at each point in the field. Alternatively, in QED and QCD, force is given a supposedly deeper explanation by attributing the four forces (Note: now three forces with the unification of Weak with Electromagnetism) to exchange particles with gauge bosons (photons, gluons, and gravitons) which transmit force.  But, even so, the mystery is not given a firm foundation with this explanation, since exchange particles are simply massive or massless particles, which then raises the question of “What is mass, and why does it cause movement?” Answers to such questions still do not refer to an ultimate cause.

Given that we don’t know, and can’t know, the ultimate nature of anything, the best hope of modern physics is to create/discover a unifying force, a single particle or theory, from which all matter/time/space/energy falls naturally.  At this point, the physics community can say, “We have unified all of nature.” But in actuality, if this is ever done, the significance would be only that a single particle or force was identified, but the origin of that particle would still be unknown.

In other words, there is not, nor can there be, an ultimate theory that explains the ultimate fundamental nature of any force or particle.  The atheistic scientist who wishes to consider that there is nothing beyond force and particles can continue to believe in a universe built on chance and self creation from quantum fluctuations of the background zero point energy.  But, his trust in that fact is based upon nothing more faith in a non-God – he is a believer, a man of faith.

Likewise, the Theory of Absolutes posits several Conscious-Particle types and several Force-Particle types.  The existence of those particles and forces arising from the mind of God gives rationality to the structure of the universe and points to the ultimate nature of their origin as creations from/of the mind God.  But, this cosmology does not give us insight into the origin of God. As believers, we are men of faith that God exists. Having a taxonomy mapped of all the forces and particles that lead back to the mind of God is the physical-theoretical-spiritual equivalent of a Grand Unified Theory based upon experiments and math that link together the particles and forces composing the physical universe and show that they all have a common origin.

The physicist can continue to have faith that there is no God and that the universe spontaneously created itself by random fluctuations, and that life evolved by random mutations driven by survival of the fittest and adaptation to its environment.  The Christian can step up, shoulder to shoulder with the physicist, and justify his faith by noting the logical-causal-empirical connection between the world of physical experience and experiment, and a God which has purposefully created the universe to manifest His nature.

As we return to the realm of ordinary reality, from the rarified air of philosophy and speculation, when discussing physical phenomena, we will refer to the shorthand concept of “force” in its common usage in Newtonian mechanics.  But, we shall always either implicitly or explicitly note that a reference to force actually implies particles moving willingly and obediently. Where each particle moves the Moment after receiving information within its zone of perception.  Thus, while invisible to observation, and implied only by a theory based upon our universe of experiments, mass and the underlying Conscious Particles move in a manner consistent with their embedded law.

Mass (from the simplest electron to the much more complex subatomic particle such as the proton and neutron or any of the other heavy leptons and baryons in the Subatomic Zoo) is composed of numerous Conscious Particles in various configurations (some in static configurations, and others in a dynamic equilibrium).  A collection of positive and negative Conscious Particles in various configuration forms the macroscopic structure we call mass.

Each Conscious Particle (CP) has an electrical nature – meaning that each CP has either a positive or negative charge nature, and it emits a quantum of Force Particles each Moment which informs their neighbor CPs of their type and relative velocity.  The FPs travel out from their source at the local speed of light.

Note, the speed of light is based upon a fixed number of particles transited per Moment.  Thus, a denser space, a space with more countable particles, corresponds to a space with the same number of particles in a smaller radius Planck Sphere.  This results in light traveling a smaller distance at each Moment. Thus, the more dense the space, the slower the speed of light in that space, (of course, relative to the speed of light in a less dense space).  And, of course, within a space, the speed of light is always measured as being the same value.

Note, that the Force Particles (FPs) are actually lines, in that they are connected to each other back to their source CP through all of time.  Thus, each FP carries within it a piece of directional information which informs the receptor CP of its relative motion. This relative motion of the positive and negative CPs produces the effect of a magnetic field, being the component of the velocity vector that is perpendicular to the velocity of the receptor CP.  Each CP responds to both the positive and negative charge-message carried by the FP, and to the relative motion of the CP (which it receives in its zone of perception each Moment).

The phenomenon of inertia and kinetic energy are based upon the very localized building and collapse of the magnetic field around and within the collection of CPs, which we recognize as neutral and charged mass.

(Aside: all mass at its elemental constituent level is a collection of positive and negative CPs. Thus, even neutral particles of mass, such as neutrons, are composed of charges, and when those charges move, their constituent FP lines are bent in relationship to their current position.  This relative change in position with time is the fundamental process which produces the effect of magnetism. Thus, the inextricable connection and interconversion between the electrical and magnetic force depending upon the relative motion and rate of change of motion between charges.)

Inertia and kinetic energy are both phenomena which depend upon the interaction of mass with the magnetic field associated with relative motion.  This relative motion refers to collapses behind each particle, driving it forward, while at the same time, the building of the field in front of the advancing mass produces a resistive force.  Thus, a mass in motion maintains a constant velocity when no external force acts upon it. The movement of mass creates both the accelerating force that moves it forward and the resistive force that prevents its accumulation of velocity.  And, the action of a net force upon any mass will imbalance the front-back force equilibrium, resulting in acceleration, and the accumulation or loss of kinetic energy in relation to its initial velocity in a chosen frame of reference.

Energy is a relative term, but is based upon the organization of CPs.  The energy associated with the magnetic organization of the Sea of Conscious Particles that, 1) gives mass the ability to carry momentum, exert force, and transfer energy to another mass upon collision, and 2) gives mass the property of  resisting acceleration when a force acts upon it. All the kinetic phenomena of mass are mediated thru the collapse and building of magnetic fields. All the kinetic phenomena are mediated by the positive and negative Conscious Particles, which constitute the protons, neutrons, and electrons, which constitute atoms and thus macroscopic mass.  The electron shell phenomena of atomic orbitals results from the resonance patterns formed by the interaction of particles and waves in a highly charged micro-environment.

Waves  are organizations of Conscious Particles, formed by the concentration and rarification of the dense Sea of Conscious Particles constituting all of space.

All wave are constituted by electromagnetic energy of various types and organization.  1) photonic waves (infrared to gamma), have a discrete particle-like nature, and an associated wave-like resonance with electron orbitals.  2) Movement-based undulations (e.g. radio waves) are produced by the movement of charged particles.

Collisions, acceleration, decay, energy storage, and particle-wave inter-conversions are all mediated by Conscious Particle communication of charge (positive or negative), polarity (magnetic pole orientation), and velocity (direction and speed).

The number, density, and organization of Conscious Particles determine the mass of each of the Subatomic Zoo particles (electrons, pions, quarks…).  The organizational density gradient of a dynamic Conscious Particle disturbance corresponds to the wavelength and energy of a photon or wave. Both mass and wave phenomena move, and are moved, according to the rules of attraction and repulsion between the Conscious Particles.

Force: The appearance of connected pushing or pulling between mass and mass, and mass and wave.  (Note: All force phenomena arise only because of movement made in response to commands/messages received from and by every Conscious Particle.)  The force is called electrical, magnetic, or gravitic depending upon the predominant type of message. Messages “to move” are transmitted and received every moment from and by every particle in the universe.  But, movement results only when a net directional message (net sum of all messages) is received. Thus, to use the shorthand language of physics, every Conscious Particle produces Force on every other Conscious Particle.

Like charges repel, and opposite charges attract.  Opposite magnetic poles exert the Force of alignment and like poles produce the force of dis-alignment. Moving charges produce magnetic effects, and moving magnetic poles produce electric charge effects.

Every Conscious Particle has an electric charge and a magnetic dipole.  At each Moment, every particle generates and radiates uniform spherical distribution of FPs that travel out at the local speed of light.  This sphere of FPs communicates its originating particle’s charge type, magnetic pole orientation, and velocity, to all the other Conscious Particles it passes each Moment.  That message, plus all the other messages from all the other Conscious Particles, is the set of commands that each Conscious Particle must integrate and respond to each Moment.

Thus, reception, processing, and action are required at each Moment, by every Conscious Particle.  At each moment, each Conscious Particle generates and projects a cohort of FPs out spherically from its current location.  This information field radiates out and travels an increment of distance appropriate to the local speed of light (i.e., governed by the CP density of that space).

Thus, each Conscious Particle sums the entirety of all force vectors (magnitudes and directions) coming from every particle in the universe, at every Moment.  It may thereby calculate its appropriate movement in distance and direction during the next Moment. As a result of this intermittent, Moment to Moment movement, the CPs move in a stepwise fashion, jumping to their new location at the end of each Moment.

Restated, Conscious Particles, and the masses they constitute, do not transit smoothly through all points of space.

Time is the sequence of universe-vignettes.  Moments include repetitive cycles of Conscious Particle processes, which include: 1) position, 2) projection, 3) reception, 4) processing, and 5) movement.  The complete processing cycle of the Conscious Particle is the elemental unit of time we shall define as the “Moment”. The flow of time is the sequence of Moments, and Moments are constituted by the simultaneous sequential processing of all Conscious Particles in the universe.

Space is filled with, and by formed by, the dense background assembly of all Conscious Particles (The Dipole Sea).  (Definition: The background space, filled with Positive and Negative Conscious Particles shall be called the Dipole Sea.)  The Conscious Particles are moveable, and aggregate into more dense regions of matter, and less dense regions of “space”.

But, underlying them (among them) is another type of Conscious Particle which is stationary and acts as the marker of distance, which shall be called The Matrix Grid Points.  This grid of stationary Conscious Particles is in aggregate “the Matrix”, and functions as the points by which distance is measured. The Matrix Grid Points are spaced at the ultimately dense spacing, and only one Conscious Particle may reside on any Matrix Grid Point at each moment.

Energy is the macroscopic name for organized space.  Any process that produces an organization of any of the Conscious Particle parameters (e.g. charge concentration, orientation of magnetic poles, or density) is a volume of space containing energy. Energy is only a meaningful concept when compared to a state of perfect disorganization. This state exists only in concept, and would be the totally undisturbed, crystal-like packing of the Dipole Sea into its ultimately quiescent state.  Such a state will never exist after the introduction of an energetic disturbance into the universe, (e.g. The Big Bang). All disturbances of the Dipole Sea are “energy” in one of its various forms. The energy of mass, so famously quantified by the equation E=mc2, in a particle such as an electron, is the organization of Positive and Negative Conscious Particles into a stable configuration of Positive and Negative Conscious Particles. (Aside: the electron forms around the seed of a single Negative Conscious Particle.  The electron forms when a single Negative CP has been given sufficient velocity (kinetic energy) by a collision of some sort, and is thus sufficiently far removed from its volume where it participated in creating a neutrality of local charge. It will then attract a spherical layer of Positive C Particles, which will in turn attract a layer of Negative Particles. The resulting electron is a layered entity with a net charge of negative one. The electron is simply an aggregation of the Dipole Sea Particles, with its borders blending into the background concentration of the Dipole Sea/Space.  The Dipole Sea organization of an electron corresponds to .502 Mev, an amount organization above a volume of undisturbed Dipole Sea. (Again, the undisturbed Dipole Sea is a fully symmetric space, consisting of fully-paired in crystalline packing (like Na-Cl in a salt crystal) of positive and negative Dipole Particles). The energy of organization associated with the electron can inter-convert between mass and photons under special collision circumstances. (An example of this is: 1) Pair Annihilation, the name given to electron-positron collisions which produce a gamma ray. And, 2) Pair Production, its opposite, which occurs when gamma rays pass close to a heavy nucleus.  The organization of the Dipole Sea in the photon’s wave structure is sufficiently distorted by the space near the heavy nucleus to allow the formation of an electron and a positron.)

Kinetic Energy is the organization of the Dipole Sea due to the moving Conscious Particle charges associated with a mass.  The moving charges in the CPs constituting the mass create a magnetic field, which organizes the Dipole Sea around the moving mass.  It is thus the magnetic field produced by charge movement of the Conscious Particles composing the mass that induces the magnetic organization within the surrounding Dipole Sea and corresponds to Kinetic Energy.

Likewise, Photonic Energy is simply the organizational energy associated with the charge and magnetic pole organization of the Dipole Sea, associated with the quantum of energy held by a photon. The Photon is a dynamic 3 dimensional wave, which organizes the Dipole Sea with a particular volumetric charge and space gradient, as it passes through each volume of space. A high energy photon would have its energy/spatial organization of the Dipole Sea packed into a small space, hence short wavelength.

Quantum phenomena, such as discreet allowable orbital energies, result from the resonant interaction between the electron, nucleus, and the kinetic energy of the electron mass.  The resonant interplay of attraction and orbital movement results in an orbital trajectory without energy loss, even though the velocity vector changes every Moment. Normally a change in velocity (direction or speed) results in the radiation of energy from a charged moving particle.  But, the resonant interplay of the fields and forces carrying the electron’s kinetic energy and the nucleus, results in a force interaction that results in a conservation of energy, and a probable location at each moment. The effect is an orbital energy that is effectively distributed around the nucleus in a characteristic, probabilistic, orbital shape for each energy level and shell.  Quantum phenomena have been given a great deal of mystical significance, and used to justify many spiritual theories. The reality is considerably more mundane. The quantum phenomena (e.g. discreet allowable orbital energies, radioactive decay, black body radiation, … ) are all the result of resonance phenomena that produce characteristic “standing wave-like” structures.

Relativistic phenomena are significant at speeds approaching the speed of light.  The Michelson-Morley Experiment of 1887 seemed to prove that light was not carried by a medium, thus physics has been left with a universe with no center or Absolute Frame of Reference.  The Theory of Absolutes postulates an ether (the Dipole Sea), a medium through which light travels, which can likewise explain the negative findings of the Michelson-Morley Experiment. Distance contraction, time dilation, and energy accumulation are all natural correlates and consequences associated with the premises, axioms, and assumptions of the Theory.

The speed of light is the speed limit of the physical universe for particles and waves, but, consciousness has no speed limitation.  All Spirit communication is instantaneous, and pervades the entire universe each instant, such communication is merely within the mind of God.  But, for the purpose of creating the effect of time (sequential vignettes for a spirit conscious beings the effect of the message passes from Conscious Particle to Conscious Particle each moment only after having been processed sequentially.  Thus, the speed of light transmission of effect, even though there is an instantaneous knowing of spirit between the Conscious Particles.

This solid sphere of message, known to every particle in the entire universe, could be called a “Force Sphere”. The Force Sphere radiates from every Conscious Particle, every Moment throughout the entire universe instantly. It informs every other Conscious Particle of its position, velocity, type, and current interaction, at every Moment.

By rule/law/design, each Force Sphere is allowed only a given quanta of active interactions at each Moment.  This concept is the principle of action which allows for expression of physical phenomena such as: the inverse square law, QED (Quantum Electro Dynamics), speed of light, and faster than light phenomena (Bell’s Theorum, EPD Paradox).  The allowance of only one active interaction is the principle which fundamentally requires conservation of energy.

*** The lawful distance traveled by the Force Sphere is governed by the electrical and magnetic properties of the space the Force Sphere at the beginning of each Moment.  In microscopic terms, the speed of light is in Grid Points per Moment. In macroscopic terms, the speed of light is equal to 1/square root of (mu)x(epsilon). The electrical permittivity (epsilon) and magnetic permeability (mu) of space, determine how fast light will travel through it.  The mu and epsilon of space are physically measurable, and together they determine the macroscopic speed of light. But, the speed of light we observe is actually a reflection of the underlying communication on the Conscious Particle and Force Sphere level creating that speed.

The body of the Theory of Absolutes is an examination of the various important physics experiments and theories.  The Theory of Absolutes is a defense of the postulate that all theories and experiments can be reframed in the language and concepts of the Conscious Particles.  If correct, the Theory will accurately model the sequential position, charge, and movement of all phenomenon, using the language and rules of Conscious Particles.

The analysis of experiment and theory is for the purpose of: 1) illustrating the rules followed by Conscious Particles, 2) deriving the rules of their interaction, 3) validating the derived rules governing them, and 4) predicting new phenomena.

The Metaphysics:

  • The original cause of the universe before the creation is a mystery.
  • The origin (eternity-past/origin-less-ness) of God is a mystery.
  • The origin of the state in which God dwells is a mystery.
  • The environment and nature in which God resided before the creation is a mystery, and open to almost any speculation, limited only by scant implication about the pre-creation universe in the Bible.
  • God’s motivation for creating the creation can be inferred, but the answer will be dependent upon my premises and assumptions about what is Truth/Reality.  I choose to call Truth/Reality the following: 1) The laws of nature, 2) human nature (e.g. preference to pleasure over pain), 3) the Spirit of Truth behind the Bible.
  • These True/Real/Factual data points can be used as premises upon which to base hypothesis about God’s motivation for creating the universe, and in turn the method by which He created it.
  • Creation is dependent upon the ability of God to create Conscious Particles by projection, dreaming, or declaring them into existence.  All of creation is thus dependent upon His faithfulness in continuing to create the stage and scenery of life.

Pre-Creation – One Possibility Examined:

The Theory of Absolutes will present a number of possible theories to give concrete understanding to the dynamic drama of the divine play of God and man.

The existence of God is the fundamental axiomatic assumption underneath the Theory of Absolutes.  Likewise, nature and the Holy Bible are assumed as data points that must be satisfied by any True Theory describing the rules governing the underlying mechanisms of the creation.

There are two tracks that the theory could take as the foundational premises about the nature of the pre-creation universe.

1) The traditional account holds that God the Father was the only spiritual being in the entire universe prior to the creation.  The Father begat the Son, and the Son created Heaven, earth, and man. Regarding the devil, there is some discrepancy, with most denominations holding that Satan was an angel who rebelled.  Alternative (and less popular interpretations) stand by the scripture that held that Satan was a liar and murderer from the beginning, and that Hell (the lake of fire) was created as the Kingdom of Evil for Satan and his demons.  In this scenario Satan was a created being. The conflict between good and evil is played out between Satan and God, each vying for man’s allegiance. The purpose of life in these two scenarios is, 1) To show God’s glory, and 2) to Love God.

The Origin of Good and Evil:

2) An alternative interpretation of the Bible: God the Father became perfect in an environment where good and evil eternally battle for dominance.  God the Father perfected Himself by totally rejecting evil. His goodness and light overshadowed the darkness of evil. The Father begat the Son, and the Son created all things, the heavenly realm, the physical universe, and man.  In this interpretation, the Kingdom of Darkness existed before God created the creation, and the drama of life results from the battle between the two kingdoms for man’s mind/soul. God desires that we live in His Truth/Reality, and the Kingdom of Darkness continually tempts us to believe in and pursue the Lies/Illusion.

Both scenarios will be examined in the Theory of Absolutes.  They are presented as models that may be helpful in understanding the nature of the universe in which we live, and give a structure around which we can grasp the necessity for Jesus dying for our sins, and why evil necessarily exists in the universe.

Analysis of One Pre-Creation Theory:

To begin with, I wish to note that the following theory is unconventional, and probably would be considered heretical by most mainline denominations.  Nevertheless, I shall examine it since it illustrates so clearly the competition between good and evil, the need for a Savior of the soul, and the necessity of a sacrificial lamb for a substitutionary sacrifice.

In this pre-creation scenario, God the Father overcame evil in a spiritual environment where good and evil competed for dominance.  The Father learned all the tricks, deceptions, and tools of evil, and rejected them all, and embraced only goodness. The Father then began the process of creating the creation.  At this point the story narrated by Genesis in the Holy Bible begins.

As per John 1:1, God the Father begat the Son.  The question is “How did God beget the son?” This particular point is likewise contentious within the Church since scripture indicates that the father and Son are one, and they existed together from eternity.  Thus, the mere consideration of the Father creating/begetting the Son is heretical. The Church Fathers wrestled with this concept and were able to side step this impossible paradox by disguising the concept of the Father creating the Son by declaring the Son was “eternally begotten.”  This does not resolve the problem of sequence, so I shall simply use the more conventional understanding of order and declare that The Father begat the Son in a way that made the Son identical to the Father, but subservient/submissive to Him.

In this vein, I shall continue to postulate the method by which God the Father created/begat the Son.  The following creation concept is central to the Theory of Absolutes, as it is the method by which the Father created the Son, and in turn, is similar to the method used by the Son in creating the elemental particles (the Positive and Negative Conscious Particles, and the Matrix Grid Points).

The Father projected and thereby duplicated Himself, and thus created/begat the Son.  This creative process involved a full duplication, similar to our ability to create dream characters, but with greater persistence, resolution, and purpose.

The Son created the physical universe through the same process, creating a near-infinite number of Conscious Particles which form the substrate of space and then coalesce to form the apparent substance of matter.

The spirit of man was created with the same spirit characteristics as God, but without His power and wisdom.  The Son was given the responsibility of creating the universe. This separation from the Father allowed Him to stay completely isolated from the evil (the Not-God) that would penetrate the creation when Adam and Eve rebelled against God (the Son).  The fall and redemption of man were predicted and integral to the play and plan of creation.

God the Father’s s nature is love, and that nature demands expression in relationship.  Thus, the drive to create/beget the Son, and the drive to create man. The Son created the creation to raise up children/companions who could truly satisfy the divine hunger for relationship.

An important aspect of a satisfying love relationship is for the beloved to reciprocate affection freely, forsaking all others.  Thus, man was truly given free will, and given a choice to love God or Evil. For man, the highest and best experience of life is had by submitting to the rules/commands and way of God.  But, Evil desires to own and dominate man, and uses pleasure and fear to seduce and intimidate men into its bondage and service. The Son offers all the freedom that is available to the human soul/spirit, and paid the lawful debt of blood for the release of the rebel/sinner.  In God, in the Son’s Way, there is a life, bounded by Lawful limits, where the most full and joyful experience of life can be had through a relationship with God and His creation.

Worshipping evil, rebellion against God’s Way, allegiance to the Kingdom of Darkness (the “Not God”) is the alternative to a lawful, obedient, loving relationship with God.  Darkness uses every method/trick/ruse/pretense to disguise itself including imitation, false data, false promises, and initial pleasure to seduce men away from obedience and relationship with God.  The kingdom of evil (the Not-God) is as real as the kingdom of God, but its pleasure and system of relationship are based upon slavery and rebellion against God, rather than the liberty that comes from obedience to God’s law, way, and putting on the mind of Christ.

God created the Son, and the Son created the Conscious Particles that function as the placeholders that create the metric and substance of space.  The Conscious Particles are lawful in their interaction and transmit messages that instruct the sphere of surrounding Conscious Particles how to move.  The assembly of Conscious Particles into mass occurs naturally when the homogeneity of the original undisturbed Sea of Conscious Particles is disturbed by a command to move, and that was done in the beginning by the Word of God.  The initial creative event, possibly the Big Bang, provided the seed of the genesis of the physical universe.

The spiritual universe is superimposed upon the physical and can guide and move physical substance by command.  The universe is conservative, but prayer can change the momentum of the creation. Prayer produces force by command, and is a lawful and Godly spiritual intervention in the natural flow of cause and effect.  Men are gods in the sense that we were created as God-like beings, but without the wisdom, vision, and power of God. When men act in concert with the divine will, we can choose to command the physical universe to move in the direction congruent with His will.  Persistence in faith and works is required to produce miracles.

God the Father did not create the creation, rather He begat the Son, who created the creation.  He guided the History of men to fulfill His prophecies, and then incarnated as Yeshua, as Jesus.  God’s Son was born, into His creation, where He put Himself in subjection to the physical and moral laws of the universe as a mortal God-man.  While incarnated, He followed the Father’s directions, spoken through the Holy Spirit, and lived a perfect life without sin, error, or disobedience.  His sinless life gave the realm of Darkness no lawful cause to hold Him in the realm of death (i.e. separation from fellowship with God).

The Not-God realm is the realm of death, separation, pain, fear, slavery, and unhappiness.  Its entire being is in the polarity opposing the goodness, liberty, and joy of God. The Father escaped the influence of the Not-God realm, and created the universe to reflect His goodness.  God the Father has completely turned from and conquered any temptation to desire or look on the Not-God realm. In Him there is no shadow of turning. There is none good but the Father. But, the Son, and all men, were made subject to the temptation to serve the Not-God realm.  The Son is the building block, the chief cornerstone, of the universe, and He has proven Himself faithful to the Father.

God the Son, the Word, committed no sin while incarnated as Yeshua, thus there was no warrant against Him that required death; He could not be held in the Not-God realm.  Thus, Jesus was free to rise from death, resurrected back to mortal life and eternal life. Jesus, as God, and the God man, lives forever and intercedes for men who have submitted their lives and hearts to Him.

God the Father allows nothing impure in His presence, His Godhood and eternal existence is based upon turning away from the Not-God realm, with its lies, temptations, momentary pleasure, and false promises.  But men, without exception, are sinful because they are naive, foolish, ignorant, and unwise. Men are spiritual infants, unable to discern good from evil, and mistaking the fool’s gold of evil for true happiness and pleasure.  Men universally fall prey to the seduction of the Darkness.

The realm opposing God, the Darkness, has the right to take the life of a person who violates the Law of God.  The Not-God realm is energized and enlivened by sin, they live as parasites, consuming the broken remnants of goodness.  The agents of Hell are motivated to inflict pain and take blood and life by seduction of its unwitting and foolish victims into the apparent pleasures of sin.

Life is lost through sin from the Kingdom of God.  The demons, the denizens of the Kingdom of Hell, the Not-God realm, are energized and given life by sin of all types.  The rules of the spiritual universe require that the Kingdom of Hell be paid in blood and death for violation of the Law.  Jesus, as the creator of men and their spirits, is in the direct lineage between the Father and man. Likewise, His lineage as parent/creator of man gives Him standing/authority in advocating for men in the spiritual court.

Jesus’ sacrifice allows Him to be our Savior, to pay the debt owed to Hell by our transgression.  His single sacrifice is good for all time and all people. It can never be nullified, used up, nor made obsolete.  His spilled blood, pain and death were is simply a process which took place and continue to be true and effective. The life He lost is still existent even after its application to feed the demons who lawfully demand the life of the sinner.  The death He tasted can be applied against the warrant of every sinner who renounces allegiance to evil, and asks for the gift. The blood, the pain, the death of Yeshua can be substituted for the blood and death of the sinner. The hounds of hell hunger for the blood, pain, and life of those who violate the realm of goodness.  The blood, pain, and life unlawfully taken from Christ satisfies every judgement lawfully executable on the sinner in the spirit realm. Thus, Jesus can supply the penalty demanded of the demonic hordes, leaving them without claim upon the life of the acquitted sinner. The cleansing of the spiritual man prepares him for presence with the Father.  Every quality of character not sanctified by renunciation, abstinence, habit, and grace, will be burned in the fires of purification. Men esteemed by men, those who are proud and have done little work resisting evil, may enter the kingdom as babes, stripped of their power and earthly trappings. The first will be last, and the last will be first.

[Restatement of the method, authority, and power of Jesus to forgive and cleanse sinners: Jesus died into His creation and He rose from death.  His blood was spilled and His life taken without the authority of violated law. His victory over death gave Him authorization to give the Hounds of Hell (the spirits associated with our sin) His blood and life as payment for our sin.  The spirits of Hell desire blood and death in payment for their work of seduction, trickery, guilt, and threat. The pain, blood, and death inflicted by sin is the spiritual food that energizes the demonic realm. But, since God, the Son, owns every soul, He is invested, He has standing, and dispenses limitless blood and life to fully satisfy the lawful claim of the demons.  The sinner, the man caught by sin and its penalty, is thus released from the necessary, right, and appropriate consequence of death and separation from God. The Not-God realm derives its life from taking life, while the Kingdom of Heaven derives life from loving neighbor as self, and loving God with the whole heart. When Hell is not fed with evil and sin, its power wanes.]

The Son is the gatekeeper to God the Father, as no man cometh unto the Father except by Him.  The human soul must be cleansed before coming into the Holy of Holies, and only the Son can cleanse us of the consequence of sin.  All who submit to His Lordship, and ask for that cleansing sacrifice will be given it. Submitting to His Lordship entails developing a desire for Godliness, and working to resist rebellion and temptation.  As I transfer my allegiance to God, and away from the Darkness, I am spiritually reborn into the Kingdom of Life.

Axioms:1) God exists, The Father begat the Son, the Son created the creation and Man.2) The Bible is divinely inspired and accurately reflects the hologram of His way of being.3) Nature reflects God’s divine law.

Hypotheses:1) The “Not-God” kingdom exists as God the Father’s spiritual polarity, opposing Him in all things as a fully reversed mirror of Godliness.* In the primal, pre-creation,  God/Not-God realm, life and death, love and hate, freedom and slavery, joy and pain are mingled fully. The characteristic relationship of one spirit to another, is the eternal attempt to dominate the other.* God the Father purified Himself and rejected everything of the Not-God realm.* God created the creation perfectly.  He allowed the Not-God realm to penetrate it by giving men free will, and leaving them the opportunity to choose to rebel against God’s Lordship.* Man is now in a world with many morally complex choices, and he must judge the character of each accurately, and choose correctly between Good and Evil. * This mortal life is a testing and training ground, a nursery school for eternity, a place where souls choose their alliance with God or the Not-God.  God desires that none are lost.* The purpose of the creation is to raise up true companions that satisfy the heart of God.2) God can create dream/imagination-like objects and characters in His mind and give them near-independent identity, will, and mind.* The created “conscious points” populate space, and form the substrate from which mass could be formed, and allow the play of movement/energy to manifest time.* The laws of nature are simply a reflection of the rules embedded within the Conscious Particles.  The complete set of rules, accurately listed, will automatically manifest all the laws of physics that manifest the phenomena of: Classical Mechanics, Quantum Mechanics, Particle Physics, Field Theory, and Relativity. * The set of rules held and executed by the Conscious Particles is in fact the Grand Unified Theory sought by physics.

Summary of the Theory:

Before the beginning there was God, and there was “Not-God”.  The two existed in the realm of the spirit as opposite polarities.  God, in His nature was love, life, and light. The Not-God was all things opposing God – dissociation, death, and darkness.  God the Father purified Himself, separating completely from the mind of the Not-God – to the point of not even seeing evil. God, having the nature of love, desired an object of love, and created the creation and creatures with the hope of raising up companions capable of a mature, peer level, free will love to satisfy His loneliness and nature.

The goal of man’s life on this plane is to become a love companion who can satisfy God’s desire for a love freely given, by a spirit of His own nature.  A fully mature love can only come when we become like God (Christ-like) through a maturation process of learning the ways of goodness, and rejecting the ways of evil.  Men must learn to resist with proper tension and energy the temptations to follow the seduction of all other gods (such as lust, anger, greed, pride and attachment). He must also learn to place in proper perspective the virtues such as equality, freedom, choice, tolerance, diversity, etc that can be lifted above the primary virtue of Godliness.  The passions must be sanctified, and the virtues put in proper perspective. Men must reject the “Not-God” and its unholy ways, as the Father did in His own pre-creation struggle. The journey of life for man is a gestational time of molding the soul by testing each with the temptations of sex, drugs, and false virtue. Some fall prey to the temptations of the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life, and are never freed from their love embrace with these false gods.  Others hear and heed the words of life, and follow in His ways.

The Son, created the universe, filling the void of space with Conscious Particles.  The Not-God Realm was penetrated and permeated by the consciousness of God, and the darkness was filled with the light of the life of God.

The body of the book is an examination of a number of examples of phenomena, in each of the 5 areas of physics (mechanics, quantum mechanics, field theory, particle physics, and relativity), in an attempt to deduce the set of rules followed by the Conscious Particles.

Orientation to the site:

This page, the home page of the Theory of Absolutes, is largely qualitative.  It covers the evolution of the theory, competing theories of creation, analysis of Free Will and other metaphysical-philosophical-theological considerations.  Included in the home page is some technical discussion of the method by which the Conscious Particles are aggregated to create particles of mass.

On the rest of the site are many pages that consider a number of the important phenomena from each of the major domains of modern physics.  Additionally, many other spiritual, theological, and metaphysical concepts are covered throughout the site. This is a work in progress, so there are many pages that are redundant and contradictory in their presentation of physical and/or metaphysical/theological conjecture.  Thus, this work is being presented as a seed for thought, consideration, and growth. Please feel free to email me at drthomas@naturedox.com for questions or comments on the topics of discussion.Evolution of the Theory:

I was raised to strongly embrace the doctrine and theology of the mainstream Protestant Christian tradition.  I began moving away from the faith a little as an adolescent, in college I was introduced to other (non-Christian) spiritual belief systems, and in my middle 20’s I became an ardent spiritual seeker as I pursued enlightenment and liberation through various world religions, cults, gurus, and spiritual paths.  In 1987, after 15-20 years of searching, I was able to again, as an adult, sincerely embrace Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior.

The Vision:The change of mind that allowed me to be a Christian was an inner vision about God’s relation to the physical universe.  The vision was of the universe, appearing as a giant spherical orb, filled with innumerable galaxies and points. The center of the universe was brilliant, outshining all other points in the universe, clearly the dominant body of the universe.  I saw innumerable lines from the brilliant center connecting to each point of matter and space in the universe.

The Interpretation:Over time, the vision has acquired more clarity and detail in its symbolic representation of the relationship of God to every particle of the creation.  He is the brilliant center of the universe, and each connecting line is the Holy Spirit connection to every point of consciousness. Thus, the universe is fully interconnected – every particle, collection of particles, and the spirit of every created being is connected to God, and together, through God.

I have spent decades processing this concept and connecting it with physical reality.

The Theory of Absolutes, which is my personal TOE (Theory of Everything), while incomplete (and possibly incorrect in some details of hypothesis, logic, and empirics), begins by attempting to offer a rational method by which God created the actual elemental physical particles that populate the universe.

The Theory continues with a logical-empirical derivation of the physical laws that must be embedded within each of the particles to produce the phenomena of mechanics, fields, mass, subatomic particles, quantum mechanics, and relativity.  The proof of the validity of these theories lies in the simplicity of understanding all physical phenomena as the natural consequence of a few types of Conscious Particles serving the functions of identity, law, position, relationship, and movement.  The execution of the physical reality of the Theory depends upon those particles following the God-given set of laws that govern their perception, processing, and execution of each moment’s information content.

Implications of the Theory:And, while the unification of all physical, social, and theological sciences into a single theory is elegant, and possibly even useful for engineering, its real value lies in the social, moral, political, psychological implications of connecting the physical world back to its spiritual origin.  The consistency of the postulates of the Theory with empirical science give the Theory credibility. And, the consistency of the Theory with the precepts, teachings, examples, and declarations of the Bible give a plausible connection between God, the Bible, and science.

The Theory of Absolutes introduces language and conceptual entities which allow us to resolve the mind-body debate that has raged for centuries in the philosophical circles.  It allows men of reason and science to include a discussion of God in the public discourse. It rationalizes a belief in God and Biblical revelation using the language and tools of experiment and science.

I had a childlike faith in the God of the Bible as a youth, but left that faith as an adult as I became an intellectual and scientist.  I was able to return to the faith of my youth with full intellectual integrity when I was able to logically connect the metaphors of the Bible in a seamless continuum with the physical evidence of science.  To return to the faith of my youth, I needed a tangible/rational segue between the realms of matter and spirit.

The connection between matter and spiritIn conventional science, there is no particulate entity that is both spirit and matter, nor theoretical construct that connects spirit with matter.  But, the hypothesis of the Conscious Particles, which include: 1) the Positive and Negative Dipole Particles, 2) the Matrix Grid points, and 3) the Force Particles) provides a set of theoretical particulate entities sufficient to give an underlying matter-spirit explanation to all physical phenomena.

This set of 3 particle-types allows us to see how God can be both both outside and inside of every particle of matter, and infuse space with intelligence and life.  For me, the gap between science and faith was bridged by seeing how the entire universe and its constituent mass, energy, space, time, soul, and spirit was composed of Conscious Particles.  Seeing how God could have plausibly created Conscious Particles from His mind, gave me the confidence in the possible connection between spirit and matter, and in turn the ability to rationalize my faith.

The Conscious Particle and God are both of the nature of the mind and spirit.  And while this statement does tell us what mind or spirit is, it does convey that God is not material.  God is not a particle. And, every Conscious Particle or sentient being, is not God. But, the Conscious Particle, man, and God are all connected in a very intimate way.  This very real and actual connection between God and the mind of man gives Shirley McLain and many others the urge to cry out, “I am God”. We are not God, and the eagle, bear, and wolf spirits are not God, nor are they innately more holy or close to God than ourselves.  Every spirit has proceeded from the same creative center, and all retain a connection to Him.

As humans, we cannot know the actual substance or nature of “mind”.  Nevertheless, for the purpose of visualization, we shall posit that these hypothetical elemental particles (the Conscious Particles) are created as “dream images”.

The creative process may proceed as follows: Consider how we construct characters in our own mind during sleep and imagination.  Of course, there is a vast difference in the fidelity of God’s dream and His ability to give distinct character to His dream images.  As a more powerful dreamer, as the ultimately strong mind, God was able to separate the dream images from Himself, while maintaining connection with them.  In reality, every dream image is still part of His mind. Thus, the obvious conclusion is that there is no real “other” other than God in the play of the creation.  God was, in the beginning, still is, and there is no other, other than God. Thus, the common metaphysical experience of mystics that “God is One”.

But, despite the fact of total connection and identity of substance between God and the Conscious Particles, He has created a universe full of particles, spirits, mass, and movement that interact as though they are totally free.  Every particle and being has been given enough separation to be independent of God, even though at their most fundamental level of being and nature they are in fact still fully connected. Many religions have as their goal the merge with God so as to end the cycle of birth and death.  The union with God is trivial, there is nothing but God. The real miracle was God’s ability to create a world where even the illusion of separation from Him was possible.

Returning to an examination of how God created the Conscious Particles; if humans had this capability of creating particles, it would by analogy be as if we could imagine, command, and generate another conscious being and project his existence outside ourselves with a character and defined set of habits, capabilities, and limitations.

In this manner, God created a universe, densely populated with Conscious Particles, each one brought into being by His creative power to generate a point of consciousness by His Word.  Each point is projected as a conscious entity capable of independent movement, thought, and relationship. The Conscious Particle is observable as “other” by God, but the substance and existence of the particle is ultimately totally dependent upon God.

Thus, God creates by speaking, or declaring, points into existence, each of which conform exactly to His creative specifications.  These Conscious Particles, these points capable of observation, processing, and action, are subject to His will, and follow His Law without error, and without supervision.

The goal of this theory, The Theory of Absolutes, is to articulate the specific laws the Conscious Particles follow, and show how this set of elemental laws (which function much like an alphabet) can be combined in many complex ways (much like words and sentences), and thereby manifest all the laws of physics and phenomena of life (the stories and descriptions of literature).

The Conscious Particles supply the link that allows men to logically connect the world of matter (the world of mass, motion, collisions, bonding, and decay) with the world of spirit (God, consciousness, creativity, and cause).  The Conscious Particles provide a portal through which we may peer into the unseen worlds of the spiritual forces that underlie all of life.

The laws of nature, the rules governing each particle’s actions, all reflect the limits and boundaries God has placed on life, men, and nature.  Knowing the laws of nature, recognizing their divine origin, and seeing the respect they deserve, gives men the courage to look carefully for hints of the limits He has scribed for man’s moral boundaries and defined as His proper and righteous paths.

Science and faithBy grasping the structure and relationships within a universe composed of Conscious Particles, we are a step closer to understanding the fundamental nature of the spiritual reality.  By following the evidence and logic that validates the hypothesis of the Conscious Particles, we take a step closer to connecting science and faith.

Every man must make the journey of faith alone.  Even if the Theory were to become commonly accepted as scientifically valid, and the entire culture adopted its language and metaphor to order life, each person would would still have to complete the gap between the rational sequence that validates knowledge and the heart-experience of knowing.  This Theory is only a doorway to a new perspective on life. The reader must walk down the path of life and reframe the reality beyond our eyes and senses.

Just as the existence of the external world is questioned in the philosophy of Berkeley, Kant, and Hegel, so we can never fully grasp the essence of consciousness.  But, even though we cannot fully validate the existence of the external world by logic or philosophy, we still have a deep knowing and trusting faith that the world truly exists outside of our own projection or imagination.  Likewise, we cannot validate the existence of the world of spirit (the world of cause and consciousness behind the world of matter, energy, space, and time). Even though the spirit world is more real, in that it is more fundamental in its nature than matter, we must accept its reality by faith.  But our acceptance of the existence of the spiritual world need not be blind faith, based solely on doctrine or speculation.

Rather, our faith in the spiritual world may be justified by the triangulation, inference, and shadow cast by observable evidence, the entire body of philosophical examination, and the reason that connects them together by causal relationship.  And while all the tools of the mind and evidence of the senses will not bring a man to faith, they are nevertheless the tools we must use to justify faith. Faith should be used to fill in the gap between evidence and reason, and the unknowable realm of the ultimate reality.

Reason and evidence bring us sufficiently close to confirming our faith that God exists, He created the creation, His moral Law is supreme, and that we are free moral agents.  With a sufficiently rich body of evidence, and a deep analysis of the trajectories of force, we can with confidence make that final leap that is required to have faith. The robust body of reason and philosophy presented in this essay, and the use of the language and symbol set of the Theory of Absolutes, can give us a sense that our faith is securely grounded in reality.

The goal of this tome is to provide a body of evidence complete enough to overwhelm even the most skeptical with sufficient logic and interconnected reason, that the theory of a law-based Conscious Particle is consistent with all physical phenomena.  Seeing the strong connection between mass, energy, space, and time and the Conscious Particle, and seeing how God created the Conscious Particle from His own being, gives strong logical evidence to faith in God’s existence and the appropriateness of His moral Law.

Major divisions within The Theory of Absolutes

1) The Theory is first an examination of physical phenomenon on the sub-subatomic scale.  The Theory rests on the hypothesis that Conscious Particles mediate all physical phenomena.  And, that these Conscious Particles follow laws of movement, perception, and processing, which were embedded in their programming by God.  The body of the Theory examines many examples and types of physical phenomena to show that in fact the laws governing the Conscious Particles’ interactions may plausibly produce all experimentally observed phenomena.  Proof of the Theory is implied by demonstrating that the proposed laws of interaction logically predict and explain the details and mechanics of each phenomena. The consistency of a limited set of rules (embedded in, and followed by, the Conscious Particles), and the utility of that set of particles in giving underlying structure and process to all the phenomena of the natural world, is its own proof of the Theory’s validity.

2) Secondly, the Theory examines the implications for life, society, law, interpersonal relationships, and faith of a universe filled with Conscious Particles created by God.  We are then faced with the question, “If the universe is a direct manifestation of the mind, intent, and love of God, then how should we live life?”

Personal journey:In my journey as a natural scientist (engineer, chemist, physicist, theorist) the Conscious Particle was the missing clue that filled the gap of logical connection between the creation and Creator.  Having this single entity to manipulate and speculate how it acted to manifest the natural world, enabled my faith.

From my youth, I was a man of logic and science, as I expected to find and know a sequential, cause-effect, experiment and evidence-based connection between the world of physical phenomena and the existence of God.  The revelation of the Conscious Particle was a gift and an answer to the prayer and cry of my heart for knowledge. With that insight, I was able to accept the validity of the Bible, accept the nature of God as presented in the Bible, and then rationalize the need for a savior and accept Jesus as Lord (pattern giver and authority) of my life.

At the time of this writing (2011), over 24 years have passed since my initial insight about the spiritual nature of the universe.  The hypothesis of the Conscious Particle was the key to developing an intuitive-logical, reality and rule-based theory of life that connected all phenomena on all levels into a single rational paradigm.

The Conscious ParticleThe Conscious Particle is the medium through which all the observable phenomena of nature manifest.  The Conscious Particle is the ultimately elemental object. It can move, and does so in relationship to an absolute frame of reference.  Object, frame of reference, and sequential law-based movement enable the experience of time.

Thought experiments

The movement of the Conscious Particles can be examined by thought experiments.  In the process of determining the True rules by which the Conscious Particles move, a hypothetical rule set is postulated, and then the Conscious Particles are watched in the mind as they interact under various conditions.

Throughout each mind experiment, the question is always, “Does this set of rules require the particle behave in a way that would produce an aggregate phenomena identical to the observed behavior of mass and fields in real life experiments?”

The fundamental laws of nature (i.e. the rules of action and reaction embedded by God in the Conscious Particles) direct each particle’s motion in relation to other particles.  To be an accurate/true list of the laws of nature, the set of rules must be invariant, consistent for all phenomena, and explain all phenomena as a natural consequence of following their direction.

That full set of rules is the ultimate “Theory of Absolutes”.  This current edition is only an incompletely elaborated subset of the massive body of thought and debate that must occur prior to its canonization as law and fact by the scientific establishment.  In this edition, the majority of phenomena have not been examined under the light of the proposed set of laws. That work is left for other scientists, philosophers, theologians, and thinkers of this and future generations.  Hopefully, adequate initial evidence, correlation, and reason are included in this first volume to give courage, motivation, and conviction to that future army of thinkers to begin the attempt to satisfy the stiff criteria of science, which will ultimately allow its adoption into the accepted body of scientific theory.

Personal journey to faith

Since the time of my initial insight, I have continued to review the concepts of college physics and engineering, and monitor the ongoing discoveries of science.  I have attempted to incorporate the conventional theories and phenomena of physics into a theory consistent with my insight about the connection between God and the physical universe.

Initially, my insight gave me the needed connecting reason and logic that justified faith in the God of the Bible.  But, as the years passed, I have found internal evidence beyond the strictly rational justification of God’s existence, which has enabled me to embrace the the decision to place Yeshua as the Lord of my life as known and felt Truth.  At that point, the Theory had done its work as a bridge to be willing to have a sure belief in God, and faith in Jesus as Lord and Savior. In turn, this faith has inspired me to attempt to live according to the Bible and the teachings of Christ.  My faith has gotten stronger over the years as I have called out to God for insight, comfort, and intervention in the circumstances of my life. Over the decades, I have seen the good fruit that this faith produced in my own life as I tried to discipline and direct my life according to Biblical precepts.  I have found that peace is available in accepting the sacrifice of Jesus as atonement for my violations of perfection. I have found great wisdom, comfort, and insight come from listening to that still small voice of the Holy Spirit.

I understand the doubts of the man of science, and I have dedicated this work to those who struggle with faith because of the gap of logic and paradigm between the observable phenomena of physics and the intangible world of spirit.

Purpose of the Theory:

I wish to bring theology into the realm of evidence and logic.  My own change of heart and mind has left me with a sense of obligation to use logic and theory to connect the tangible evidence of science with the intangible existence and experience of God.  My first, and most important, theoretical proposition is that matter, energy, and all the phenomena of life, nature, and spirit are based upon consciousness, and that God is the source of all consciousness.

The method of proof of the Theory of Absolutes includes presenting the evidence of physical phenomena, proposing a spirit-based mechanism which underlies each, and then applying this set of rules to other physical and spiritual phenomena.  It is an iterative method, with each theory, each new set of rules, each examination of old and newly considered phenomena provides new insights about how the creation must be constructed. The simplicity, logic, and unity of explanation of a single set of rules that applies to all physical, social, and spiritual phenomena provide its own validation and evidence of Truth of the Theory.

By providing a hypothesis which provides a model that gives universal causal connection between the physical and spirit world, God’s existence becomes a rational inductive conclusion.  In logical terms, I am using the many points of physical evidence consistent with the hypothesis as evidence that the hypothesis deserves the title of “Theory”.

A hypothesis consistent with the computed predictions of conventional physics and the theological precepts of the Bible, gives the rational man the elements of argument necessary to justify faith on the level of logic.  By analogy, the existence of God is the unseen high energy particle that experiment implies because of the predicted shower of particle tracks after collision.

(Note: this does not imply that God is a high energy particle – He is not.  The analogy is referring to the process of inducing the existence of an unseen particle from the evidence of observed decay products or the remnants of collisions.)

(Aside: Energy is a macro-phenomena that arises from the conservation of instruction or command.  Once a command has been issued from a particle, that command will never vanish nor cease to produce a chain of effect.)

Methods of argument: Both a parallel and series arguments are used to validate the hypothesis of  the Conscious Particle. The consistency of the numerous physical principles with the hypothesis gives confirmatory evidence to the existence of the Conscious Particles (i.e. validation by parallel argument).  The origin and nature of the Conscious Particle, the consistency of the concept with Biblical precept, and the moral and social implications of a world built on law and love-relationship, all form part of the series of evidentiary claims that lead to a conclusion of the existence of God (i.e. validation by series argument).

Likewise, the rules of interpersonal behavior that manifest as the dramas, laws, and pain and love demonstrated in the social-political world provide evidence for constructing another set of parallel arguments that validate the consistency of God having the personality, nature, and history attributed to the God of the Bible.

Tools of language developed to describe this science: The Theory of Absolutes defines the Conscious Particles and the laws that govern their interaction, thus providing the elements of structure and rules of process for the man of science to manipulate these tokens with logic and experiment and give an underlying structure to the quarks, neutrinos, pions, and exotic particles of the subatomic zoo. The Theory provides a fundamental set of structural tokens (particles, fields, and reference frame) upon which to construct the universe and rationalize how in fact the hand of God manifested the creation.  The Theory implies a God currently involved in our world as a participant in the ongoing creation of life, rather than only as a spectator or initiator of the play. The Theory gives us the objects to manipulate whereby we can justify the claim of God being the unifying force and presence creating and sustaining the physical and spiritual universe.

Theological implications of a physics theory
I saw my own paradigm of science, religion, and reality change as I saw the implications of this Theory.  And, I believe this Theory holds the promise of changing the hearts of men and nations by allowing all men to open their hearts to the God of the Bible.  After accepting the fact and truth of God’s existence, the heart can open to examine the revelation of His nature in the Bible and see his hand in designing the physical universe, in moving the chessmen throughout the play of history, and in the working of men’s interpersonal affairs.

The intelligent, logic based, open minded skeptic can with diligent searching come to a rational submission to the Lordship of Jesus Christ as the director and guide of our lives and souls.  With prayer, study, and openness to counsel, we can move in the direction of becoming the perfect man, and by faith and works, put on the mind of Christ.

The goal of the Theory is to provide tokens that allow a rational understanding of God, which can allow us to more easily submit our hearts to the transforming work of His Holy Spirit.  Understanding is of greatest value when it enables and motivates our choice of good and right action.Personal motivationI came to Christianity through an inspiration that gave me the faith that the gap between the scientific and spiritual world could be bridged, and thus retain my integrity as a man of reason while being a man of faith.  I saw how the Conscious Particles could mediate all physical phenomena, and as spiritual creations arising from God’s word and mind, they were the bridge between the world of spirit and matter. This one spirit-matter entity is the building block, the elementary entity, from with which all of the physical creation has been assembled and mediated.

Since that initial vision, over 2 decades ago, I have remained inspired to give full expression to this Theory.  I see the pain and emptiness of life lived without meaning, and I believe that men will be encouraged to live life fully, courageously, and joy when they adopt the laws and ways of God.  Modern men are largely convinced by the evidence of reality and scientific proof. Thus, scientists are the de facto leaders in guiding the philosophy of the masses. The Conscious Particle is the new building block that gives our intellectual leaders, the men of science and reason, the tools, objects, and tokens that can give rationality to the realm of spirit as it connects to they physical universe.

Processing life through feelings and rationality

Those who follow their feelings, and declare they are superior to, outside of, or above the words and logic of people who “live in their heads”, are merely using alternate processing pathways to generate opinions based on their conscious and subconscious programming.  The feeler may say he is in touch with a deeper, more visceral or heartfelt truth. But, those feelings are programmed by the societal myths and concepts of the age, just as the man who considers himself rational and a thinker is programmed and blinded by the dominant concepts, paradigms, and recognized “real” objects of the age.  The concepts of truth and error come from trauma and pleasure of childhood, the teachings of parents, the dogma of education, the drumbeat of media, the creeds of belief, and the influence of the forces of the unseen world.

The feeler merely comes to a conclusion based on subconscious processes that result in a strong conviction, which rises up as a feeling consistent with his programming.  The sequence that developed the feeling cannot be elaborated, but the feeler has a deep inner sense that his feeling is right and true. The thinker can recite the sequence of logic that justified his conclusion, and feels correct in his opinion, but the feeler is unconvinced because he does not feel the conclusion is right.  But, when the social/educational/cultural paradigm is consistent with a Godly perspective, the feeler and thinker may more commonly agree, having both come to the same Godly, true, and right conclusion, but through different processing paths.

The feeler and thinker are kin, merely coming to their respective conclusions through disparate neural/soul pathways.  Neither can declare truth because their method of information reception or processing is innately superior. But, if the underlying programs, premises, and spiritual forces guiding the thoughts and/or feelings are true, both methods, feeling and thinking, provide valuable and productive rationale and motivation for action.  I can only hope that someday Truth will be taught at a formative age, so both thinkers and feelers can direct their thoughts and feelings toward right, good, and Godly life actions. Currently we live in an age where relativity reigns as the supreme philosophy, and from this arises the non-judgmentalism of popular and academic psychology.

The destructive effect of relativity is insidious, since it gives the practitioner of “tolerance” the appearance of rapport, open-mindedness, and loving embrace, when in fact rebuke and correction should have been applied.  If the universe is in fact a lawful space, where unseen forces react to willful violation of relational mandates, then it is only a matter of time before the forces of nature mount a reaction to a man’s violation of natural law.

Relativity versus the Theory of AbsolutesWhen a theory of Absolutes is accepted, and Relativity is seen as a subset of a universe with an absolute frame of reference, we may more clearly see there is a true standard of life morality, purpose, and consequence against which our actions are measured.  Such understanding and knowledge helps bring regulation to the passions of the heart and concepts of the mind. Upon such a base, a nation can build a righteous and Godly society.

Science and the supernaturalI have written this book to influence the philosophy of science, and thereby influence the culture.  If the generally accepted theories of science recognize a natural theory with God as its unifying center, the laymen of society will encounter a strong cultural/philosophic force to embrace the reality of God and incorporate Him into their lives.  Science is the mythology of the modern man, the metaphor which he accepts as true and reflective of the underlying forces that govern life. He does not necessarily understand the language, methods, or reasons of science, but its cultural/elitist philosophical elevation causes men to look upon the proclamations of science as Truth.

The scientist is not trained to look for supernatural explanations.  Rather, he looks to nature for prior causes and previously unseen patterns to explain nature.  Science is a descriptive study, rather than a penetrating examination of the unseen meta-layer underlying the physical.  Science only allows phenomena with physical bases as possible hypothetical considerations in the scientific proof of mechanism.  When science accepts the Conscious Particle and its behavior as consistent with experimental evidence, the lay public will encounter strong cultural and educational forces to accept God as real, since it is He who enlivens the Conscious Particle.

The Theory and its effect on language and cultureWhen the micro-granularity and language of the Conscious Particle is introduced into the analysis of theology, science, philosophy, politics, media, entertainment, art, and psychology, the public discourse and group moral concepts will change.  The rational language and logic of science will likewise be used to examine and validate the Truth of the Christian world view. When the concept of the Conscious Particle becomes common, men will eventually recognize God’s presence, His influence, and the ways of Godly life. When men see the world as alive and an aspect/piece/element of God in every object and life, they can more easily escape the bondage of animal passion, and flee to the freedom of men choosing to purse virtue.

The Theory as a tool for rational argument in the Cultural DebateThe Theory of Absolutes gives courage and purpose to those who wish to compete on a rational scientific basis in defending and establishing Godly Government, Righteous education, and moral standards based on God’s Will and Way, which are the Absolutes.  This theory is meant to give the Christian apologist and patriot the tools to defend against the arguments of the religions of Scientism and Secular Humanism and their claim of a Godless creation, evolution, and moral relativism.

Introduction to the Terminology, Concepts, and Postulates of the Theory of Absolutes:

In the Theory of Absolutes, I postulate that God created the universe as a projection from His consciousness into the darkness of the pre-creation universe, and retained connection to every point and being He created.  He created the mass, the substance, of the universe by populating space with several types of conscious points which we shall refer to as the Conscious Particles. Each Conscious Particle has a limited set of abilities to perceive, process, act, and project.  Each Conscious Particle type has capabilities and limitations which fill a specific needed function and role in forming the substrates that allow the manifestation of space, matter, time, energy, life, and consciousness. From this basic palate of elemental points of consciousness, God organized and constructed the stage, players, and play of the universe.

Acts 17:28  for in Him we live and move and have our being,

God brought matter, energy, space, and time into existence by giving rules of relationship to each of the conscious points that comprise the universe He created.  God did not have to use substance or materials from the pre-creation universe to fill the universe with matter. Rather, He was able to create the fundamental substrate of the material and spiritual universe as a projection from His own consciousness.

What existed before the creation?  This question cannot be answered from experimental data.  Both the Theory of Evolution and Intelligent Design concern themselves with the creation itself and how it was modified, rather than the pre-creation environment.  The Theory of Evolution posits a creation that formed the substance of the universe by chance and time without a directive intelligence. The Creation Theory posits a universe created by a Creator, who purposefully designed the creation to meet His criteria.

The Godless, impersonal, evolutionary world would be governed by forces, and reflect the characteristics of the more elementary substance from which that world came.  Likewise, the created universe, the universe fashioned and formed by God, would reflect His nature, and no behavior contrary to that Godly nature would exist in peace.

The Bible contains some hints about the pre-creation universe, but not a detailed description of its properties.  Science attempts to deduce the nature of that primordial state by projecting backwards, but these theories do not give a satisfying descriptive scenario because every statement or theory about what may have been the pre-creation state, is immediately met with the question of what was before that state, and how it arose – ad infinitum.  All theories positing a beginning ultimately fail as they fall into the unsatisfying trap of introducing yet another cycle in the infinite regress, with each layer revealing no fundamental origin. Thus, I shall not attempt to answer the ultimate question as to the nature and originating cause of the first pre-creation universe.

I will not attempt to give a final or definite answer to this questions.   I will not deduce and describe the ultimate pre-creation state or the mechanism by which it arose (i.e. the origin before which there was no prior cause).  Rather, we shall examine the postulate of a likely pre-creation state from which God created the universe. We shall use the Bible and rational argument to provide our data points and justification for the validation of our conjecture about the pre-universe and origin of God.  Given that this is a universe of cause and effect, we are naturally drawn to answer questions of prior cause. And, the most obvious question about the universe is, “where did it come from?” Ultimately, my goal is to create a plausible theory consistent with Biblical and experimental/observational data that the universe was created by the God of the Bible.

Questions we seek to answer

What is the nature of God, and what is the environment in which He lives?  From His perspective, how does the universe look? What is inside the universe, and what is outside of the universe?  How did God create the universe? Where did evil come from?

Premises and assumptions

We shall start with the assumption that God is perfect, eternal, and holy.  And, given that everything on earth has a polarity, we shall assume that God also has a polarity.  We shall simply call the space, force, character, state, or consciousness against which He forms Himself  – “Not-God”. Of course, we could define God as the totality of all that is, both holy and unholy, and as the totality of all being, existence, and structure.  But in my first theoretical scenario, I choose to define God as the portion of the polarity that is holy.

I choose to define God’s polarity as the darkness, evil, and unholy as the “Not-God”.  I propose that God is God because He is perfect, in Him there is no shadow of turning, in Him is only perfect goodness.  In some unknown way, our good God arose out of that mixture of good and evil, dark and light, life and death. He is pure consciousness, and He formed and separated Himself as holy, full of life, and separated from any darkness.  Likewise, the “Not-God” is pure consciousness, and committed to individuation, and domination of all others. Life proceeds from the synergistic, loving, other-honoring state of Godliness. Death is the ultimate outcome of the competitive struggle to dominate.

God purified Himself , separated Himself from the darkness, and became life in its purest form.  God is the polar opposite to the darkness, death, void, and chaos from which He arose. The “Not-God” is the enemy of God, and is the polarity necessary to define and demarcate God’s existence.  God is defined by and identified with the light and life that He embraces and embodies. The “Not-God” defines the edges of God, and gives a clear defining boundary of who and what He is not.

Later in the creation story, we see that the Son, the identical consciousness of God the Father, separate but fully God, obedient and submissive to the will of the Father, created Satan, the evil one.  Satan, as the agent of the darkness within God’s universe, allows a penetration of the “Not-God” into the universe that He (the Son) has created. (This embodiment of evil, Satan, may have been a fallen angel, or may have been a special creation to personify and act as the polarity of goodness and advocate for the Kingdom of “Not-God”.)

Men are challenged to overcome the same difficulties and temptations in life as God faced when He separated Himself from the darkness of the pre-creation.  Men play out a drama, that recapitulates God’s Olympian battle to turn away from the Not-God, in their battle to resist the temptations of life (lust, anger, greed, pride, and attachment).  Each man’s maturation as a soul depends upon his success in microcosmic replay of the struggle to separate from the evil of the pre-creation that the Father overcame. The purification and maturation of the soul may be worthy goals for eternity, which gives incentive to develop habits and character that endure and give greater authority or joy in their heavenly exercise.  Impurity will not be allowed in God’s Kingdom. Thus, those who embrace the dark side may enjoy the fleeting pleasures of rebellion against God’s moral laws, but the time on earth spent on such pursuits will have been wasted, and less reward will be laid in Heaven.

The purpose of God creating the creation and life, is to raise up souls and spirits as heart companions to satisfy His love nature in a lonely universe.  The play is eternal, the stakes are truly life and death, the risks of entering the portals of incarnation are high, but the reward of success is great. Each man has a free will, and he can choose goodness and life, or rebel and hate the world that God has created.  We act out our love of God by obeying His Law and staying within the boundaries of a Godly life.

In the Creation Theory according to the Bible, both matter and life were created by the Son (John 1).  In the Theory of Absolutes, the mechanism of that creation is that He projected His consciousness within His own mind, in a manner akin to how we create a dream character, only under conscious control.  Using this method, He created both the conscious particulate substrate of the universe, and the spirits that animate men. The spirit essence of man is a point of consciousness, with the full nature of God, but without the expansive capability to act.  Thus, we were “created in His image.”

The first creative act was God the Father’s declaration of existence of the Son, as an identical image of Himself in the creative act of declaring, “I  Am, THAT, I Am”. This declaration was an act of complete duplication of identity. This explains the mystery of the Father and Son being the same, but different.  The Holy Spirit is the connection of communication, the thread, the cord of connection between the Father and Son.

The Son, is in a totally serving and loving relationship with the Father, and follows the Father’s directions in total serviceful obedience.  The Son was given the responsibility and authority to create the Conscious Particles by the creative projection from His mind; it was by command or creative declaration that their existence came into being.  In essence, the Son created the Conscious Particles by the creative command, “That Is”. By the Word, all the worlds came into existence. Thus, the universe of name and form came into existence by the Son, who is the YHVH, Jehovah, Yahweh, of the Old Testament, and Yeshua (Savior), of the New Testament.

The Father God does not look at the evil and darkness of the “Not-God”, which is how He was able to separate Himself from it.  He focuses entirely on the goodness of life and light. To create the universe, and to allow sin, error, and temptation to exist within it, the Father had to delegate the responsibility for allowing evil to another, one as powerful and perfect as He, and one who could resist the temptations of the pre-creation darkness.  Thus, the Father God holds the polarity of total purity, while the Son maintains His anchor in life, light, and goodness by total submission to the goodness and way of the Father. From this position of total grounded security in existence, the Son can see, live among, and create a world that has within it the potential for both good and evil.

For the Father to maintain His polarity of existence, separated from the primal darkness, the Father has to maintain His eyes only on goodness, life, and light.  He does not allow darkness of any type into his being. Thus, for the purpose of creating a universe with a meaningful play of existence, the Son created a world with the presence of both good and evil.  In it, men face the same real threat to existence and soul that the Father faced in choosing life over death. Life is not a game, a pretend experience of God playing with us for His entertainment. Rather, life is “playing for keeps”.  To maintain the universe, a structure of spiritual essence and creation, immersed in a sea of darkness that seeks to utterly dissolve and disperse it, the Father continually creates the Son, and the Son continually creates the universe. The Son created Satan as the spiritual portal of evil, as the spiritual embodiment of the darkness of the “Not-God” that tempts men to rebel against God, disobey His laws, and hate His creation.

The Conscious Particles are the spiritual entities that form the ultra-structure of the universe.  The Conscious Particles are created points of consciousness that interact with each other according to the lawful restrictions and allowance of relationship embedded within each particle.  From the human scientific perspective, the subatomic particles interact according to the laws of nature, exerting forces which we name as electric, magnetic, strong and weak, and gravity.

(Note: in the Theory of Absolutes, the Strong and Weak forces will be developed in a manner to show that they are both subsets of the electrical and magnetic forces.  Likewise, gravity may be a subset of these two, or possibly a third fundamental force. But, the point is that the forces of fields, are actually the action of Conscious Particles producing the effect of what appears to be force by self directed movement according to the commands or information received by other nearby particles.)

The aggregations of the Conscious Particles are held together by electrical and magnetic forces to form the subatomic particles.  The common subatomic particles (i.e. electrons, neutrons, and protons – the rudimentary constituents of the atom) and the exotic subatomic particles (e.g. pions, kaons, muons… formed by high energy collisions or by decay of larger particles) are the smallest level of particulate aggregations visible by force and energy type experiments (i.e. bubble chambers).

Each particle of the subatomic zoo forms from a unique stable configuration of Conscious Particles, and groups of particles.  Each unique subatomic particle forms as a specific aggregate assembly of many Conscious Particles and particle groups. Each subatomic particle forms as a dynamic, resonant, equilibrium assembly of attractive and repulsive magnetic and electrical forces.  The periodic relationship of stable configurations results in the ability to predict the existence of new, unseen, subatomic entities. The full list of all the subatomic particles in the subatomic zoo is called the Standard Model.

The geometric relationship of the Conscious Particles can be seen in the Standard Model.  The mathematics and modeling that predicts new particles and their relationship is a reflection of the underlying order associated with the complex interactions that produce stable configurations of particles.  For one illustration of the symmetry of the particulate subatomic universe see “A Geometric Theory of Everything”, Scientific American, December 2010, pg 54-61.

The possible relationships of God to the pre-creation universe include:

  • The universe may have been created in the void which lies outside of God’s own point of consciousness.
  • God may have created the universe inside His own mind in a manner akin to how we perceive consciousness, create memories, imagine, and dream.
  • The consciousness of God may fill all of this universe, and all other universes.  There may be none other than God, and there is nothing which is not of the substance and mind of God.
  • Our God may be one of many Gods.  Each God may create His own universe, and design and form it as He sees fit.
  • God may be creating the universe in an environment where other forces compete and attempt to destroy, invade, or rule this universe.
  • We may live in a Godless self-created universe, which arose out of an impersonal consciousness driven by the nature of the pre-creation substance.
  • In summary: the universe may be  internal to, or external to, God’s mind.
  • The God of this universe may be a Personal God, an Impersonal God, one God of many, and/or a God who is in continual competition to survive in the pre-creation environment.

Pre-Creation Perspective of the Theory of Absolutes:

In the Theory of Absolutes, I shall examine the universe from the perspective that the Holy Bible was given by divine inspiration through Moses, the prophets, Jesus, and the Apostles.  We shall likewise assume that the Bible gives us factual and accurate clues regarding God’s fundamental nature, the rules governing His creation, and the optimum behavior of men in relationship to self, others, and God.

The Bible only gives us only a few clues as to the environment in which God existed before the Creation, so we will not make a definitive declaration, nor theorize in depth about that realm.  Rather, we shall focus on constructing a pre-creation theory which segues with the manifestation of the physical universe, a motivation by God to create it, and a motivation for men to live in it.

Genesis 1:1.In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.  The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep.  And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.

This passage is the Bible’s most overt reference to the universe before the creation.  Thus, if we are using the Bible as our source, we cannot say much with certainty about the nature and details of that pre-creation state.  Thus, we cannot say if there were other universes before it, whether there were other Gods that created their own universes, nor can we comment about the origin of God.  Without evidence, any theory about that state is simply conjecture, and without factual and true evidence, nothing can penetrate that barrier to give us a certain view into the nature of the pre-creation realm.

Scenario 1:

Given the lack of explicit Biblical declaration about this realm, I shall make a few assumptions about the possible nature of God, the pre-creation universe, consciousness, and evil.

I shall assume that God the Father exists separate from the evil or darkness.  His goodness is the polarity to the evil present in the pre-creation universe. The good and evil together are the two polarities that constitute the whole of that pre-creation state.

God created our universe inside this pre-creation state, fully submerged in an ocean of evil and darkness.  God created our universe using His ability to project points of consciousness. He gave animation (life) to those points by His life-mind-consciousness, but separated Himself sufficiently from those points to allow the personality of each point to move according to its given will and nature.  God is the life of every particle of the creation. The movement of all particles was initiated by His command, and from that initial impulse, all actions and reactions follow lawfully. God can move particles to create a miracle, but there is an cost to be paid to maintain the universe in its conservative state.  In particular, prayer balances the scales and allows miracles.

The God of our universe existed prior to the creation in the sea of darkness.  But, in this scenario, we hypothesize that He resisted the temptations of darkness, and dwelt only on that which was good and lovely.  His consistent and eternal commitment to light allowed Him to become perfect in light, life, and wisdom. His victory over the temptations of the darkness allowed Him to be the eternal and perfect God of our universe.

In John 1 we see the story of the relationship between God the Father and God the Son.  It was the Son who then declared by command the existence of the Conscious Particles. He embedded them with the laws of interaction that in macroscopic form appear as the laws of nature.  The Son created the spirit of man from His consciousness, just as He created all the Conscious Particles that formed the physical universe. But, the spirit of man is a full duplication of the nature of the Godhead, but only a shadow of the power.

God created men, each one with a unique eternal spirit, a soul/mind, and a body/brain to experience life.  He imprinted a human nature on each man, with a desire for both good and evil. The spirit is the point of God-like consciousness and awareness.  The soul/mind is the screen of energetic patterns that the spirit perceives. The body/brain is the organ of experience that feeds signals from the external world through the nervous system to the brain.  The brain/nervous system projects organizes patterns on the soul, which the spirit perceives and converts into a perception of the external world.

Feelings/judgments are wired into our being from our nature, and shaped by our nurture.  Our goal is to conquer the human nature, to refine it, to use it as a tool of the divine, to overcome the temptations in an allegorical or metaphorical way.  The tests we face are related to setting boundaries, balancing individual and group needs, individuation, and all the tests associated with proper relationship (lust, greed, pride, anger, power, revenge, hurt, loss…).

I assume the Bible is a work of divine origin, which gives us instruction, revelation, discipline, and exhortation.  The Bible is not an explicit revelation about the meaning and purpose of life, the state of the pre-creation universe, the mechanics of how the universe was made, nor a detailed list of the fundamental laws of the universe.  But any theory we create must be consistent with the laws of nature, the mechanics of creation, the nature of the pre-creation universe, and the purpose of life.

Science cannot give definitive answers about the pre-creation state, because its domain is limited to inference based upon evidence.  We cannot conduct an experiment on the pre-creation world, since it is at best seen only as a shadow or faint markings in our current world.  The Bible, the vehicle of divine revelation, gives only slight inference to the world before the creation. Science is a discipline of induction and deduction based upon evidence.  It cannot function without data or experiment, since when lacking these elements it has no grist for its mill of induction and inference. Thus, no philosophical or evidentiary system can make an absolute claim of Truth about the nature and origin of the creation and pre-creation state.  Science proves a theory only by a preponderance of evidence consistent with the theory. But, this is not proof, only the exercise of strengthening a theory. Science cannot conclusively and finally prove a theory true; it can only declare a theory false. Theoretical invalidation occurs when an experiment gives clear evidence contradicting the prediction.  Philosophy can declare a theory incorrect when it premises and conclusions are logically inconsistent.

We shall choose only a few hypotheses about the pre-creation universe and examine their implications.  We shall assume a universe filled with spirits prior that fought to survive and control each other. The spirits of evil sought to subdue all others by domination and force, while the spirit of God sought to control by love.  Eventually the power of love swallowed up the darkness in light, and the Father became the entirety of the pre-creation universe. The spirits of evil did not disappear, they were simply overshadowed by the light of goodness and life.  The evil that appears in our world arose because the Son allowed evil to be embodied and penetrate into His creation.

After having set the stage, assigned roles for the characters, and initiated the play with a conflict of desires, we see the drama of life unfold.  The spirits of good and evil engage in an epic battle for the souls of men and control of the universe. But, this is God’s world, and He is committed to goodness, even though He has allowed evil to run free, and attempt to overtake it.

The book of Job gives us a clue as to God’s relationship with Satan.  Satan was allowed to come into God’s world, and is embodies the archetype of the entire “Not-God” realm of evil.  The Son allowed Satan to be in His world. The story is told of a time when Satan met with God, and God asked him if he had considered His servant Job.  Satan was given permission to test Job, not to kill him, but to challenge him in a way that he had not yet been tested, proven, and matured.

The Bible also indicates that God created evil, and that Satan was a liar from the beginning.  He is called the accuser of the brethren, and the enemy of our souls. He is called the ruler of this world.

With regard to Satan, in summary, I believe the darkness which the Father overcame was allowed to penetrate our universe, and God gave him personification as Satan.  God gave Satan the role of tempting men to follow the ways of the darkness (the realm of the Not-God) by allowing Satan to have strong access to the hearts and minds of men, to tempt, punish, and deceive them.  In effect, God created a world where the goal is to create companions in a love relationship, but to be truly mature requires developing the same character as God, in the recognition, avoidance, and resistance of evil, and developing the habits and ways of goodness.  Satan, the evil one, essentially gave God the Father the same challenge as he is giving us. Likewise, Satan tempted Jesus, the Son, in the same way. The result is a world which is a difficult maze in which to find Truth. Life is not a game, nor a dress rehearsal, nor does it offer the opportunity to do it over if we did a poor job.  Life offers the same opportunity that God the Father had to embrace truth and goodness, and to reject evil, in the pre-creation universe. Thus, to the extent that we adopt the character and way of God, we become like Him, and love His way and Kingdom.

Scenario 2:

Creation by “budding off” of Consciousness:

In the Biblical Creation Theory, all of creation, both matter and life, were created by the Son.  In the Theory of Absolutes, I postulate that there is no consciousness but God the Father’s. The Son was the First Creation, and the mechanism by which the Father created (begat) the Son is essentially the same as the process by which the Son created all the particles.

The spirit of man was created by the Son, as were all particles, and life forms.  Man is special, in that he has the nature of God, but not all the ability or the perspective.  Man has the capacity to think, feel, perceive, and communicate as does God. We were created to be companions, creatures who could fill the heart desire of God for relationship.

The lesser creatures, such as animals, possess only a portion of the fullness of the nature of God, but are individuated in terms of personality, capabilities, and tastes much as are humans.

The plant kingdom is less individuated on the level of spirit than animals.  The individual plant spirit arises from a particular seed, and maintains that spirit, regardless of the loss of leaves, roots, or branches.  But, when the plant becomes separated from its source, is transplanted, its spirit loses its connection with its plant kin, and becomes more individuated as an independent spirit.

The individuation and capability of the spirit body associated with a life entity becomes even less as we progress down to the mineral kingdom.  At this level the larger aggregates of mass, such as bodies of water, land masses, mountains… have their own spirit group identity composed from the individual elements composing it.

The subatomic particles are virtually identical in their structure, but their sense of self is small; only enough to maintain their structure and movement.  On this level, the particle can gain or lose identity as its structure changes. And, ultimately the Conscious Particles that compose the particles of mass are

The Creation of Consciousness:

God, the Father, is the source of all consciousness in His Kingdom.  He creates “other” by first concentrating His consciousness into two trains/aspects/domains.  This process could be seen as similar to creating dream or imagination characters and scenery within the mind.  Having divided His consciousness, He identifies one aspect of consciousness with Self, and another portion with the dream character or scenery.  To create the semi-independent consciousness entity, the original consciousness of the creator closes off communication and identification with the second consciousness.

This process of separating the created from the creator is somewhat akin to birth and the individuation that arises by cutting the umbilical cord.  This birthing, budding, or creative process involves establishing a separation between the creator (first consciousness) and creation (second consciousness).  A fully new consciousness never forms in this process, since the second consciousness still relies on the original for its continued existence. Thus, there never is a complete separation between the creator and created consciousness.

The link between the creator and created remains forever, but the full depth of the union between creator and created is largely unconscious.  This heavy veil of unconsciousness prevents the secondary/created consciousness from realizing the deep and fundamental connection with its source.

One of the important dramas, challenges, and processes of life involves the quest to reestablish this identification with Source, and develop a love relationship with it.  The most fundamental fact about the creation is its unity, but that central essence is the greatest and most important secret of the creation.

The human spirit rides on a complex layer of Conscious Particle aggregates that form among themselves elements, molecules, organelles, cells, tissues, organs, systems, and ultimately the human organism.  The secondary layer of sensory and endocrine pathways, and processing pathways of thought and nerve regulation interface with the subtle soul bodies. The the layered and compartmentalized complexity of the human organism is great, and it all serves to produce function in the realm of the organism with the spirit of man functioning as the “all seeing eye” that controls and experiences the play of organismic interaction.  The distractions of passion, the drama of life, and the depth of separation of the fundamental consciousness from the layer of sensory perception and processing hide well the fact of our intrinsic and intimate connection with the divine. As a result, few seek, and fewer find the clues that lead to the truth of our identity and connection with the spirit of God.

The process of God separating Himself into new consciousness is well characterized as “budding”, as there is no actual separation from God, only a separation of control and perception by the creation.  The created consciousness is a point of consciousness, as are all creations. It has no dimension of depth, length, or height. It has no arms, legs, head, hands, feet, or eyes. The conscious point communicates and perceives directly, as in knowing one’s own mind.  But the consciousness and knowing the thoughts and perspective of another arise because of being routed through the source, the mind of God. The channels to perceive the consciousness of another conscious point open by faith, hope, and love.

God opens the pathways to perception, the hidden is revealed, and two dance as one.  All communication, perception and knowing of another mind pass through God’s connection network.  Ultimately, all conscious points are connected to the central God-source and are in fact a common consciousness.  What appears to be a communication connection between points is in fact a desire, a request, and an opening allowed and facilitated by God.

The experience of movement in the realm of the Conscious Particle is produced by changing the point of view within God’s consciousness landscape.  Movement of position and perspective in the land of pure consciousness is executed by choice. Opening communication to perceive from another person, or point of consciousness requires permission and affinity.  Ultimately, divine authorization is required for anything and everything we do, think, or say. Truly, we can do nothing without Him.

Prayer is an aspect of this process that involves asking God’s permission and blessing.  The critical aspect of communication is opening the windows of perception. And, since God largely controls the opening and closing of those passages, we depend upon Him for the grace of thinking, speaking, and moving.  Without divine permission the gates stay locked, and we are alone.

The Holy Spirit is the cord of consciousness connecting us back to God.  He is our gateway to the storehouse of riches, answered prayer, guidance, and a full heart.  The Holy Spirit is our personal representative and mediator between God and man. We are never alone because of Him, and if we are open, the Holy spirit will guide and comfort us through the maze of life choices.

As humans, we truly are created in God’s image.  We can feel, think, speak, and move, in a body, but the underlying capability reflects the same nature and form as our creator.  We truly are blessed to have been given the human form. Praise and thanksgiving should be our daily worship for this gift.

Relationship of Father to Son:

The first creative act was God the Father’s declaration of existence of the Son, as an identical image of Himself in the creative act of declaring, “I  Am, THAT, I Am”.

The Son, is in a totally serving and loving relationship with the Father, and follows the Father’s directions in total serviceful obedience.  The Son was given the responsibility and authority to create the Conscious Particles by projection or command by creative declaration of their existence.  The Son created the Conscious Particles by the process of projecting and separating mind. But, in summary, it was by His Word, His creative command to come into being.  In essence, He created all the Conscious Particles by using the command, “That Is”. He shaped and organized the Conscious Particles into elements, and through the processes of time, or by instantaneous formation of a universe with history, all worlds of matter and spirit came into existence.  The universe of name and form was created by the Son, who is YHVH, Jehovah, Yahweh, of the Old Testament, and Yeshua (Savior), of the New Testament.

Father and Son Relationship:

The Father God does not look at the evil and darkness of the “Not-God”.  He separated Himself from evil in the pre-creation universe, is pure, and does not allow evil into His space.  His nature is absolutely pure and good, and without shadow or wavering. The Father separates Himself from the influence of evil by focusing entirely on goodness, life, and light.

The created universe contains both good and evil.  The Father did not create evil; it was the Son who created the creation.  The Son allowed the evil of “Not-God” to penetrate into the universe. The Son allowed evil, sin, error, and temptation into His created universe from the realm of the Not-God.  Thus, to maintain His purity, the Father had to delegate the responsibility for creating the universe to the Son. The Son is as powerful and perfect as the Father, but He bows to, serves, and follows the direction of the Father perfectly.

The Son was (and continues to be) created by the Father, and hence need not maintain His existence by self-creation.  The Father is the source, the original seed, the generative point around which the entire universe was generated. As long as the Father maintains His creative gaze upon the Son, the Son cannot be dissolved or lost to the pre-creation darkness.  The Father God holds the polarity of total purity, and the Son maintains His anchor in life by total submission to the goodness and way of the Father. From this position of total grounded security in existence, the Son can see, live among, and create a world that has within it the potential for both good and evil.

The Father to maintains His polarity of existence separate and distinct from the primal darkness by holding His consciousness only on goodness.  But, for the purpose of creating a universe with a meaningful play of existence, the Son created a world with the presence of both good and evil.  In it, men face the same real threat to existence and soul that the Father faced. The Father chose life, and all the tension, denial, and discipline that life requires, and shunned the relaxation, sleep, and ease of death.

Life is not a game where God toys with us for His entertainment.  God has not created this creation to torture nor to ignore us. Rather, His nature is love, and He has created the universe to fully experience love, in a lonely universe.

The universe is a structure of spiritual essence immersed in a sea of darkness – an active darkness that seeks to utterly dissolve and disperse it.  Thus, to maintain the universe, the Father continually creates the Son, and the Son continually creates the universe. The Son created Satan as the spiritual portal of evil, as the spiritual embodiment of the darkness of the spirits of “Not-God” that tempt men to rebel against God, disobey His laws, and hate His creation.

The Conscious Particles – Structure and Force:

The Conscious Particles are the spiritual entities that form the ultra-structure of the universe.  The Conscious Particles are created points of consciousness that interact with each other according to the lawful restrictions and allowance of relationship embedded within each particle.  From the human perspective, the subatomic particles interact according to the laws of nature, exerting forces upon each other which we name as electric, magnetic, strong and weak, and gravitic.

From God’s perspective, each particle has the ability to perceive the presence of another particle, and move in a preprogrammed way in relationship to the other particle’s type, velocity, and distance.  The appearance of force repelling or attracting other particles is an artifact. There is no spring or rod that requires movement of another particle. Rather, particles choose to move, and do so out of obedience to the law embedded in their minds by God during its creation.  Each created particle maintains its type and identity, and functions in the role assigned by God.

(Note: in the Theory of Absolutes, the Strong and Weak forces will be developed in a manner to show that they are both subsets of the electrical and magnetic forces.  Likewise, gravity may be a subset of these two, or possibly a third fundamental force. The larger point is that field forces (e.g. Electrical and magnetic), are actually the action of Conscious Particles.  Their movement in response to the presence of other particles gives the appearance of a force. When in actuality, all particulate movement is self-directed, chosen, willful, and lawful, and in relationship to information received by other particles both near and far.)

The Subatomic Particles and the Conscious Particles:

The aggregations of Conscious Particles that form subatomic particles are held together by electrical and magnetic forces in a dynamic harmonic stability.  The common subatomic particles (i.e. electrons, neutrons, and protons – the rudimentary constituents of the atom) and the exotic subatomic particles (e.g. pions, kaons, muons… formed by high energy collisions or by decay of larger particles) are the smallest level of particulate aggregations visible by force and energy type experiments (i.e. bubble chambers).

Each particle of the subatomic zoo forms from a unique configuration of Conscious Particles.  And, the larger subatomic particles assemble from aggregates of these smaller subunits. Each unique subatomic particle forms as an aggregate dynamic assembly of a specific conformation of many Conscious Particles and particle groups.  Each subatomic particle forms as a dynamic, resonant, equilibrium assembly of attractive and repulsive magnetic and electrical forces. The periodic relationship of stable configurations results in the ability to predict the existence of new, unseen, subatomic entities.  The full list of all the subatomic particles in the subatomic zoo is called the Standard Model.

Implications of the Theory

Science versus Creationism:

We shall assume as an axiomatic hypothesis that God is an existent entity, and assume He has the ability to create law abiding particles using the force and abilities of His consciousness.

The question is thus, “What are the laws that govern the Conscious Particles?”  The answer to this question is the ultimate physics theory. In it lies the unification of all physical phenomena.  Its answer may also govern, or at least largely influence, the processes of what we recognize as life.

Science has devoted the entirety of its intellectual force to the effort of proving the rationality of evolution.  Its correlate effort has been to develop an evidence set that validates that there is no God, and to do so an evidence set, and logical connection must be created that eliminates the logical gaps which call for God to fill.

The best evolutionary hypothesis does not provide a convincing sequence that plausibly rationalizes a mechanism the jump from biochemical soup to the most simple cellular life.  Science provides no causative mechanism, nor tells a unifying story that answers the questions of the genesis of the substance and laws of the physical universe.

Therefore, I have dedicated the efforts of this work to proposing a theory which gives rationality to the Biblical perspective of Creation.

Pre-Creation Perspective of the Theory of Absolutes:

In the Theory of Absolutes, we shall examine the universe from the perspective that the Holy Bible was given by divine inspiration through Moses, the prophets, Jesus, and the Apostles.  We shall assume that the Bible gives us factual and accurate clues regarding God’s fundamental nature, the rules governing His creation, and the optimum behavior of men in relationship to self, others, and God.  In essence, this essay is a defense of the proposition that the Bible is true, and consistent with the factual and rational evidence of science.

The Bible only gives us only a few clues as to the environment in which God existed before the Creation, so we will not make a definitive declaration, nor theorize in depth about that realm.  Rather, we shall focus on constructing a pre-creation theory which segues with the manifestation of the physical universe, a motivation by God to create it, and a motivation for men to live in it.

Genesis 1:1.In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.  The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep.  And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.

This passage contains one of the Bible’s few, and possibly the most overt reference to the universe before the creation.  Thus, if we are using the Bible as our source, we cannot declare with much certainty the nature and details of that pre-creation state.  Thus, we cannot say if there were other universes before it, whether there were other Gods that created their own universes, nor can we comment about the origin of God.  Without evidence, any theory about that state is simply conjecture, and without factual and true evidence, nothing can penetrate that barrier to give us a certain view into the nature of that pre-creation realm.

Nevertheless, we shall make a few assumptions about the nature of God, the pre-creation universe, consciousness, and evil, and attempt to create a plausible pre-creation and subsequent creation scenario.  We shall assume that God exists, evil or darkness exists independent of Him, and together they form parts of a polarity that create a whole. As described previously, God created by declaration. From those declarations came the particles, and by command they assembled into successively larger units, moved by ballistic force, and intentional direction, the universe was created.  All actions, reactions, and motivations follow from the patterns and initial motion, and the divine interventions, given to the universe.

The God of our universe existed prior to the creation.  In that pre-creation universe, He may have struggled against the darkness to become the perfected point of consciousness, light, life, and wisdom, that allowed Him to be the God of creation.  The Father subsequently created the Son, who declared by command the existence of the Conscious Particles, and embedded them with the laws of interaction that in macroscopic form appear to be the laws of nature.

God created men, each one with a unique eternal spirit, a soul/mind for the spirit to perceive life, and a body/brain to feed sensory information to project onto the screen of the soul.  He imprinted a human nature on each man, with a desire for both good and evil. The spirit is the point of God-like consciousness and awareness, capable of direct perception, but while associated with the body it only sees the projections from the soul.  The soul/mind is the screen of energetic patterns that the spirit perceives. The body/brain is the organ of experience that feeds signals from the external world through the nervous system to the brain. The brain/nervous system organizes and projects patterns onto the soul, which the spirit perceives and converts into a perception of the external world.

Feelings and judgments are wired into our being from our nature and nurture.  Life is a process of conquering the human nature, and there is eternal benefit/reward associated with that victory/perfection.  The human frame and soul is given to us to refine and use as a tool of the divine. Our task is to overcome the temptations both literally, and as an allegorical struggle against the darkness that God overcame.  In this we are family The tests we face are related to setting boundaries, balancing individual and group needs, developing a heart for others, and learning to love and live God’s law. All the emotions (lust, greed, pride, anger, power, revenge, hurt, loss…) test, try, and tempt the soul to develop strength against the various the forces that oppose God and His way.

In this study, we shall assume the Bible is a work of divine origin, giving us instruction, revelation, discipline, and exhortation about life lived properly.  The Bible does not give us a complete revelation about the meaning and purpose of life, the state of the pre-creation universe, a full description of how the universe was made, how life was created, nor a list of the fundamental laws of the universe.  But, if the Bible is in fact the Word of God, then any theory we create must be consistent with the laws of nature, the mechanics of creation, the state of the pre-creation universe, and the purpose of life.

Science cannot give answers about the pre-creation state, because its domain is limited to inference based upon current evidence and paleolithic evidence.  But, even at it very best, all physical evidence stored in stone and ethers were generated within the space and time after the Beginning. Thus, the reflection of the pre-creation state was at best due to the initial conditions from which it sprang.

The Bible, man’s organ of divine revelation, gives only slight inference to the world before the creation.  Science uses evidence as the basis for its theories, and without data or experiment, it has no grist for its mill of induction and inference.  Thus, no philosophical or evidentiary system can make an absolute claim of Truth about the nature and origin of the creation and pre-creation state.  Science can only deny a theory’s truth based upon the logical self consistency of a theory, and its consistency with the observed world. Science, like human knowledge, can never reach a level of  absolute certainty about anything, thus life necessarily entails living by faith. That faith may be the faith in adequate data and theory to make future judgment for mundane human action, or it may beabout faith about the promises of God and .  Rather, we must be satisfied by a level of evidence that prove absolute can never absolutely declare the truth of an inferred theory, only give

We shall carry forward only a few hypotheses about the pre-creation universe, assume as an axiomatic hypothesis that God is an existent entity, and assume He has the ability to create law abiding particles using the force and abilities of consciousness.  The practical questions we must answer to give flesh to the Theory of Absolutes is, “What are the laws that govern the Conscious Particles?” The answer to this question is the ultimate physics theory. In it lies the unification of all physical phenomena.  Its answer may also govern, or at least largely influence, the processes of what we recognize as life.

Science has devoted the entirety of its intellectual force to the effort of proving the rationality of evolution.  Its correlate effort has been to develop an evidence set that validates that there is no God. Science thus seeks to use the evidence set of nature to create the narrative of gradual change over time producing random collisions and ever-more complex assemblies on all levels, atomic, molecular, cellular, organismic, and ideological.  Thus, science has devoted incredible creative energy to validate the evolutionary narrative in an effort to eliminate the logical gaps, which are easily filled by the single assumption of God and His creative power and acts.

The best evolutionary hypothesis does not provide a convincing sequence that plausibly rationalizes a mechanism that jumps from biochemical soup to the most simple cellular life.  Science provides no causative mechanism, nor does it tell a unifying story that answers the questions of the genesis of the substance and laws of the physical universe.

Therefore, I have dedicated the efforts of this work to proposing a theory which gives rationality to the Biblical perspective of Creation.

Free Will:

If the universe was designed around Biblical precepts, commands, history, and instruction, then the world, and all the particles composing it, must absolutely, and without error follow His Laws.  In such a world, every action, thought, and word must follow lawfully and sequentially from previous forces. But, the logical extension of such a mechanistic and lawful sequence is the lack of ability to exercise volitional Free Will.

But, simple observation by the most casual observer indicates that he can choose to perform or avoid any given action, and chose any available alternate action.  The Bible is largely about directing people in the ways of Righteous choice. But, the Bible also makes reference to predestination. Thus, if we are attempting to create a model of the universe that reflects the Biblical picture of life, we must make hypotheses about the structure and nature of a universe that includes and intertwines both of these concepts without contradiction.

Complex vs. Complicated Systems, Problems and Solutions

by | Apr 25, 2025 | Physics/Christianity/Life

The Wisdom To Choose Action or Inaction

In Dr. Robert Malone’s recent post he made the following observations and proposed the following resolution.

Premises:

  • Western society believes problems must always be met with action
  • Modern society assumes science and engineering can perfectly predict outcomes
  • There’s a fundamental difference between complicated systems (like computers) and complex systems (like biology and society)
  • Complex systems are inherently unpredictable due to their chaotic, self-assembling nature
  • Modern technocrats mistakenly view human society as a complicated rather than complex system

Arguments:

  • Complex systems cannot be controlled with the precision of complicated systems
  • Complicated systems (computers) can be fully understood and predicted
  • Complex systems (biology, society) have unpredictable emergent properties
  • Large-scale social interventions often fail
  • Historical examples like the “war on poverty” demonstrate unintended consequences
  • The “butterfly effect” makes long-term outcomes impossible to predict
  • Current global initiatives reflect dangerous hubris
  • UN’s Agenda 2030 assumes predictable outcomes
  • Centralized planning ignores the complex nature of human societies
  • Decentralization and incremental change are preferable
  • Allow societies to evolve naturally
  • Test changes on small scales before broader implementation
  • Avoid censorship that prevents natural adaptation

Conclusion:

  • Wise leadership requires:
    • Recognition of the difference between complex and complicated systems
    • Humility in approaching interventions in complex systems
    • Understanding when not to act is as important as knowing when to act
    • Favoring decentralized, incremental changes over large-scale interventions
    • Allowing natural adaptation and evolution of societies rather than forcing engineered solutions

The article advocates for a more cautious, humble approach to social change that respects the unpredictable nature of complex human systems.

To understand Dr. Malone’s arguments, we need a deeper understanding of the difference between a complex and complicated system
The terms “complex” and “complicated” are often used interchangeably in everyday language, but in systems theory, they have distinct meanings:
Complicated Systems:
  • Structure: These systems have many parts, but the relationships between these parts are generally well-defined and predictable. Think of a Swiss watch or a jet engine.
  • Predictability: Given enough information, the behavior of a complicated system can be predicted with a high degree of accuracy. If a part fails or needs adjustment, experts can usually diagnose and fix it because the system’s operation follows known laws or rules.
  • Hierarchy: They often have a hierarchical structure where components are arranged in levels, with control flowing from top to bottom.
  • Change: Changes in such systems can be managed through detailed planning and engineering because the outcomes of modifications can be calculated in advance.
Complex Systems:
  • Structure: Complex systems are characterized by a large number of interacting components where the relationships are not just numerous but can also change and evolve. Examples include ecosystems, human societies, or the economy.
  • Emergence: These systems exhibit emergent behavior, meaning the whole is more than the sum of its parts. Properties and behaviors emerge from the interactions among the parts that could not have been predicted just by studying the parts in isolation.
  • Adaptation: They often adapt and change in response to external or internal stimuli. The parts of the system can learn, evolve, or adapt, leading to new patterns and behaviors over time.
  • Nonlinearity: Small changes in initial conditions can lead to dramatically different outcomes (the butterfly effect).
  • Feedback Loops: Feedback – both positive (amplifying) and negative (dampening) – plays a significant role in how the system behaves over time, often leading to unexpected results or self-organization.
Key Differences:
  • Control: Complicated systems can often be controlled or managed by understanding and manipulating their components. Complex systems, however, might be influenced but not controlled in the same straightforward manner because of their adaptive nature and emergent properties.
  • Understanding: To understand a complicated system, you might need deep knowledge of how each part functions and fits together. To understand a complex system, you need to observe its behavior over time, understand the patterns of interaction, and often, accept that there will always be elements of unpredictability.
  • Management: Management of a complicated system can often be reduced to following a set of procedures, whereas managing a complex system requires more nuanced strategies, often involving learning, experimentation, and adaptive management.
While a complicated system might be difficult to understand or build due to its intricate design, a complex system is difficult to predict, control, or manage because of its dynamic and adaptive nature.
Commentary by Thomas Lee Abshier, ND
11/10/2024
There is a common distinction between complex and complicated systems, but they are very different in their behavior and predictability. Complex systems typically have a non-linear cause-effect relationship between their components, and the imprecision of measuring the initial conditions yields wildly inaccurate results when calculating the system’s future state based on initial conditions. However, even though a system is complex and incalculable, it is still just a sequence of physical actions that strictly obey the law of cause and effect and render a world of complex interactions as mechanical as a more well-behaved system.
There is a deep cause for the imprecision in predicting the future states in complex systems. Namely, the exact current state of the universe is impossible to measure, even in principle. The velocity and momentum of a quantum of energy or mass can only be measured with the certainty the Uncertainty Principle allows.
Another deep factor related to the Uncertainty Principle prevents knowing the exact initial conditions of a system (mass/velocity, time/energy). I postulate that each quantum of mass and energy is composed of smaller, more elemental components, which I call Conscious Points. Each Conscious Point has an actual position and velocity, but those parameters are unmeasurable by human senses and instrumentation, which can only detect units the size of energy quanta. Conscious Points have a dimension smaller than every quantum of energy. This puts Conscious Points at a size dimension below the level of detection and measurement in a realm where the smallest measurable dimension is the quantum.
These subquantum components, the Conscious points, are enrolled in a Group Entity, which is the essence or spirit of the photon or mass. Each Conscious Point operates independently, but when it is part of a mass or photon, it is part of a group entity. I define a Group Entity as an ad hoc spiritual entity that forms when a quantum of energy forms. The function/purpose of the Group Entity is to conserve the energy of the quantum. Each Conscious Point carries a portion of the momentum of the quanta. Each Conscious Point considers the forces acting upon it each Moment before moving. One of those forces that may act upon a Conscious Point is the instantaneous change required to execute the energy conservation associated with being part of an entangled photon pair.
A world composed of humans with consciousness and free will in a biologically adaptive world is inherently unpredictable because the viewer cannot know the force-direction of the spiritual input being applied to the mechanical/physical/complicated but predictable body-mind. The ability to see into the spiritual realm and choose any action I want in the next moment truly gives me free will. Because of this layer, we introduce the fact/reality of unpredictability. This unknown input makes human systems complex and unpredictable even when knowing all humans’ state of mind and intent at a given time.
Humans have free will, meaning that any/every human can make any choice in every successive Moment. On its surface, the brain appears to be only a complicated system (knowable, linear, binary, and identifiably physical and mechanical). However, the nervous system is a complex system. The synapses take milliseconds to integrate and fire for each sensory/input stimulus cycle and neural response. While the brain produces complicated patterns of neural firings in response to the inputs of other neurons and the afferent sensory signals, even this does not rise to the level of unknowable complexity.
There is another input level to the brain’s complicated neuroanatomy/neurophysiology. This input is not physical. I believe there is another input, one from the spiritual realm. Decisions and spiritual forces from God, angels, demons, spirits, and others can influence the nervous system. It is from this realm that complexity arises. We all have a spiritual vision, meaning we can all see forces operating in the spiritual/non-physical realm. And we have free will because we can operate on that level.
We are not constrained by the determinism of physical beings who respond to the impulses produced by complicated sequences of synaptic firings. Instead of the limitations of physical sequence, which is mechanical, the human brain-soul-spirit includes another variable, another force/factor/input to the neural-synaptic network equation, the free will choice arising from the spiritual-metaphysical realm. If an unobservable metaphysical force were to affect and influence the synaptic network physically, the brain-neural network would be both a complex and in-principle unpredictable output system.
Thus, the human nervous system is complicated and complex, and it has free will. God, the divine mind, has free will, as it has no sequence of cause and effect that it must follow. Likewise, the human mind can exercise volition/free will.
Natural systems, such as biology, ecology, and weather/climate, modify themselves in complex ways because of non-linear feedback loops between variables. There is nothing fundamentally indeterminate about natural systems. Still, the future state of all natural systems is uncomputable/unpredictable because the system’s initial condition cannot be known at its ultimate level of precision. This limitation is because the positions of all Conscious Points, which compose the masses of all natural systems, cannot be determined in principle.
In my Theory of Absolutes/Conscious Point Hypothesis, I postulate that the universe is unknowable in its exact condition at any Moment by human consciousness because of our dependence upon sensory data to take measurements. All sense detectors (whether human or instrumentation) measure only quantum-sized units, and as detectors, they are composed of quanta. Quanta cannot measure any increment of distance smaller than themselves.
The quanta can be seen and measured (their location and momentum are uncertain, meaning they cannot be precisely located. But it’s even worse than that because the position and motion of each quantum are unknowable in principle. The Conscious Points constitute each quantum and are unobservable because they are smaller than a quantum. To make matters even worse, the quantum forms a group entity that keeps track of momentum, and if one of the Conscious Points in the mass/group entity were to have its entangled pair be measured, then that mass would experience a change in motion and position.
Note that each time a quantum collides and exchanges momentum, all the Conscious Points associated with that quantum communicate with every Conscious Point in the colliding system and with all Conscious Points with which it was previously entangled. This constellation of interactions influences the next-moment trajectory of every Conscious Point.
Thus, each Conscious Point responds to 1) the sum of the fields in the local space of the Conscious Point, 2) the presence of charged particles in its local vicinity (whose position cannot be perfectly known, and 3) the measurement of its entangled Conscious Point pair. Thus, the universe is composed of energetic entities that maintain their identity. Still, because their actual position and velocity are mediated by Conscious Points, which cannot be measured, the quanta we can and do see cannot be precisely located. Hence, the phenomenon of complexity arises. The initial conditions can never be precisely known, which will cause them to be in disparate states of alignment.

Against Thee Alone Have I Sinned

by | Apr 25, 2025 | Physics/Christianity/Life

Against Thee Alone Have I Sinned
By, Thomas Lee Abshier, ND
11/13/2024

This post was inspired by an essay by Mike Shreve, a pastor in Florida, about why he did not practice yoga as a Christian. Mike and I were in 3HO (Happy, Healthy, Holy Oreganization), the American Sikh movement led by Yogi Bhajan. I was a member of this yogic religion from 1976 to 1982. Mike was one of the Yogi’s first students and became a prominent yoga teacher. Mike left 3HO in 1970 when he had a life-changing insight into the truth of Christ as the Way. Mike eventually became a pastor, with a ministry focus on comparing world religions and Christianity.

Mike’s essay, “Seven Reasons I No Longer Practice Yoga,” came to mind as I read Psalm 51:4, which I read in verse of the day from the Berean Newsletter (published daily by www.cgg.org). Note: I am not affiliated with the Armstrong movement, but I enjoy their daily newsletter and commentary. In this verse, the Psalmist confesses that he has sinned and that his sin was against God alone. This verse indicates that all sin is only against God, which implies God is present in all and is all.

Psalms 51:1-4, (1) Have mercy upon me, O God, According to Your lovingkindness; According to the multitude of Your tender mercies, Blot out my transgressions. (2) Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, And cleanse me from my sin. (3) For I acknowledge my transgressions, And my sin is always before me. (4) Against You, You only, have I sinned, And done this evil in Your sight— That You may be found just when You speak, And blameless when You judge. 

From our perspective, sin seems to be against people. An ordinary/typical interpretation of this verse might be that we have sinned against God because God did not like how we acted toward another person. Such an interpretation is plausible and certainly our most natural interpretation of this verse. It seems that most people conceive of God as a distant paternal disciplinarian, judging and punishing us for behavior He doesn’t like and loving us when we behave in ways that please Him.

But Psalm 51:14 says. “Against You, You only, have I sinned.” Such strong wording implies that no one other than God has experienced anything. Such a concept is radical because it contradicts our sense of individuation. When I introspect about my feelings toward another who has offended me by murder, theft, infidelity, and perjury, I don’t naturally feel or think that I am God or that these acts hurt God.

However, Psalm 51:14 clearly states otherwise. Every sin is against God. He feels it. This issue is perhaps the defining distinction between a Christian and a pagan/pantheistic worldview. This issue appears irreconcilable, as the two views are mutually exclusive. Either God is separate from creation or immanent within it. The two worldviews cannot both be true. But, as is the case in all paradoxes, the resolution of the paradox involves finding a larger context that includes both mutually exclusive perspectives. In that larger context, both are seen to be true under the constraints of each’s limited perspective.

This is an important issue because all (or at least most) religions except Christianity hold/believe/teach that God is immanent/intimately present within the entirety of the created physical universe. This leads to an alienation of the believers in religions, which believe their religion is the only way, which is true of Christianity. Other religions believe there are many paths to truth and thus view Christianity as intolerant/closed/primitive in comparison to their expansive embrace of all religions as valid paths to God.

Which conception is true? Is God completely separate from the universe, or is He embedded intimately within it? The first piece of the puzzle is solved by accepting/realizing and interpreting verses that indicate the Bible acknowledges that God is immanent within the creation. If this is true, the next issue is postulating how God created a universe based upon a single consciousness while still allowing for the experience of separation, unique/self-only perspective, and a relationship between self and others.

I believe the solution to the problem of creating another consciousness besides God alone (a limited consciousness capable of recognizing boundaries defining self and others) lies in knowing how God created the universe. As per John 1, the Father and Son are identical but have a unique/separate existence. I think the Father created the Son by looking back at Himself. The nature given to Him by the Father (identical to Himself) and the perspective of the Son is His identity. The Father is the Son, but the Father has given the Son a unique perspective.

The Son was charged with creating all things in Heaven and Earth. The Son took counsel from the Father and did as the Father directed, but there was a degree of separation between them because of the distinction of perspective. The Father was still the only existent consciousness in the universe, but because the Father allowed the Son to have a choice in every moment and control the consciousness that He gave the Son, the Son was an autonomous being operating within the space of the Father’s consciousness.

The same method was used when the Son created the substrate of the creation and implemented the laws of physics. To implement the creation, the Son created innumerable Conscious Points. The Son declared each Conscious Point into existence by/from/in His mind/spirit. Thus, using the same method, the Father created the Son. The Son visualized/declared/spoke each Conscious Point into being and gave it a character, a set of capabilities it could execute. As in the case of the Father and Son, each Conscious Point was, in essence, the Son looking back at Himself and perceiving all other Conscious Points He created.

The aggregate actions of all Conscious Points, each following the rules of type,  distance, and motion, given to them by the Son, manifest the laws of physics. The Son created four types of Conscious Points (two electron-type Conscious Points and two quark-type Conscious Points), each with a different force-distance response to each other. The Son declared them all into existence, filled the universe with these points, and created a sufficient asymmetry in the number of positive and negative charges to allow mass formation.

The forces acting on each Conscious Point are computed, and the new position is assumed at the end of each Moment. The net result is the motion/change/evolution of that frame/context/vignette into a new configuration of Conscious Points. The Moment is the interval during which all Conscious Points in the universe simultaneously measure the relative distance and velocity of a specified number of Conscious Points surrounding each Conscious Point. They then process this data and compute how they should move at the end of the Moment. The aggregate effect is the formation and movement of particles, the carrying or transforming of kinetic energy, the holding or transforming of potential energy, the transmission of order and record of motion through the Sea of Conscious Points as photons, and the disturbance of the Dipole Sea as mass moves through the Dipole Sea.

Creating such a universe requires that each Conscious Point be aware only of its perspective. The Father creates the Son as a separate Consciousness, which begins individuation. The Son creating all of the Conscious Points as individual entities is the second iteration of creating individuated consciousness. The third iteration is the Son creating the human spirit. The fourth interaction in creating individuation may be the Son creating a generic animal spirit consciousness, which each species modifies based on its brain organization/ function.

This concept of consciousness having only an individual perspective is the key to its differentiation. By the Son giving consciousness to each point and not allowing each point to perceive the perspective of the other, the Conscious Points are given a single perspective and thus perceive themselves to be self and recognize others.

The Son is the source of all the Conscious Points. He has probably automated their generation and maintenance to make their continued generation effortless. He could focus on the perspectives of any Conscious Point, but His attention is probably on higher-level organizations of Conscious Points.

I postulate that any collection of Conscious Points can form a “Group Entity.” An example of a group entity would be any collection of mass, such as a planet, a mountain, a school, a town, an ethnic group, a team, a nation, a geographic entity, etc. The Group Entity is an ad hoc collection of Conscious Points. It is in the formation and perception of the group that the group entity becomes an active player. Such entities are called idols.

We do not see God everywhere and in everything because our perspective is naturally limited to the single perception associated with the spirit/perspective given to us by the Son. Because of having a single spirit perspective, we have a sense of individuation. This separation is so apparent to ordinary human consciousness that the idea of only one Consciousness populating the entire universe seems unfathomably absurd. Thus, by the Son allowing each spirit to perceive only one of His perspectives, He has created a separation between the conscious experiences of the spirits of men, animals, and the Conscious Points.

However, underlying all the specifics of how the Son created the universe from His mind and separated the spirits of men, the fact is that there is only one consciousness in the universe. That fact/perspective is so profoundly hidden that it is almost impossible to break through from human consciousness into God’s consciousness in any meaningful way.

The Father created the Son as a Point of Consciousness (with The Father’s characteristics). The Son has declared into existence all the Conscious Points (with the four characters of elementary types), the spirits of men (with the character of the Father and Son), animals (with the animal spirit), and plants (also with the animal spirit). The Son is the filter of what the Father sees. The Son only allows the Father to see the good portions of the creation. The Son is a filter for what the Father sees. The Son only allows men committed to the Godly/holy principles of goodness into the presence of the Father. This is why the Son is the way, the Truth, and the Life.

The Son created heaven on earth and walked with Adam and Eve in the Garden. But evil arose in man’s mind when he ate of the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil. Before that time, man’s heart was pure, unaware of the ways of being that violated God’s categorization of good and evil. The Father stands as the standard of goodness. The Son is aware of all that is good and evil, and he protects the Father from seeing the violations of His way. Morality was simple before man ate from the Tree; man only had to comply with one requirement, one prohibition.

Was it rebellion against God that opened man’s heart and mind to evil? Was there a spirit that invaded the hearts of men from the tree, which could enlighten/awaken men to the possibility of violating God’s way? Was it simply that man was confused by the possibilities of evil/prohibited action (murder, theft, perjury,  and adultery) and was unable to distinguish good from evil? Or were men opened to their animal lusts by taking in the tree’s spirit? Was it simply that the idea/concept of prohibition was present before the fall, but the specifics behind that prohibition were opaque?

The knowledge of good and evil was opened to man by his choice. God warned man against eating the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. But having been made aware of the possibilities of animal lusts, men were confronted at each moment with the choice of whether to obey the commands and His way or satisfy his lusts.

In this way, the Father remains pure, entirely without evil in His consciousness or vision. Evil exists because God has chosen a set of behaviors/actions/choices that He has defined as evil. The complete set of actions is available in the physical world because all possible configurations of mass and energy are available. The physical universe does not evaluate/label/judge the morality of any action. In the physical universe, everything is categorized as a “what’s so” and an “is what it is” fact.

Thus, evil arises because of God’s definition of evil. The Father has chosen to limit His vision and see only what is good. The Father remains spotless, undefiled, perfect, the only one who is good. Because the universe is filtered through the Son, the Father can separate Himself from the evil possibilities naturally occurring within the Son’s creation. Thus, the Father stays pure/undefiled and unchanging.  The Father is the very definition of Goodness.

The Father’s ability to see only goodness through the Son and man only seeing from the single perspective given to him resolves the issue of why we don’t see/know/perceive the oneness of all and have a consciousness of everything in creation, all the time. Yes, the universe is a single consciousness, but by a few commands and prohibitions, consciousness can be compartmentalized into the individual consciousnesses of the Son, man, animals, and plants.

The Son exercising the authority and power to create the creation gave the Father a degree of separation from the evil possibilities available in the creation. This is relevant to our discussion because this paradigm/model of creation explains how the oneness of God and the Creation are both rational/logical/reasonable paradigms and that they are based upon Biblical concepts.

Incorporating the concept/paradigm/model of God’s oneness into Christianity as an orthodox, accepted concept allows Christianity to participate in a nuanced discussion with theologians and followers of other world religions. To be blunt, the different world religions have incorrect ideas/conceptions/beliefs about the oneness of all consciousness.

The current worldview/theology/catechism of Christianity has mostly rejected the concept of the oneness of all consciousness, considering it a pagan/pantheistic doctrine. Denial or misunderstanding of such a fundamental fact about the universe places Christianity out of the mainstream of discussion with world religions.

If Christianity were to embrace its scriptural references and implications of the oneness of all consciousness, then it would be able to authoritatively reframe and sanctify Eastern religions’ seeking to reunite into the unity of all consciousness. When the concept of how the creation was created from God, from a single consciousness, a concept consistent with the Bible, it becomes evident that seeking to unify with the oneness of all consciousness is antithetical to the purpose for which God created the universe. It is fundamentally a rebellion against the structure of the universe that God intended to create.

When viewing the Bible through this lens, it becomes clear that the Oneness of all consciousness is a central concept around which the universe was constructed. Instructing men in the Truth about the universe, its origin, structure, and processes is profitable. With correct knowledge and facts about reality, people can make better choices.  The Bible reveals, by implication, the oneness of all consciousness as the universe in many verses. With this paradigm, we, as Christians, can retain our concept of the inerrancy of Biblical purity/inerrancy and appeal to the other world religions to correct their concept regarding uniting with the oneness of God and consciousness. The Biblically revealed path to unifying with the nature of God is to accept Christ as the only way into the presence of, and fellowship with the Father. The oneness of all consciousness is an implied concept in the Bible. When addressed in the context of the metaphysical considerations God faced when designing the creation, it becomes evident that God had no choice but to create the Son and give Him the authority to create all of creation. In this way, God can maintain absolute purity and remain untainted, not influenced by evil.

Such a doctrine is offensive to those who believe that such an interpretation of these verses implies a pantheistic view of God. The worship of other gods, the division of the spiritual realm into a battle of the gods, violates the Biblical precepts of placing other gods before/ahead of the One, the creator God. This command is reiterated and restated in Deuteronomy 6:4, the Shema, “Hear oh Israel the Lord our God, the Lord is one. “

The Shema is a Hebrew word meaning “the call to listen.” It is a declaration of God’s oneness and an explicit prohibition against the conception of a pantheon of gods. Thus, the Shema reinforces/declares/affirms God’s unity and His indivisible identity. This concept distinguishes the Jewish faith from polytheistic beliefs. It is such a strong antagonistic declaration against the idea of the oneness of all consciousness that this concept is considered axiomatically false/heresy. This error must be corrected if Christianity is to make its full worldwide impact.

My search for truth as a yogi was my first exposure to the “oneness of God and creation” idea. This concept is considered pantheistic/panentheistic by many conventional/orthodox Christian theologians and laymen. Thus, a concept of God in which the universe and God are viewed as intimately connected in source and substance is a heretical theology to nearly all Christendom. The animus against what is considered a pantheistic/panentheistic conception of God and the universe is strong. To the Christian theologian, teaching this concept is a hallmark of being Eastern, pagan, unorthodox, a new ager, syncretistic, heretical…

The problem is that the Bible makes it clear that Christ is the only way to salvation.  This was what I was raised to believe as a child. However, as an intellectual, I am a person who can only function in a world that makes sense. I had to know the fundamental rules of cause and effect governing the world I was living in. The world is made of durable structures (mass and energy) and there are rules of interaction between the elements of this structure.

For me, high school (SHHS, science, college prep) and college (UCLA engineering) were also exercises of frustration. I wanted to know how the world worked fundamentally, but that wasn’t what I was taught. Instead, I was taught a high-level manipulation of concepts proposed as axiomatically true and existent (e.g., force/electromagnetic/strong/gravitational, mass/particles/charge/spin, energy/kinetic/potential, momentum, time, space, quanta/number/exclusion/entanglement, and relativity/time/space). I spent much of my time in school contemplating what was the underlying reality behind the macroscopic world of physical appearance. I had that realization in my 1987 vision, and it has proven to unify the concepts of the Bible with Science. It has given unity and simplicity to the various domains of science (fields, particles, quanta, relativity, and Newtonian).

I could not make sense of Christianity. What kind of world do we live in, where Jesus Christ dying for our sins could save us? How could this possibly be true? How could this make sense? I was missing something. I needed to understand the universe more deeply. I needed to know how things worked to think, judge, and evaluate properly to make good decisions.

I searched for another way. I saw an advertisement for a yoga class on the University of Hawaii bulletin board. When I attended my first Kundalini Yoga Class, I knew this was for me. I would do this and take it as far as I could. At the end of the trip, I knew it would not take me where I wanted to go, but it was worthwhile. It exposed me to the world religions. I understood the yogic path and Eastern religions from the inside. I put on a turban, chanted, meditated, did yoga, and read the Sikh holy book (Guru Granth Sahib – the Book of the Guru) for 2.5 hours every morning. I faded away. I left without incident or upset. I moved to Portland, leaving the LA Ashram, Yogi Bhajan, and the Sikh community behind.

People who oppose practicing yoga argue that the yogic worldview is based upon a pantheistic conception of God. They argue that if God was the substance of everything in Creation, then He was also the source of evil. They argue that this cannot be true because God, being all good/pure without any relationship with sin, makes such a theological conception inconsistent with Christian doctrine.

I left my childhood upbringing as a Christian to become a yogi because I could not understand what kind of world we must be living in where Jesus dying for our sins 2000 years ago could affect our salvation and forgive/pay the debt of our sins.

Six years as a yogi and studying around forty different religions did not give me any understanding of this question. But in 1987, in an altered state, I had a vision. I saw a symbolic representation of what I interpreted as representing the mechanics and structure of the universe. I saw how God may have constructed matter, energy, space, and time from His mind/consciousness/spirit. From this experience/realization, I saw how there could be a fundamental oneness of the creation. From that conception, I developed a theory of everything that incorporated and integrated the Biblical narrative with the physics of relativity, quantum mechanics, field theory, and particle theory. This miraculous personal revelation gave me a new perspective on the physical universe, God, relationships, purpose, and the context of the Bible. It allowed me to assign forces of cause-effect and rules of interaction to every interaction (whether Newtonian, modern physics, or interpersonal.) The remaining question is, “Is it True?” I shall continue to elaborate my Conscious Point Hypothesis/Theory of Absolutes and develop my conception of the sub-quantum universe, with its Conscious Point entities populating space and interacting according to rules of interactions given to it by God/the Son, when He created the universe.

Psalm 51:4 is one verse, among many, that supports my postulate of the fundamental Oneness of the universe as united by its origin in/from/by God’s mind. Several other verses support this postulate, the most prominent being, “In Him, we live and move and have our being.”

Considering the entirety of the Bible, Physics/Science, History, Psychology, Theology, etc., this insight is seen as the unifying theme of human knowledge and philosophy. With this paradigm, the purpose of life is illuminated. I have come to rely on the Bible as the definitive guide to morality. It is the story of God’s work to create life and bring His way into the willing governance of men’s hearts. The purpose of life is implied as being to love God, serve Him, and be served by Him.

The intersecting of multiple perspectives confirms the deeper meaning of this verse. God is the consciousness underlying all and the witness of all acts. As such, He feels everything and is closer than our breath, knowing all the hairs of our heads and loving each of us. The agreement with the totality of the Biblical perspective and the other domains of knowledge and human endeavor is a possible indicator of the validity of this insight/perspective/worldview. Given the universality of this revelation/insight/teaching in the world’s religions, including Christianity, I believe this perspective/insight/fact is likely true/actual/reality. I don’t think the concept of the oneness of all consciousness is merely the teaching of false religions or the delusion of a vision.

I use Psalm 51:4 as one of my cornerstones to illustrate and defend the concept of the universal oneness of God and all creation. I often heard this Oneness-of-God concept in my New Age/Eastern spiritual pilgrimage. I explored many different teachers, books, cults, and religions in my journey, but I could not understand it until I experienced it in my 1987 vision/awakening/enlightenment.

I believe my vision was a miracle, a divine gift that I was given because I wanted to know the truth so badly. This new perspective, seeing that God was alone in the beginning and that He created the Son as His duplicate and authorized Him to create all things that were created, was the turning point of my life.

I saw and understood how Christianity could be True from that seed vision. I understood the symbolism of that vision because it connected and put into perspective the many religions and teachings I had explored. This concept seemed universal—a central principle of every religion.

I don’t think the Oneness of All is a commonly recognized concept in Christianity. And I don’t believe its depth, reality, or significance is recognized even in the religions that teach and pursue it as a central tenant. Nevertheless, the implications of this concept allowed a new understanding of the difficult-to-rationalize concepts in the Bible, namely, Jesus’ declaration that the Father and I are one. I saw how the other teachings of Christianity were tertiary; they were implied as necessary complications associated with the unity of all consciousness. For example, the unjustified death of Jesus Christ and his subsequent resurrection indicated His lawful supremacy of authority in this world. Death cannot hold a man who does not sin against God.

Jesus Christ proved it was possible to conquer Satan by resisting his temptations and living a sinless life. By being murdered by the henchman of Satan and resurrecting from the dead, Jesus proved that death could not hold a sinless man. He declared that His spilled blood was a gift that all could use as an effective commutation of a death sentence for sin.  In the spiritual realm, His blood, which Satan unjustly spilled, could be used for the forgiveness of sin.

That fact/insight/realization of the oneness of all consciousness allowed me to see the truth of Christianity, a religion I left to explore other faiths. I left because I could not understand how the concepts, premises, and foundation of Christianity could be rationalized in terms of the structure of the laws of the physical universe and a philosophical connection with purpose and cause-effect. But seeing the oneness of God and the creation in so many different religions, and seeing hints of it illustrated and represented within Biblical scriptures, and connecting this concept to create a conception of the physical universe that connected God with the physics, biology, and purpose, allowed me to adopt its precepts and living practice of Biblical Christianity with full ardor and without reservation.

It was in this way that I benefited. I saw that conceiving God as immanent within the creation and seeing the commonality between Christianity and the other non-Christian world religions was not demon worship. I saw a unifying truth that allowed me to elevate my conception of Christianity from the realm of ad hoc cultural myth or metaphor to the realm of a religion that included the profound factual nature of the universe into the fabric of its theological conceptions.

I had seen a fact about that universe in other world religions, and I had seen it dramatized in a vision personalized to meet my need for a conceptualized illustration of function. I am defending and rationalizing the benefits of studying other world religions. I saw an invisible truth previously hidden within the Biblical text and not included in the canon of Christianity. The truth of the oneness of consciousness was in the Biblical text, but I could not see it. It was likewise invisible to the majority of theologians and followers of Christ. Since that time, I have attempted to defend my thesis against the accusation of endorsing and teaching a heretical, polytheistic gospel of demon worship.

Regarding other elements of faith, I believe that every religion teaches many elements of Godly morality, and I believe many practitioners believe they are Worshiping the one true God. Each should be applauded for the Godliness that they teach and practice and their intent to worship God.

I do not think that any religion except those that teach Jesus Christ as the only way leads to salvation/forgiveness of sin/purification of a person’s soul to be in the presence of the Father. I believe only Christianity offers that possibility/way.

As Christians witness to other world religions’ followers, we should emphasize their religion’s truths/common beliefs and then examine the differences. By Christianity acknowledging the Oneness of God in the creation, a commonality has been established that need not be criticized. The sincerity of the search for truth in all religions should be acknowledged. With this posture, I believe we will be more effective in witnessing to the unbelievers and followers of other religions who are sincerely seeking to worship God. I think this was Paul’s message in Acts 17:22-23.

Many would recognize the truth in the words/teachings hidden in the Bible if they 1) deeply understood the universe’s structure, 2) could rationalize its concepts and see how they correspond with reality, and 3) see that its teaching/wisdom/worldview leads to a good life. I believe that Christianity’s disagreement with the teachings of the world religions regarding the Oneness of God and the Creation is misguided. We should agree with world religions on this issue and focus on correcting their errors in worshipping other gods.

The God of the Bible is the only true God. Whether they worship a demon or a lesser god is unknown, but we do know that there is only one way to the Father: through Jesus Christ. Other religions may desire to reach/worship/follow the one True God, but if they are following another god by mistake, or if their method of reaching God is mistaken, they will not reach the God they desire to worship and serve. The existence of the pantheon of other gods probably does exist, but only the one True God should be worshipped.

All other gods may be demons since they do not teach the way of Jesus Christ. We are in error to the extent that we worship any other god above the One True God. The first Commandment, to have no other gods before God, does not state that there are no other gods. Instead, it says only that other gods should not be worshipped.

My experience of participating in many religions was that every religion is populated by sincere people seeking truth and trying to live the best way possible. However, sincerity and good intentions are not determinants of truth. I was able to be a Christian when I saw and understood 1) that the Bible acknowledged the concept of the immanence of God in the creation, 2) that the Son was of the same character/essence as the Father because of being declared into existence by Him, 3) that the Son created all the Conscious Points of the creation by declaring them into existence by the same method that He was created, and 4) the moral and theological implications of this foundational structure of creation.

I realize that my Conscious Point Hypothesis/Theory of Absolutes postulates require more study and validation before they can be used as dependable tools for witnessing. My intended audience for this theory in its mature form is the scientifically literate atheist. I believe these are the thought leaders, the priests of the religion of Scientism and Secular Atheism. I intend to continue developing my postulates to the point where they will withstand the most critical scientific scrutiny. Nevertheless, even with the above minimal development of the concepts, I think you will agree that when viewed through the lens of the Bible alone, disregarding my scientific postulates about how and why God is immanent, the Bible has sufficient clearly articulated verses to cast doubts on the postulate that God is not immanent.

The unifying factor that allowed me to divine the purpose of life was the conception/model/postulate that everything, both good and evil, the spiritual and physical universe, arose from God. In my conception of God’s evolution/creation of the earth, I believe He was alone before He began the creation. The Bible is mute on this subject, so we have no scriptural authority upon which to base such a presumption.

But, using the logic of the physical universe, it does not make sense that God created the universe from a storehouse of matter or spiritual substance if He was alone before the creation of the universe. If matter was available from another source besides Himself in the pre-creation space, who created it? Did another God create it? Who are these other gods/creators that created evil if He did not make it, or give authority to another God-like creator to create the polarities of good and evil? Declaring into existence the substrate from which the physical world arose (the Conscious Points) is the only rational explanation I can postulate.

There will still be those who find the above postulate repugnant because it 1) states that God is immanent within the creation, which is like Hinduism, which ascribes all the various functions of deity to different gods, which is polytheism, which the First Commandment expressly prohibits, or 2) posits that God cannot be within the universe, because God is only good/perfect, and therefore cannot be immanent within a physical universe that is populated with evil spirits, and people who embrace/practice evil, or 3) some other implication of the above postulate that seems to contradict a particular doctrine of your denomination. If such objections remain, please comment on this post and email me at drthomas@theoryofabsolutes.com.

These considerations about the limitations God faced as initial conditions and requirements for the creation He was building make me believe that there was no other source of building materials besides Himself.

Another significant consideration for me was the issue of salvation, atonement, and substitutionary sacrifice. These issues were of such importance to me that I left the very strong/radically saved/fanatical devotion to the faith of my childhood, youth, and young adulthood to explore other religions. I am a man of reason. To understand something requires a full elaboration of the substance, process, and laws governing cause-effect. These were missing. To be a Christian, as an adult, I was asked to accept Christianity with a childlike, not-understanding why, faith.

I believe I was named Thomas for a reason. I doubt everything. I don’t consider any proposition believable, worthy of belief, or acceptance until all the elements of proof are present. I see no reason to extend my faith to endorse and place my eternal destiny in a religion that offers no understandable explanation. I know those who hear and believe are blessed, but I was not blessed with this level of faith. I had to put my hands in the nail scared hands to believe.

I feel like the most blessed person to have been given what I consider to be a miraculous vision that gave me the clues, the missing information needed to derive the backstory on how God created the creation in the detail I needed so that I could have faith. I do have faith about the size of a mustard seed. I have a little. I don’t even consider myself a believer – I know it’s true. I only have enough faith to say, “If the Bible is literally true, and if the universe was built with these methods and for these reasons, then this religion, this understanding of God, is sufficiently rational and self-consistent that I am willing to trust eternal soul to follow and promoting it with my whole being.”

Before I started my spiritual pilgrimage, I didn’t see any possibility of rationalizing God by using the Bible as my sourcebook of explanations for how God created the universe. Given what I knew and saw of the universe, I could not rationalize how Jesus Christ could die 2000 years ago, and His blood and death would be effective in washing away my sins. I did not see how belief in His resurrection would be effective in saving my soul.

So, I took an alternate route. The path of yoga, the path of directly experiencing God, seemed to be a more certain/verifiable method of ensuring my path was, in fact, True. If I could not rationalize the system, I was surrendering my volition to someone else. I could only do that if I trusted their experience or belief sufficiently validated that they were on the true path to God.

Until I understood the rationalization of why a path to God was correct and effective (whether the path of Christ or the path of yoga), I was relying on other people’s valuation. Either way, I was only following people. It seemed like everyone was convinced that their way was the authentic/best/right way to God. One billion people each follow Islam, Buddhism, Christianity, and Hinduism. Listening to the testimony of the followers of each religion, reading their respective sacred texts, or participating in each of them seems unlikely to be definitive. There are chauvinistic religions that believe their religion is the best/only way (Jehovah’s Witness, Mormons, Christians, Islam…). There are Eastern/New Age religions that declare that “All paths lead to the same truth,” so there was no need to discriminate or choose; just dig and keep digging in the spiritual garden where you are planted, and you will eventually get there.

As a young adult, I was faced with the prospect of blindly following Christianity and not knowing if it would ever produce fruit. Instead of doing the same thing, with no possible change in sight, I did something different. I decided to be a yogi and see if meditating, chanting, doing asanas/poses, and reading the Guru Granth Sahib would end my karma, release me from the cycle of birth and death, and give me an experience of union with God. This sounded like a more sure method of finding God than just believing in Jesus. At least the yogic path was one where I would know I had experienced God. So, I chose the path of works. I decided to do a method that gurus and yogis said would give me a magical/transcendent personal experience. At least I would know whether it worked or not. ***

more satisfactory understanding of our relationship to god. ave me a rationalization for the Biblical concept of salvation and how the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ were effective for salvation. It allowed me to rationalize why His death was necessary for resolving the separation between God and man. It answered the myriad of questions about life that cannot be answered without a deep philosophical and reality-based understanding of the spiritual-physical foundations of the universe.

Of course, the belief in a God who is immanent within the creation is not a sufficiently granular concept to rationalize all of science, philosophy, theology, and psychology. In fact, without the guiding influence of God’s revelation (the Bible), we can use this fact, the immanence of God, to justify worshipping trees, nature, statues, etc. It is this concept that we, as Christians, should stand against.

It is unnecessary to stand against the concept of God as immanent as a Christian; the Bible has sufficient implications of its factuality to accept it as a fact of nature/God’s creation. The first Commandment is even more meaningful when we recognize that God is in everything. A natural temptation must be resisted when we see that God is in some way present in everything in the creation. It is this temptation we must resist. Our love and singular worship of God is even more meaningful and love-expressing when we recognize there truly are aspects of Him within the creation. When we see divinity everywhere, we must resist the temptation to worship a portion of Him. It is His fullness/His personhood/His beauty, perfection, and love that we must worship. It is possible to look at the various aspects of creation and worship the gods of nature, the elements of His creation. Yes, He created them, and they are real, but they should not be worshipped. In essence, He has created the creation with tests embedded within it that challenge people, that test people to worship gods other than Him. In this way, man’s love is tested/challenged. That is why he gave the First Commandment. There truly are other gods, they are real, and they can be worshipped, but God warns us to love only Him. When we see the immanence of God in a Christian/Biblical context, we are led to a reverence for all of life, people, the earth, and nature. Every moment reminds us of His majesty. We worship the creator, not the aspects of the creation. We worship the fullness of who He is as author/creator of life, not the works of His hands and the spirits that occupy, influence, and administer the creation.

This argument about whether the non-Christian world religions are demonic because they believe that God is immanent is a distraction from the real issue. The real question is how should we live and establish a proper relationship with God. We should focus our discussions between religions on what is True regarding the purpose of life and how to live a life that pleases God. I believe there is only one way to the Father: accepting the sacrificial offering of Jesus Christ for our sins and making Him the Lord of our lives. More specifically, giving Him the Lordship of our lives means adopting His moral code, His way of being, and listening to the Holy Spirit (His spiritual representative of the Son, which guides us in all righteousness).

Christianity, as a formal belief structure and people taking the Good News of Christ’s salvation, should be taking this doctrine/distinction, this unique revelation of the nature of God’s creation into the world. I believe accepting the oneness of God and the creation in at least the causal/creative/initiatory sense of God as the source of all creation is important. The gap between Christianity and other world religions is narrowed by acknowledging that God is immanent in the creation. At that point, the debate is about doctrinal issues, about our proper relationship with God. When Christianity acknowledges that God is the source of all, we are on a common ground for examining the rationality of morality as taught by Christ and embodied within His being. The immanence of God is such a repeating theme in all religions, including Christianity, throughout millennia and cultures that this is likely a universal underlying truth about nature and the creation.

Some people have come to faith based on the belief that all other religions are incomplete and demonic because they believe in the immanence of God in all creation. In Mike Shreve’s pamphlet, “Seven Reasons I No Longer Practice Yoga.” he makes the following points, to which I respond under each point:

  • 1. Yoga is based on Eastern religious beliefs that contradict Judeo-Christian teachings. Hinduism and Eastern religions believe in concepts such as prana, chakras, and kundalini.
    • I believe the Bible is True because sincerely living its precepts produces a better/higher-quality life for the individual.
    • I believe that when people practice Christianity as a reflection of the morality/character of Jesus Christ, there will be world peace. Until then, there will be significant strife.
    • The Bible’s historicity has been validated to a great extent by archaeology and extra-Biblical texts.
    • The poetic descriptions of the physical universe are consistent with a universe as conceived in my Theory of Absolutes/Conscious Point Hypothesis.
    • The Yogic concept of the unity of all creation, the illusion of reality, is consistent with the duality of good and evil. The Bible is not a comprehensive exposition of all metaphysical or physical concepts.
  • 2. Yoga aims to achieve union with Brahman, the Hindu concept of the universal oneness of God.
    • In my Conscious Point Hypothesis, I postulate that God the Father was alone in the beginning. There was no one else. He was alone. He could not make the universe from a substance other than Himself. As the Father’s first and only creation, He declared the Son into existence.
    • Given that there were no other spirits or substances available to create the physical or spiritual universe, the Father created the Son from His mind/consciousness/spirit as a duplicate of Himself. Hence, Jesus said, “The Father and I are one.”
    • The Father gave the Son the authority to create all things. The Father and Son were sufficiently separated as unique identities so that the Father could maintain His purity/separation from evil when the Son created the creation. The Son either created evil spirits or good spirits/angels that rebelled and chose to oppose God and His way. Either way, evil exists, and the Son created the substance from which evil arose.
    • The Son created the creation by declaring innumerable Conscious Points into existence. Each Conscious Point is conscious of its source and all other Conscious Points. He gave them independence and rules to follow to carry and be the substance of creation. He densely filled the universe with Conscious Points of four types, from which he created all matter. He filled all space with Conscious Points, giving mass and photons a medium to transit. He retained ultimate authority over their placement, giving Him the right and power to form the universe. With this authority, he created miracles and life in all forms. He evolved and adapted plants and animals to their environment over the ages. And he gave man His light, His spirit, His essence is the light of life that animates men.
  • 3. Practices like chanting “Om” invoke Hindu gods.
    • Chanting may be meaningless/thoughtless repetition, which is not profitable.
    • Or, chanting may resonate with spirits and allow them to enter and influence one’s life.
    • Worshipping other gods violates the first commandment.
    • These other gods may be demons, or they may be principalities of nature.
    • We should pray, dwell on what is good and positive, and emulate His character in our relationships.
    • We should meditate and be still and know that He is God.
  • 4. Yoga postures have symbolic spiritual meanings relating to Hindu deities.
    • God has commanded us to have no other Gods before Him.
    • Imitating the postures of earth spirits may resonate with those spirits and allow them to enter and influence us. Having said this, intent is of great importance. Is the asana, the posture/pose taken as part of a ceremony, as a ritual dedicated to that earth spirit/god/power or other lifeform? We can place our posture in any position, and if we are committed to simply moving our body into various poses, and there is no openness to possession, there is little chance of being possessed.
  • 5. The goal of yoga is to realize one’s divinity, to unite with the oneness of Brahman, the large face of God.
    • While we are a part of the divine (just as everything is), we are not God.  As Jesus said, “We are gods.” We are not God. Uniting with God in the complete, ego-dissolving sense is to destroy the separation that was a cornerstone of God’s creation. This type of yogic union is unholy and opposes God’s plan for man as a separate being who chooses to love Him, and whom He loves.
    • Dissolving the barrier between God and man makes it impossible for God to be in the love relationship He created us for. Being separate from God is a very important aspect of holiness.
    • The other important and more conventional aspect of holiness is choosing to be separate from evil.
    • The Word/The Son is the light of men. We were made in His image. We are gods, but we are not God.
    • God is the source and substance of everything. We cannot help but worship Him in every moment, situation, and location when we recognize His immanence. Our rational understanding and acceptance of Him as the Lord of the universe by scientists and skeptics can more readily be accepted when we can rationalize God as the source and substance underlying subatomic particles.
    • However, uniting in God’s oneness, like a drop of water in the ocean, is the opposite of relationship and the purpose of creation.
    • He is holy and has declared Himself separate from evil/sin.
    • This is the miracle of creation: to create an observer and observed, a subject and object, a seer and the seen, from a starting point where there was only God and no other and no thing. God created the entire creation from His oneness. The Father distanced Himself from evil by delegating the Son’s authority/duty to create physical reality, with its polarities of good and evil. Thus, the Son, who is also God but separate in a significant/God-declared way, created the world where evil exists. The Father desires to be in a relationship with other spirits who have free agency. The process of living in the creation is to battle evil, which pulls us to worship other gods and engage in their morality. His plan, his creation of the creation, required that His Son be sacrificed to bring people into a purified relationship with Him. We can only marvel at the magnificence of our God, who was able to create significance and meaning from a single consciousness. The Father arose from nothing or existed for eternity, but this is an insoluble mystery. But assuming God/the Father’s existence, He created the entire creation, and without any substance or spirit from any place other than His own being. It is by this method that we can rationalize God’s immanence and His separation from evil. God created the creation from His being, but He established strong barriers between Himself and the Son. This allowed Him to be of the same fundamental substance that carried evil but not be overtaken or sullied by the evil spiritual entities that must exist in a world where evil exists.
    • Man has a fallen nature, which can only be redeemed through Christ. We cannot short-circuit entry into the divine realm by meditating, chanting, working off karma, devotion to other gods, serving gurus, or following the teachings of men.
    • We are to unite with God in the sense of uniting with His Way. His Way is living His principles of loving neighbor as self and loving God. We love God by following His Word, which is making Jesus Christ the Lord of our lives, feeding on the Word (the revealed Word of God), and listening to the speaking of the Holy Spirit/that still small voice of conscience.
  • 6. The spiritual experiences and energy experienced by mastering the yogic disciplines are deceptions produced by demonic powers rather than the miracles produced by God’s grace and prayer.
    • When we chant words, meditate on the names of gods, do positions and movements, or devote our life energy to channeling prana, life energy, this is a trick, not actual spiritual growth. The purpose of life is to be in a relationship with God and to love Him. In this life, we do that by choosing to love His way, do His works, and resist the temptation of the world/other gods.
  • 7. Yoga is a type of New Age spirituality infiltrating Western culture.
    • Yoga/Hinduism is a path of works with a slightly different moral code than Biblical Christianity. The most pronounced difference between yogic and Christ-centered morality is the belief that the purpose of life is to get out of life.
    • The popularity of yoga may be its promise of enlightenment and liberation from the endless cycle of karma through various practices. But such a conception misses the point of life. The end/purpose/reason for life is a relationship with God. This relationship is produced when we love God, our neighbor, and ourselves. The Father wants us to love each other because He feels and enjoys the sensation of loving each other. When we do so, the Father and Son dwell with us. There is a separation, even though there is unity in God. The struggle/challenge of life is to unite with His character/way of being. That is the holy yoga. That union is what we are called to do, not the union of dissolving back into Him or the union of breaking through the spiritual barriers He erected to experience a relationship between independent/free will beings.
    • Jesus said, “I am the way, the Truth, and the life, and no man cometh unto the Father but by me.” Indeed, it is impossible to come into the Father’s presence without covering our evil/imperfections with the blood/sacrifice/atonement of Jesus Christ.
    • Living a moral life is excellent and necessary. Even so, it is impossible to be good/pure/holy enough to enter God’s presence by one’s efforts. Likewise, God does not recognize or authorize entrance into his presence through yogic/Eastern works (chanting, meditating, breathing, eating, serving, worshipping, rituals, symbols, or magic).
    • We can only enter into God’s presence by the approval of the Son/Jesus Christ. He was the sacrificial lamb. He was guiltless/innocent/pure and was murdered by Satan without a legal warrant for His death. His blood and death were unclaimed/unused to pay His debt of sin, as he was guiltless. That credit can pay the debt of blood and death that we owe.
    • We must willingly give Him our lives to appropriate His grace, His gift of forgiveness, and reconciliation with the Father. With total commitment to His Way and submission to His will, the debt is canceled; we are seen by the Father as pure by the filter/cleansing of the Son. We are creations of the Son, He is the light of men, and He looks through the Son to see us. If the Son has authorized us, we are cleansed and may enter into God’s presence. The advocacy of the Son is our covering and cleansing. Forgiveness and reconciliation with the Father cannot be purchased with money or work. The debt is paid only by giving him our entire being. As we make Him Lord of our lives, living His Way, we are born again with a desire and commitment to live a life pleasing to the Father.

Objection to Yoga because of its Roots in Hinduism

Yoga has its origins in ancient Indian spiritual traditions, most prominently Hinduism. The word “yoga” comes from the Sanskrit word meaning “to yoke” or “join,” reflecting the goal of uniting one’s individual consciousness with the divine Brahman (the vastness of all consciousness). The earliest foundations of yoga are found in Hindu scriptures such as the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita. Here, the philosophy and practices of yoga were developed as part of a broader spiritual system aimed at liberating one from the obligations of karma and the endless cycle of rebirth.

Core concepts in yoga, such as prana, chakras, kundalini, and mantra meditation, all have roots in Hindu cosmology and theory. They may reflect an aspect of reality, and manipulating these forces, substances, and processes may have spiritual effects. However, in Judeo-Christian theology, such practices will not bring a person into the intimate fellowship relationship with the Father offered by following the way of Christ Jesus. The ultimate aim of yoga is to achieve samadhi, or absorption into Brahman, the impersonal supreme reality of Hinduism. This is done through physical, mental, and spiritual disciplines designed to control the subtle energies of the body and quiet the fluctuations of the mind.

The spiritual path to God-realization in Hinduism is different from the way revealed in the Bible. The yogi’s absorption into the oneness of the Brahman is not about bringing the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth. The method may be similar in that part of the teachings of Hinduism/yogic life may include excellent moral advice about living, staying healthy, having good family relationships, and respecting the laws of God and government. But, at its core, Hinduism aims to reunite with Brahman, which is the opposite of the Christian path. The way of Jesus Christ is to remain separate but holy. The Christian path is to unite with God by adopting His rules/the way exemplified and personified by Jesus Christ.

Contradictions of yogic practice with Judeo-Christian Teachings, as per the pamphlet “Seven Reasons Why I Don’t Practice Yoga” by Mike Shreve

The Eastern religious underpinnings of yoga contradict core tenets of Judeo-Christian theology on several fronts:

  • Traditional Judeo-Christian teachings espouse belief in a personal, transcendent creator God, not an impersonal pantheistic divine essence as in Hinduism. Union with this personal God comes through faith and grace, not individual mystical effort.
    • I agree that the God of the Bible is a loving, caring Father God who created the world because He wanted to be in a relationship with the souls He created and gave free will to.
    • I believe God the Father is, in essence and lineage, the source of all substance. To this extent, He, through the Son, is the source of all. We live in a universe populated by many gods, but He is the source of them all.
  • Judeo-Christian scriptures do not teach concepts like karma, reincarnation, chakras, prana, and kundalini that assume a cyclical rebirth process and energy body that can be manipulated to end the cycle of death and rebirth.
    • I do not believe there is a cycle of birth and death. I believe the Bible teaches that there is only one birth and death, and then the judgment.
    • Karma is similar to sowing and reaping, and sinning and paying the consequences.
    • In Hinduism, prana is the life energy of the breath. Science has not detected another life force besides oxygen’s chemical effect of accepting electrons in producing energy as ATP. If there is another life force, such a fact would not be evil or to worship or acknowledge evil. If it is a fact, it’s just a fact. If it exists, it is just part of God’s creation. There is nothing evil, demonic, or Satanic about the Eastern concepts of prana, kundalini, or chakras. Either they exist, or they do not. If they do exist and they are worshipped or take the focus off of living a good life, then to that extent, they hinder our proper relationship with God. If they exist and are used as facts, just like any other anatomical reality, they are just as valuable/useful/helpful in living life well as any other fact. Things must be dealt with in their proper context.
  • Yoga aims to unite with the Brahman (the oneness of God and creation) by various methods to end the cycle of death and rebirth.
    • This is not the Judeo-Christian method of uniting with God. The natural man has the instincts and drives of the animal kingdom. He is driven to survive, reproduce, satisfy hunger, avoid pain, seek pleasure, etc. Man must choose to bring these drives under control to behave in a Godly way in every circumstance. There is a time and place to satisfy every animal instinct in a Godly way, but desire tempts men to choose sin instead of Godliness.
    • The transformation of a man’s animal desires is possible. Transformation of the heart, soul, and mind may include: 1) asking and being called (prayer, study…), 2)  The transformation includes knowing God’s way (feeding on the Word), 3) Committing to live with Jesus Christ as Lord,  (honoring His Way as revealed in Scripture), 4) Listening to the leading of the holy spirit (prayer, fasting, meditating on the words of the Bible), 5) Accepting His resurrection as demonstrating the authentic/real and effective (the power that raised Jesus from the dead has the power to transforms a man’s man’s heart). By transforming his heart, a man can choose a life pleasing to God.
    • But by default, by birth, man’s nature is sinful/unpleasing to God. We can never be holy or perfect enough in attempts to be holy to be worthy of being in God’s presence. We can only be saved by grace. But that grace comes by complete submission to Jesus Christ as our Lord. Only then does He become our Savior.
    • The Bible teaches that humanity is distinct from the divine, and we will never unite with the Oneness of God and the creation, nor is such a unity desirable. This oneness is factual/real and true, as everything is formed from the substance of God’s spirit/mind. However, reuniting with this primal essence is not an appropriate life or spiritual endeavor goal.
    • God created man and creation to be separate and in a relationship with Him.
    • God created man perfectly, but there was no , but when man sinned in the garden,
    • with the desire for sin in the hope that man would choose to love Him. The way of man showing his love of God is to follow His Way. God created the world to satisfy His desire for love. God is love. We are dependent upon God for our redemption. In one sense, everything is divine because all is from Him. In Him, we live, move, and have our being.
    • God has created strong barriers between His divinity and our humanity. Methods, such as yoga, can circumvent His spiritual defenses. But those who enter His realm through methods other than the authorized method, which is submission to the Lordship of Jesus Christ, will be expelled. The consequences of unauthorized methods of entry into the spiritual realm are seen in John 10:1 and Matthew 7:21-23.

For these core philosophical and theological reasons, yoga’s spiritual foundations are not compatible with Judeo-Christian doctrines.

  • The physical aspects of yoga may not be problematic. However, when attending yoga classes, the Eastern worldview is typically used to explain the benefits of yoga. Prayers and chanting are often used, and familiarity with Eastern religion is gained through exposure to a non-threatening, pleasant, and growthful physical, emotional, and mental experience.
  • Those attending yoga classes will most likely hear only the Eastern/Hindu/yogic theory of God and the journey to spiritual freedom through chanting, meditation, yogic asanas, and spiritual theory. With such seeds planted and without a competing/fair/rational comparison of the Christian path, the recreational/fitness/spiritually exploring yogi risks being enrolled in a yogic lifestyle, belief system, and membership in a yogic cult or Eastern religion.
  • The concept of the Oneness of God and creation and the promise of stopping the endless cycle of births and deaths is seductive. When life seems painful or pointless, the goal of leaving life and reuniting with God’s bliss can seem seductive.

The promise of yoga classes/practice/mastery is perfecting of focus and mastery of life, uniting with the spirits of the poses, becoming conscious of the illusion of Maya/reality/the physical world, vibrating your chakras with sounds to open up psychic abilities, meditating on the silence/stillness to develop the siddhis/powers, the enlightenment of seeing/knowing/being in the oneness, liberation from the pull of karma and the cycle of births and deaths, and entering the bliss of unity with God.

  • The casual fitness/recreational yogi risks adopting these goals and benefits in an environment where there is typically not a fair/in-depth comparison with the Biblical worldview. A yoga instructor may declare the superiority of the Eastern/Yogic path, claiming the Church has corrupted the Bible to subject the masses to slavery. At the very least, a complete discussion of the path of other religions is not undertaken in yoga classes or after joining the Ashram. It is for this reason that it is best to avoid participating in yoga or studying Eastern religion.

But having said that we should not attend yoga classes, I did not follow that advice, and followed Yogi Bhajan for several years. I didn’t get enlightenment or liberation from anything. The guru asked me for all of my money, and I gave it to him. I got married and divorced while in 3HO. I worked in one of the “family businesses.” I saw inconsistencies in how the yogi acted, the advice he gave, and his theories of God and the universe. I decided that I could not trust him to lead me to enlightenment. Later, I read a book by Premka Kaur (Pamela Dyson), his most trusted disciple and secretary, which contained a complete expose of her experience with him in her book, “White Bird in a Golden Cage.” All was not as it seemed. But does the failure of one guru damn all gurus? No, it does not. We must look deeper than just the failures of a single man to provide a compelling case for why not to follow the path of Eastern religions and yogic practices.

  • In a strange turn of events and personal changes, I became a Christian, at least in part because of what I had learned from Eastern religions and my yogic practice. I intensely studied and lived the life of a yogi to the fullest extent possible within the structure of a householder group.
  • Because of my exposure to the Yogi’s teachings and many other religions after leaving that group, I was introduced to the concepts of “the Oneness of God and all creation.” Likewise, I heard numerous times that “all spiritual paths lead to the same truth.” Both memes/slogans made sense as literally true/accurately describing the spiritual path to God. Thus, I placed as a requirement for a true religion would satisfy these criteria.
  • The maxim declaring that all paths lead to the same truth was satisfied by Christianity when I realized that two quotes by Jesus made two opposing/mutually exclusive declarations. 1) All who are not against me are with me, and 2) all who are not with me are against me. In looking for a resolution to this paradox, I realized that all spiritual paths seeking to know God are going toward the same truth, but in the end, there is only one Truth.
  • The Bible declares that Jesus Christ is the truth and the way, and no man comes to the Father except through Him. If this is True, and I believe it is, following other spiritual paths without comparing them to the Truth of Jesus’s life and His direction as Lord and creator will put the spiritual seeker at risk of being distracted by disciplines that cannot restore our love-relationship with God in the only way that He has authorized.

 

Summary Essay:
“Divine Singularity: A Theological Analysis of Psalm 51:4’s Implications for Divine-Human Relations”

Abstract:
This scholarly analysis examines the theological implications of Psalm 51:4’s declaration “Against You, You only, have I sinned” within the context of divine-human relations and universal consciousness. Through examination of scriptural evidence and comparative religious analysis, this paper presents an argument for understanding God’s omnipresence as fundamental to the nature of sin and consciousness.

Introduction:
The concept of sin’s relationship to divine consciousness presents a complex theological question, particularly when examining David’s declaration in Psalm 51:4 that his sin was against God alone. This statement appears to transcend traditional interpretations of sin as primarily interpersonal transgression, suggesting a more fundamental relationship between divine consciousness and human action instead.

Theoretical Framework:
The traditional interpretation of sin typically focuses on its horizontal dimension – the harm caused to other humans – while acknowledging a vertical dimension regarding divine disapproval. However, Psalm 51:4 suggests a more radical understanding: all sin is fundamentally and exclusively against God. This perspective aligns with Acts 17:28’s assertion that “in Him we live and move and have our being,” suggesting a more comprehensive divine immanence than commonly recognized in traditional theological frameworks.

The Conscious Point Hypothesis: A Theoretical Framework for Divine Ontology

Theoretical Foundation:
The Conscious Point Hypothesis (CPH) presents a novel theological-philosophical framework for understanding divine creation and consciousness. This hypothesis posits a fundamental ontological structure wherein God the Father, as the primary consciousness, generated all of reality through discrete conscious points, with the Son as the first emanation.

Methodological Analysis:
The CPH proposes the following sequential ontological development:

Prima Facie State
Initial condition: God the Father existing as singular consciousness
Absence of external substance or alternative consciousness
Complete ontological solitude

Primary Creation Event
Generation of the Son as divine duplicate
Establishment of first conscious differentiation
Maintenance of essential unity (“the Father and I are one”)

Secondary Creation Phase
Son’s generation of innumerable Conscious Points
Implementation of governing principles for these points
Formation of physical reality through point manipulation

Theoretical Implications:

Metaphysical Structure
Reality as fundamentally conscious rather than material
Physical phenomena as expressions of conscious point interactions
Universal divine immanence while maintaining transcendence

Theological Consistency
The hypothesis provides potential resolution for several theological challenges:
The unity and distinction within the Trinity
The mechanism of divine omnipresence
The relationship between spiritual and physical reality

Phenomenological Consequences
Matter as derivative of consciousness rather than fundamental
Miracles as conscious point reorganization
Divine sovereignty over physical laws while maintaining their consistency

Critical Analysis:

The CPH presents several advantages:
Offers a coherent framework for understanding divine creation ex nihilo
Provides mechanism for divine-physical interaction
Maintains biblical consistency while engaging modern philosophical questions

However, certain challenges remain:
Empirical verification difficulties
Questions of conscious point individuation
Relationship to quantum mechanics and modern physics

This hypothesis represents an attempt to bridge traditional theology with contemporary philosophical questions about consciousness and reality’s fundamental nature. Further research might explore its implications for:

Quantum theology
Mind-body relationship
Divine action in physical systems
Free will and determinism

 

God is Everywhere
By Thomas Lee Abshier, ND
11/13/2024

I recently read an essay by Pastor Mike Shreve about why he stopped practicing yoga. It made me think about Psalm 51:4, which says “Against you, you only, have I sinned.” This verse means that all sins are against God.

To me, this verse shows that God is everywhere. When we sin against others, we are also sinning against God who is present in them and experiencing our acts. This view is very different from the normal idea of God as a judge who is far away. But I think it fits with my own experience of seeing how everything is connected to God, who is intimately and always present in everything, feelings, seeing, hearing life at its deepest level.

In 1987, I had a vision where I understood how God could have made the whole universe out of His own spirit. This helped me see that everything is one with God at the deepest level. I heard this oneness taught in many religions before I became Christian. But only after my vision could I fully embrace Christianity, and that because I saw how the Bible was consistent with this concept, and it explained how all other religions were speaking about the same truth, but did not extend it to the singular truth at the top of the mountain, where there is only one Truth. I believe this truth is embodied in the character of the Son of God, Jesus Christ. It is when we make Him Lord of our lives, that we attempt to emulate His character.

The oneness of God is hinted at in Bible verses like “in Him we live and move and have our being.” When you look at all human knowledge – science, psychology, and the world religions – we see evidence that God is the source of everything. And with some extrapolation and interpretation of  the implication of Bible verses we can reasonably postulate that the purpose of life is to love God and be loved by Him.

Most (non-Christian) religions acknowledge the oneness of God and the creation in some way, usually overtly and as a primary feature of the universe. The realization of the Oneness may be thought of as enlightenment. As Christians, we can create a bridge of rapport with followers of other religions by acknowledging that the Bible likewise has verses which indicate that God and the universe are emanations from God/The One.

As Christians, by recognizing the oneness of God and all creation, we remove a large barrier of difference in the conception of the universe with other religions. Such acknowledgment allows us as Christians to examine finer distinctions/differences in the principles, promises, and pursuits of other religions. By examining the articles of faith remaining, a more bridgeable gap is revealed. At this point, we may be able to confront the wide spectrum of questions typically asked by the seeker about the practicalities of life and how they are regulated by the Biblical perspective of life and how it should be lived.

The goal of Christianity is living a good life. In Christianity, the separation between God, the creation, and man is the foundational creative imperative/principle/dictate/design parameter. The unity between God and all of Creation may be a fact, but there must be a separation between God and man. In the Biblical worldview, the separation between God and man is not something that we are trying to dissolve in an experiential way. Rather, as Christians we are using it as a foundational principle that must be honored to the point of creating individuation.

The truth we uphold as Christians must reflect Biblical principles and cosmology, and other religions will hold different beliefs about moral principles and the construction of the universe. The difficulty in studying other faiths is that the precepts can be mutually exclusive. Nevertheless, such dialogue and examination can be valuable. The goal is to identify distinctions which are at odds with reality, but metaphysical reality is usually outside the possibility of determination of truth/factuality.

The purpose of engagement with followers of different beliefs should not primarily be to prove them wrong, but rather to challenge our own conception of truth. We should seek to understand the principles that may be revealed through the practices and beliefs of others. Ultimately, there is one Truth, and examining how various religions highlight certain principles, questions, and dilemmas about life can deepen our understanding of that Truth regarding life and God.

Mike Shreve sees other religions as incomplete or simply wrong compared to Christianity, but as a seeker. I agree, there is only one truth, but I needed to learn about the spectrum of world religions to truly understand Christianity. By discussing beliefs with followers of other religions in the spirit of trying to find the truth, we will expose the areas where we have a well connected rationalization of our faith, and where our justification is weak. We should speak about our faith. We should deeply share our faith about important issues that can guide how we live life.

Live the Bible and Vote – Book Summary

by | Apr 25, 2025 | Physics/Christianity/Life

Live the Bible and Vote – 3000 Word Jacket Cover Intro
By Thomas Lee Abshier, ND
Copyright 2023

Live the Bible and Vote is an analysis of the justification for using the Bible as a standard of morality in the conduct of personal, group, and government acts.

The 1947 Everson vs. Board of Education opinion of the SCOTUS used the premise of “A high wall of separation between church and state” to prohibit the Christian church from influencing state decisions.  Thomas Jefferson originally used the phrase when he assured the Danbury Baptist Association that the government would never interfere in the church’s affairs because of the wall of separation between church and state. Throughout American history, Christianity and the Bible have been tightly intertwined in the acts of government, and the principles of the Bible are the foundation of the Constitution. The greatness and prosperity of America can be plausibly and causally linked. For this reason, the Bible should continue to be included in the culture, schools’ curriculum, the halls of legislature, the courts of the land, and the administrative offices of local, state, and national governments. The dethroning of God, the Bible, and the Lordship of Jesus from our culture and government can only be categorized as a Satanic coup, and we have witnessed the decay of America because of turning our backs on the source of all life and blessing.

To recover the shining city on a hill, Camelot, the promised land joy of America, political theorists have anointed “Liberty” as the new highest principle of goodness. Libertarianism is the most seductive form of the Secular Humanist religion. This religion judges all human interactions based on the principle that only free acts are good. Of course, this is incorrect, so these qualifiers were added; all acts which are not acts of aggression and are agreed upon by mutual contract are good, lawful, and to be allowed. But this philosophy of government and moral conduct allows for any sexual behavior and calls it good. But such behaviors are expressly anti-Biblical. Thus, strict libertarianism, elevating Liberty as the highest moral virtue, is at odds with Biblical Christianity. As such, Libertarianism is used to enroll Satanic occupation of Americans’ hearts, souls, and lives. We wrestle not against flesh and blood but against powers, principalities, and rulers in high places.

Science has been used as a justification for non-belief in God. Most Americans do not understand physics in great depth, hold scientists as authorities on the mysteries of the universe, and accept their opinions about creation and evolution as fact. The result is that people adopt the opinions of men of science about the ultimate nature of reality, the origin of life, and God’s existence.

In general, Science defends and advocates the non-existence of God. Science argues that the postulate of God is unnecessary, given that quantum mechanics offers a plausible origin of the universe (i.e., Virtual Particles appear to arise out of nothing; therefore, the universe may have also arisen from literally nothing). Likewise, evolution offers a plausible explanation for the appearance of life (i.e., gradual changes and survival advantages of modifications). Thus, Occam’s Razor is imposed by Science (i.e., the correct/real solution is the simpler postulate) as a justification for excluding God since adding a hypothetical God is a more complicated explanation of the universe than a universe without Him. But this logic fails when examining the multiplication of explanatory entities necessary to explain time, energy, space, and mass and the laws they follow.

I believe God’s origin is an unknowable mystery. I do not attempt to penetrate or postulate how God could have originated. Such postulation is impossible to fathom. But the postulation of the universe, mass, and energy from literally nothing is equally unfathomable and mysterious. If mass can arise from literally nothing, then using the same assumption, God can arise from literally nothing. At that point, the question is, “Which postulate of initial ex nihilo origin is a more productive/useful explanation of the universe?”

Having postulated God’s existence as a point of consciousness, how could God manifest the physical universe? Because of a revelatory altered state vision, whose circumstances seemed divinely directed, I saw the relationship between Father, Son, and the creation as a projection of the Father, as a duplication of His Consciousness as the Son. (This explains God saying to Moses, when asked His name, “I Am, That, I Am.” The Son is the same existence as the Father.)

The Son was given the responsibility of creating the entire creation, including the spirit of man. (John 1:1-4 – In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.  In him was life; and the life was the light of men.)

The Son created zillions of what I call “Conscious Points,” creating them by imagination as points of consciousness from which to view Himself and the other Conscious Points. All of space is densely filled with Conscious Points.  He gave rules of relationship to each of the Conscious Points – rules by which they attract and repel each other given their distance and velocity. The metric of space is absolute and likewise created as Conscious Points, which do not interact or move and serve as reference points to give absolute position and absolute velocity. Conscious Points interact in Moments, which are discreet periods including three distinct domains: 1) perception, 2) computation, and 3) action.

Of course, the God-created/originated Conscious Point postulate conforms more massively/more tightly to the required simplicity of Occam’s Razor. To maintain the commitment to a Godless universe, conventional physics has allowed a near-infinite multiplication of universes, each with unique properties of nature, to produce our universe accidentally. But if universes arise out of nothing, a more straightforward solution would be pre-universe/pre-creation/pre-God nothingness, in which a near-infinite number of Gods boil out of nothing. If this is the case, then the assumption of our God being one of many gods makes the origin of evil very simple. If all other universes/gods have a different set of physical constants, and theirs can’t support life, but they can affect our universe, then plausibly, they are the evil spirits that are pulling us to unGodliness.

But rather than believing in a multiverse, I choose to believe that our God is the only God, and he created all of creation, and there is none beside Him. In this construction of reality, I believe there is a way of organization of His creation, the configuration of the Conscious Points, which is pleasing to Him, and that which opposes His will and way.  I believe He is the God of the good, the lovely, the healthy, joyous, and prosperous. I believe all that is not in “His Way” is what we define as evil. I believe He (through the Son) created all that is, including evil spirits. I don’t know if He created evil spirits by allowing a rebellion and throwing down a third of the angels, turning them into demons, or self-forming into demons because of being cast out of His presence.

Alternatively, God/The Son created the demons and gave them an appetite for the blood, pain, sorrow/unhappiness, and control of men. When I sin, I partake in the pleasures of evil and create a contract, a debt, an obligation to give my blood/life as payment for consuming the pleasure of evil, and I must pay that debt to the demons/Satan/realm of evil for that pleasure of evil. The demons can use that life/blood, that energy, that organization to power the performance of s-miracles (satanic miracles). Christ died on the cross as an innocent man. Satan shed His blood, took his life, and inflicted pain in His torture, but it was not legal, not warranted. Thus, the death of Jesus Christ was not used to pay His debt – He had none. Thus, the death of Jesus is an unclaimed credit on Satan’s ledger.  As believers in that sacrifice, as disciples, as followers of Him, as men who submit to His will and way as our Lord, we can ask and pray for our account to be cleared and our debt to be canceled. His credit is never consumed. His death was unwarranted, and He still owns the credit for that unrighteous judgment and execution. He loans us His credit; we are cleansed, clear our debt with Satan, and return His credit to Him.  Go and sin no more.

God gave us the rules of the Bible to guide us in righteousness. When we live in His will and way, He can bless us, and life works well.  When we organize our group/nation according to His way, the nation/group prospers. Our nation has turned away from His law, making reading it illegal in public school indoctrination. People follow their animal instincts naturally, but animal instincts do not give us a clue as to the proper moderation of those appetites.  In the excess and deficiency of the satisfaction of the animal appetites, the will and way of the Lord are violated.  His way is found by following His laws (loving God) and loving neighbor as self. We are to love one another as He loved us. There is a standard, and we should walk in it, and the easiest way (probably the only way) is to read the Bible and apply it in your life.  We should do this individually and then influence the group to apply the same principles in the group context. In this way, we can Make America Godly Again.

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