7.1 Creation
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In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth (Genesis 1:1).
Creation has two dimensions, the physical and the spiritual; these two dimensions are vitally and continuously connected. Note: We are using the word “spiritual” with a very specific definition. We do not mean “ethereal, murky, and far away”; rather, we mean specifically the same as the word “physical.” Physical is the substance and matter of the physical realms. Spiritual is the substance and matter of the heavenly realms. We know instinctively exactly how these two dimensions always operate together, for our human form consists of heaven as much as earth.
Why Creation?
This course does not center on the question “Why?” but rather, the question “What?”
The answer to why creation is clear and specific: Desire. God is Spirit and Spirit desires a body. God is Love and Love must love a beloved. God is Life and Life must bring forth life. God is Light and Light must be made known.
Although we understand that God is God in Himself, yet we never envision God without creation nor creation without God. God does not dwell in time; therefore, there is no such thing as God “before” and God “after.” God is All NOW.
Electricity and Light
We now understand that the entirety of the physical dimension of creation consists of electricity in some form. We also know that electricity and light are closely related, though we do not know what either of them are. Light seems to operate in some ways as a particle, yet particles can be captured and light cannot. Light seems to operate in some ways as a wave, yet it is different as well. We do know that visible light is part of a spectrum of wave lengths ranging from very low frequency to very high frequency. Electricity is the constant interplay between negative and positive particles, yet light is produced by electricity.
An Electrical Universe
The space between the electrons and protons in the atoms of your hand is the same percentage as the space between the sun and the planets. It is the electrical charge that holds the tiny particles tightly together and that prevents the set of particles from one hand from passing through the vast empty spaces of the set of particles that are the other hand when you clap.
One God-IS that we left out of the discussion of What Is God? is that God is a Consuming Fire (Hebrews 12:29).
The universe is entirely electrical. The sun is an electrical arc lamp; the galaxies and the planets spin as electrical motors, powered by great bands of electrical current flowing through space.
God Is Electricity
We will spend time on the nature of an electrical universe in the next lesson.
I am convinced that it is critical for us to replace the entirety of the limited gravity theory of the universe, a theory of separation contradicted by all observable evidence, and replace it with the electrical theory of the universe based on an abundance of easily duplicated scientific evidence. When I think of God Spirit, God as a Consuming Fire, the electrical nature of the universe is the metaphor by which I envision this God.
The word “consuming fire” means electricity. For our God is electricity (Hebrews 12:29).
Frequencies
The frequencies of light and radio waves are studied and utilized by modern humans, but the frequencies of electrical combinations of atoms and molecules are not – even though they exist and are a critical part of how all things relate. The attraction of electrical frequency is how a tree root knows where water is located and thus how a forked branch in one’s hand drops at the tug of water underground. The electrical frequencies of the food and water we consume are as important for our body’s use as the nutritional makeup of that food.
Now, the light spectrum is typically called the “electro-magnetic spectrum,” even though neither the positive/negative function of electricity nor the pull of magnetism are found in that layout. Science is still in its infancy.
The Word of His Power
Here is what I am after: I suspect that the substance of the heavens is simply a part of the nature of electricity as well. Or, we could say that the same property or quality of substance that shows up in the heavens as spirit life also shows up in the earth as physical matter, that is, as electrical charge and frequency.
Both dimensions of the universe, the spiritual heavens and the physical galaxies, come out of the same creative substance of God, a substance we call electrical charge in the physical. In the heavens, this same creative substance is called “the word of His power.” And all of it comes through Jesus.
A Living Earth
Here is the verse that enables us to understand the relationship between the two dimensions of creation. The body without the spirit is dead (James 2:26a).
We then take this exact same line back into Genesis. The earth was without form and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep (Genesis 1:2a). Earth without heaven is void and dead. Heaven is earth’s spirit. A living planet is a planet in which heaven and earth are in full working union as God intends.
Although the atmosphere is part of the physical and is a metaphor of the heavens, yet that which is spiritual heaven does correspond to earth’s atmosphere.
We Know Heaven
Heaven is all around us; we live and walk in heaven and have done so every moment of our lives. Our spirits, our spirit forms or bodies, are made of the substance of the heavens and are in communication with all that is heaven. The reason we don’t know that is that we are blind; that is, our spirit-eyes are covered with cataracts by God’s mercy. The truth is, we humans know heaven far more than we imagine, for we are right now denizens of the heavens. We are also denizens of the earth, for that is how God made us. But earth comes first, both in the larger sense and then in the steps of God creating man.
Inseparable Heaven/Earth
We are attempting to discuss several specific things; our problem is that these things are so inter-related that we cannot talk about one without including the others.
First, heaven and earth are typically treated as two different things, even two different geographical locations. To separate heaven from earth is to not know heaven; to separate earth from heaven is to not know earth. The two are inseparable – even death, which breaks some of the bonds, cannot really split the two apart. Then we see that we humans in our construction are vitally part of both heaven and earth right now, having a definitive body for each realm.
Studying Heaven/Earth
Thus, we cannot talk about heaven or earth without referencing the human spirit or the human body and how these two relate together in every way. The question, What is man?, is the next session, however.
Then, there are two different ways by which we view this combined entity, heaven/earth; we know it by science and by faith. These two viewpoints are 100% compatible and work in conjunction with each other. By science, we investigate the role of electricity as the make-up of the cosmos, and by faith we see the continuous connections between substance and appearance. Yet science does study the spiritual, and there is immense faith at the heart of understanding an electrical universe.
Faith and Science
Faith is to the human spirit what the brain is to the human body, and equally substantial. Science studies what is; science is already investigating spirit phenomena, though it calls it something else.
The human spirit is definitive substance in the heavens; our spirit is our heaven body. Through science, the human mind via the brain studies how things work in the physical realms as well as how the spiritual relates to the physical. Through faith, the human mind via the spirit studies how things work in the spiritual realms as well as how the physical relates to the spiritual.
How We Know
Spirit is real; faith is a substantial organ of our spirit body, equal to the brain and half of what we call “mind.” In fact, we might understand the poorly stated “faith is blind” in this way – that, yes, our faith eyes, the seeing of our spirit mind, are covered by spirit-cataracts so that we do not visually perceive the heavens all around us as Adam and Eve did. Nevertheless, as believers in Jesus, our faith is the faith of the Son of God, and thus we see out from His eyes for real – if we are willing.
How we know is a critical question in the philosophy of science. How we know is more critical to us in the knowledge of God.
A Framework of Understanding
This table helps us to understand the relationships among these four things, heaven and earth, faith and science.
| Life is the substance of all things in the heavens. Faith studies the makeup and workings of heavenly substance by two means that are always together, Holy-Spirit-knowing and Words that are Spirit and Life. Faith observes by the Spirit, and faith measures by the Word. | The immense flows of electricity across the galaxies must be generated by something, but the generator IS NOT there. Faith sees the Word of His power, substance, out from which all appearance flows. No one knows what light or electricity really are; everyone believes they exist by the evidence of their effects on appearance. | Faith |
| Just as everything of heaven appearance comes out of God substance, so much of earth appearance comes out of heaven substance. Science studies the inter-relationships of heaven substance acting on earth appearance. | Electricity is the substance of all things in the physical realms. All physical appearance exists only as phenomena of invisible electrical force. Science studies the makeup and workings of earthly appearance by two things, observation and measurement. Science knows electricity must be generated and admits it cannot know how or where. | Science |
| Heaven | Earth |
What Is Heaven?
Now, in our study of the continuous relationship between heaven and earth through the Bible, we come across much confusion. Write out every verse in the New Testament containing the word ouranos, or heaven, and you will know less about what “heaven” really is than you did before. The reason is simply ignorance of how the cosmos works.
To understand the Bible, we must understand the knowledge of reality out from which it comes, that is, the constant and unbreakable interplay between substance and appearance, between God and Word, meaning and metaphor, spirit and flesh.
Roots Interlaced
Let me explain our problem. We who are older have devoted from 20,000 to 40,000 hours of our lifetimes, in school or Bible teaching or personal study and reading, to the intricate knowing of fact and fiction, things that are true and things that are not true, reality and nonsense, all mixed together. Our brains are filled with knowledge as typified by Jesus’ parable of the tares, with tare roots interlaced together with wheat roots all through our thinking. We hardly know the difference in what we have learned in all those many thousands of hours of study between what is false and what is true. Yet some of it IS true and some of it IS false. Thus when we are hit by yet another paradigm of thinking as in this course, we hardly know how to take it all in.
Metaphor
One of the biggest difficulties when people study “What is heaven?” in the Bible is the question of when a verse is referring to the physical heavens, that is, the upper atmosphere, the solar system, and the stars versus when a verse is referring to the spiritual heavens.
The definitions of word and metaphor tell us exactly how to understand this relationship. The physical heavens, while always real, are also ALWAYS operating as a metaphor of the spiritual heavens, AND are always existing in full conjunction with the spiritual heavens. Metaphor cannot mean unreal, for Jesus, the Word, is the embodiment, the metaphor, of God.
The Spiritual Heavens
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
The spiritual heavens ARE 100% created and ARE 100% of the old creation. The spiritual heavens ARE passing away – have already been put to death upon the cross of Christ. Eternal life cannot mean anything regarding the present spiritual heavens.
The three hours of Jesus’ silence upon the cross was the cessation of the speaking of the old by substance. Any reference in the Bible to the physical heavens IS a metaphor of the spiritual heavens.
Contradictions
Let’s peruse the Biblical contradiction regarding “heaven.” God’s will is done in heaven (Matthew 6:10); heaven is unclean in God’s sight (Job 15:15). Demonic wickedness lives in heaven (Ephesians 6:12), in the very same heavens in which we live right now (Ephesians 2:6).
Mighty war rages in heaven (Revelation 12:7); our Father is in heaven (Matthew 6:9). Dead Christians are found in Christ (1 Thessalonians 4:16); dead Christians are found in confusion (Revelation 6:9-10). None of this makes any sense for those who think inside the paradigm of separation; all of it makes perfect sense when we know the utter inter-relationship between heaven and earth.
Proximity
My family and I, living in our house on our street are pure and holy in God’s sight; our neighbors next door are unclean in God’s sight because they are not born again. Houston is filled with neighborhoods, some rich, some middle class, and some poor, yet all interact with each other in many different ways throughout the city, in the schools, in the business district and shopping centers, and at work.
The spiritual heavens are not only exactly the same, but they are also utterly related together with all earthly environments. In Houston you will find night clubs and godly churches not far from each other. In heaven you will find the perfect will of God in full expression not far away from all warfare of evil.
A Layout for Study
Do you see how God makes such perfect sense when we allow Him to be real? And when we no longer try to stiff-arm some sort of fake and imaginary separation between science and faith or between heaven and earth?
In order for us to understand any answer to the question, What Is Heaven/Earth?, we must continue our discussion of heaven/earth through a number of topics. In the remainder of this session, we will investigate the electrical theory of the universe and the constant relationship between substance and appearance. Then, in upcoming sessions, we will look at the marriage between heaven and earth, called man, and their divorce, called death.
What about the Galaxies?
But here we want to look at one final question, a question each of us holds. What about all those empty galaxies and planets out there – what is God’s intention for them?
God gives us some clues, though nothing definite, just enough to cause us to wonder and to see a limitless future of unending adventure. Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end (Isaiah 9:7). You can apply this line in any direction you wish to go and never come to an end of what you will find. Another clue is from observation; God is too much. When this Guy gets creating, He just does not stop.
Unending Life
Then, a third clue works its way into our understanding.
The earth was without form, and void … And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters (Genesis 1:2). – And God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life (Genesis 2:7a).
What happens to a dead planet when God breathes a heaven upon it?
God is Life and Life must bring forth life. Christ is the only life we are. Of the increase of God’s creative life through Christ living as us, there will be no end.