A sheep in wolf's clothing.
Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.
Science describes the physical characteristics of water, but it doesn’t tell us what water really IS.
God used water to form a physical matrix in which souls could be given sentient life with free will.
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
In Genesis 1:2 a body of water “the deep” was present before creation.
If this material was used in creation then the 1st law of thermodynamics was not broken.
Δ U = Q – W
And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
The nice thing about re-reading old posts is seeing what was important and on my mind at the time the post was originally written. My post from December 27, 2017 contained the following:
I have always struggled with relationships. I don’t mean family and friends but I’m referring to romantic, spousal husband-wife things where two people of the opposite sex appear to be able to cooperate and make a life together. I have never been successful.
I have spent over half of my life by myself wishing that I was in a relationship, and the rest of the time in a relationship or marriage but wishing that I was by myself. Fortunately I was never in a relationship with someone who was able to tolerate me for very long, so the relationships ended.
This year I found myself hovering on the fringes of a relationship that I had no business being in, with a person who had no interest being in it. Even so I was given to spend far too much time contemplating how wonderful the relationship would be, if I were in it.
What I really can’t stand is being at the whim of someone else’s affections. The relationship started, it ended. It started again, it ended again. When I was just comfortable with there being no relationship, it started again. Then swiftly ended. I was quite sure at this point that I was perfectly content to have no relationship, that it was God’s plan for my life, and that I needed my solitude in order to be able to fully devote myself to Matty’s Paradigm. Then the relationship started again. But not really.
On 8/20/2017 that I spoke with a person who didn’t want to be in a relationship with me, but wasn’t able to stop encouraging me to think that a relationship was possible, and I read them the passage above. I was concerned more than anything, not that I may or may not be in a relationship, but that I was wavering. It really bothered me to be so obviously double minded. One minute I am perfectly content to be single, the next I am passionately in love. Like a merry-go-round. I wanted to be just one thing. Stable, unchanging, not wavering or double minded.
My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
( James 1:2-8 ) KJV
Obviously I am better off alone because that’s how I always end up. Could it be possible to actually avoid the turmoil of another failed relationship by focusing on the Word of God?
I put it to the test. On 8/28/2017 I committed to praying three times a day for three weeks, as Daniel did when he was seeking wisdom regarding the timing of the Jewish exiles return from captivity. I decided to pray my way to a peaceful single mind about my relationship status.
What I actually learned was a much greater understanding of gravity and we got the idea to write Matty’s Paradigm as a year-long daily devotional. We came to understand the significance for physics if gravity is a created thing which came after space, time and matter existed.
Another piece of this puzzle is that as long ago as 2002 it became clear that the creation of gravity on the second day solved a huge number of scriptural issues and allowed a lot of physical evidence to drop into place in the Biblical narrative. By understanding gravity it has been possible to eliminate Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler and Newton as having any substantive barriers to the truth of the Bible. I was still concerned about Einstein. Part of the problem with Einstein is that his work is shrouded in a fog of what looks like incomprehensible math. This is a smoke screen, because his work is in fact the least substantive of all.
What happened during my 21 days of praying three times a day?
The most fundamental aspect of the theoretical foundation of modern science is the gravitational constant G. The assumption underlying it is that gravity is proportional to mass. This has allowed science to rationalize the mass of the sun being vastly greater than that of the earth, and provides the mathematical basis for science to deny the existence of hell. Newton gave science the mathematical tools it needed to be able to deny the existence of heaven and hell. We’re taking those tools away.
Gravity is not an effect of the existence of mass (or spacetime, but we can safely ignore Einstein’s contribution). Matter can exist in the absence of gravity, as it did before creation and on the first day, and gravity was created by God as a way to order creation as the Bible tells us. The causal relationship between matter and gravity does not exist. Newtonian physics and relativity are not irrelevant, but they are merely a way to describe our reality which is based on a false assumption. However, observational science is completely intact and the Bible is true.
This is a critical step in providing a solid basis for the whole of Matty’s Paradigm. A lot of it has already been written, but this theoretical anchor in no way contradicts anything that has been put in place so far.
So there you go, a somewhat agonized rendering of my confusion about a relationship. The relationship appears to be ongoing*. The decision didn’t have to be whether or not to be in a relationship or not. The relationship exists. It is. The decision was to accept it for what it is, and not to try to make it into something else.
There is an entire generation of souls in peril because of what science has told them about the history of our universe. What are we going to do about it? Personally I think we should cause irreparable damage to the theoretical foundation of modern science, and put a discussion of the science of creation back into our schools.
Am I now perfect, entire, wanting nothing? If I want to stop wavering and being double minded then that’s exactly what I can be. Time to stop wavering.
*No it isn’t, but how it came to its final end is a whole other story.
{To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm of David.} Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer. O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah. But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto him. Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah. Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD. There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us. Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased. I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety.
(Psalms 4:1-8) KJV
Christmas is over. Once again the anticipation and excitement, planning and preparation, that builds in intensity from Thanksgiving and which bursts upon us in a flurry of excitement is over. The year is winding down
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Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice. Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand. Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
(Philippians 4:4-7) KJV
We can find ourselves in turmoil at this time of year with the frantic running around that needs to be done. The rest of the world is also frantically running around at the same time.
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And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger. And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child. And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds. But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart. And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them.
(Luke 2:16-20) KJV
God has revealed a way for us to understand science which shows that it’s in perfect harmony with the Bible. This is possible because we made a choice to believe that, no matter what, the Bible is always right.
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And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
(Romans 8:28-30) KJV
We need to tie together the scientific and Biblical rationalization of Matty’s Paradigm with the message of peace and comfort that the Bible has for those who love the Lord.
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And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”
(Revelation 21:3-4) ESV
God comes down from heaven to dwell with humanity, but not on Earth because it’s gone. God takes up residence on the site of the original singularity, created on the second day, the original foundation of the Earth.
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I tell you, many will come from east and west and recline at table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven, while the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
(Matthew 8:11-12) ESV
Outer darkness is only referred to three times in scripture, but by using context we can establish what and where it is. The easiest thing to take for context is the gnashing of teeth, which occurs nine times in the Bible.
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And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.
(Isaiah 34:4) KJV
Is the phrase “the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll” flowery poetic language or accurate physics? If the firmament is a rigid sphere of crystal on the edge of space, it’s accurate physics.
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