Exploring the possibility of parallel universes – Part 1
The modern theories of time and space are not so new. Mankind has only just recently rediscovered them. Science is just now getting around to the idea that there may be other dimensions. Yet, the Bible and other spiritual works have always contended that time had a beginning, will have an end and that there are other dimensions existing along side of the one we inhabit. We now we call “in the beginning” the Big Bang. “Let there be light” is simply the ancient’s poetic language describing pure energy released in that metaphysical event.
The Bible tells us that God exists outside time, with God there is no past, present, or future. The writer’s of the Hebrew scriptures tell us that time exists only within the created order, the natural world or universe, that God exists outside of time and space. Modern science is just now figuring out how space and time interact. As science publishes new information on this interaction, students of scripture are contending that the bending of space-time may account for the description of creation taking only six days. Our understanding of physical reality is changing with every new scientific theory published.
Finite human beings cannot fully comprehend time and eternity. But eternity is written within our hearts by our Creator. Religion teaches that for now we exist within time, and God exists outside of time. How strange that multi-dimensional universe with a beginning is now the accepted theory in science as it has been in theology for centuries.
The modern explanation of space time is an old but new thought. We see modern science now describing metaphysical ideas once held only within the sphere of theology. Modern day physicists describe a reality in which there can exist many dimensions or realities. The scriptures have described just such a reality that is full of visitors from other “dimensions”. The religious concepts of heaven and hell, Ezekiel’s fiery chariots, snakes that could speak, flaming swords held by cherubim guarding a tree that could bestow eternal life, pillars of fire guiding a nation to its destiny, are only a few of these descriptions written about in the Hebrew scriptures.
Also, consider that for many decades, fantasy writers such as C.S. Lewis and Lewis Carroll have described worlds existing parallel to the one we occupy. They describe doorways here in this world by which we can enter other worlds. We may think its a new thing when we read Stephen Hawking’s description of a reality that
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