Posted on 02/05/2014 10:05:03 AM PST by OneVike
In today's technological age, it might seem silly for intelligent people to consider a spiritual world where beings we cannot see might exist. Oh it's fine to read books and watch Hollywood movies about the afterlife and spirits that roam the netherworld but that's all make believe, not the real world. In the real world we are taught that reality consists of what we can touch, taste, see, hear, smell, and that the spirit world is for those weak minded individuals who use religion as a crutch to get through the day.
However, what if I told you that scientists have concluded that there is a strong possibility that a parallel universe really does exist? Now, as a Christian I do not need proof that a spirit world exists, but it is my belief that God wants us to do our utmost to understand what it is He has Created.
That being said, the Spirit World is an aspect of God's Creation that we can only speculate upon just as Rene Descartes, the father of modern day philosophy did. Descartes admitted that God was the Creator of the world, but he believed that the spiritual world existed solely in the minds of men. So I guess the question would be, does a parallel spirit world exist, or is it just a figment of our fertile imaginations?
I would suggest that in order to properly answer that question, we need to first realize that God gave us a mind and the ability to think on a level with Him, if only we allow ourselves to put the silly notions of men aside.
One silly notion is that reality only exists within the dimension that our physical bodies....
(Excerpt) Continue reading, Is There a Spiritual World?
Many who have had Near Death Experience have testified that when they died, they shed their bodies “like taking off a glove” and suddenly felt they were experiencing “the real reality.” Many describe exactly the same experience, in that all colors, sounds, sights, shapes, and textures were thousands of times more sharp and clear. They were aware of truths, facts, and orientations simply because “they knew them.” They describe it as suddenly being transported into actual reality after a lifetime of being in a two dimensional world.
True, but we know that one day they will be.
As all of us will when we bow down and confess He is Lord.
For us it will be a great day, for them a very bad day if they do not confess before they leave this world.
Yes, I am fascinated by those near death experiences, although I think of them differently than they are explained away by secularist Drs.
The great apostle Paul wrote about a time he was transformed to another world and saw visions. We Christians know he where he was. Some even postulate that he had actually almost died when he was stoned, and that is when he had the vision.
I guess you could argue that he may have had a near death experience.
“Alternative/parallel” universes are one of the ways “scientists” are trying to explain the impossibility of “abiogenesis,” life magically springing from lifeless chemicals. It’s obvious that this is laughably impossible no matter how many billions of years they claim. But they figure that if there’s billions of years on billions of parallel earths, THAT’S the ticket! LOL!
There are an infinite number of things we will discover when we reach our final exit from this spot. Speculation and science chasing just a few of those things we will discover is just that.
Some things you just have to accept on faith and accept them as they happen. As for when and where, that's not my call. They are coming my way and as I age, I recognize it.
For some reason I’m connecting in my mind with Carl Seagan dialogues, a bible, and peyote.
Science is not exactly chasing the idea of a spiritual realm. More like running away from it. There is a certain degree of peer pressure among modern scientists to ignore and even scoff at the idea of a higher existance. It has nothing to do with the scientific method itself, however. People like Richard Dawkins who attempt to use science to “disprove” God are really abusing the scientific principals they claim to follow. They make an absolute statement that there is no God even though they have zero empirical data to show it.
The idea of parallel dimensions are still hypothetical. M-Theory and the brane world concepts suggest that our universe is just one “membrane” in a larger universe, but those theories as yet have no supporting evidence.
Now that was cool. I didn’t even know there was an HTML command for ‘fade’.
Great post. I’m one of those who ‘knows’.
There isn’t. I just changed the font color several times. The thought somehow occurred to me.
Wow. That had to be a lot of work. Cool effect, though.
“If it can’t bee seen, felt, or measured, it’s not *real*.”
which is exactly why psychology is not viewed as a science by so many “scientists.”
Interesting thing though, psychology (except for neurospsychology or biologicalpsychology) is studied by watching and testing, asking questions, or reading the writings of the person being studied. Just like people get to know God, who has a personality and we get to know Him the same way we know other people.
However, this other realm (which is the highlight of Daniel Chapter Five) is one of some variable expression of time and of space, else things would not exist and events would not occur.
well, it is important to differentiate ‘parallel’ realms from Heaven. Jesus stepped out of our spacetime and into an alternate one when He left the tomb without rolling away the stone. He stepped from this realm into the realm of the Apostles in the Upper Room, etc. But He had not yet ascended to Heaven, which came later.
Paul said it was not lawful to say what he had seen in the third heaven. These people come back and tell all and write books and it's all very impressive. In the end it's up to God
When I was really young, like 5 to 7 years, I imagined I was in a universe that intermeshed with another one, like material in that universe couldn't be seen but went right through me. I wasn't taught anything like that, all I knew about religion was the bible lesson in Sunday school.
Mary Baker Eddy believed like the above; I think she carried it to the point that everything in our universe is an illusion. Well, I don't believe that. Matter is real except it is partly an illusion unless you understand the science of it (which I do as thru a glass darkly, protons, neutrons, electrons but not quarks).
I would say St. Paul had the same thing as a NDE "caught up". That means he was acted upon by external spiritual force(s). However we don't know who may be deceived in these things. My faith tells me St. Paul was not deceived.
Some lady was on C2C last night I think it was and claims there are infinite parallel universes (possible) and that our "oversoul" experiences all different things simultaneously (I don't believe that) but it's a choice. I won't know until it's too late for sure but I'm wary of anyone who introduces heterodoxy into the basic gospel of Christ.
And there are the Christophanies to consider ...
Paul testified that whether in the body, or out of the body, he couldn’t tell. Yet he certainly had visions.
The near death experiences commonly talked about, often refer to separation from the body. Oxygen depletion causes hypoxia and euphoria (sense of well being). I won’t deny people have experienced visions, but you are not dead.....until the blood is ‘dead’. When the blood is dead, the damage to the rest of the body is irreversible, imo.
“It” exists, and is seen/manifested by Virtue (the highest, in the Word became flesh and dwelt among us); From the unseen (motive) is manifest in the ACTS of virtue: giving expecting nothing in return, peace/peacemakers, long-suffering, joy, honesty, humility, giving beyond self-preservation. The motive arising from the purity of operation of the yeilding willing “heart”...the bridge from the unseen dimension. The “heart” is the connection from the unseen.
in opposition “He hath scattered the proud in the IMAGINATION of their hearts.” e.g Luke 1:51 The unseen...
the base envy, strife, the jealousy “ARISEN” of Genesis 4:9 in the unseen base became manifest in the e.g. death of Abel. Covenant breakers, liars/false witness, betrayal....
The unseen vritue is manfested visibly in the act.
So very true, dear sister in Christ!
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