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?
so true, thanks
We are in agreement,
I don’t know about one that’s ‘parrallel’.
But I’m suspect there’s one at an acute angle since it’s obvious we live in one that’s obtuse...
Wouldn’t it be something if, when we die, regardless of cause, our life yet continues in some sort of ‘parallel universe’ which in turn, proffers continual existence approaching infinity? It sort of nips around my understanding of Hugh Everett’s “Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics”, and would tend to enhance the meaning of “eternal life”.
But who knows how God beyond space and time does such things? Though it is amusing to speculate a bit, which I don’t think He’d mind.
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