Do I believe in God? I have always believed that God exists,
just not in the way as defined by in the cultural zeitgeists. As a Sampsonist,
I like the idea of a God, and as a Sampsonist, if I cannot fathom the design of
God, it makes it likely that I have no hard and firm position on the question
of God. Believe or don’t believe, it’s up to you.
If I were to try to visualize what God is, I’d like to
believe in the idea of my God being omniscient, Omni prescient, and omnipotent.
It might be an incorrect place to start with my assumptions but if God is not
all-knowing, all-powerful, and everywhere, then the concept of God fizzles in
the abyss of the black hole in my mind. When I imagine those three things in
the universe, nothing seems to meet the requirement, however, this does not
preclude that nothing does. Let’s
imagine that something does, what would it be?
E=MC² so energy and matter are one and the same. Since gravity is what occurs between two
bodies with mass, then it is better defined as the phenomenon of what occurs
between two energy sources. I’m no
scientist or mathematician, but Einstein is, and his Theory of General
Relativity describes it as a consequence of the curvature of space-time.[1]
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity).
I would argue that gravity is the ultimate energy source, but I am no Einstein.
What does any of this have to do with God? The entire
universe moves and energy pervades the entire universe, in some places, very
low energy measured in Kelvins. The average temperature of the universe is 2.73
Kelvins.
Zero Kelvin was thought to be lowest possible temperature in
the universe but things are always changing.
Low, High, Negative, or Positive, energy is Omni prescient
throughout the universe, so in that respect God can be thought of as this
energy. Gravity, being a by-product of the attraction between energy sources
must by necessity also be everywhere. The one thing about energy is that it is
in constant motion, the closer to zero Kelvin, the less something moves but
since nothing reaches zero Kelvin, everything moves. If you found the one thing
that naturally does not move or is at or below zero Kelvin, you will have found
God.
Where could it be though? With everything moving specific to
the attraction that energy has between itself, there must be a point in the
universe of complete equilibrium, that all other energy flows around. Call this
point Omnipotence, since it would be the power of the universe. It would have
to be infinitely dense, or infinitely cold, or infinitely hot if the experiment
of the negative temperature scientists are correct. Either way, this point
could not be destroyed and/or altered; at its center must be infinitely
nothing. It cannot be energy, and must transcend the state of what we know as
energy, otherwise it would also be attracted to other sources of energy
creating gravity between them, and by definition must move. The Omnipotence of
God must transcend E=MC². Since this
fulcrum, this point of balance, must exist somewhere in the universe, it must
be All-powerful.
The residual phenomenon of this stable, immutable point in
the universe is that its impact is felt everywhere. Due to it being everywhere,
nothing is hidden from it, therefore it is Omniscient. “Know” must be
distinguished from “consciousness” for whether it cares, feels, is aware is a
different matter. Whether it exerts influence to positively or negatively
affect anything, anywhere is debatable.
My opinion is that philosophically, my thoughts, feelings,
thinking are generated by the energy of the universe, and I cannot, or ought not
to believe them to be a different energy than the universe. Maybe they are…maybe they are not “energy”
and cannot be measured in any known way. Maybe my thoughts, your thoughts, our
thoughts, are exactly the energy at that equilibrium point. Unquantifiable,
inexplicable “energy”, with no exact beginning or end in the physical world. If
my brain passed too close to a black hole, would any thought I have be
affected? Would they be pulled into the abyss?
There are certain assumptions in all of this that I as a
non-scientist made. Hopefully a scientist and/or mathematician will be able to
either validate some of what is written, or dispel some of it so I can aim for
greater clarity on the question of God. Some will call for abandoning proof for
faith, and I find that as odious a proposition as can be…but more on that some
other time.
