Intro
Awhile back I watched a secular program that completely changed my concept of God. “The Black Whole” covers the work of unification physicist Nassim Haramein. A trailer for the video can be seen here:
Haramein concludes that “empty” space, which exists all the way down to the sub-sub-atomic level, is actually an energy force from which all creation is derived. He also points out the evidence that this space is not empty, but rather infinitely full, with a mass many, many times that of our entire universe! In fact the energy density of space is some 39 orders of magnitude more dense than the universe!
Now to those that have studied physics this is probably not news, but for me the conclusions were really striking. Since all things exist in space, and have space within them at all levels, this “energy” is omnipresent, and seems to be the source of all creation. Sound like Anyone you know? Haramein goes on to point out that the space meets the condition of a black hole, meaning that no light can escape due to the density of space; however, he also points out that when viewed from outside the space would radiate an extremely bright and intense white light. This should also sound familiar.
Sadly it seems that Haramein practices New Age beliefs, and seems to conclude that since this energy is present within us, and us within it, then we are all gods. I’ve never quite been able to understand that leap. Rather, I picture a sponge in a bucket of water. It would be correct to say that the sponge is in the water, and also correct to say that the water is in the sponge; however, it is decidedly not correct to say that the sponge IS the water. A sponge is merely a vessel, and cannot give any life-sustaining hydration on its own. The water is the water, and only water can do what is needed. So what can we find in Scripture that tells us about the nature of God, and help us with discernment in regards to Haramein’s conclusions?
Scripture and Commentary
- God does indeed fill the heaven and the earth
Jeremiah 23:23-24
23 “Am I only a God nearby,” declares the Lord, “and not a God far away?
24 Who can hide in secret places so that I cannot see them?” declares the Lord.
“Do not I fill heaven and earth?” declares the Lord.
- God is aware of all, and nothing is hidden from him
Psalm 139:1-12
1 You have searched me, Lord, and you know me. 2 You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar. 3 You discern my going out and my lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways. 4 Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord, know it completely. 5 You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain. 7 Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? 8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. 9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, 10 even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,” 12 even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
- We dwell within God
Acts 17:28
28 ‘For in him we live and move and have our being. As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.
- And God dwells within us
1 Corinthians 3:16
16 Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
Luke 17:20-21
20 Now when He was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He answered them and said, “The kingdom of God does not come with observation; 21 nor will they say, ‘See here!’ or ‘See there!’For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you.”
- But God is not a man, and men are not God
Numbers 23:19
“God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?
Psalm 8:3-5
3 When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have ordained,4 What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You visit him?
5 For You have made him a little lower than the angels, And You have crowned him with glory and honor.
- God willingly took on human form as Jesus, to redeem mankind
John 10:24-30
24 Then the Jews surrounded Him and said to Him, “How long do You keep us in doubt? If You are the Christ, tell us plainly.” 25 Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in My Father’s name, they bear witness of Me. 26 But you do not believe, because you are not of My sheep, as I said to you. 27 My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. 28 And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father’s hand. 30 I and My Father are one.”
John 1:1-4, 10-14
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. 4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.
10 He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. 11 He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. 12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: 13 who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. 14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
Conclusion
I think we have done the world a disservice portraying God as a bearded grandfather sitting on a throne. Clearly he is so much more than this! In the disparaging but informative documentary Religulous Bill Maher sneers that it makes no sense to believe that one guy can hear people muttering to Him all at once from all over the world. Well, that would be true in the human sense. It would even be true if he were a physical being perched on a throne somewhere “up there”. But if God is omnipresent in every single facet of creation, then his omniscience follows. No wonder the hairs on our head are numbered (Luke 12:7), and he knows every sparrow (Matthew 10:29)! I encourage you to take some time this week to ponder the existence of a God that is not only all-aware, but completely permeating all of existence.
I look forward to hearing your thoughts, please share.
Be blessed.
K
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