main_verify" content="0fbe816ac62d0f3540f77744d40f34f2"/> Reason And Faith Together: July 2015

Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Did God come as an Avatar to Earth?



What if this world is truly only a part of a greater world?  What I mean is, what if our 3 dimensional world, plus space time is really similar to the cyber world for other dimensions.  This is tricky to try to explain.  So the best thing to do is try to use an analogy.

Let us pretend we are characters in your favorite interactive video game.  If we were to fit in this game and live in this two dimensional virtual world, we would obviously have to live and abide by the rules of that world.  We could call it a digital or cyber universe.  Maybe we could learn to travel from one place in the virtual world to another similarly to how humans have gone to the moon.
We would have a hard time understanding a three dimensional world… it may be possible that we would not know it even exists.  Yet the three dimensional world would be constantly interacting with us and if we even understood it existed we would have no way of relating to it.  And what is more our two dimensional world exists everywhere the three dimensional world exists.

Here is where things start to get interesting.  Every once in a while a being shows up in our two dimensional world, this being behaves like we do, but it has a mission and purpose and is driven like we are not.  This being is an avatar of a 3 dimensional being.  We only see it as one of us, but in reality there is a three dimensional human being causing it to have purpose and depending on how good at playing the game the human is will determine how well this avatar does in the game.
At this point I am getting of track.  The point here is that the two dimensional universe works and functions and may or may not be aware of the three dimensional world outside of it and all around it.  What if that were true of a dimensional world that superseded our ability to be aware of it and or if we were aware we also recognized we have no ability to truly understand it.

What if a being from that dimension were to come and operate in our three dimensional world?  What if there are dimensions beyond the dimension that that being came from and there were still more beings all the way to the point where there is one source for all the dimensions and that one source is what many call God.

There are many directions to go from here in our thoughts and most would seem logical.  But are all equally as logical and reasonable?

We must first address that scientists have hypothesized about there being potentially 10 dimensions.  And if they are on the right track these dimensions may be what I am considering or they may not be.  I do not have enough understanding to theorize about these hypothetically discovered dimensions.  But this article can explain things in a way that makes sense: 

http://www.universetoday.com/48619/a-universe-of-10-dimensions/

For the sake of simplicity lets call a 4th and 5th  dimension a realm where metaphysical beings exist.  In this 4th and 5th dimension we have what some people call ghosts or beings “who have passed over to the other side.”  We also have what some call spiritual beings or angels and demons etc… And then still in a multi more dimensional space we have a being we call God.  This dimensional space would be the foundation of all the other dimensions and co-exists with them all similarly to how our two dimensional virtual world co-exists within our three dimensional world.

So if God made all the dimensions could God send an Avatar into any of the dimensions as he sees fit, similarly to how we send an avatar into a video game?  If that is possible then should we be looking at these things through just scientific lenses or should we also consider religious concepts in our contemplation?  What if God has already decided to come to earth and visit man?  What if this truth is the truth and man only has to be open to it?

What if God is constantly operating in this realm?  What if, like a video game creator, God, the author of this Universe and all its dimensions did so with a purpose?  What if the fact that we have the freedom to make choice leads to many possibilities of actions but the truth is we need to look to God to know what our true purpose is?  What if that means our choices have consequence?

Does this mean that Jesus could truly be fully God and fully man as the Christians suggest; similar to the fact that a human is still a human and his avatar in the video game is fully an avatar with the same abilities as the other characters and yet is also in essence the human?