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PART 6: "WHEN?"

We now come to the interesting question of, "When?" When did God create the heavens and the Earth? All the Bible tells us is in the beginning. We have seen that God in his/her eternity existed before any worlds were made. In the beginning God. Later God then decided to make the world. God did not come into being at the moment he/she created. However, up until that point God was not a creator. You become a parent by having a child. You become an employer by having an employee. You become a creator by having a creation.

In the same way that a parent begets a child, through the child we become the begotten father. This is a significant clue to the nature of why God made the universe, which we will be dealing with later. For the moment we wish to turn ourselves specifically to the question of when.

Within the religious and scientific communities there are hardly any questions which generate as much controversy as this one. Within classical Judaism the scholars who have most meticulously counted the generations and years and ages within the Bible, it is in the most orthodox circles felt that we are now living in the year 5832. This is based upon counting as well as we can the generations from one person to another. Some people, for example King David, we have very fixed dates for. And then working backward through the generations to determine the actual age of the universe.

On the other hand we have the scientific community which through a series of tests and experiments have determined that their best guess is that the planet Earth is approximately 3 billion years old and that the universe as a whole is approximately 12 billion years old.

Now the difference between 6,000 and 12 billion is a very large difference. How large? Well, it is exactly 2 million times different. If you take 6,000 and multiply it by 2 million, you come up with 12 billion. There seems to be a fair amount of question then as to when this whole thing came about. I'll give you my observations and though they may not be ultimately satisfying to you, they are simply the best answers I can come up with.

I do not know when the Earth was created. While there is a large amount of paleontolgical and chemical evidence to support the 3 billion year theory of the Earth, there are also certain clues which the scientific does not want to tell you about. Because it frankly does not fit in with any of their theories and therefore makes them most uncomfortable.

I will give you what I consider to be the most important. That has to do with our moon. We spent a couple of Apollo projects before we actually landed upon the moon, circling the moon and shooting rockets into it. Why did we do this? It just so happens that there is a thing in space called cosmic fallout. Also known as cosmic dust. It is collected on satellites in space and we are able to measure with unbelievable accuracy. These are specs of dust perhaps from other planets, perhaps from other stars that have cooled, cosmic debris.

Well, to the greatest most precise measurements we can give cosmic dust falls at the rate of exactly 125/1000 of an inch per year. That doesn't seem like very much. It would then take the cosmic dust 25,000 years to develop one inch of dust. The problem is that if you are dealing with something like the age of the moon, which is anticipated or theorized to be as old as the Earth, and therefore approximately 3 billion years old. What you have to do is divide 25,000 into 3 billion and you wind up with a figure. That figure represents how many inches of dust there should be on the moon. That figure winds up to be approximately 1 mile. About 5,200 feet of dust.

That is why we did not initially land a man on the moon. That is why we spent a lot of time and a lot of money shooting missiles at it. Because according to all of the greatest scientific theories which NASA had there should be approximately a mile of dust upon the surface of the moon. And that the craters that we see are impressions and dents inside of this dust. Much like footprints upon a beach.

Well, lo and behold, much to their shock and continued amazement, they did not find a half a mile or a mile or even a hundred feet of lunar dust. But rather they found ¼ inch to a ½ inch of cosmic dust. There are different theories as to explain this.

#1. The rate of cosmic fallout is increasing dramatically, and therefore the moon could in fact still be 3 billion years old, but it's only, say in the last 100 years, that the rate of cosmic fallout has his 1 25/1000 of an inch per year. If before that time there was virtually no fallout then there would be nothing to fall upon the moon. The problem with that theory is that there is no known mechanism to explain why the rate of cosmic fallout would appreciably change.

#2. While the Earth is 3 billion years old, the moon only broke of from the Earth or was only captured around the Earth some 6 - 10,000 years ago. While an interesting theory, this does have other major problems with it. Such an event of that magnitude would have left such incredible marks and impressions, clues if you were on the base of the Earth, that the scientists are quite perplexed as to why there are no indications what so ever that such an event ever occurred.

It is also possible that the rate at which we measure cosmic fallout has been in error. But they are not able to verify that. And it is also possible that for some reason the cosmic fallout blows off of the moon. 1) There is no evidence of any wind on the moon. 2) Even if there were wind it would simply, as it does on the Earth, blow the dust around the Earth and not actually away from it.

In summary then the moon is a clue, the half life of the Earth's magnetic field is a clue. The complete lack of any form of transitory fossils, where one species evolves into another. This is another important clue, to indicate that perhaps we do not yet fully comprehend the age of the Earth. For me this is a fascinating scientific inquiry which we must continue with. I am not going to take a position one way or the other, because so often what people do is they fight the hardest and most vehemently about those things that they are the least certain of. We want to believe something for one reason or another. But without any evidence or data we hold to our beliefs and scream, hurt and kill those who do not agree with us.

But you see you never find people arguing like that over mathematics. Once you leave the realm of your beliefs, which is what The Revealing Science of God is all about, and enter the realm of knowledge then you no longer have any reason for upset. If you know that 15 + 17 = 32, and someone else comes along and says no it's 33, there is no reason to hurt that person or hate them or try and kill them. Or burn their holy books. Because you understand that this person is simply ignorant and wrong. Therefore if you have any compassion you will attempt to show the person your understanding, and if they simply cannot accept it, then you will grant them the peace and freedom to discover the truth at their own pace.

Therefore since I do not have any knowledge of the history of the universe, I cannot take any definitive position in terms of the chronology of the when.

The Relativity of Time

My second major comment regarding this issue is that regardless of the actual calendrical computation of the Earth's age, certain truths remain self evident.

Those are: God is light and in him there is no darkness at all. And one of the attributes of light as we saw in the previous chapter is that light stands out side of time. You see there is something fundamental about light and that is that it's speed is completely absolute. What do I mean by that?

Let's say that we are walking along a train that is traveling North at 100 mph. And we are walking North along that train at 5 mph. Our direction North, is then 105 mph. That is called the addition of velocities. The train at 100 mph North and our feet at 5 mph North add up to 105 mph to the North. But this additive property of velocities does not pertain to light. If we are on a spaceship traveling at the speed of light and we shoot a laser beam out from that spaceship, which is also traveling at the speed of light. Then relative to North light is not moving at twice the speed of light, but only at exactly the speed of light.

The additive properties of velocities breaks down when it comes to approximating the speed of light. This is a very significant result. And this also has been proven scientifically in many different venues. What it tells us then is that if anyone is attempting to measure speed, that speed is a function of time relative to distance, miles per hour.

In as much as the additive velocities break down and at the speed of light there is only one speed. Then you come to the conclusion that time must be relative. My clock running in my wall in a very stationary position will run at a different rate then your clock on your spaceship traveling at the speed of light. And while you may only see one hour tick by, I may see hundreds of millions of years click by.

I admit that this is a thumbnail sketch. If you want more information there are many books available which will explain Einstein's theories of relativity specifically as it comes to the relative nature of time and space based around light being the absolute.

The point for this discussion however is that God, being light, is eternal. He stands outside of time and he stands outside of space. The revelation tells us that God is the same yesterday, today and forever. One of the proclamations of Einstein's relativity is that at the speed of light any matter would have infinite mass and therefore be incapable of change.

We have a completely consonant description then of the state at the speed of light. We can see no change because at the speed of light no light can approach us. At the speed of light we travel with all light and therefore since the additive property of velocities does not work we could never see anything. There would then be no change what so ever. We would in fact be the same yesterday, today and forever.

We come to the understanding, then, that time is a function of the creation. It is a function of the flow of the manifest world in terms of the electrons and photons of God's light having slowed down. And it is only in that slowing down that time appears to exist.

However, it is crucial to understand that this is only an appearance. Time seems to flow only because God has voluntarily taken his energies of limitless light and slowed them down. Therefore in that slowing we appear to have birds that fly, bands that march and automobiles that roll across the highway.

But in the higher deeper truth all of this can be seen as a dance upon the screen of God's mind. Remember that the only reality is God, therefore the only time is now. Time can be seen much like a parade, wherein you sit in a fixed position and you watch things move from your left to your right. From behind you into the front of you. But you remain unmoved.

God the same yesterday, today and forever can watch the phantasmagoria around him, but he remains the same. He remains unmoved. In the same way you remain outside time and space. Remember we discussed that your body houses your soul and your soul houses your spark. That spark is none other than God himself. That spark is life eternal, and eternity goes on forever and is completely limitless. Not affected by time and space.

That is why you must recognize that you can wait until later but even then it will only be now. You can go somewhere else but even there it will only be here. What is happening in life is that the parade is moving around you, but you stay where you are. That spark of God which is your true nature lies outside of the realm of time and space. That is the religious call to get us to live not just for today, not just for the temporal nature of the body, but with an eye and focus toward the eternal nature of time, God and ourselves.

Life is Here and Now

Jesus said even when we have an abundance our life does not consist in our possessions. This is a very, very high teaching. Most people think of their possessions as the physical objects which they have accumulated on the material plane. But it is much more then that. You also have a body, you have toes, fingers and a nose. You also have desires. You have emotions, you have memories. You have thoughts, you have opinions.

All of these are your possessions. They can all change but you remain the same. That indefinable, indescribable essence which is you remains the same regardless of your material possessions. Remains the same regardless of your body, because your cells are continually dying and renewing. Remains the same regardless of your particular emotions or desire state. Remains the same regardless of what you think about and what your memories are.

Your life is not a part of any of these possessions. Your life is that spark of God which is eternal. An everlasting life means that you do not focus your energies exclusively upon this dance within time and space. But, begin to recognize and dwell in those domains where the infinite eternal God of pure light is recognized as being your one and only true life.

So that is what I have to say regarding the when. Exactly when this material came into being I simply do not know. There are some interesting clues to indicate that it could go either way. But on the much more important question the when is now. Because God in his fullness lives outside of time and space and therefore lives as a part of an unchanging eternal immortal reality. That reality is your essence. That reality is your life. You are called to that eternal life which then rises above time and space.

And there is no point in pretending that you have to wait for this to happen or that to happen, because the only time is now. When did God create the world? He created it now. And we sit in the same seats we were in at the first moment of creation. Because the Bible tells us that even before the worlds were made "I knew you." We were then inside of God's mind before the world was made, and that is where we still are. The whole question of when is a question within the creation. And as we return to our celestial home the whole issue of time falls away.

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