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PART 9: "WHY?"

It is self apparent that, having read this far, you are at least intrigued, if not in some what of an agreement with me, about the previous material.

That being said, what conclusions have we drawn? The self existent being has created time and space out of his and her own mind. And through the power of imagination projected himself into the universe. Everything is inside of God, everything is connected to God.

The induction of human consciousness is an outpouring of God's divine being. But having discussed the who, what, when, where and how of existence, leads us to the deepest question of all. The question of why?

Rejecting PreDeterminism

If we assume that all of the previous material is true, why is it that way? Could it have been any other way? Perhaps there is an inevitability in the universe. Perhaps God could not have created any other way. Perhaps that, due to the nature of the self existent one, things could not possibly have been other then they are.

This notion is shared by many people. The idea of predestination, preordination and absolute determinism shaping the course of the universe. I renounce this on two bases: 1) Each individual human being does have free will. I do not have to jump out of a 15th story window in order to prove that I can. 2) That freedom of the individual as it relates to the creator means that freedom of will and freedom of choice are a subset of the divine mind. Therefore to me God is a conscious, willful being who is doing all of this for a reason, for a purpose. In other words, this universe is not inevitable, this universe is not required. But this universe is consciously and deliberately shaped by God. This leads us back to the central question, "why?"

If we are correct, if God is a conscious being and is directing the universe and has created it as an act of free will, why is he doing it? What is his motivation? Again, what is the purpose of the universe?

Perhaps There is No Purpose

Another possibility is that there is no purpose as we think of purpose. By purpose we usually mean that we are passing through a means in order to reach an end. The purpose of having a job is to procure money so you can buy the things you want. The purpose of taking a shower is to get clean.

But many things are able to be an end in and of themselves. And, do not have to form another purpose. You can pet the cat simply because the cat is nice to pet, for no other reason, no other purpose. Perhaps then the "why" of the universe is very simply "because." That there is no purpose, there is no reason. God did it because he felt like it, it gave him something to do, and is ultimately no more nor less then scratching an itch.

You may be comfortable with that, but I am not. To gaze upon the miracle of the Andromeda galaxy through a telescope is a deeply and profoundly transensual experience. To think that all of this has been done simply for idle dispassionate meaningless amusement is, I think, to deprecate the universe. To negate the beauties of God's nature and personality.

Having exhausted, then, or rejected at least the possibility that there is no purpose and the possibility that the universe is deterministic and had to be this way, we must address the only remaining issue. That the universe is willful and has a purpose, there is an answer to the question, "Why?" What would that be?

God is Forgetting in Order to Remember

The best answer I can give you is that God is forgetting himself in order to have the pleasure of rediscovering himself. That may seem shocking and it may seem scandalous and it may seem silly to you, but it is simply the best answer I can give.

If what we have said in the first few chapters is correct, then God is alone. This is a self existent being. Since this self existent being is the source and origin of the totality of the universe, this being must, tautologically, be absolutely alone. Therefore there is nothing and no one outside of himself for amusement. For relationship. This aloneness is one of the fundamental aspects of the human race.

Being Alone

For, you see, everything inside of the creator shares in this relationship. What do I mean by that? For each of us, ultimately, the fundamental issue is our aloneness. As we become children we must eventually learn that we are responsible for our own lives and cannot rely upon or blame our parents.

As we become parents we must realize that our children are ultimately their own people. And that we as parents cannot rely upon them to fulfill us or complete us. As we become spouses we must recognize that it is impossible for the other person to complete or fulfill us. That we must stand on our own.

As we become healthy, as we try and overcome whatever limitations we may have, whether it's eating too much or drinking too much or gambling too much or working too much, we must recognize that no one can help us but ourselves. And if we are related to a person with a problem, no one can help that person but themselves.

When we close our eyes at night, the only one living behind the eyelids is ourselves and no one else. We are utterly and completely alone.

No one knows our thoughts, no one shares our history. No one shares our memories. We are isolated. That no one deeply or truly understands us accept ourselves. Even a spouse who might have lived with us for 50 or 60 years knows almost nothing about the totality of our being. The myriad of thoughts, the myriad of feelings, the infinity of the internal world of dreams and subconscious desires and reality relies forever hidden. Even to the closest friend.

Imagine, then, that we would not be able to cover this with the illusion and fantasy of togetherness. What if there were no other human beings at all? The greatest, deepest, punishment human beings have ever found for one another is to place each other in solitary confinement. For the deepest, darkest, most hardened criminals we reserve that greatest of all punishments.

To be completely, utterly, totally removed and isolated from the human race is the pathway to insanity. Is the ultimate psychological torture. You can read upon this in other books, there is no reason to elaborate.

The point of the story is however, that for God the only truth is an unending infinity of absolute, complete, total, solitary confinement. Think about that. Couple that with the understanding of a God of love, a God of beauty, a God of joy, a God of forgiveness of bliss. And to take such a being and to isolate him/her from all other beings would be a horror and a torture the likes of which none of us could deal with.

And yet, if anything that has been said in this pamphlet is true, that is the absolute state of God. Being total love, being bliss, being peace, being a person, this person as self existence finds himself in solitary confinement for all eternity, without hope of parole.

Now, what would such a being do? With the attributes of I hood and will generating existence, and absolute self determinacy, what would such a being do? There are two choices. Choice #1 is to remain eternally alone, accept and acknowledge the reality of the situation and remain in that constant state.

From Possibilities Into Reality

The fundamental problem with this is that potentiality or potential always seeks to become kinetic and be expressed.

God, we say is love. But without another to love, that love cannot be expressed. God is light, but without that light being able to shine on anything or be reflected back it cannot be seen. God is truth but without anyone to hear the truth there is no point in calling it the truth. As long as love is not expressed there is no difference between love and hate. As long as truth is never communicated there is no difference between truth and falsehood. As long as light can never be seen there is no difference between light and darkness.

Therefore God sought to leave the realm of pure potential and become real. To express or manifest or transform into kinetic energy is potential energy that is exactly what happened. Now, how do you do this?

Well, one way you could do this is to simply create a bunch of little beings to run around the cosmos and teach them how to worship you. But why would an eternal being do that? Is that the why of the universe? God wanted something to worship him? God created Adam and Eve to sit there or bow on their knees and worship him and tell him how truly really big he is? My, we're all so impressed down here. Well, that to an infinite eternal being is not very satisfying. It is despotic and sick. If that is the vision of God you wish to have, fine. But I think that's very fallen and pitiful.

What orthodox Christianity usually states is that God created us so that we might have fellowship with him, so that we might enjoy being with him. The problem is if he is the center and source of the entire universe then all of the energy which we are must be an extension of him. It is only because of his energy that we can breath. We've discussed this before.

Therefore, if we are looking for a why to the universe, to say that God made us because he wants us to worship him, or because he wants us to enjoy worshipping him, both responses fail as answers.

The Shocking Conclusion

Ultimately then I'm only left with one conclusion. That God being self existent and eternal, being all that there is, in order to express himself had to, in a certain extent, forget himself. He had to manifest himself as creation and then enter into that creation. This is at least consistent. We, you and I, all human beings, a slice of the Godhead, we are a tiny piece of the totality of the self existent one. We are a tiny drop in the ocean of God consciousness.

We are therefore God, slowed down and transformed. We remain connected with him, and are in fact himself. This is consistent with the notion of the body of Christ. God takes upon for himself a body, that body is made up of individual cells and those individual cells are all human beings.

Now, God through the process of creation is going into a voluntary sleep, or a forgetting. So that he can, #1, have relationship, all be it ultimately only with himself because that cannot be avoided. But it can appear for a while that there is a relationship because he has forgotten that he is both the subject and the object. This is another lesson which we learn as we grow older, that what we like about some thing, some object, is not the object but rather what the object does for us.

To give you a radical example, heroin and morphine do not do anything to the human body except stimulate and accelerate the production of chemicals which are natural to the human body. We project upon other people our hopes and our dreams and our desires. We project this upon our children, we project it upon our spouses. We project it upon relationships. We see not what is there, but what we want to be there.

Ultimately we are the subject and the object of our lives because as we've said before we are alone. So, God has entered into this world as each of us and is splitting himself up into a billion, billion pieces. Just like Humpty Dumpty falling off of the wall, he is now genuinely forgotten, at least this part of him, who and what he is. He is growing, he is seeking, he is learning. And as he does so he begins to remember who and what he is.

Everything has come from the same place, the same central origin. Therefore in one manner or another, everything must have memory and relationship to that origin. God lives inside of each of us and we are all on a process of rediscovering and remembering the true nature of existence. It could not be otherwise.

The Problem of Evil

This helps us to deal with the problem of theodicy. The problem of theodicy has puzzled and perplexed people from the beginning of time. The question of theodicy is phrased as a question. How is it possible that the following three statements can equally be true:

#1. God is good.

#2. God is all powerful.

#3. Evil exists.

There are many, many ways to deal with this question. Perhaps there is no God. Perhaps God is not good. Perhaps God is not powerful. Perhaps there is no such thing as evil.

The Revealing Science of God gives to us an answer to the nature of theodicy. Evil is an ignorance voluntarily entered into by God himself. Which ultimately has no bearing upon the limitless nature of the Godhead. In other words God as we know him is different from as he really is. To sit and worship God as being separate and apart from us is wrong. That is the first misconception. Because God is intimately related with every human being. And is right here, right now. We are apart of him and live inside of him, that is Biblical, that is absolute truth. That is the first misconception.

#2. To state that God is all powerful is to misunderstand that he has voluntarily entered into this creation and is voluntarily limiting his options.

#3. To say that God is all good makes it as though God is simply a painter who is supposed to paint pretty pictures. And since there is pain and suffering and agony on this planet God doesn't look like he's painting a very nice picture. If he's the potter and we are the clay, he's very naughty because he's not doing a very nice job. What it fails to fully recognize is that God is not separate and apart from creation but is one with it.

Therefore why does evil exist? Evil is an unknowing, a failure to recognize the totality. An ignorance. The only reality is God. It cannot be otherwise. That fundamental reality shapes and molds all aspects of creation. And is therefore intimately related with all parts of it. That is the only truth that there could ever be. Any other truth is merely a delusion. And since the only being that ultimately exists is God, all other perceptions are a self delusion of God, by God himself. Evil then is God's forgetting of his true nature. Goodness is the truth of this self existent being. This, ladies and gentlemen, solves all of the questions.

The Biblical Evidence

Remember how we said that the book of 1st Corinthians talks about us ultimately knowing everything about God that he knows about us. And remember that we said that no one can truly understand God except for the spirit of God, which is also in 1st Corinthians. And that we have the mind of Christ. This is simple mathematics. If you put the statements together we will know everything about God and be the only thing that can know anything about God is God. Then the Bible itself tells you, that "in the end God will remember himself fully as God." The Bible tells you, and it is in complete harmony with The Revealing Science of God, that God has forgotten himself in order to have the pleasure of remembering himself.

That is my best shot, as a human being on planet Earth in the late 1990's, that's the best and only answer I can give you.

Hide and Seek

It's funny where you find truth. There's a pop-rock keyboard player named Howard Jones. He was very popular in the 80's, and in the early 80's had a hit song called "What is Love?" He's fairly out of fashion now, but on his album "Human's Lib" you can find the most astonishing lyrics, which encapsulate better then any other place I have ever found exactly what I am trying to tell you. I reprint these lyrics without any permission. Because I don't know how to get a hold of Howard Jones. But here they are.

Hide And Seek - Howard Jones

There was a time when there was nothing at all, nothing at all,

just a distant hum

There was a being and he lived on his own he had no one to talk

to and nothing to do.

He drew up the plans, learned to work with his hands a

million years passed by and his work was done

and his words were these

Hope you find it in everything, everything that you see

Hope you find it in everything, everything that you see

Hope you find it, hope you find it, hope you find me in you.

So she had built her elaborate home with its ups and its

downs its rains and its sun

She decided that her work it was done, time to have fun,

and found a game to play.

Then as part of the game, she completely forgot where she'd hidden

herself and she spent the rest of her time trying to find the parts.

Hope you find it in everything, everything that you see

Hope you find it in everything, everything that you see

Hope you find it, hope you find it, hope you find me in you.

 

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