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Can religion exist without magic?

 

*This post was originally formed as a research paper at Arizona State University for REL 307 to discuss magic and religion’s comparative nature but has been modified to include the authors’ opinion.

Comparing magic with concern to religion implies separating their purposes, characteristics, and expression of existence upon each other. As the term of religion is used to look at the past by scholars, the functional understanding of magic is primordially used by cultures before the written text to discern the future. Therefore, the comparison between the two may end up being a reduction of the same design.

To understand if these two terms, magic and religion, are interchangeable in purpose, we need to establish what they have served in meaning through history from various perspectives. Equally, we must place a preliminary timeline of conception in the development of human intelligence and social behavior concerning both magic and religion. Has magic perpetually existed in our history, but because of religion become second nature by our actions? Or is religion the very act by which magic can exist? As social sciences and other ancient cultures use modern expressions to pin down religion’s purpose, the opposite direction flows with understanding magic. Magic today is a very different concept than what it was thousands of years ago. Religion by current understanding in the Western world has made magic childs play.

The twenty-first-century idea of magic is closer to the fourteenth-century Middle English usage of the word found first in Chaucer’s work as ‘magique‘ but starkly different from the Old Persian word ‘magus,’ isolating a group of people by abilities. Hearing the word alone has probably made you think of dark corridors illuminated with candles and cloaked warlocks with pentagrams hanging from their necks. Or if you’re me, you’d see the halls of Hogwarts awaiting your arrival. That is not this kind of magic.

Today’s interpretation of magic is divided into numerous forms of discipline. Magic found around the world can be purchased, watched, practiced, or experienced. From the stage illusionist who entertains crowds in Vegas to the practicing witches who can buy their occult paraphernalia online, the word magic appears fantastical when viewed as theatrical. The taboo ideas came when placed near religion and described as imaginary. For the church, particularly the early Christian movement, magic was a word that came to divide good and evil. Now, especially with the church’s primary purpose to get people to Heaven, there is no place for evil or magic (Collins, 2005).

Archeologist Andrew Wilburn defines magic as a mechanical form of rites that draw on religious practices and exoticized forms of religion for personal ends. Basically, he says magic is the machine that uses religion to produce its goods, good or bad. Wilburn’s example of this religious machine plugged into a magical outlet is liken to an exorcism, healing, cursing, or whatever the user desires. The movies have shown us how a priest pulls the demons out and heads spin or healing by clergy with a mere touch; both would be a positive form of magic that the church has claimed to use. Still, having trouble getting the image of magic as not part of religion?

Examples of ancient magic come in many ways that humans used to sustain everyday life and communicate with a world not our own.  Cave drawings to us seem fairly familiar now, but many have

Famous prehistoric rock paintings of Tassili N’Ajjer, Algeria

depictions that scholars can only guess to their meaning. The ancients drew images not only of beings not seen in nature, but they had geometric shapes that indicate the human capacity to see past the world around them, but how?  Statues of unnatural beings have also been found in the excavation sites across every continent. Archaeological digs have produced bowls with circular writing spiraling around as if chant repeated. Places that intrigue us, like Stonehenge with the purposeful placement of massive stones carried hundreds of miles, are found worldwide. Yet, history tells us nothing of the power the ancients were trying to manipulate. Instead,, people like Wilburn, who addresses religion’s behavior to use magic, also attach the word ‘weird’ to describe the objects found accompanying these puzzling sites throughout the ages.

Were these sites used for magic? Is there a way to test whether they did to solidify a purpose in history?

As mentioned before, magic’s etymology comes from a long line of other similar sound words like magus in the Old Persian form. Magus, or magi, was a reference to a priestly caste of men of the Zoroastrian faith. These were men who dealt with the cosmos and read the stars to predict the future. Do you think that’s crazy? What if I told the world magi was later changed in the Bible to kings or wise men, and there were three of them? If you’re a Christian, these guys were three primary characters from the east to locate the baby Jesus.

Antiquity’s magic should be defined as a broad power, the mysterious energy that was, and possibly still is, functionally available to everyone but manipulated or tapped into by select people in historical religion. From this point forward, magic as a noun will be referencing a supernatural force that exists everywhere. It is unseen other than by its results through religion. However, religion is not what you think it is, sorry. Bringing the discussion of what religion is by comparison.

The study of religion has been relatively new in contrast to the practice of magic within civilizations. Here we are talking about the science of studying religion and putting a title on it, not the world of religion we are actually trying to connect to magic. Nevertheless, the etymology of magic came forth from antiquity, whereas religion is being placed upon scholars’ groups. As ethnographic fields of study shows, primarily in anthropology, the results of findings have a context to who we are and what has influenced our observations. For example, suppose we are raised in a supernatural system that shows no proof of God other than the mind’s manifestation of faith. In that case, it is likely we may decide later to follow science that produces visible results. Thus, religion becomes a primitive narrative to human evolution and lacks reason, as anthropology scholars like E. B. Tylor regarded religion. Giving light to the context of how scholars and we see other’s actions not objectively in a broad scope can change the sheer meaning of words, like religion and magic.

The faiths of a Christian, Jew, Muslim, and Hindu are charted by rising numbers on a chart based on categories, created by many non-religious anthropologists. These large world faiths do not follow the same teachings within their own titles, but outsiders set them apart to study. For example, within Christians sects, one would find believers of One God, yet also you find others who extent that to a triad dimension as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Is that one religion or two? By the same category of religion, Hinduism is the most diverse. In this particular scope, Hinduism can follow One God or several gods, and many of the practices believers’ adhere to are for personal development, varying by region or family. Hinduism can be dispersed as monotheistic and polytheistic at the same time. So why are these sects grouped as one religion? It cannot be the nature of how their God(s) came into existence because that is debated throughout the culture. Possibly the Vedas, their original scriptures, tie them as one. But, they later divide in philosophy and do not equally accept the Vedas. If it’s the original of scripture, then Judaism, Christianity, and Islam should all be one under Abraham’s ordination of religion, but it is not. As well, all four of these faiths have a text about a massive flood in history, maybe they’re all connected in other ways, and the separation created by applying the word ‘religion’ makes them distant from each other.

Therefore, when archeology finds prewritten evidence of rituals, like burial sites, ceremonial dishes, geometric notations, and zoomorphic statues, was there a religion that far back in history? Or does the term only describe what is seen modernly broken apart by human autonomy after written words?  Religion is a broad description used to identify the language and actions used to transform an unseen power that affects the world. From this point, religion will only refer to the acts, artifacts used, language, and believed outcomes concerning all things, not a specific group.

Now, how do the two interact?

The once dismissible notion of magic understood to produce material psychological gains unconnected to religion has expanded to include it. Nevertheless, we need to know how people used religion and magic in their daily lives in the past. Ere the written word, humans left behind evidence of symbolic rituals (religion) that may show their belief in more than what was seen (magic).

Archaeology has uncovered gravesites across the world that show a change in the emotion of sorts for the dead. In 1968, in Sungir, Russia, the bones of one adult and two children dating thousands of years before any written text, were discovered buried with handmade jewelry (Bosinski, 2015). Shells with worn-out holes imply they were strung together at one time.

Egypt Edfu temple, Aswan.

The importance of beading seems overlookable, but in this era, one jewel, or shell in this example, could take an hour to make one, and these three bodies were put to rest with thousands of beads in each grave. Many similar sites have been found with tools and other ornaments left with the dead. If these people were primitive, why would they spend time making jewelry to cover it with dirt? Is it possible for a similar reason, people continue to bury our dead and often leave mementos for them in their caskets? Egyptians took the lead in burying their dead with treasures and carefully bottled organs claimed when the dead came back. What did the ancient people witness that made them think the dead were coming back?

Burying the dead with respect because of a belief in an energy that surpasses death or an afterlife would be the religion to respect that magic. Archaeology agrees that more bones buried with adornments and care demonstrate respect paid for the dead and a belief in life beyond death (Bégouen, 2015). Even further back than the oldest burial site discovered, a zoomorphic statue was found in a German cave in 1939 of the Lion-man, head of a lion and body of a man. Artifacts like these show that humans had the brain capacity to imagine intermixed creatures not found in nature and that they were not savages worried solely about daily demands. Maybe what we perceive as imagination today was a reflection of what the first humans witnessed between worlds.

These visual references of beings morphed as human and animal extend into the lore of world cultures as big as Christianity and Hinduism, to the isolated legends found throughout Africa and South America. Some are divine beings in the stories, while others hold the representation of evil’s presence. However, they seem to exist in a different dimension unless they choose to manifest to those who have created the stories or called upon by humans through specific ways. This would be an example of religion accessing magic. Bringing us to a crossroads of magic being a source of both good and evil, and where we need to look at how, or the religion, local civilizations tried to access these powers.

Evidence through archaeology and anthropology provides that religion (as an action) was tied to men and women who tried to tap into an invisible force to expose truth and lie, good and bad, even perpetuating life past the veil of death. In a sense, magic was, and to some still is, an immortal essence that could be spoken to and used to bring or stop fertility, predict or invoke natural disasters, cure or create ailments, and use curses for those who deserve penance of right or wrong. 

In modern churches, like Christianity, astrology is no longer a part of the Bible teachings and nixed by all accounts to find God. However, as mentioned before, the Iranian and Old Persian word magush, or a priestly caste, is linked to groups of men in the Zoroastrian faith who were given the connotation of magicians’ magi. At a period in history, it is thought that the three magi, who came from the east were Zoroastrian priests who used astrology to find the Christ baby and bring him gifts. It was the church who tried to severe the link of magic with this story and its relationship to God. Yet, kept the identity of Jesus as a healer, an understanding of how to manipulate magic. Later to bring the resurrection of Lazarus and later his own body, magic as the immortal force of life.

The Jewish text, along with the Christian, Muslim and Hindu canon of scriptures, are littered with these types magicians being involved with ancient practices. Now astrology borders the occult of science and respective sciences of space travel. Healing is translated to doctors and pharmacists. Bad results are due to our own fault and not the workings of witchcraft. Or at least that’s how the Westernized version of religion without magic is practiced. There are still cultures that believe and incorporate the stars, signs, healing and curses as part of the world. To them it is not a named religion, but a way to use magic in their lives.

As mentioned before, religion and magic involve inanimate objects, like ritual bowls and cerimonial beads. There are more used throughout more recent history like wands, crystals, totems, and reflective surfaces for scrying that have a theatrical appearance but we quite important to those who used them before television. Even the simple act of letting a book open, reading the page it land on to answers sought after outcomes is the magic of bibliomancy. Priests by nature is a form of cleromancy. Finishing with those who are tasked or are known to interact with the dead, are necromancers. These make for great fiction stories today, but all have a deep history in antiquity and tie religion to magic as two separate constructs for one purpose: the physical and the invisible. Mathematician and philosopher John Dee used crystals in the sixteenth-century to attempt gazing between dimensions to see angels for Queen Elizabeth I and her court (Harken, 1994). So, what happens when magic inserts itself into a realm outside of the tangible world and consciousness, like in dreams? Of course, one could bargain that dreams are fantasies of what we desire manifesting while we sleep, but in ancient times, people were given titles like prophets and seers when they could interpret others’ dreams or foresee the future in visions of their own.

In the Tanak, Old Testament, and Quran, there is a story told of Joseph, son of Jacob, presented as the dream interpreter. After being sold into slavery by his brothers, and spending some time in jail, Joseph is brought before Pharoah. Joseph had created a reputation in jail as knowing what dreams fortold. His ability to understand Pharaohs’ dream saved the people of Egypt and the line of Abraham. The word dream itself can find itself on the seesaw of good and evil, just like any other magical concepts. These magical actions like dreams, and the ability of interpretation, require nothing more than the mind, therefore making the religious artifact a human. Is there something inside us that hold a magical residue?

Some cultures believe our bodies have a portion of divine essence stored within. Some are able to manifest its powers easily, people designated as a priestly caste in ancient times, or magicians by our definition. Making the purpose of religious artifacts like statues, ritual bowls, and other items, to be used for the human experience with magic more amplified. For example, teachings found in Hinduism express that every person has a piece of God within them. This divine essence in every Hindu can be connected on a personal level with the cosmos of God(s) and amplified through puja, which is their core ritual of worship. They use idols to focus their gaze and hope to find a connection with the one they worship. Seems very similar to prayer in the Abrahamic faiths, only without and idol…per say. Debatable if the crucifix and the star od David count as idol symbols. Nevertheless, human find ways to focus on the divine realm to communicate with what is on the other side, thus magic.

Henri-Alexandre Junod, a missionary and anthropologist in Africa, stated that ‘magical axioms were in an arena of forces…they belong to unwritten conceptions,’ and he positions magic in a struggle with religion (Chidester, 2014, p.163). However, this notion of magic, as shown so far, is not absent from religion, nor is the idea that they conflict with each other present throughout history. Antiquity presents how people became aware of magic and created more ways to access it in their daily lives. The struggle appears to be the human factor when it was decided by the church to remove portions of rituals out of the people’s hands and casting a full shadow of evil on anything touching the word magic. 

Magic, as we have lightly touched, is not all good, therefore the church may not have been wrong to cast shadows on various parts. Many structural ruins left by cultures have left behind sacrifice residue, both human and animal, on altars and in their artwork. For whatever the reason, blood sacrifices show that humans had decided what they killed was to be used for more than food and that the blood had power. Did their God(s) explain there was power in the blood and some took it to extreme measures?The story of Cain and Abel speaks of Abel’s blood crying out even after Cain hid his murder scene. Later as the Israelites are given commandments, all 613 of them, blood is apart of purity and should not be spilled. What is it with blood?

Long before science could show us the microscopic structure of DNA and its power to create life, ancient cultures looked at blood as sacred. Some even took advantage of this power and sacrificed the beings standing at the top of the food chain, humans. Kings and influential people used dark magic to intimidate fear in history.

One person’s religion is another’s black magic.

As mentioned, early Christians moved away from the association with magic, bringing the dawn of men who became interested in picking up the occult, or the magic of manipulating the natural world. These were our early scientist who had one foot in the church and one foot trying to find alternate forces. In turn, magic did not cease to exist, and neither did religion by how we have defined it. The practitioner pool has grown to include scientists. We do not bat an eye to use manufactured ingredients for pharmaceuticals, a job once performed by witch doctors and healers. Mystic healers have used magnets and magnetic forces for thousands of years, but science is now manipulating those powers in MRIs to see inside the body to preserve life. Science is a new artifact trying to tap into the unexplored, not as a replacement for what civilizations were doing before the Enlightenment era, but as its equal. The comparison in this blog is not about magic and science, but rather religion and magic. Religion is essentially the action of magic in the visible world, whereas magic exists as a positive and negative force available for anyone to use, including science. Therefore, religion,, as an act to manipulate cannot exist without magic, but magic being a force not dependent on religion, can exist alone.

To sum it all up, our universe is made possible by a force we have yet to understand fully or blanket by one definition. However, when we hear the word magic, don’t assume you’re watching a movie anymore, but instead you are interacting with the very essence that brought the world into existence. For those that believe in spiritual beings, magic is where these energies reside, and it is our souls that connect to them. In turn to answer the first equation, can religion exist without magic, the answer is no.

 

 

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The Shape of Prayer When We Kneel

Since the release of my first non-fiction book, Before the World Was Lost: A Journey to Eden, in December 2018, I’ve decided to write more in-depth on subjects that I lightly touched on.

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One topic in particular, which has opened many conversations because it’s just amazing, is the blip of information in Chapters 6 and 7 about the shape of pyramids and the correlation of how we position ourselves in prayer. I didn’t give it enough page space in the book, but I shed some light on the topic in my first YouTube channel video titled ‘God’s WiFi Signal’ to help give more information.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6TxQV-2zFoU

The more I talk to people about this subject, the more exciting it becomes for me with researching future projects.

There is a challenge explaining a topic seemingly unconnected like spiritual prayer or meditation, along with archeology structures to a generated energy known as torsion field energy. It’s hard to show a relationship to each of these without people thinking you’re full of yourself for trying to explore new theories. The fact is, we are intelligent, but we have yet to understand everything this world has to offer. With the perspective we don’t quite understand all the words used in the book of Job in the Bible, we still can’t agree with the accurate equilibrium of carbon dating, and men continue to uncover things once thought to be jokes within the scope of science.

Quick note: This blog will have me jumping from one thing to the next. Stay with me, and I promise to bring it all together in the end.

For example, the energy that is considered theoretical by most scientists, torsion field energy, is the one thing that ties this blog together with prayer and pyramids. I don’t hesitate to explore this amazing power hypothesis in connection to the Bible and the structures built in ancient times.

To recap, this energy is described as twisting energy that occurs within and emanates outside the earth’s surface. As well, it has been tested that it could occur within human beings. The twisting effect is described as a helix shape like that of a DNA strand that winds in a spiral manner. The shape is formed by the positive and negative alternating charges found naturally in our earth’s layers and inside our bodies. The following images may help.

Several men tried explaining the power of this energy. Russian scientists have written a multitude about this subject, stating that these energy fields are created when something spins with momentum, including particles. Theories state that this energy’s strength wouldn’t break down as it traveled through space, and it’s calculated to be faster than the speed of light.

In the book, I link torsion energy that was recently measured atop a pyramid-like structure in Bosnia to the Tower of Babel’s possible location. Explaining that Nimrod built the Tower in the city, later called Babel, to harness this energy to speak to God to state their claim as a people (Genesis 11). He didn’t build a massive tower in the other cities he ruled over; he built a specific spot. He knew the secret to harness this energy, and I feel the Bible can explain how through a linear theme that Jesus later brought full circle for us to understand.

Bosnian Pyramid

Did the ancient people in the Old Testament understand that God’s connection was only found in certain places? Not his power, the connection to him directly.

In Genesis, we learn that Adam and Eve lost their constant connection to God’s presence after the Fall. Yet, we are told that God spoke with several after the gates of Eden were hidden, including Cain, Noah, Abraham, Jacob, and so on throughout Old Testament times, and again from the clouds after Jesus’s baptism. Yet, in Exodus’s book, God gave Moses specific instructions for building a tabernacle with a sanctuary where God could dwell among the people.

What differed inside the tabernacle? Specifically, the Holy of Holies, where God dwelt.

God gave Moses detailed instructions about the layout, the materials, and the colors of the tabernacle. Plus, the Israelites were made to carry the tent throughout the wilderness journey to be set up where they landed for a time. These ancient people had to learn how to be physically, mentally, spiritually clean, and practice eating clean (Kosher) to enter the tabernacle. All this, plus the 613 laws/commandments given in the Torah, were put in place to help reboot the Israelites habits formed from the Babylonian and the Egyptian rituals these chosen people had practiced for 400 years in bondage.

https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Exodus-Chapter-25/

We know that the tabernacle wasn’t the only way to speak to God directly. Moses spoke with God high atop the mountains on several occasions, yet he later wasn’t permitted to enter the Holy of Holies.

A little over 400 years later, Solomon built something almost identical to the layout…twice.

The ancient people were not stupid or lacking an understanding of the Gods. Every culture has a foundation in God(s) they follow. Adam and Eve didn’t lose their knowledge after eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The people of ancient Israel lost their understanding of how to reconnect to their God after being in bondage to the Egyptians for many centuries. Even before that, the humans lost part of their understanding of Babel.

The tower at Babel was like a ziggurat (a geometric step-pyramid, much like the Mayan temples of Central America). For those who don’t have the Biblical timeline memorized, Babel was way before Moses and the Israelite slavery in Eygpt.

As mentioned before, Nimrod, the ruler of the city, later called Babel, was the ruler of many cities. Yet, he built the tower in a specific location and a specific design. A design his ancestors would have knowledge of and possibly passed along.

Much like the temples built to God’s standards in the Bible, the dimensions seem very important throughout the scriptures. Biblical temples were laid out with the Holy of Holies, where God dwelt among the people, inside the veil with the Ark of the Covenant (up until Solomon’s second temple). Which would also lead us to believe the pitch of the tabernacle would also be important. The next image is what we think of when we think of a tent overlay.

Model of Tabernacle, the tent of meeting in Timna Park, Negev desert

Why would God make it flat? Structurally, if you’ve ever built a blanket fort in your living room, you know flat, heavy blankets cave it to the top regardless of how much you reinforce it. I’m making the key point not to argue the pitch of the portable temples but to give light that this part of the detail wasn’t exactly given to us in the text. Below, I will give you a link for more information on the optional shape of the tented area. I do not know the person who came up with this theory, but I find his mathematical findings quite fascinating.

http://project314.org/betzalel-story/the-discovery

To move on and not make this blog a book, we will live outside the box and say the sheets that draped the tabernacle formed more of a cone-like or possibly a pyramid-like shape. Which would allow water to trickle off (not that rain was abundant in the dessert), allow for air to move out through the top, and keep it from caving inward.

Why is the shape important? The following images show you how energy flows throughout shapes. I explain this in my YouTube video that I linked earlier.

The Pyramids (not just those in Egypt) and the Mayan Temples are central places where ancient cultures practiced their most sacred religious ceremonies or buried their most important people. Giving the image that as you ascend toward the top, you get closer to God, and as I said, the ancients weren’t stupid.

In Genesis 28, we are told about Jacob’s dream of the ladder that had angels ascending and descending. Most scholars theorize this stairway image toward Heaven was much like a ziggurat temple with God at the top. In this story, Jacob’s realizes this when he awoke from the dream,

 Genesis 28:16

16 And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not.

17 And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.

Jacob didn’t know he could tap into Heaven in a place so dreadful. Later we read in the New Testament, Jesus referenced this story,

John 1:50-51:

50 Jesus answered and said unto him, Because I said unto thee, I saw thee under the fig tree, believest thou? Thou shalt see greater things than these.

51 And he saith unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.

Stating that Jacob’s vision would come upon them all and later the rest of the world. We can’t all fit in one area at once, but we can spread across the earth as personal temples of God. Jesus constantly referenced the Old Testament stories and how he was the fulfillment of bringing the Kingdom of Heaven to Earth, and he was the way to the Father in Heaven.

He didn’t pause to pick only the Jews. He offered this to both Jews and Gentiles.

So how does this connect to the pyramid shape, prayer, and torsion energy? As promised, I would jump around but come back to explain.

From the beginning, God left a way for his people to reach him even after the Fall. Examples of the faithful who knelt in prayer and would often offer sacrifice carry throughout the scriptures. The Old Testament mentions Solomon rising from his knees after giving thanks to God, and that Daniel went to his knees 3 times a day in prayer…in the New Testament, Simon Peter fell to his knees before Jesus confessing himself a sinner…and Paul, in a portion of his letters to the Ephesians, he expressed a deep spiritual sermon calling the people to repentance saying,

Ephesians 3:14

14 For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

There is a significance to kneeling in prayer, and the early ancient people understood this as concentrated energy needed to form the connection. To harness the Earth’s energy with their own to bind and obey the laws God set for us to communicate with him fully.

When we kneel in prayer or mediate in a lotus pose, we bring our bodies close together. We pull our own physical vibrating energy into a concentrated shape, forming a ziggurat or pyramid shape.

How many times have you submitted yourself in prayer on your knees? Do you feel the difference?

I am not saying we cant feel prayer when we are standing or walking. What I am trying to express is the signal is stronger when we take to our knees.

In the 1950s, a Russian astrophysicist observed energy output waves similar to how torsion field energy is described. In the 90s, his secret research was brought to light and included experiments with the human mind regarding energy.

These studies found that human thoughts could generate these unique waves and that it was the emotional thoughts that triggered the equipment for higher readings.

This shouldn’t be surprising. When we walk into a room, we can feel the people’s energy inside, and the more people are unified in emotion, the stronger we feel it.

To make it more amazing, think about what the Bible says about our own bodies,

1 Corinthians 6:19,

19 What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

We are temples, spread across the world, just like Jesus said would happen. He left us the Holy Ghost so we could keep our connection.

The ancients built square structures, we’ve seen the remnants throughout the ruins, but they built pyramids for their dead pharaohs, received commandments, and built altars on top of mountains. Today we see church steeples, obelisks on top of sacred markers, and modern landmarks that embody a pyramid’s shape.

The world has listened and multiplied across the land, and we are ready to embrace this power again. We don’t need to jet across the globe to find a sacred grove where God once was; we only need to take to our knees to find where he is right now.

 

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Why God?

My response…there is no other answer but God. Let me explain before anyone gets ‘offended’ or feels the need to yell ‘God doesn’t exist’ as they read this.

As a Christian, I was raised throughout the Protestant sects of religion, having being influenced from Sundays in the baptist church to Catholic to Methodist to later joining the LDS church, all of which taught about Jesus. From a young age, I could see something was missing, real answers about God. Not about the dreams Joseph interpreted for Pharaoh or the three years of Jesus’ ministry. No, my questions stemmed from another subject matter I loved, science.

When the bones of dinosaurs were uncovered or a new galaxy discovered, my interest peeked, and I wanted to know how it all fit into God’s world. Asking my faith leaders or parents didn’t pan out for me, and I found myself moving away from the church; even in my moments of doubt, I didn’t lose hope that there was a God out there who would someday answer my questions.

Of course, from the pieces of scriptures we have gathered, we can get a pretty good picture of what God expected of his people. Be a good person, give freely, love always, serve others, and don’t murder anyone…however, those attributes are not privy to only those who follow God. Therefore, if you don’t believe in the divine, who do you think set the moral compass for humanity? God.

If a man didn’t have God to set the standard, we would follow the other animals’ examples around us. Adultery turned to personal pleasure and murder as population control, with no consequences. Regardless, our moral code is a big part of the God formula. The part that reminds our inner spirit that we know right from wrong.

This kept God as a part of what I was looking for in answers.

The lines between ‘believers’ and non-believers’ have become fuzzy. Some atheists claim they believe in some universal spirit, and some people go to church that admits to not believing in an actual God. Very confusing, and yet both sides are increasing in numbers.

How did we get so far from keeping God in the equation?

People can give reasons why they don’t accept God. For example, if there is a God, why is he not saving the world from all the suffering? If there is a God, why doesn’t he show himself instead of making his people have faith? Not to mention the number of people who have turned away from God because of the actions of some people who cling to God. Some watch every misstep a Christian, or people from any faith, and use that as a reason not to seek God. People’s audacity to think that believing in God instantly makes humans perfect and our world tolerable…accountability is hard for everyone.

Honestly, though, aside from the excuses that stem from pride and idleness, I feel there are truly two reasons people stopped looking to God for answers ages ago, the separation of our origins and the dilution of translation to the people. Humans have been separated from our original understanding of the universe, including God, for thousands upon thousands of years, and we are trying to Humpty Dumpty it all back together again with no reference point. Where did we get lost? Was it before it after Babel? Or was it after the gates of Eden were shut?

 Which brings us to the two topics that differ between those who seek God and those who don’t but seem to stay constant between them all, creation and eternity.

Most religions base their foundation on these topics by laying claim to know how we started on Earth and where we are going when it is over. As followers of God, we can’t agree on what exactly the scriptures say about these two things. Thus we have churches that stand against each other, allowing history to fight wars over the absurdity of religious perspectives. People fighting other people in the name of God? As an outsider trying to seek answers, I can only imagine how that fighting, and killing, over a God might be too intense for someone to become consumed with if they’re already on the fence about the existence of God. It’s not surprising how many decide to skip the whole believing in any God to be therefore not accountable for being wrong. A flip of a coin.

We can use scriptures to show God’s path after creation, and we can even use archeology to prove that stories in the Bible were very true.

Which reminds me. For those who shove their Bible’s into the faces of non-believers, please stop. As I mentioned before, our actions can make or break someone’s decision to seek after God. Yes, the scriptures are a great tool; they can lead us to a deeper connection to God and our eternal salvation, but this only applies after you believe in God. Otherwise, we chance to push people farther away from where God wants them, and the word tells us that everyone will have a chance to know him…trust that and be an example of love with your words and actions. Not that sharing scriptures is wrong because I use it to power my life, but forcing and guilting someone to change is not how Jesus walked the earth.

We live in a culture today that warrants people to make their own decisions and not be held accountable by God’s moral code. Those of us who try to adhere to those standards…we struggle. It’s not easy to bring people to God and make them ‘drink the kool-aid,’ and it’s harder to stay focused toward the Heavens. Especially as the world becomes more and more distracting, and science claims to solve creation without God.

I am one who loves learning about new theories in the world of science, but everything I read brings me closer to God and who He is. We live in a world of extreme intelligence, and at first, it’s intimidating to hear what science has uncovered…but even if you’re on the sides of science without, you require faith as well since no scientific theory about creation has ever been proving the fact. As well, if man’s evolution from a lesser species, wouldn’t we expect to find more ancient writings to reference back to the days they began to walk upright, or the day they turned from the caveman ways? Instead, we find elaborate versions of creation coming from all over the world that reference a God. Why? Because God is the only answer.

Science has answered many questions, so why not God?

Here is where it gets confusing. Science cannot disprove God; as I mentioned, it has yet to explain its own version of creation. Nevertheless, science is a lot like religion in that there are so many types, yet not many of them want to overlap their theories to get along. The challenge comes with all the fancy lingo that makes it sound so complex that unless you’re well versed in thermodynamics and astrophysics, it sounds like facts.

Let’s take something well known, like the Big Bang. The most famed notion of how it all came to be is what most think the theory is trying to explain. In actuality, the Big Bang only states that the universe grew from the rapid expansion of a super hot dense point or singularity. Meaning that it doesn’t explain how the dense point got there…hmm. Now some scientists are questioning this original theory because of new evidence suggesting other possibilities. Here are a few reasons why the Bid Bang doesn’t fit (in advance, I apologize for the confusion of these next statements):

It violates thermodynamics’ first law, which says you can’t create or destroy matter or energy. Fans of the big bang theory say that it doesn’t address the creation of the universe but rather its evolution. Since the laws of science break down as you approach the creation of the universe, there’s no reason to believe the first law of thermodynamics would apply.

Basically, they are saying that the closer we get to creation, the laws of science on earth don’t seem to apply…really? Here’s the thing, no one on this planet has created or destroyed matter or energy because only God knows how to create something out of nothing. Others say that the formation of stars and galaxies violates entropy law, which suggests systems of change become less organized over time. Yet, if you view the early universe as completely homogeneous (made of the same stuff) and isotropic (having the same physical properties throughout), then the universe shows signs of obeying the law of entropy.

God and his teachings have been the same from the beginning. He is not a God of confusion. Our reference to creation lines up in an organized manner as God laid it out from the beginning; we didn’t get the detailed version because salvation seemed to be more important.

The early inflationary period of the big bang appears to violate the rule that nothing can travel faster than light speed.

We know light to be the fastest thing we’ve discovered, but that doesn’t mean something faster doesn’t exist. Especially if our universe shows an equilibrium temperature that can’t be explained without a power faster than the speed of light, but God can.

Also, what was inside that so-called hot dense point? Everything we see today? If the matter cannot be created out of anything according to science, then everything that we see in our universe had to of existed at that point…yet only a year ago, astronomers were able to capture pictures of a planet being born, https://nypost.com/2018/07/02/scientists-capture-first-ever-image-of-planet-being-born/

We have yet to explain the mysteries of our own planet, and we don’t know for certain what lies beneath the layers of our earth; we can’t explain why magnetic north is all of a sudden moving faster than ever recorded…but God…that is why.

Do I think science is wrong, not about everything? I know we have some brilliant people in our world who have studied the universe wanting answers. Those answers can be as simple as making God the equation.

Often I wonder how life on other planets views God. Have they advanced past the confusion? Did they eat the fruit in the Garden of Eden? Or did they never lose sight of God?