Tuesday, September 14, 2010

The Multiverse, The Trinity, and what the hey is reality anyway?

A quick contemplation of the multiverse:

It is if often implied that God is described in mathematics. I think this is certainly true: it can be a reflection of who He is. But it is certainly not the primary descriptor of who He is.

Nowhere in scripture is it ever even indirectly implied that He is a primarily mathematical being. He is a law-giver, yes. But the laws are typically interested in something far less mathematic. This is, after all, the God whose name, "I AM who I AM" revealed Himself as 3 beings in 1 and 1 being in 3. It's not a mathematic explanation. It's beyond it.

And ultimately, that is one half of the primary message about God in the Bible. One half is "fear what you do not know" and the other half is "what you infinitely do not know, loves you deeply."

It's the fundamental description provided in Genesis where God describes Himself as the Creator. The scientists of today are (in their atheistic moments) not unlike the pagans. The Pagans only believed what they saw. The moon-god, the sun-god, etc. The God of Abraham described Himself by what is Not Seen and what created us and everything which we do see.

He came down from heaven and in unimaginable power pointed His finger at us and said, "Bow before the One you cannot understand who created everything you can." He resists explanation but explains everything.

Godel-like, he validates our system. All our systems. Without His necessity, we are endlessly an aberrant computer program spinning off into an infinity which invalidates itself. Without the God-parameter, we are Wild E. Coyote feeling the nothingness beneath our feet before uneasily peeking down and falling into oblivion. God is the only and necessary terra firma.

And this post has been surprisingly uncomfortable to write. I think any honest encounter with the Almighty is.

And yet, inexplicably, He revealed Himself as human and in love. The person of Jesus is the ultimate resolution to every sickness.

I think perhaps the multi-verse is true. I really don't care either way. It doesn't surprise me that the infinite Creator God would reveal Himself as infinitely creative. It is amusing to see how the God of Abraham is necessary to keep the multiverse model from constructing its own destruction. God is terrifying and huge.

Perhaps in Genesis, he didn't give them a theory of everything. Not in our traditional, scientific sense, anyhow. This seems especially prescient considering the trend in physics that there is very unlikely to be a theory of everything. Instead, He gave us himself, who is the theory of everything. The doctrine of creation is supremely important.

And He loves us individually and deeply. Despite Hawking's protestations.