RWNJ wrote:
Question. How can there be something, without there first being nothing? There had to be a time when there was nothing. No matter. No energy. No space or time. Otherwise, something would have to be eternal. This is impossible for anything of a physical nature. But not impossible for God.
Hi RWNJ
I don't totally disagree with you, but just to put this in another light: According to the theory of relativity, time slows down as we approach the speed of light. Studies have shown also that the speed of light is the same whether an object is moving toward the source, or away from the source. I have never heard a scientist say this, but I think sometimes they overlook the obvious, is that, if that is the case then the speed of light is an illusion, therefore time is an illusion, and so is the space time continuum. The implications of this is that the eternal now is the only reality. Things change constantly and in changing they originally go back to the source. But once again, that is all illusion. So where does the illusion come from? From only one source, that source is mind, that is the ONLY thing that exists, and nothing else does exist except for the illusion created by that mind.
Therefore, there is really no time, no space, nothing. But there is consciousness, and nothing else. The Chinese book called the I Ching explains this in the first two hexagrams, the yin and the yang. Scientists who study this though, are often not truly honest about the ramifications of this, and will go out of their way to make any scientific discovery look like it points to an atheistic view.
The story in the gospels about the prodigal son can be read on many levels, but on one level it is a veiled story about the origin of the universe, and the big bang. The Son, (matter created by the Father-consciousness) goes out into the universe. It finds however, that this is just a shell and an illusion, and eventually goes back to the Father. In other words the expansion eventually returns to contraction and the universe once again folds in upon itself, (in the context of the illusion).
in reality however, big bangs are going on all the time, and galaxies are expanding and contracting all the time based on where they are in the process. These are displayed in the form of supernovas, and then black holes. This is history repeating itself, (it is cyclical, not just linear) and is continuous. The last two chapters of the I ching express this very well as well. The second law of thermodynamics says that left to themselves, all things will tend to break down. This is only one half of the facts though. When things fall apart, they reorganize themselves into new forms, so you always have a form of involution and evolution going on. Scientists see this second part and come up with the theory of evolution. They are partly correct in the theory, just not in the application of the theory. Not only nature on planet earth balances itself, but the entire universe does, even with mankind in the way. This is a fundamental principle of Taoism, and Hebrew code, and requires a consciousness to make it work. In this sense there is no God as fundamentalism often thinks of it, only a "universal subconscious mind." Conscious is the only thing that exists. Nothing else does. Not even time. Yet for us, for all practical purposes, it does exist.