Sunday, March 28, 2010

What's in Gods Toolbox?

Every mechanic, builder, inventor and creator has a toolbox with gadgets and tools and materials needed to execute any given task. Most of the tools we use are specialized for a given task. A screwdriver, for example, is perfect at driving screws, however useless for holding nuts.

Tools provide us (mankind) with a mechanical advantage that we would not have without them. Try to drive a nail without a hammer, or chop down a tree without an axe. The genius of mankind to fashion tools to enhance our quality of living, and make our modern lives possible, is truly a gift indeed.

As we have discovered earlier, our physical universe has constants that keep order in God's creation. We are perfectly suited to operate on our world and much of this we owe to simple things like: gravity, friction, momentum, and inertia, to name a few. Even before God introduced Adam to Eve, Adam was making good use of gravity and friction, otherwise, he'd be floating around Eden, and without friction, everything he grasped would slip through his fingers like a wet bar of soap.

Reading Gen 3:17, we can see that God makes it official that mankind has to toil, sweat, and work the soil for the rest of his life. Undoubtedly, after Gen 3:23, Adam makes good use of his newly invented shovel, hoe, and pick, in which to "work" the ground. Before that (Gen 2:15) God had Adam already "working" in the garden. Clearly, God created us here, to work.

What tools then does God use at his disposal? By the strictest sense of the function of tools, it appears that God has no need for any tools. If tools help mankind, perform work, it is because we need help to gain an advantage. Consider the lever and fulcrum for a mechanical advantage! However, God doesn't need help from tools. Read the last few chapters of Job and it becomes obvious that God simply causes everything to happen. The creator of the universe is essentially a General Contractor with infinite control, unlimited budget, and no-one to answer to!

What materials does God use in his creation? While it's unclear through any biblical research, it is written that God simply spoke or formed things into existence. There are numerous theories to attempt to explain how the universe actually became physical, but most scientists tend to explain their theories from within the box.

If we take a beautiful man-made crystal vase and drop it onto a concrete floor, it will shatter beyond its original form and take on a new form using the laws of Chaos to drive it. The crystal vase was created in our 3D + Time universe, but let's think out of our universe and into a realm where the spirit resides.

Take a fraction of God's spirit and drop it into our universe. Like a pebble in a calm lake, the effect is dramatic and the ripples are endless. Everything that has any form in our our universe could easily trace it's very existence to an infinitesimal portion of Gods spirit. Not in an ethereal sense, but literally! It makes perfect sense when we say God is everywhere or God is within us... indeed, we and everything in our existence is literally derived from Gods spiritual gift to our universe.

It's reasonable to conclude that God has no need for tools because God doesn't have to work (toil) at anything. Gods "construction material" comes from his spirit entering our physical universe and is not subject to the law of mans Chaos, rather Gods law of order. Metaphorically speaking, when mankind explodes, he disintegrates, when God explodes, he integrates into greater order.

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