Posted by
Ike on Friday, May 14, 2010 4:39:44 PM
Approximately thirteen and a half billion years ago (or six days) G-d
set in motion a program. Maybe we should call it a loom since it is the
formulation of the fabric of space-time, but since no one can really
envision what actually it is, let’s just call it a program. The program
which determined all aspects of our universe including all natural law
as well as energy and matter, did not need to be touched for thirteen
and a half billion years. But, as with all programs, eventually
glitches occurred. Maybe not glitches, but in order to get the final
result that G-d, The Eternal, wants, the program, like all programs,
eventually needed to be tweaked. The program required to tweak the
original program took more power than the original and yet it was only a
small piece of the original that needed tweaking. The second program
has been discussed and argued throughout human history in every
institute of learning, both religious and secular. The name of this
program is “free will”. Why did this program take G-d more power than
the original program that set the universe in motion? The reason is
simple but confusing; this program runs contra to the original program
but mustn’t disturb the original program from functioning as it was
intended. In fact the second program almost runs counter to G-d Himself,
and that isn’t possible. Some of the perturbations of the second
program on natural law become visible in quantum mechanics and the
Heisenberg uncertainty principle.
Some say that this is not the first time that G-d has tried this
programming and that this is the fifth or sixth universe. That means
that He has not yet created what He wants. But this is speculation.
After the implementation of the second program, again G-d watched, (and
rested on the seventh day). With the advent of free will “man” was
closer, and yet further, from G-d. Man saw his own limitations and
sought reasons and other powers. Man looked for G-d in the small powers
on earth and in the sky. Man looked at the wind, the sun, the moon.
Not until Abraham, the first convert, did man first see the hand of the
Almighty. He saw by seeing the negative, that which was not there and
realized that the only true power could not be seen. Man had taken his
first step out of the cradle. Now man could think beyond that which he
saw. Now man could grow and start to use the second program of “free
will”. Now philosophy was possible. Now science was possible. Now man
can possibly become that which the program was made for.
Of course, Earth is not the only Petri dish in this laboratory we call
the Universe. There are trillions. Some are similar and some are so
different we wouldn’t even think there was life. Some have the second
program integrated in to their system and some have other programs
involved in their evolution, but they are all tests. It is difficult
for humans to understand that perfection is a concept and even G-d
product tests during development. If only we had some idea when we were
being tested, and for what. In school tests are used to insure learning
of material. In industry tests are all stress tests of one kind or
another.
Some religions feel that life on Earth is a school to learn for the
afterlife. Others feel that we are stress tested to see if we are “good”
enough for “Heaven”, what-ever that might be. Neither concept leaves
room for a program that has been running since the Universe began, to
create a product that G-d wants/needs. You’re all waiting for me to
tell you what is needed, but honestly I can only guess. My best guess is
that G-d wants to bring about the development of species that are able
to be partners in creation.
The next question might be how far along is mankind? Again I can only
guess. The one thing I am sure of is that the closer we get to be a
finished product, the worse the stress tests will be.
For almost one million years mankind’s growth was almost stagnant.
Although we had picked up sticks and stones and started early farming,
it had taken forever because we were worshiping nature and the
environment. We looked to weather, the sun, the moon and mother earth
as our gods. We saw only through our eyes, and not through our minds.
Then G-d intervened, the second program. In five thousand years we
went from the wheel to the rocket, from rudimentary writing to
world-wide communication and the computer age. For five thousand years
mankind prospered. And that despite 1500 years held back by the
kidnapping of G-d’s worship and freewill, by a power hungry group that
would not allow the free flow of thought as G-d had planned. Then just
about one and a half centuries ago Nietzsche proclaimed that “G-d is
dead”. Although others had tried to kill off G-d throughout the
centuries in the eyes of the average person, usually by attacking the
Jewish people who had brought G-d to mankind, Nietzsche was a better
writer. Within a century Germany completely lost a sense of morality,
not all, but most, and fifty million died.
Despite the World War and the end of the regime that followed
Nietzsche’s logic, mankind is still suffering from a loss of all that
G-d had brought. Mankind is rejecting G-d and turning back to nature
and the environment. Although most would not say that they worship the
environment, thier very actions tell the lie of those statements. And
with the worshiping of nature and the environment comes a negation of
and restriction of the progress towards G-d’s goals. Protect the world
G-d has given us, of course, but subjugate our future development to a
worship of nature and the environment, never.
All the fears and prophecies of doom are there to tear at our
faith in the Oneness of the Universe and our place in it. Yes, there
will be tests and they will be harsh, but none of the tests will be
impossible for Mankind to overcome if we have faith in the abilities
that G-d has given us. Although we must be humble before G-d we must
never humble ourselves before nature. Our place is to tame nature and
the environment; neither to harm nor to worship them.