3. TRANSCENDENT TRUTH & INVISIBLE REALITIES

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1 3. TRANSCENDENT TRUTH & INVISIBLE REALITIES

2 Session Three: Transcendent Truth and Invisible Realities Why I Believe.How about You?

3 Invisible Realities Invisible Realities Invisible Invisible The Unseen Guest!

4 Two Clubs The Club of Thomas [John 20: 25] The Club of Elisha [2 Kings 6:17] In our modern world, we need to be part of both clubs.

5 And you thought the OT was hard to fathom! 27 km circle Supercooled Magnets Build: 6.4 billion US 30 years to make Yearly: 1 billion An example of simulated data modeled for the CMS particle detector on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Here, following a collision of two protons, a Higgs boson is produced which decays into two jets of hadrons and two electrons. The lines represent the possible paths of particles produced by the proton-proton collision in the detector while the energy these particles deposit is shown in blue

6 Sudbury Neutrino Detector Cannot take a photo of a neutrino but can see its effects. [cf a meteor] Get my drift?!

7 Invisible Realities three categories Those that are beyond our senses but can be shown with help [eg Gravity, Subatomic particles, Neutrinos, Solar Wind, Distant Galaxies] Those that are beyond our senses and can be deemed real by the consequences. [eg love, hate, good, evil, fear, Holy Spirit etc.] cf. the effects God produces. Those that we cannot know nor ever will likely be able to know or prove. And what preceded the universe! Caution: Arrogance, started in the garden!

8 Is there a Secret Code? Top Secret!? Deut. 29:29

9 PUZZLING HISTORY

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11 TAKING SHAPE! Can you trust the artist? Credible? What if the artist didn t get it quite right? When you actually got there and it was different than what the artist portrayed.what would you say?

12 Love and Hate Anger Jealousy Belief Motives Question: Can you, using scientific methods prove any of these? What camera, detector, recording device can you use to document these? Or, can you simply prove their existence by their effects? (Neutrinos)

13 Invisible Realities God is a Spirit and they who worship Him must worship in spirit and in truth [Remember, spirit is beyond our human/animal senses] Jesus on the road to Emmaus Miracles Good and Evil Intuition Prophecy etc.

14 Why do babies not ask the big questions? Why do we? Why do children have no problem with knowing or accepting that there is a God?

15 Metaphors, Analogies, Illustrations, Object lessons, Comparisons, Similes help to understand. Also: Anthropomorphism: noun: the attribution of human characteristics or behavior to a god, animal, or object. Benefits (Get a sense of God s personhood which includes: relationship, creativity, emotion, sense of morality) Risks (Confine God to our expectations and our norms and behaviour the Greeks tried that too. Leads to disappointment with God) Examples Rev. 1

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17 Electron entanglement None of the laws of known physics explain this. It is proven but no one knows how it works that s why it s termed spooky Any further questions about God s creativity or involvement in our experience? Mind boggling to the nth degree!! Can you ever again doubt that God hears our prayers?

18 Dimensionality Theory Huge conundrums Supported by Astrophysics and Quantum physics Hugh Ross [Reasons to Believe]

19 Dimensionality Theory From Dr. Hugh Ross book: Beyond the Cosmos

20 Astrophysics suggests that this universe at the time of the singularity was created with 10 plus dimensions in operation. Can we doubt the wonder, power, omnipotence of our God?

21 Spiritual Blindness John 1: 10, 11 [The people did not see the logos Luke 19: [Jesus wept over Jerusalem] 2 Kings 6: 17 [Invisible realities] beautiful consequence Matthew 15:14 [Do we have blind guides?]

22 Fish with four eyes The Four-Eyed Fish (Anableps anableps) of Central and South America does not actually have four eyes, but does indeed have four pupils. Each eye s two pupils are divided by a span of iris. Four-eyed fish prefer to sit at the surface of a still pool in a brackish mangrove swamp, watching for insects to eat both above and below the water surface, and so their eyes are only halfsubmerged. The two pupils of each eye, therefore, not only watch the surface from both above and below it, but are calibrated to view both air and water differently.

23 The Bible said it first! 1 Peter 1:8 Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you so not see him now, you believe. 2 Cor. 4:18 So we fix our eyes not on what is seen but what is unseen John 20: 29 Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed. Romans 1: 20 God s invisible qualities have been clearly seen Colossians 1: 15 He [Christ] is the image of the invisible God ] Colossians 1: 16 For by him all things were created visible+] 1 Tim. 1: 17 Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God

24 So. There are various degrees of penetrance of reality: some is obvious, some is obscure, some is hinted at, some we shall never know! Invisible Realities cannot be proven within our earthling existence but their presence is evident by their functioning within our dimensionality [cf. examination of the clay of the pot does not provide clarification of the hands that made it!] 2 Corinthians 4 This is why we must be careful from deducing anything from ignorance or a Null event/idea. Neither can one refute something based on a Null concept. A call for humility! eg: Taste and see that the Lord is good! Until you do, God remains a Null event/idea.

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