“WHAT IF”
FIRST OF ALL, I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT I CANNOT ATTEND A CONVENTIONAL CHURCH WITHOUT BEING HYPOCRITICAL, BUT I FIRMLY BELIEVE IN GOD, JESUS, PRAYER, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, LIFE AFTER DEATH, AND BASIC CHRISTIANITY. ALSO, IN IT’S UNALTERED AND ORIGINAL FORM, THE BIBLE WAS PROBABLY A MUCH MORE ACCURATE, THOUGH SIMPLISTIC, DOCUMENT THAN EXISTS TODAY.
HOWEVER, IT IS MY OPINION, THAT THROUGH THE SEVERAL DIFFERENT INTERPRETATIONS, REVISIONS, VERSIONS AND TRANSLATIONS OF BIBLICAL INFORMATION BY PERSONS WHO WERE IGNORANT TO MODERN SCIENCE, SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES, AND TECHNOLOGY, THE TRUE MEANINGS AND ACCURATE INTERPRETATION OF THE EVENTS RECORDED ORIGINALLY HAVE BEEN LOST. TO ME, THE BIBLE WAS INTENDED TO BE AN HISTORICAL DIARY OF A TRULY REMARKABLE VISIT AND A SERIES OF PROFOUND EVENTS THAT DID IN FACT OCCUR. IT IS SAD THAT MAN WAS NOT AT THE TIME, INTELLECTUALLY CAPABLE OF ACCURATELY COMPREHENDING AND RECORDING WHAT HE ACTUALLY SAW. BECAUSE OF THIS, MANS EARLY, AND ONGOING, INTERPRETATION OF RELIGIOUS DOCTRINE HAS TAKEN MANY AVENUES OF APPROACH, AND IN PRESENT REALITY, APPEARS TO ME TO HAVE BEEN INITIALLY BASED ON NAIVE CONJECTURE STIMULATED BY DIRECT EXPOSURE TO SEVERAL INSTANCES OF PROFOUND AND UNEXPLAINABLE PHENOMENON THAT OCCURRED BEFORE A MODERN UNDERSTANDING OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGICAL ABILITIES WAS DEVELOPED. HOWEVER, AS ONE LOOKS AT THE HISTORY OF MAJOR RELIGIOUS FACTIONS, IT IS APPARENT THAT ALTHOUGH THE INTERPRETATION AND FOLLOWING OF THIS DOCTRINE WAS GREATLY VARIED, THERE WERE SOME ABSOLUTES THAT DID NOT CHANGE.
SOME EXAMPLES ARE: ONE SUPREME BEING OR ENTITY SUCH AS GOD, BUDDHA, MOHAMMED, AND THE GREAT SPIRIT. ALSO, THERE IS LIFE AFTER DEATH, GOOD AND EVIL, AND RULES THAT MUST BE FOLLOWED TO THE BEST OF ONES ABILITY TO ACHIEVE ACCEPTANCE TO THE HIGHER LEVEL OF EXISTENCE AFTER PHYSICAL DEATH.
TODAY, WE KNOW THAT THE UNIVERSE IS IMMENSE. WE ALSO KNOW THAT GALAXIES WITHIN OUR UNIVERSE GO ON AND ON, AND THERE ARE PROBABLY MILLIONS UPON MILLIONS OF THEM IN EXISTENCE. MOST OF THESE GALAXIES CONTAIN UNCOUNTABLE NUMBERS OF STARS. (WHICH ARE SUNS) SOME OF THESE STARS ARE HUGE. OTHERS ARE TINY. SOME ARE VERY NEW AND SOME ARE EXTREMELY ANCIENT. SOME HAVE BURNED OUT, COLLAPSED UPON THEMSELVES, AND HAVE BECOME "BLACK HOLES IN SPACE, WHILE OTHERS HAVE EXPLODED IN SUPER-NOVA. BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, SOME ARE ABOUT THE SAME SIZE UNIFORMITY AND CONSISTENCY OF OUR SUN. THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE, THERE ARE PROBABLY TRILLIONS UPON TRILLIONS OF STARS THAT ARE VERY MUCH THE SAME AS OUR SUN. IF ONE BELIEVES IN EXTRA TERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENT LIFE, ONE CANNOT LOOK INTO A CLEAR NIGHT SKY WITHOUT FEELING EXTREMELY HUMBLED AND INSIGNIFICANT. IT IS MY BELIEF THAT WE ARE MOST CERTAINLY, NOT THE ONLY RELIGIOUS AND INTELLIGENT LIFE IN OUR UNIVERSE.
WHAT IF:
ALL INTELLIGENT LIFE IS CREATED IN GOD’S IMAGE NO MATTER WHAT PHYSICAL CONFIGURATION IT HAPPENS TO BE IN.
WHAT IF:
"GOD”, THE CREATOR OF ALL THINGS, ELECTED TO ESTABLISH INTELLIGENT LIFE ON A FEW OF THOSE PLANETS AS HE DID HERE ON EARTH?
WHAT IF:
CREATION AND EVOLUTION ARE THE SAME. THE TWENTY-FOUR HOUR DAY IS MANS EARTHLY CONCEPT OF TIME BECAUSE IT FITS THE PHYSICS OF EARTH’S ROTATION IN ORBIT AROUND THE SUN, AND THE SPINNING OF THE PLANET ON IT’S AXIS.
WHAT IF:
ONE OF GOD' S DAYS EQUALS A BILLION OR SO OF OUR YEARS? TO PUT THIS INTO PERSPECTIVE, COMPARE A SINGLE ATOM TO OUR SOLAR SYSTEM, THEN COMPARE THE AVERAGE TIME REQUIRED FOR THE ELECTRONS (PLANETS) TO ORBlT AROUND THE NUCLEUS (SUN) AND THEN THINK OF THE SIZE/TIME RELATIONSHIP COMPARING OUR SOLAR SYSTEM TO THAT ATOM. THEN COMPARE OUR TINY SOLAR SYSTEM, AS AN ATOM, TO THE IMMENSITY OF THE UNIVERSE. SURELY, UNIVERSAL TIME CANNOT BE ON THE SAME SCALE AS MANS. IF THIS CONCEPT IS TRUE, THEN SIX OF "GOD'S" DAYS COULD EQUAL BILLIONS OF YEARS OF OUR EARTH TIME. WHEN MAN INTERPRETED AND WROTE "GOD'S" WORD (BIBLE) HE HAD NO ACCURATE CONCEPT OF THE UNIVERSE OR DIFFERENT TIME SCALES. SO SIX DAYS, (MANS INTERPRETATION OF "GOD'S” WORD) TO CREATE OUR EARTH COULD BE CORRECT FORM BOTH “GOD’S” WORD (BIBLE) AND DARWIN’S THEORY OF EVOLUTION.
WHAT IF:
“GOD’S” CREATION OF LIFE FLOWS ACROSS THE UNIVERSE AS A WAVE UPON THE OCEANS? (CONSIDER OUR PLANET BUT AS A SINGLE AND MINUSCULE GRAIN OF SAND UPON THE SHORES OF THE TINY ATOLL OF OUR GALAXY IN THE IMMENSE SEA OF THE UNIVERSE)
WHAT IF:
OTHER GALAXIES RECEIVED THE BLESSING OF LIFE A FEW OF “GOD’S” DAYS BEFORE OURS DID. WOULD NOT THIS MEAN THERE ARE BILLIONS OF PLANETS IN THE UNIVERSE THAT COULD HAVE INTELLIGENT LIFE AT LEAST A FEW HUNDRED THOUSAND YEARS ADVANCED TO OURS HERE ON EARTH?
WHAT IF:
THE “WAVE OF LIFE” IS STILL PROGRESSING? IF SO, THEN IS IT NOT POSSIBLE THAT WE COULD ALSO BE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF YEARS AHEAD OF BILLIONS OF PLANETS.
WHAT IF:
THE “GARDEN OF EDEN” WAS NOT A LOCATION ON EARTH, BUT WAS THE ENTIRE PLANET? NO OTHER PLANET IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM HAS ALL THE ELEMENTS RE