DAY 3 Continued: Land Appears + Plant Life
Then God said: "Let the waters under the heavens be collected together into one place, and let the dry land appear." And it was so. God called the dry land Earth, but the collecting of the waters, he called Seas. And God saw that it was good. Then God said: "Let the earth cause grass to sprout, seed-bearing plants and fruit trees according to their kinds, yielding fruit along with seed on the earth." And it was so. And the earth began to produce grass, seed-bearing plants and trees yielding fruit along with seed, according to their kinds. Then God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, a third dayGe 1:9-13
Day 3 is much more accessible to our minds than what happened on Day 4 because it deals with things we are all familiar with - the appearance of the Earth. The Bible tells us that the land appeared when the waters were gathered together into central locations. This of course was accomplished through the movements of the continental plates upward. The collecting of the waters thus allowed the land that was underneath to become visible, in the same way a receding wave on the beach makes the sand beneath visible. Jehovah then started calling the central reservoirs of water "Seas," but the dry land he called "Earth."
EXPLANATORY NOTE
What a wonderful jewel we live on! Here, we can see the Earth has an atmosphere, but there is no Habitable Zone, since the Earth is still the only object in the Cosmos. You will note also that there are no stars in the background. Yet, the Earth is still lit up. That reminds us that we still have to find and identify the source of light for the first three creative days!
Thus, the stage was set for his next decree, the command for the fabrication of plant life. I like that word fabrication, because it neatly divides between Jehovah's role and that of Jesus. God created, in the sense of imagining, designing, and supplying the power necessary, but Jesus as his master worker, actually produced the entities. All that is captured in the term "fabricated." Just like you can design something and then send its complete blueprint to an industrial 3-D printing company for fabrication. Of course, in the case of Jehovah and his beloved Son, the reason Jehovah opted to have Christ build everything is not out of convenience, but for very fundamental reasons that we will cover in an upcoming episode. Nevertheless, this was the process followed on Day 3, as on other creative days. We continue moving farther back in the narrative to Day 2!
DAY 2 - Creating the EXPANSE
Then God said: "Let there be an expanse between the waters, and let there be a division between the waters and the waters." Then God went on to make the expanse and divided the waters beneath the expanse from the waters above the expanse. And it was so. God called the expanse Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second dayGe 1:6-8
The first thing we have to point out is that you most likely have the wrong intuition as to just how much water was on the Earth at the end of Genesis 1:1. When most people read the words of Genesis 1:6-8 as quoted above, they imagine the waters being spoken of here as being taken from the Earth to be above the expanse, as perhaps the clouds that form our atmosphere. This notion is wrong, for the simple reason we glean from when Jehovah creates the Sun and moon and stars on Day 4. There we learnt that:
God said: "Let there be luminaries in the expanse of the heavens to make a division between the day and the night, and they will serve as signs for seasons and for days and years. They will serve as luminaries in the expanse of the heavens to shine upon the earth." And it was so. And God went on to make the two great luminaries, the greater luminary for dominating the day and the lesser luminary for dominating the night, and also the stars. Thus God put them in the expanse of the heavens to shine upon the earthGe 1:14-17
Notice that all such luminaries were put "in the expanse of the heavens to shine upon the earth." Put another way, such luminaries were put between the two waters, for that is the area described as the "expanse." This included not only the two great luminaries - the most dominant in Earth's orbit - the Sun and the moon, but also all the stars. You can confirm for yourself that Jehovah's description in Genesis 1:14-17 includes the stars, because when Jehovah creates the opposite effect, that is, when he wants darkness on the Earth as opposed to light shining upon it, he also included the stars in that function:
"And when you are extinguished I will cover the heavens and darken their stars. I will cover the sun with clouds, and the moon will not give its light. I will darken all the shining luminaries in the heavens because of you, and I will cover your land with darkness,' declares the Sovereign Lord JehovahEze 32:7,8
Darkening "ALL the shining luminaries in the heavens" would be incomplete if the stars were left out! Thus, we appreciate that the waters above the expanse of the heavens cannot be the clouds that form part of our atmosphere. For the moon and Sun lie outside this region - not inside it. For this same reason, these upper waters cannot be found anywhere in our solar system for they encompass other stars, besides the Sun. But our solar system has no other stars. Since these "upper waters" encompass other stars, their final location location must then lie, outside of our solar system. Now, for such water to encompass all the stars in the Cosmos, we can imagine how a large a quantity of water was originally on the surface of the Earth! That is Day 2 - and the "EXPANSE."
DAY 1 - WHAT HAPPENED ON DAY ONE?
We properly call each of the six days Jehovah and his Son worked at bringing the universe into existence: "Creative Days." But of course, technically, they are not the beginning of creation. They are just when God started counting and cataloguing his creative accomplishments according to his wisdom. Out of them all, perhaps the most confusing to some is Day ONE. What exactly happened on the first creative day? What was accomplished? What would you say? Take the time to carefully think about it.
Many people imagine that light was created on the the first creative day. It was NOT. Let me quote the account for your convenience:
After that God saw that the light was good, and God began to divide the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, but the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, a first dayGe 1:4,5
Clearly, the first creative day came "after" light was created and God saw that it was good. As we follow the creative account from Genesis 1:1 we realize that at first, everything existed in darkness. This is before the introduction of creative days, for there is, as yet, no light - the means by which creative days are measured.
Thereafter, God creates light. But the creation of light itself falls outside the creative days! Just as the presence of darkness - before light was invented - did not define a creative day, neither does the mere presence of light, define it. For, each creative day has the same format: two opposite periods of equal length. One of darkness and one of light. Only when we have both these periods at play, and Jehovah is busy with creation, does the time period being covered qualify for being labeled as a Creative Day! Thus, the seventh day has both these periods of light and dark; but Jehovah is not creating anything on it, thus it does not qualify as one of the creative days. It is a Sabbath, a holy day of rest. Similarly, the period of time of undetermined length that came before the advent of light was a period of busy creative activity - for that is when the Heavens and the Earth were created (among other things) - but it too, does not qualify as a creative day because, in addition to creative activity, it didn't have the two periods of night and day, that are necessary before it can be called a "creative day." With those thoughts clear in mind, we ask: what, then, does the Bible indicate happened on the first creative day?
We know it wasn't the creation of light, because the existence of light is required before we can start counting a creative day. What then happened on this day? Initially, there was darkness. Then God created light. "After that" the Bible tells us, "God saw that the light was good." Thus what happens next is after the creation of light. We are told that, then, God started to divide the darkness from the light! It may surprise you, but even this dividing of light from darkness is not what constituted the events of the first day. In fact Jehovah did not do anything on the first creative day. It was a run through of the full cycle of two phases of the Day - equal lengths of day and night that he had just automated! Previous to the running of the now automated cycle of night and day. That's it. So, the heavy lifting, in terms of creating light, dividing it from darkness, and automating their two equal phases was all done beforehand. And the Day 1 was just a run through of the now automated process. That is why on each of the successive creative days, the cycle continued on its own. Thus the ending statement for each of those subsequent days is: "And then there was evening and there was morning, a ... day."
Follow the pattern: first there is darkness; then God creates light and darkness vanishes. At this point we do not yet have a creative day because, the light has not existed for an equal length of time with the darkness that preceded it. Also the darkness that God called "Night," is the one created by the absence of light - not its non-existence! That's an important detail to note. In Genesis 1:2 when "there was darkness upon the watery deep," Jehovah did not refer to that darkness as Night. Night is a name he gave to the darkness that is part of the overall Day, and exists due to the absence of existing light - and not its non-existence! Continuing on, God brings the darkness BACK! This point marks the beginning of the first creative day. For, this darkness is the official darkness called Night. Only this darkness, forms a portion of each creative day. After light was created, it - light - was the status quo in the universe. There was light everywhere. Hence, the dividing of light and darkness starts in conditions of light, and for this reason a full cycle can only be completed when we RETURN back to light conditions! That's why the creative days are opposite to how we count a day. They start with the evening and end with the morning. Whereas, we start our days with the morning and end with evenings.
This dynamic was a consequence of how the creative day was developed. There had to be light before light and darkness could be divided from each other. So only after the light came to be, did Jehovah start dividing it from the darkness - by bringing the darkness back and thus starting the reckoning of creative days. Thus, the first creative day is just a running of the full cycle of Night and Day, starting with darkness, and ending with day. Do not mistake my statement that God did nothing on the first creative day. The creativity behind Light is one of Jehovah's most awe-inspiring works! For behind Heaven, Light, once you know its true identity, is the most astonishing non-living entity in the whole universe! It's just that its development happened outside the events of the first creative day:
God called the light Day, but the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, a first dayGe 1:5
In summary: light was not created on the first creative day but before it. Hence, once light was created the account says, "After" in describing the events that led to the first creative day. Further, the dividing of the light from the darkness is also not part of the first creative day. The first creative day is an IMPLEMENTING OF THE CYCLE of universal Night and Day. And that's ... what was accomplished on the first creative day!
Impact on Times & Seasons of the Jewish Calendar
The Jews are of course, God's special people. When Jehovah set them up as a nation they counted their days in the same way as the creative days of Genesis, with the day starting in the "evening" and ending with the close of the period where there is light - what we call dusk or twilight. Just before the next period of darkness starts - and with it a new Day. This is why the memorial of Christ's death can only start after sundown on Nisan 14. Before sundown, you are still in Nisan 13!
The Complex Mechanics of "Light"
We have to point out an outstanding difference between how night and day are created by stars including our Sun, and how they were created in the creative days. When the Sun shines on the Earth it creates day and night simultaneously in different regions of the Earth. The half of the globe that is facing the Sun will receive light rays, and the portion that is facing away from the Sun will not - it will be in darkness. And thus night and day are accomplished through the variable movements of the Earth - not the source of the light. This is not the case with the light of the creative days!
In that instance, it was the source of the light that alternated between being 'on' and 'off.' It would not have mattered if the Earth was rotating on its axis or not. When there was light the whole Earth was covered in light, and when the was darkness, the absence of light was also global. We know that because when there was darkness on the surface of the watery deep before God created light, that surface was a global ocean, for there was as yet, no land. And if any portion of it had been receiving light there would have been no need for God to create light - for it would already have existed. Thus the darkness was global. Similarly, when God created light, the effect was global on the Earth. We know that because God later made a divide between the light and the darkness. Had the light not been global, had there been some portion of the Earth that was not bathed in light, Jehovah would not have gone on to make a division between the light and the darkness, because there would already have been such a division! Hence, the light was also global - affecting all points on the Earth at once. Thus the dividing between light and dark cannot be of the variable kind that is created by starlight. It is a global kind where light conditions affect the whole Earth, and dark conditions also prevail over the whole Earth. This means the Earth cannot be the entity that is effecting the changing conditions. They must be produced by something else. But remember, at this point in the development of the universe the Earth is the only entity in the Cosmos. That means whatever is creating the light is now, the SECOND PHYSICAL ENTITY TO APPEAR IN OUR UNIVERSE. What could that entity be?
Well, in understanding how its light affected the Earth we are building a clear Evidence Profile of this entity. It's identity cannot be far from our reach now. All we have to do is find another entity with the same Evidence Profile and we know they must be the same thing - "Light." Having come to understand that this "light" is the product of some entity, we will use a capital 'L' when referring to it from now on, and a small 'l' when referring to light rays in general. In the meantime, we recall that there is another type of light that is not starlight, and that cannot be created without an entity. A form of radiation that requires a vibrational lattice for its production! Hmm. Could they be ...?
BEFORE DAY 1 - "LET THERE BE LIGHT"
GLORY TO JEHOVAH - THE PATIENT & ONLY TRUE GOD!
Think of the self-control it takes to allow yourself to be wronged and to wait 6 000 years, for vengeance! That is what Jehovah has done. As we consider this section think of all of God's enemies whom he has allowed to profane his holy name, to route his chosen nation - the people of Israel - and live out their lives thinking they were in the right. Firmly believing they had conquered Jehovah. It is not because Jehovah does not have feelings that he allows such developments. Contrary to the idea that Jehovah is an impersonal force who stays far away from the affairs of mankind, the Bible tells us that not only is he interested in the affairs of mankind, but because the nation of Israel had a special relationship with him - they fell under his protection. Thus, when they were disgraced, he felt that pain directly - personally!:
Outside, a sword will bereave them; inside, there is terror for both young man and virgin, infant together with gray-haired man. I would have said: "I will scatter them; I will make the memory of them cease from among men," if not for my dread of the enemy’s reaction, because the adversaries might misconstrue it. They might say: "Our power has triumphed; it was not Jehovah who did all of this."De 32:25-27
And ...
During all their distress it was distressing to him. And his own personal messenger saved them. In his love and compassion he repurchased them, and he lifted them up and carried them all the days of oldIsa 63:9
But Jehovah allowed such profaning of his name to continue and thrive because he was looking at the entirety of the matter, knowing that in the end he would would "set matters straight." (Mic 4:3) Jehovah is never short-sighted and always does things with the end in mind! It is the final outcome that gives him satisfaction. The scripture we quoted in Deuteronomy chapter 32 is then the context for what comes several verses later in the chapter:
Vengeance is mine, and retribution, at the appointed time when their foot slips, for the day of their disaster is near, and what awaits them will come quicklyDe 32:35
The Invention of Ignorance
The funniest thing about life is that there is always the sucker who is the last investor in a ponzi scheme. There's always the guy whose investment represents the bottom of the pyramid. I always wonder about such people ... how they must feel when it all comes crashing down. Who was the last investor in FTX? Who was the last person to give Bernie Madoff their life savings? Funny man, very funny man, Ricky Gervais is one such newbie. He chose to profane God's name just as God is standing up to take actions against his foes. What comes next is not going to be pretty. In a bit he did on one of his comedy specials Gervais speaks insultingly about how the Bible claims God is the Creator of the universe. Having made no serious investigation, Gervais concludes that the Bible must be lying and that evolution is the correct answer. The premise of his sketch is that the proof that Darwin was wrong is to found in a dusty old book called the Bible. He then condescendingly reads the first part of the Genesis account, to show why he thinks its claims are ridiculous. Confident that he is in the right, he mockingly says:
Chapter one. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. It doesn't go into detail, um. He doesn't need to explain to you. You probably wouldn't understand it because he's got a massive brain and yours is little.... Keeps his cards very close to his chest God ... he can do anything. So he can do what he wants. Okay, here we go. "... And the earth was without form and void and darkness was on the face of the deep." A bit dark. He sorted that out: "And God said let there be light, and there was light." Huh, ain't that brilliant? Hey, oh come on, that's amazing. He just made light up! ... Come on, he's amazing! ... So, he did the light - he invented it. Which means that he created the heaven and the earth in the dark! How good is that? I would've gone, alright let's have a little bit of light, let's see what we're doing. I need some planets. He went: "That's everything. Let's have a look. Brilliant."" Ricky Gervais | Proof Darwin was WRONG (1:39-3:48)
You can hear the disdain he has for God in his comments. Of course you need to also watch the presentation to get the full gist of Gervais' attitude. Gervais well illustrates the difficulties humans have in judging God through the lense of their own inadequate capabilities. In comparing the differences between how God created the universe and how he would have gone about it, we see a clear misunderstanding of Jehovah's power and wisdom. Humans need light to see. Jehovah does not! Otherwise, it means Jehovah was fumbling in the dark when he created Christ! Below is a scripture that tells us the truth about Jehovah and his ability to see in the dark:
If I say: 'Surely darkness will conceal me!' Then the night around me would become light. Even the darkness would not be too dark for you, but night would be as bright as the day; darkness is the same as light to youPs 139:11,12
We will not spend much time on Gervais. His level of ignorance beggars belief. He lacks the mental faculties to assess Darwinism, nevermind the awe-inspiring Biblical record. Instead we will look at all the things which Jehovah created in total darkness - at a time when there was no electromagnetic radiation in the universe. We will also credit Gervais, for one thing: noticing that the chronology of events meant that God created Heaven and Earth in darkness. That allows us to ask an important question: If plant life only came into existence on the third creative day, and Jehovah and the angels function perfectly under conditions of darkness, why did God create light when he did - more than two creative days before plants needed it to survive? But, first, let us list some of the obvious things which God created before the existence of light.
The THINGS Visible & Invisible that were Created in COMPLETE DARKNESS
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earthGe 1:1
As of Genesis 1:1 there is no light in the universe. In other words, all the entities that God had created up until this time were created in total darkness. What would that list include?
Christ
First and foremost, the angel we would later come to know as Jesus the Christ. He is the beginning of the creation by God, and as such came before all other things - including light:
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; because by means of him all other things were created in the heavens and on the earth, the things visible and the things invisibleCol 1:15,16a
Heaven/Space
After our in-depth look at Day 4 of Creation, We now understand that the heavens spoken of in Genesis 1:1 refer not to the visible, but invisible Heavens. The third heavens. Space! In other words, Genesis 1:1 reflects the creation by Jehovah of both Space and the Cosmos! NOT, the Earth and its atmosphere. The atmosphere came much later, during the creative days. The atmosphere is another entity that between the waters below and the waters above, of the expanse called Heaven in the second creative day. Thus, our atmosphere could not have existed before that expanse, was itself, created! So the "Heavens" in Genesis 1:1 refer to Space. Space was created before there were creative days, for otherwise there would have been no dimensions of height, or depth, no volume into which the Earth could have been placed. It is important to realize that Space and its three dimensions are part of the invisible "creation.":
Nor height nor depth nor any other creation will be able to separate us from God's love that is in Christ Jesus our LordRo 8:39
"Height and depth," i.e., dimensions of Space needed, to be created! Only people who haven't given the matter any thought whatsoever, are gripped by the mistaken view that the Earth just came into existence without the necessary precondition of a supporting volume to contain it - without the dimensions of Space. Not only is Space a creation, it is a creation that is prerequisite to the appearance of the Earth and all baryonic matter! What kind of explanation of the universe came into existence would leave out any mention of its most important structure Space? The Genesis account would amount to mythology if it didn't account for Space - and the fact that it was created. If you don't understand why Genesis 1:1 is talking about Space and not the physical heavens, it is because you are conflating two similar but different entities, and treating them as one phenomenon. The physical heavens are contained within the bordering lower and upper waters of the expanse, and were only created after Light. Whereas the Heavens of Genesis 1:1 were created when Light didn't EXIST!
Genesis 1:1 also indicates clearly that its Heaven - Space - is part of "the things invisible," since initial conditions (at the advent of Light) tells us that there was only one physical object in the universe before Light appeared. So Genesis 1:1, in addition to having captivating beauty and simplicity, is the most scientifically accurate statement ever recorded. Amongst other things: it tells about the origin of matter; shows that such matter needed the dimensions of Space to exist; verifies that such developments could not happen in the absence of absolute time; and gives the identity of the entity that supplied both the power and mind to create "Heaven and Earth." All in ten, mesmerizing words! EPIC.
Earth
As per our opening verse, Genesis 1:1, "... God created the Heavens and the Earth." We now know from other scriptures that he accomplished this through his master worker Christ. Verse 2 goes on to tell us another detail about the condition of the universe after Genesis 1:1,
Now the earth was formless and desolate, and there was darkness upon the surface of the watery deepGe 1:2a
Thus, the Earth, was created before the emergence of light.
Complete ...
As a last important note on Genesis 1:1, I remind you that the word used for create indicates completed action. In other words, what was created was complete! Space was still going to be stretched, but it itself was complete. Similarly, the Earth was still going to be populated and put into its final habitable form, but everything that was necessary to do so was already on the planet. The fabrication of the planet itself - was complete.
CHEMISTRY: & The Periodic Table
The Earth is a rocky terrestrial planet, meaning it has land masses. Where were they before, for verse 2 only describes "the watery deep?" Underneath the waters, as we learnt from the details of Day 3. Thus, Chemistry, as in H20, and all the minerals found on Earth were already here before the appearance of LIGHT. Sorry, you are made of Earth dust, not stardust. Stars are not where gold comes from. Iron ore, literally means iron stone. Copper, gold, iron, granite, etc. all existed thousands of years before stars!
There is a place to mine silver and a place for gold that they refine; Iron is taken from the ground, and copper is smelted from rocks. Man conquers the darkness; he probes to the limit in the gloom and darkness, searching for ore. He sinks a shaft far from where people reside, in forgotten places, far from where people walk; some men descend and swing suspendedJob 28:1-4
Angels
You will remember that when Jehovah was firmly establishing the Earth, the angels were there as eyewitnesses and applauding his incredible feats of imagination, power and design. Thus, the angels also existed before light, as the following scriptural reminder conforms:
Where were you when I founded the earth? Tell me, if you think you understand. ... When the morning stars joyfully cried out together, and all the sons of God began shouting in applause?Job 38:4,7
Hence, at least 5 important entities were all created before the appearance of "Light" - nevermind the Sun! But if darkness is the same as light for Jehovah, and the angels, (that's obvious because the angels applauded at the wonderful works they saw Jehovah perform in the dark), then why did he create Light? And why did he create it more than 2 full creative days before it would be needed to sustain plant life? It is obvious that Jehovah's celestial time keeping ends with the light conditions and of the previous day, and starts with the darkness of the following day. As this transition from Day 3 to Day occurred, a unique new factor had to be considered: the continuation of all the plant life that was just created and that depends on light for survival. Thus, Jehovah, created the Sun as soon as Day 4 started so that there could be a natural hand-off between Light and the starlight of the Sun in order to seamlessly preserve all plant life on the planet! But that is not our topic of concern. We want to know why Jehovah created Light when he did? What purpose did it serve, for there is nothing Jehovah does without purpose.
How LIGHT Differs from Luminaries
We have already shown two ways in which Light differs from the direct starlight from the Sun and other stars, and the reflected light of the moon. Let us now consider the matter more closely so as to find the reason behind why Jehovah, whose wisdom is unequalled, created Light when he did.
Period
When we speak of the period of light, we mean how long it takes for it to go through one full cycle of both Night and Day. The light from the Sun on our planet takes 24 hours to complete such a cycle. But Light takes several thousand years at a minimum.
Global Fluctuations
The Sun can ever only shine on 50% or less of any planet that orbits it. This fact allows it to create the variable conditions of night and day through the rotation of the respective planets on their axis. By contrast, light accomplishes global lighting conditions when it is in the day portion of its cycle. And global darkness, when in its darkness phase. This of course, was as it pertained to the Earth, before the creation of the galaxies on Day 4. Thereafter, its day and night phases took on a universal dimension, since it encompasses the whole universe as the Celestial Sphere.
EXPLANATORY NOTE
Can you explain why the above scene could only be of the "morning" of Day 3? I will give you the first part of the answer. In the "evening" part of Day 3, the Light would have been too dark to create these conditions. On Day 2 and before, the land was not visible! You will get the second part of the answer on the next page, when we consider the details of Day 4! I have created cut-out effect for Light, or the MUMBR so that you can "see" what's happening - through it. Light, then, fluctuates between being 'off' and 'on,' without needing the lit celestial body (in this case the Earth), to participate in creating the effect! It doesn't matter if Earth is turning or not - the global effect will carry on, just the same. Next, we tackle the direction of the radiation from both stars, and Light/MUMBR.
Direction of Radiation
The word radiate can be understood in two ways. It means to proceed in an direct line from or toward a center. That is from Merriam-Webster's online dictionary. Another definition, this time from the Wordnik online dictionary is: To extend in straight lines from or toward a center; diverge or converge like rays. Thus whatever is radiating must do so in "straight lines." However it can both radiate outward: from a center, in which case the rays would diverge as they spread out; or something can radiate inward: towards a center, in which case the rays would converge.
The word radiate is fitting then to explain both how the Sun, and all stars, radiate light rays outward; and to explain how Light radiates its perfect blackbody spectrum inward toward a center. We - planet Earth - are that center!
It is for this reason: the fact that Light converges on the Earth from all directions that up until the end of Day 3 of creation - Light was shining globally! As opposed to on only half the surface of the Earth, as would have been the case where the source of the light a star. In other words, if you were to replace the Earth with the Sun, thus placing the Sun at the center of Light, if you were to trace the light rays of each entity - the Sun and Light - they would follow the same path - but in opposite directions! See Illustration 30, below.
To demonstrate the fact that radiate can mean radiating out from a center; or radiating inward, to a center, I provide the above illustration. I have intentionally made the sun-rays bright and large enough that they touch "Light." Thus, though it is obvious from this illustration that the rays in question, come from the Sun, you can easily imagine them having the same orientation - but coming from the MUMBR. The important thing to note is that in both cases, the rays would be straight, as they leave both surfaces at 90 degree angels to the emanating source. That is why you can superimpose the rays from Light, on top of the rays from the Sun - and they align. They match up.
All the above facts make it impossible for us to neglect the stunning similarities between Light and the MUMBR. So let us compare their Evidence Profiles to put any nagging suspicions to rest.
EVIDENCE PROFILES: Light VS MUMBR
Location
The MUMBR has a known location with regard to the Earth. We detect it and and can record its signal. We know Light has the same relative location, not because we can detect it, but because of the description of its global functionality in Genesis. As the illustrations above show, both these entities are positioned as Celestial Spheres that shine radiation on the Earth from all directions - inward. Having both been created before the appearance of stars, once the universe started expanding, they would both have been beyond the locations of the stars. Again, there is only one Light source that is beyond the stars. In the Sciences, we call it the Mighty Universal Microwave Background. In the Bible, God calls it Light!
Advent
We know that the MUMBR was the light at initial condition because it is the MUMBR that recorded that the universe's initial conditions were at zero entropy. That is where the origins of the forward facing arrow of time can be traced to. That is the structure that gave us the 5 apparent salient features of the universe.
Coincidentally, Light has this same Evidence Profile. Light also appears on the scene at initial conditions - when there was only one object that existed in the Cosmos ... the Earth. What's more, it is obvious that there weren't two different sources of light at initial condition. Thus any light that first appeared when only the Earth existed, that is, at initial conditions is, by definition, the unique entity that is known scientifically as the MUMBR, but which the Bible calls Light. But how can we be sure? The Evidence Profile of the MUMBR has a definite signature of zero entropy, through which we know that the origin story of the universe is supernatural and not natural. For Light to have the same Evidence Profile it would have to reflect that everything that was being done in setting up the initial conditions was the result of a supernatural mind. Of course Light does exactly that, for it is part of the Genesis account, which is the historical account of how Jehovah created the universe. "In the beginning" the holy book says, "God created the Heavens and the Earth" - zero entropy. The scientific analysis points to God. The Biblical record credits God. That's six eggs in one hand, and half a dozen in the other. Two ways of saying the exact same thing. Thus, the creation of Light and the advent of the MUMBR are the same event. Light and the MUMBR have the same Evidence Profile.
Scale
The operation of Light as a universal timekeeper continued after all the stars and galaxies were created on Day 4. For, the Bible records: "And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day." The same is true for days 5 and 6 as well. So the creation of the Earth day did not override the existence of the Universal Day. There was no relay between Light and starlight, where one took over where the other stopped. Both continued in a new nested reality, where thousands of Earth days are nested inside one Universal Day. Of course we are still in Day 7. The point of this continuing operation is that is was not replaced by the stars and their light, for those only control seasons, and days and years in their local regions of Space. The importance of the fourth creative day to our understanding of what must have happened to Light cannot be overstated. This is where Critical Density and the redshifting of the galaxies comes in. It is clear that the shining of Light encompassed all the waters - including those that were originally on Earth and then separated from the surface to create an expanse between them and the waters below. Those that were still on Earth and which were later collected to form the seas (oceans). Again, this is obvious because had that not been the case, after the expanse God called Heaven had been created on the third creative day, the Biblical record could not have said there was evening and there was morning unless such encompassed the waters above the expanse also. Remember, the effect is global. At this point, Space in maintaining its Critical Density, has NOT started being stretched by Jehovah even though the distribution of matter has now changed. Why? because Critical Density is the measurement of how much mass is in a specific volume, not how it is distributed. So whether the waters were still on Earth, or had now being divided from the waters that remained on Earth is immaterial: the mass of the universe had not changed. Thus the amount of Space available did not need to grow to maintain Critical Density.
From these facts we can ascertain the relative positions of the substance that produces Light, and all the stars created on Day 4. For, the Bible clearly tells us the Sun and moon were placed in the expanse of the Heavens, and also the stars. Thus, the stars are in the expanse. The upper waters of the expanse form its outer border and the entity producing Light falls outside that. If we were to travel from Earth to the edge of the universe then, we would encounter stars first, then the upper waters of the expanse God named Heaven, and then lastly, we would reach Light. There is nothing beyond light. It is the Celestial Sphere. Here, then, is the point we are interested in: all the stars are inside the Celestial Sphere of Light. Put another way, from the Earth's view, Light is the background to all starlight. That Evidence Profile is, of course, the unmistakable Evidence Profile of one other entity - the Mighty Universal Microwave BACKGROUND Radiation! Light, and the MUMBR share the same scale - as they are both the Celestial Spheres of the universe. Put another way: the universe has one Celestial Sphere: it is known either as Light, or as the MUMBR! Is a clear picture starting to emerge? Let's continue. It gets better.
Redshifted: From Visible Light to MICROWAVE Radiation - HOW?
We learnt an important detail about Light from reading the account of what happened on Day 3 - Light can support plant life. From our exacting knowledge of the kind of light plants need to survive, we can narrow the range within the electromagnetic spectrum, that Light must have been shining at, when it was initially instituted at initial conditions. Light, was radiating inwards in the VISIBLE RANGE of the electromagnetic spectrum. It was not in the X-ray, or radio waves part of the spectrum. Light produced visible light. In fact that range would have been its effective setting until the end of Day 3. Why can we say that with confidence? As discussed on page 42, about Day 4, under the subheading: "DAY 3 - The APPEARANCE of Plant Life" humans know accurately, the range within the electromagnetic spectrum, that allows for photosynthesis. That range 400 nm to 700 nm happens to fall within the range of visible light, which is 380 nm to 750 nm! Thus only visible light can sustain plant life. There is no overlap with any other part of the electromagnetic spectrum. Thus Light, at its creation was firmly in the visible range of the electromagnetic spectrum! But if Light was visible at its creation, then why don't we see it today? One reason could be that we are in the dark, "evening" phase of Day 7, and thus Light has fluctuated to its OFF position. The details of that suggestion could be worked out and verified, but it is not the most accurate answer. The correct answer is: Light is not visible today because it no longer falls within the visible range of the electromagnetic spectrum! Light has shifted its range and is now in the MICROWAVE portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. How do we know?
Recall that Light falls outside of all stars. That means from Day 4, when Jehovah started adding galaxies to the universe, he started stretching Space. This event displaced Light as it was moved from its initial position to its current location. We must be careful. It was its actual location that was changing. Its relative position is constant. It was the Celestial Sphere at initial conditions, and it is still the Celestial Sphere. Since Light was being carried by the scaffolding of the universe in the stretching of Space, its temperature - the temperature of initial conditions - cooled and its wavelength expanded, since it was being carried by stretching Space. It is the size of the wavelength that determines what kind of light is being emitted. Thus, the stretching of Space on Light was to reduce its temperature and lengthen its wavelength, meaning it operates at lower strength than it initially did. There is an inverse relationship between the length of an electromagnetic wave and its energy content. Light then, went from being visible to being in the infrared part of the spectrum and eventually to being in the microwave part of the spectrum - its final range from which it will forever radiate. For the universe is now complete, meaning the stretching of Space is also complete. (Ge 2:1-3;11b; Isa 40:22z) From the cited scripture in Isaiah, we see that God compares the stretching of the fine gauze of Space to spreading a "tent to dwell in." Ever been camping? You can't dwell in the tent until you put its pins in the ground and secure it. In the same way after the stretching of Space, God secured its final dimensions - as with pins - so that it will no longer stretch. And Critical Density will be maintained forever going forwards. Since that was the technology of the times, Jehovah again uses tents and their cords and pins to make similar points. The take-away is that pins are what make the structure secure after the tent has been stretched out. Here are two scriptures then we move on:
Make the place of your tent more spacious. Stretch out the tent cloths of your grand tabernacle. Do not hold back, lengthen your tent cords, and make your tent pins strongIsa 54:2
And ...
Behold Zion, the town of our festal occasions! Your own eyes will see Jerusalem an undisturbed abiding place, a tent that no one will pack up. Never will its tent pins be pulled out, and none of its ropes will be torn in twoIsa 33:20
An "abiding place" is associated with eternal tent pins, ones that will "never ... be pulled out." That applies to the universe as a whole, therefore it also has tent pins. Of course that doesn't imply some structural entity at the Celestial Sphere. It just represents the action of God stopping his stretching of the universe! In summary, the electromagnetic wave of Light was stretched from the visible range to the microwave range of the electromagnetic spectrum because of the amount Space was stretched by! Had the universe been stretched to lesser dimensions that it had at the end of Day 4, Light might have stopped at the infrared portion of the spectrum, for that is what is between the visible and the microwave parts of the spectrum. On the other hand, had Jehovah decided to make the universe larger than it is, Light might have been stretched all the way to the radio part of the spectrum. Those are they dynamics. That's how it works:
The truth always turns out to be simpler than you thoughtRichard P Feynman
And ...
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpleAlbert Einstein
From Whence the Speckled Pattern
From everything we have discussed above it is clear that Light and the MUMBR are one and the same entity. BTW: the way Evidence Profiles work, only one corroborated fact needs to confirmed. For instance, even if we had only established one of the above facts, such as the shared relative location of Light and the MUMBR as the Celestial Sphere that would have been enough to prove that they have the same Evidence Profile. And the same is true or any of the other points we have covered. But when things share the same Evidence Profile, ALL THEIR PROPERTIES, AND ALL THE EMPIRICAL FACTS ABOUT THEM ARE ALSO IDENTICAL - SINCE THEY ARE ONE AND THE SAME ENTITY! Since, we have already established through multiple facts, that the Mighty Universal Microwave Background Radiation, IS Light, from this point onward I will only refer to it as Light - even in the scientific context. For that is its name. Where the situation demands it for continuity of understanding, perhaps after a quote from a scientist, I will at a minimum use the terms Light and the MUMBR interchangeably. But we will no longer refer to it as the afterglow of the Big Bang - or any such falsehood. It would be blasphemous to refer to Light using a metaphysical Big Bang reference, after having come to the accurate knowledge of its Designer, Creator and origin! This will be our practice as we continue to furnish proof after proof of the shared Evidence Profile between Light and the MUMBR. Light is the proper name of the MUMBR. And our ability to synthesize the two profiles is a result of the unmatchable genius of Jehovah's mind!
The Biblical record told us enough about Light for us to compile an Evidence Profile, knowing that that Evidence Profile would enable us to identify it with the MUMBR - once its science-based Evidence Profile was established! Having that knowledge we can now integrate the latest empirical data from the COBE, WMAP and Planck Satellites gathered by hundreds of scientists concerning Light, back into the Biblical record. Thus we can now speak of the MUMBR as being God's mechanism for universal time keeping during the creative days, or we can speak of Light as having a speckled pattern, for we have synthesized its Biblical and scientific profiles, due to the realization that both entities, are one and the same reality. That allows us to ask an important question: from whence did the speckle pattern emerge? What caused it?
Understanding MULTIPOLES: Lobes, Dipoles, Quadropoles Etc.
In a December 2007 article for the magazine Astronomy, entitled "Why is the Solar System Cosmically Aligned?" Dragan Huterer, explains key features of the MUMBR. His analysis is similar to the one Paul Steinhardt did of Light earlier, only it focuses on different properties. These features have to do with understanding the complexity behind the speckled pattern of Light. Scientists have discerned a mathematical method of analysis for interpreting the data found in Light. This analysis, Huterer writes, allows us to: "explore the finest details of how the universe is put together." Under the subheading "The Cosmic Orchestra" Huterer explains:
Mathematics allows us to break down the speckles into more fundamental patterns and probe the underlying processes that produced the CMB’s complexity. We do this by describing the pattern of warm and cool spots in terms of mathematical functions called multipoles" Dragan Huterer | Astronomy - December 2007 pp 38-43
This should not surprise us for both Kepler and Galileo stated many centuries ago that God wrote the rules of nature in the language of mathematics. Which just means the laws of nature can be boiled down to mathematical expressions. Multipoles are one such expression - and they teach us so much about the order and structures we find in the universe!
What is a Multipole?
If we were able to look at Light with the naked eye we would just see a jumbled mess of speckled patterns. To understand what is going on we have to drill down to the micro level and look at it in minute detail - we have to zoom in. Think of it like using Google maps to first look at the planet as a whole. But the more you zoom in, the more detail you discover. First you reach the scale where you can distinguish between countries. Then, you can discern provinces or states within a country. As you zoom in further, the database has yet more levels of detail. Now you can see individual cities. Thereafter neighbourhoods of that particular city, and finally you can pick out the address of the property you were searching for in that neighbourhood. The Mighty Universal Microwave Background Radiation is just like that, but with even more levels of detail! With Google maps giving accurate residential information would require details of each layer of information. A good example would be 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500. That's the address of the White House. It includes fields for the street, city, state and zip code. Whenever you put that address into Google maps it will always return the same results - the White House. Similarly, all the levels of information found in the speckles of Light are unique to each speckle in its pattern. They include details such as exact location of the structure within the universe, its size, composition, and direction of travel. In Google maps we call that an address field. In the MUMBR, we call that a multipole. That explains the idea behind multipoles. However to truly understand we must explain them mathematically. This is because the number of fields in our address depends on the resolution we want to attain. If someone was spinning a globe in front of you and they randomly stopped it and pointing to a country, asked you to identify it, you would only need to provide the name of the country. But a job interview form would require you to fill in more fields of information. They require higher resolution data. That form would require more detailed information about you. The point is, higher resolution equals more details. So it is with multipoles.
At the most basic level, the monopole is the temperature of the MUMBR at 2.73 K. But there is also a dipole, and quadripoles etc. When we spoke of Google maps we had many layers of information, and that was just for a location on one planet. Think of how many more data fields must be included when zooming in on a universal scale: quadrant of the universe, constellation, galactic supercluster, galaxy, region in the galaxy, solar system etc. All these are encoded in the database of Light, the Mighty Universal Microwave Background Radiation - through a mathematical tool called a multipole. At their most basic a multipole, such as a dipole has two lobes. What are they?
What are Lobes?
Each multipole has two subregions called lobes that indicate direction of relative travel. Please look at Huterer's article to see illustrations of lobes. The important thing is that they inform us of a certain celestial object's relative motion through very slight temperature differences. The simplest one to describe is you riding a bicycle, or motorbike. In such a case you would experience a multipole, specifically a dipole, which would reflect you direction of motion by making one side of you cooler - due to traveling into the wind. Here's Huterer:
... Your face feels cooler in the direction of motion. Similarly, the CMB dipole provides information about our motion through space: Much like the motorcyclist, the orientation of the warm and cool lobes of the dipole tells us the solar system's direction of motion through [space]" Dragan Huterer | Astronomy - December 2007 pp 38-43
Thus, in a dipole we have two lobes: one slightly cooler than the other. And from this, we can infer motion. Let's test our understanding. Which would be cooler and which would be a little warmer? Remember, we are talking about very slight temperature differences - 1 part in a 100 000 - in the case of the MUMBR. If you answered you would feel the wind on your face as you rode your bicycle and thus would feal a little cooler in front, and a little warmer at the back of your head. You are correct. The value of understanding temperature lobes is realizing that they can be used as direction markers, showing which way a particular object is moving in relation to other objects - through Space! That little detail is important. More on that shortly. We have now covered the basics of how multipoles work in relation to their temperature lobes. Why is that useful?
Interpreting the Complex Geometry of Multiples Lobes
Now think of a a structure that moved in multiple ways at the same time. Like a pop-up book, that has different parts. in such a case multipoles would be needed to register the movements of any and all parts. The more moving parts, the more multipoles needed to describe the details of the structure. I am sure you can appreciate that lobes can be used to describe in minute detail, any structure found in the universe. The only rule is that the higher the resolution, the more multipoles and lobes it takes to describe it. Scientists have discovered an incredible property of the MUMBR. When Penzias and Wilson first discovered the MUMBR in 1965 the signal they recorded was the same in all directions and it was taken to be perfectly uniform. However, when we sent out the first probe to study it, the Cosmic Background Explorer satellite (COBE) in 1992, it returned results that were of higher resolution than that gathered from Penzias and Wilson's simple radio antenna. It became obvious that Penzias and Wilson concluding that the signal was completely uniform was a reflection of the low resolution equipment they were using, not the resolution of the signal itself! Light has a rich field of data to give humans! Mankind made two more great leaps in the technology of our equipment to capture higher resolution images of Light. In 2003 we launched the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP). And lastly, in May 2009 we launched the Planck satellite. Here is NASA's mission statement about it: "It will make most the precise measurements to date of tiny variations in the universe's oldest light, called the cosmic microwave background...." It has delivered on that promise with much higher resolution images of Light - the oldest light in the universe! Having understood the basics of multipoles and lobes, and how they relate to the high resolution images of a finely speckled MUMBR, we now want to know ... what are the multipoles and lobes a snapshot of? Gas particles, or celestial structures?
EXPLANATORY NOTE
According to the explanation on the right, we can't see the inside of the cloud, not because light didn't bounce of those surfaces, but because what we "see" is only the last surface light bounced off of. That is simple and straightforward. Now try to square that with the info-graphic we have on the left. The "surface of last scattering," which is what they claim the MUMBR to be, was supposedly at 380 000 after the non-existent Big Bang. You can see from the illustration, that no stars, existed then. According to the cosmological model, only gases existed. The only problem is that the Fourier Analysis, has shown us that lobed and dipoles and multipoles are of the movement of large scale structures - in other words galaxies. Houston, we have a problem! How can the surface of last scattering, take place in the absence of stars, but give us detailed records of the movements of the galaxies of the universe? (This is covered in more detail, further down.) It's like taking an ultrasound pregnancy scan (I've forgotten the proper name) of a woman who claims to be a virgin - and getting the image of a baby who has 8 months of development, and is only 1 or 2 months away from being born! That's a scientific 'hail Mary,' if there ever has been one.
LIGHT is a Complex LiDAR System
LiDAR stands for Light Detection And Ranging. It is a technology that allows for the mapping of data from afar - remotely - as opposed to on-site, with our hands, as is explained in this simplet LiDAR tutorial from NEON Science*. It has four key parts. ONE: The actual LiDAR unit that uses light energy for scanning surfaces and recording the dimensions of the objects the light rays come across. TWO: A Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver that tracks the altitude and exact x,y coordinates of the mechanism that houses the LiDAR unit. This enables one to know where the objects reflecting the LiDAR beams are relative to the LiDAR source. THIRD: is an Inertial Measurement Unit or IMU which allows for active tracking of any changes in the source of the LiDAR transmission. Usually planes are used for LiDAR. So the IMU tracks the movements of the plane across the axis of space by calculating its yaw, pitch and roll. (You can look at the video tutorial to get a visual illustration of those movements.) FOUR: Lastly, there must be a computer to record all the data. As the narrator of the video says, "No computer, no data. It's as simple as that."
Those then, are the four parts of the LiDAR system. We can see why a plane which can be buffeted by winds would need all four, especially the IMU which calculates yaw, pitch and roll. Depending on where the LiDAR system is set up, it does not need all four components. For instance, LiDAR can be set up to collect data in three different ways: from the ground; from airplanes; or from satellites in the Earth's atmosphere. A LiDAR system that was operated permanently from the ground would not need the use of an IMU as its ground based operation would not need to factor in yaw, pitch and roll - as an airplane does. There is another feature that LiDAR can perform over time. In another tutorial on the topic the narrator says:
But wait, there's more. We can also collect LiDAR data over the same areas, using the same settings, over and over again through time. Maps ... created over time, allow us to identify and quantify changes that have occurred. And if that's not cool enough, LiDAR data allows us to create powerful visual animations that show trends in vegetation as it changes through time" NEON Science | LiDAR - Introduction to Light Detection and Ranging (4:42-5:11)
In telling you about LiDAR, I am not saying that that is the system Jehovah uses with Light in creating a historical record of the development of the universe. His solution would be vastly superior. LiDAR, with all its glory is basic in comparison. I am merely using it to demonstrate what is needed to recreate the functions and properties that are found in Light! Light, as we all now know is highly sensitive, to 1 part in 100 000. (But I think that limit has more to do with the resolution of our instruments, as opposed to representing a true limit of Light's capabilities.) You might think it incredible that Light is a highly sensitive recording device in addition to all its other functions, but this aspect of its functionality is not in dispute. Everyone agrees that it records prevailing conditions of the universe. From Paul Steinhardt, who told us in detail about its record of initial conditions, to Dragan Huterer who writes of its record of the large-scale structures of the universe. NO SCIENTIST DISPUTES THAT THE INFORMATION IT CONTAINS IS A RECORD OF SOME PORTION OF THE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE. All scientists openly admit that the speckled pattern is a record of universal history:
In the First moments after the Big Bang, the universe underwent a period of rapid expansion. About 380,000 years later, the universe expanded enough to become transparent to radiation. From that time forward, particles of light (photons) traveled freely throughout the cosmos. The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is a record of the universe’s state at that moment" Dragan Huterer | Astronomy - December 2007 pp 38-43
The disconnect comes from identifying which part of the history of the universe. That is why Huterer's assertions underscore an important point: the claims of Big Bang cosmologists don't match the facts. They are not even internally consistent. For instance, an obvious question is what period of time does the recording cover? Cosmologists insist that its only a record of one instant in time - their fictional surface of last scattering, when the Big Bang universe finally became transparent and light rays could travel freely. That is why that refer to Light as a relic of the Big Bang, or an afterglow. They further insist that the pattern is a mark left by matter on light at the moment that they decoupled from each other. Of course, we know no such moment ever existed, because matter was created in darkness (as Ricky Gervais will enthusiastically tell you), and was thus never coupled to radiation. Their first claim is even easier to disprove. That claim is that the moment of last scattering, was when the whole speckled pattern of the large scale structure of the universe was recorded onto Light. The last NEON Science quote spoke of LiDAR's ability to compile a database of LiDAR information over time, by "collect[ing] LiDAR data over the same areas, using the same settings, over and over again through time." This allows LiDAR data to be used to "create powerful visual animations...." It should obvious to you that instead of an animation, Jehovah has set Light up in such a way that such a history is aggregated over time like a time lapse. The reason for the difference is that LiDAR is primarily used to collect data about vegetation, which changes over time. But Jehovah uses Light to record details about the permanent structures of the universe. So instead of an animation of changes; you want a time lapse of historical development. That is why there are multipoles of DIFFERING SCALES: monopoles, dipoles, quadripoles, octopoles etc. Think of the multipoles and their lobes and vectors as a computer algorithm that provides a step by step blueprint of how Jehovah created the universe.
The distinction between the two claims is profound. It is for this reason that cosmologists, insists that Light is a reflection of one moment in time. For if it is a complete historical record of the development of the universe, then immediately we know there is no difference between the observable universe and the actual universe - they would have the same size. It also instantly falsifies all claims of Big Bang cosmology for there would be nothing it hasn't recorded - from beginning to end! Believing that Light represents one moment in time gives them free reign to dream up the rest of universal history, as they are so eager to do, for such dreams are their bread and butter. The fact that there are different scales and kind of multipoles shows development over time! If the record was of one instant in time, the record would only have one layer of information. But proving which of the two claims is true is simple and straightforward. All we have to do is look at the evidence! The proof - as always - is in the pudding. The internal contradictions of the cosmologist's own model disproves their strongly asserted claims. Let us briefly examine their self-contradictory claim.
INCONSISTENCIES: Large Scale Structure VS Seeds at 380 000 Years - Which?
What is meant by the large scale structure of the universe is also not controversial. Everyone agrees it means the galaxies and galactic super-clusters, that is, looking at the universe at scales which consider its largest structures. What were the lobes we spoke about earlier a measurement of? The movement of large scale structures such as galaxies and the celestial bodies inside of them. When does the Big Bang claim that these structures evolved? Stars, not galaxies, but stars did not start to form for another 400 million years after the supposed surface of last scattering! Here is Huterer explaining the time line:
As the universe expanded, stars and galaxies evolved. Later, large-scale structures such as galaxy clusters emerged" Dragan Huterer | Astronomy - December 2007 pp 38-43
That sentence follows directly after the last quote. They are part of the same explanatory footnote. When he says "stars and galaxies evolved" he does not mean stars and galaxies that were present changed in some small way, the way each generation of Porsches more or less look the same, with some minor adjustments to this or that feature. No. He means something altogether different. He means the universe was full of a hot gas, and from this hot gas cooling due to the expansion of Space, hot stars appeared, and from the stars, galaxies were born. Thus, out of chaos came order. From expansion came gravitational collapse that gave rise to stars and galaxies. That's a radically different notion from small incremental changes to something that already exists. But that's what he means by "evolved." This is supposed to have taken billions of years. Of course, even with all of eternity, no such thing could ever take place for reasons we have already discussed in great detail. "Later," he carries on, "large-scale structures such as galaxy clusters emerged." That tells you the scale by which the term large-scale is measured - galaxy clusters! Here's the problem, as I am sure you have already noticed: the "record" that is captured in Light is includes the large scale structures of the universe, including accurate maps of their exact location in the night sky and their structural composition - their blueprint, if you will. That's what the lobes are describing!
Additionally, the lobes represent movement patterns. If they were a record of one moment in time, there wouldn't be multiple lobes, there would be ONE LOBE, representing the dynamics of that one moment. Think of lobes as blurs in an action shot. Have you seen pictures where there are multiple blurs? Perhaps of a dancer whose movements in one direction, and then in this and another direction are all superimposed on each other in the same image? How do interpret such an image. All humans intuitively know what is being represented. The photographer is trying to convey multiple movements through one image. Similarly, Light represents multiple records of movement through layered multipoles in one database. But why are the multipoles at different scales if they represent the same entity. Because these recordings are of the construction of the structures in the universe. Think of Jehovah the Creator and his master fabricator, Jesus Christ. How does their combined workmanship differ from a potter creating a vase, for instance. Multipoles of the potter would be a record not only of the lumps of clay as they are turned into a vase, but of the potter's hands also. Now Jehovah and Christ are invisible. As such we would have no direct record of their activities. Instead all the multipoles are of a physical structure seemingly coming into existence on its own. Like lego bricks that come together on their own. That is the kind of record encoded into the speckled pattern of Light. Just think of how Jehovah turned the Earth from being formless and empty to being a paradise. When the waters were divided: movement. When the waters were collected into seas: movement. When mountains ascended due to the rising tectonic plates: movement. Etc. etc. And for all such major movements, a blur, or in our case a multipoles of one or other scale. The multipoles are of the object under construction only, since both workers are invisible!
That is why the picture scientists see when they look at Light is one of the LARGE SCALE STRUCTURES OF THE UNIVERSE! But beneath that the are layers and layers of multipoles which are a blueprint of how such structures came to be! I am sure you see the problem. According to Big Bang cosmology itself, the large scale structures took billions of years to "emerge," but the "record" taken billions of years earlier has accurate details about their make-up. The traditional answer that evolutionists like to give to this obvious error in their model is that the record is of where every gas atoms was at last scattering. In this fantasy gas atoms remained in their relative positions over time, so that the regions of spacetime that had more gas atoms stayed that way. And the areas that had less also stayed that way. Then gravity further collapsed these gas atoms into compact objects that also have the same relative positions as the super hot gas atoms. This is despite the fact that matter was supposed to be moving away from a central location due to the expansion of Space. When water boils the steam doesn't keep its relative positions. And this is in your kitchen. What is more powerful the pressure from the nozzle of your kettle, or the force that stretched Space, and which scientists estimate to be 70% of the energy content of the universe? But the steam cloud from your kettle loses its shape, while the expansionary force of stretching Space keeps gas particles together? For that is the essential claim. The record is of the seeds of the large scale structures because the seeds kept their initial positioning. They coalesced over time and formed denser and denser regions, until stars were born, and eventually galaxies, so that when large scale galaxy clusters finally did emerge, they were in the same position in Space as the matter that formed them was, in the snapshot of time recorded billions of years earlier. The glaring hole in this line of reasoning is that the record is not just identifying the location of a certain volume of mass. It is a snapshot of the large scale structure itself! THAT'S THE LESSON OF THE LOBES. How do we know? MOVEMENT!
Recall that the lobes have slightly warmer and slightly cooler portions. They are representations of the "large-scale temperature patterns in the CMB, and, therefore, to the BIGGEST structures in the universe." You cannot track temperature patterns of gas atoms, for in open space they don't behave a unit. That's why we call them gas particles. Regarding gas particles, we can only speak of average temperatures of the particles, and that's when they are enclosed in a container. Look at that last statement again: the speckled pattern in Light are "large-scale temperature patterns in the CMB and, therefore, to the biggest structures in the universe." From that sentence alone, the author is making it clear that you cannot have large-scale temperature patterns, unless you have "the biggest structures in the universe. The patterns are of the biggest structures, not of the atoms that make them up! That's why he links "patterns" and "structures" with the word, "therefore." In other words, the only plausible entity the patterns recorded 380 000 after the Big Bang could have taken a snapshot of are the galaxy clusters that emerged billions of years afterwards! This internal contradiction is an insurmountable obstacle for the Big Bang model of Intellectual imagination. For people who are trained by the best minds in tertiary education, and then get paid to come with ideas all day, every day - Scientisimists are particularly bad at their jobs.
I will give you two last examples from the same paper where in two follow-on sentences Huterer makes the same contradictory statements, the error detection for which seems to be firmly located in the blind spot of his thinking. Here is the first example:
The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is a relic from the early universe. Scientists represent it as a complex pattern of warm and cool spots, or "lobes," projected onto the celestial sphere around Earth. The patterns, which reflect large-scale structures present in the early universe, line up with the solar system in strange and as-yet-unexplained ways" Dragan Huterer | Astronomy - December 2007 pp 38-43
Of course, by "early universe," he means at 380 000 years after the supposed Big Bang. The only problem with the second highlighted portion is that according to Big Bang theory there were no "large-scale structures present in the early universe!" That's why they call it the early universe, meaning, before large scale structures could evolve! Again, large-scale refers not to just stars, or galaxies, but galaxy clusters! Of which, according to Big Bang cosmology, there were exactly zero examples of, in the "early universe."
A second example comes from the expanded version of one of his statements that we quoted earlier:
In reality, you would need a very special kind of vision to see the alignments cosmologists have begun to find in the geometry of the universe. Seeing them requires sophisticated mathematical analysis that enables us to explore the finest details of how the universe is put together" Dragan Huterer | Astronomy - December 2007 pp 38-43
As we have stated previously, when Big Bang cosmologists try to explain the MUMBR, they speak of a surface of last scattering and the snapshot it recorded as being of the seeds of the early universe. However in describing what those speckle patterns are a recording of, Huterer here admits that they are "the finest details of how the universe is put together." The speckled patterns are not a record of the seeds of the universe but of its development all the way to its final products! A particular feature of Light concerns scientists more than any other. They reflect that concern by calling it, the "Axis of Evil." Here's why.
Fluctuating Functionality
We know that Light, since it acts globally, can only create light and darkness by fluctuating on and off! The question then, is does the MUMBR fluctuate? The answer is a resounding yes! And that fluctuation puts us in the middle of the action. Remember the so-called "Axis of Evil?" It splits the whole universe into two halves - two lobes. One of which is slightly cooler than the other. What is this an indication of?
Typically scientists decode multipoles (in this case, a dipole) as relative movement. That can be a valid conclusion when we are speaking about large scale structures IN THE UNIVERSE. However it does not work when applied to the universe itself. Recall this statement:
... Your face feels cooler in the direction of motion. Similarly, the CMB dipole provides information about our motion through space: Much like the motorcyclist, the orientation of the warm and cool lobes of the dipole tells us the solar system's direction of motion through [space]" Dragan Huterer | Astronomy - December 2007 pp 38-43
Since the dipole is a reflection of the dynamics of the MUMBR itself, this variation in its temperature signature cannot be a reflection of the universe moving into an oncoming wind like us riding a bicycle, for the obvious reason that all physical reality is to be found INSIDE the universe and nothing physical can exist outside of it - including winds - by definition! There is nothing outside the universe for it to move into, or away from. The universe moving, would equal Space moving, NOT the universe moving through Space. Thus this fluctuation cannot possibly represent Space's interaction with some extra-universal factor - there are no such factors. Have you never heard scientists trying to answer the question, "What is the universe expanding into?" Their answer is always the same: "The universe is not expanding into anything, because there is no Space outside of the universe. It is Space itself that is expanding." And so it is here. There is nothing outside. Having already established that the MUMBR is Light, it becomes obvious what this largest fluctuation recorded onto its database is really a reflection of: ON/OFF.On and off of what? One of Light's major functions: the keeping of universal temporal time - of Day and Night: "And there was evening and there was morning...." This is why I have previously stated that the periods of light and darkness were equal in length. I was not guessing based on what portion of the 24 hour Earth day, light and darkness are split into. There is empirical evidence from the MUMBR - Light itself - that this is so. The equal lobes are a manifestation of the two phases of the Celestial Sphere - its "on" and "off" settings! Interestingly, the ecliptic plane of our solar system (the level at which all the planets orbit around the Sun) is the dividing line between the hot and cold lobes! Can you figure out what that means? We are here to reason ... right!
We know three things: in a universe that expands outward in all directions, whatever is in the middle at the end, was in the middle at the beginning; the plane at which the Earth orbits the Sun is the dividing line between the warm and cool lobes of Light; Light radiates its speckled pattern onto the Earth from an equal distance radially. That is Light is the Celestial Sphere and we are right at its center! What all three strands of evidence are telling us is that the Earth has been in the middle of Light since, its invention, to the present day. Now, more specifically: what does the fact that the ecliptic plane divides Light into two equal halves mean? It means the Earth was at the center of the fluctuation that caused the differences in the lobes - whatever that fluctuation may have been. What does that mean? It means the fluctuations were divided into two equal portions centered around the Earth. Light is Radiation. Light is also the Celestial Sphere. We realize that when science is speaking of the MUMBR (CMB), and the Bible is speaking of Light, they are both speaking about the same entity. As such, when we are looking for the explanation of a certain function of this entity, if the one source clearly has the wrong understanding, we must look to the other to see if there is an alternate and appropriate explanation for the behaviour. Science has clearly gotten it wrong, in that it is impossible for the universe as whole to register relative motion through the agency of an outside source, for there is nothing outside the universe. It represents all that physically exists. Hence, we must turn to the Bible to see if there is an explanation that fits the evidence. If there are two roads that are supposed to lead to the same place, but one is flooded and has a sink whole, you just do a three-point turn, and take the other road. So it is here: cosmology is a dead end in this, as in all other cases. Happily, the Bible gives us the simplest of all possible explanations. What fluctuation of equal duration from Light was happening which had the Earth at its center?
God called the light Day, but the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, a ... dayGe 1:5
One fluctuation, two equal global effects on the Earth, since the Earth was in the middle of a Celestial Sphere that was radiating light inward; and then, not radiating light inward. And then radiating light inward. And then not radiating light inward. Universal Day after universal Day. Because the end-of-Empire Intellectual class who form the scientists of our time, do not know what they are looking at, they don't know what it telling them! In the multipoles of the speckled pattern there is encoded 13 or 14 lobes of these fluctuations not just ONE. That is because we are in the seventh universal day. There would 13, if we are still in the evening part of the overall Day, and 14 if we are now in the morning - the final part of the original format of night and day! Once we know how long each phase is (which is simple to calculate), we will know how long it has been since initial condition. We will know how quickly all the stars in the universe were created, for they were all created in two such phases on Day 4. We will also be able to figure out how much energy Jehovah used up in stretching Space. Right now we have an estimate from scientists that that energy equals 70% of the energy budget of the universe. (Now you see why only Jehovah bends Space - no angel has that kind of power!) But once we know the period of time over which that energy was used, we will know the minimum size of Jehovah's biceps, to put it in a word picture. Energy is energy. But the formula for power is the rate at which work is done: P = W/t. We have an estimate of the work done, once we know the timeframe over which it was done we will know the lower threshold of the power of the individual who did that work - Jehovah of Armies is his name!
This is what Jehovah says, your Repurchaser, who formed you since you were in the womb: "I am Jehovah, who made everything. I stretched out the heavens by myself, and I spread out the earth. Who was with me?Isa 44:24
Woe is you, if you do not love the God who created the universe with such love and care. Woe is you if you stubbornly refuse to give glory to the God who holds your very breath in the palm of his hand. Woe is you, if you persist in giving the glory of the incorruptible God to blind chance and incomprehensible metaphysics. What the Bible calls the "contradictions of the falsely called 'knowledge.'" (1Ti 6:20) Don't you just love that phrase and its pinpoint accurate description of all theories that try to rob Jehovah of the glory that is due him! Woe is you if you malevolently try and turn good into bad and bad into evil. (Isa 5:20,21; Ps 136:1-5) The property of Light that scientists call the Axis of Evil is that this DIVIDING LINE HAS THE EARTH AT ITS CENTER! As we have seen, that means the sphere that was thus fluctuating on and off was doing so to light up the Earth and to make it dark again. This is according to Jehovah's will, for after he created the MUMBR, he divided its functionality to produce two effects - light and darkness. I give you three scriptures from our incredible God - Jehovah Most Precious:
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earthGe 1:1
This first one, establishes that the Earth was the object in the middle of the universe from the very start. We know that because there was only one object, and one of the salient features Paul Steinhardt helped us with, gave us the information that at initial conditions gravity was at zero curvature, which means that one object was in the center of the available volume of Space - and that that object was a spherical! The second, below, is God taking action to make sure there were two repeating lobes in Light:
And God said: "Let there be light." Then there was light. After that God saw that the light was good, and God began to divide the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, but the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, a first dayGe 1:3-5
The third is a scene where Jehovah questions Job about the functionality not of the Sun's variable lighting conditions, but of how Light fluctuates on and off, and more importantly, when it turns off - how does the light disappear? These two different ways of projecting light and creating darkness have very different dynamics. Sunlight is always shining; and there is similarly always a part of the Earth, or orbiting planet that is in darkness. Whereas, with Light, the lighting conditions themselves fluctuate on and off! And since, Job was not there when Light was in its visible range, and his life span did not cover thousands of years, there is no way he could know about those dynamics. Here is Jehovah putting him on the spot:
Then Jehovah answered Job out of the windstorm: "Who is this who is obscuring my counsel and speaking without knowledge? Brace yourself, please, like a man; I will question you, and you inform me. Where were you when I founded the earth? Tell me, if you think you understand. ... In which direction does the light reside? And where is the place of darkness, that you should take it to its territory and understand the paths to its home? Do you know this because you were already born and the number of your years is great?Job 38:1-4,19-21,
Such mastery! Such wonderful, intricate knowledge! Of course, if the "light" that Jehovah was asking Job about was starlight, Job could have simply thought in his mind that the light resides or comes from the Sun. And that the place of darkness is after sunset. Of course he would not dare to answer God, but the thoughts would have popped into his mind involuntarily. But the whole reason for Jehovah questioning Job was to show his ignorance of true knowledge. In other words he only asked him questions that he could not possibly answer!
The most telling, and damning, of all actions from scientists is how they have sworn, devoted themselves to hiding and obscuring Jehovah's glory! What he called "good," the Light, in Genesis 1:4 and the on/off functionality he endowed it with, scientists call "Evil!" To them the worst thing that Science can ever discover is evidence that there is a loving God who created the Earth and the cosmos as habitable environments for his earthly children. Because that would mean we are morally accountable to him. To avoid that conclusion - a fate worse than death, for some - they twist themselves in knots trying to create alternate realities to every empirical fact that verifies that Jehovah, the God of the Bible, is the Creator of Heaven and Earth. There is no bigger fake news than the evolutionist's take on the universe. This produces a double-edged effect. First, they are forever confused about the meaning of new and real evidence. They never know what it means, or relates to. Secondly, every speculative idea they dream up, from alternate universes, to additional dimension, to time travel, to the Big Bang, to the cyclical universe, to alien life, to the simulation, to AI becoming conscious, and many many more all have the same double thread running through them: they are trying to explain away the FINE-TUNING OF THE UNIVERSE. They are trying to explain away Jehovah's Creatorship of an awe-inspiring universe; and, they do so by invoking theories for which no evidence has ever been seen, and that are thus untestable - unscientific!
This double-edged sword of their own making thus cuts them both ways. It falsifies their models of the universe. As Sabine says all their theories, the ones that could be tested have been proven wrong! That's on the one hand. The second cutting down of Intellectuals is that their explanations of the evidence that science has painstakenly gathered over many centuries is always misinterpreted to reflect some function, or entity that doesn't actually exist. As in the case with a universe that is actually infinite! This is not an outdated notion of cosmology. This is what all the leading cosmologists currently believe! Incredible. It's like believing that the Sun orbits around the Earth after telescopes were invented! None of the theories I have listed above were created due to the typical factor involved in any and all scientific discovery - experimental evidence. All these useless theories are about imaginary phenomena for which there is NO EVIDENCE! Thus, the reason for dreaming them up is not as an exercise of the scientific method, but to create a narrative which is divorced from the reality of facts! All facts. This is just as Professor George Ellis said in reply to Robert Lawrence Kuhn's observation that, "Some would say that one of the underlying motivations for postulating the multiverse - many different universes - is dealing with the fine-tuning problem that we find in ours. That unless you have a multi-universe, the only other alternative ... is some sort of a theological answer." "Absolutely" Professor Ellis chimes in. He continues:
I think that [multiverses] is a very good explanation. But I want to emphasize that I regard this as a philosophical explanation, rather than a scientific one, for the following reason. In my view, science - the core feature of science - is it can be tested and verified. Okay. And in this case, the existence of those other domains cannot be tested directly because we can't see them. In fact, we have no causal contact with them at the present time. We could very legitimately deduce they existed, IF we had verified those laws of physics which have been claimed. But those are also unverified! So, I regard science as being centered on the idea of confirmation and verifiability. And these give very good explanatory patterns and they are plausible explanatory patterns. But, I would say that this is a metaphysical explanation - of a scientific nature. A plausible one. But nevertheless, it isn't testable, and it will remain metaphysical because it can't be tested" George Ellis | Closer To Truth - What Does an Expanding Universe Mean? (10:36-11:35)
That should remind you of our earlier definition of the very word Cosmology from the Merriam-Webster online dictionary as: "A branch of metaphysics that deals with the nature of the universe." The Wordnik online dictionary puts it even better: "The branch of metaphysics speculating on the structure and nature of the most fundamental parts of the system of creation, such as space and time ... and the structure of the universe...." The empty ideas of Big Bang Intellectuals are nothing but mere "metaphysical speculations!" But these metaphysical endeavours are hiding under a cloak of respectable science. As Ellis says, Intellectuals present metaphysical arguments, but frame them as if their scientific! When in reality, they are nothing but a waste of taxpayer dollars. We know that because such exercises in futility exist in a nested reality of uselessness, for metaphysics, is itself defined by Wordnik as, "A priori speculation upon questions that are unanswerable to scientific observation, analysis, or experiment." In other words, not only are such useless theories not based on science, but anyone who is practicing any parts of the scientific method - whether analysis, or observation, or experiment, cannot use the scientific method to test such theories. They fall completely outside of the bounds of science. But, the people who spend all day indulging in these dreams do so knowing that they have an unwritten social contract with you - the taxpayer, yes you: "You scratch my back. I'll scratch your back." "I went to the shaman" Mike Posnwer said, because "I wanted him to tell me some things I wanted to hear." Thus, you outsource your aversion to being accountable to a living God to Intellectuals and they spend all your hard earned money coming up with stories about how you are stardust. You are in DANGER! The reckoning has arrived! Good luck with that! We cannot forget the words of the man who virtually established the scientific method for all future generations:
Physics, beware of metaphysicsSir Isaac Newton
Axis of EVIL?
Let us then look, at how these metaphysicists turn the good into bad and the bad into good. We have already given the social reasons behind this behaviour, but now we refocus out attention on the scientific significance of what they call the Axis of Evil. On the last page of his article Huterer writes:
Other researchers found similarly unlikely alignments. For example, Kate Land and João Magueijo of Imperial College in London found that temperature anisotropies in multipoles 4 through 7 also align with a particular axis close to the CMB dipole, and to the Sun’s motion through space. They have humorously dubbed this odd alignment - apparently the same one we found - the 'axis of evil.'" Dragan Huterer | Astronomy - December 2007 pp 38-43
Of course, there is nothing humorous about it. The whole matter is deadly serious due to its implications, which are chilling for evolutionary cosmologists to think about. The stakes couldn't be higher for people who have never put their skin in the game. If scientists - and you along with them - are wrong about everything they have been saying about the universe, the consequences will be much worse than merely financial ruin. Here is a quote from YouTube's The Action Lab, in which the host explains why the existence of the so-called "Axis of Evil" represents an existential crisis for Big Bang evolutionary cosmologists:
Both the quadropole and the octopole modes have an unexplained alignment with each other and with the ecliptic plane and equinox. And this plain is called the 'Axis of Evil.' Now the reason they call it the Axis of Evil [is] because it threatens to destroy all of modern cosmology as it stands! So, it looks like the entire universe has a special directionality to it, and it aligns exactly with the plain of our solar system. Now this seems to violate the Copernican principle, which states that Earth and our solar system isn't anything special in the universe. We're not the center of the universe and nothing revolves around us at all. ... But then we find this in the course of the cosmic background radiation. It seems that everything is pointing to how our Earth is orbiting around the Sun. Now this is really weird. There shouldn't be any relation from the cosmic background radiation that happened 13.5 billion years ago and how our Earth is currently orbiting around the Sun." Does the Axis of Evil Scare You? - The Action Lab (4:34-5:36)
That sets up the internal contradiction quite well. The problem is not one merely of gas particles versus finished objects. The problems is deeper: its of gas particles versus the MOVEMENT OF FINISHED SOLID OBJECTS! And the problem isn't a trivial one at all. It poses and existential risk to all scientists who've put their eggs in the fragile tattered basket of Big Bang cosmology. When a whole discipline of science is proven to not only to be wrong, but demonstrably false, is poses a real risk to its practitioners. The risks go far beyond reputational damage to their careers. It ends them! When all of Jezebel's 450 prophets of Baal could not make fire come out of heaven. Elijah commanded, and had them all killed! The effect is going to just as dramatic today, but death won't come so quickly. For there is no suffering in death. There was a time when astrology and astronomy where both considered to be legitimate forms of enquiry about the natural world. People used to make a living by either one of them (if you were at the top of your field). But ... once the data started coming in astrology quickly got exposed for the fraud it was and it disappeared to the back pages of tabloid newspapers. There was a time when alchemy and chemistry where both considered to be legitimate forms of enquiry about the natural world. People used to make a living by either one of them (if you were at the top of your field). But ... once the data started coming in alchemists quickly got exposed for the frauds they were and alchemy disappeared as a way to earn a living. There was a time when Intellectuals and true scientists were both considered to be legitimate forms of enquiry about the natural world. People used to make a good living by either one of them (even if you weren't at the top of your field). BUT, the data is in...! NOW synthesis! Woe is the Intellectual. Woe is the scribe. Woe is the debater of this system of things! (1Co 1:19,20) Due to the unique end-of-Empire stage that enables Intellectualism, the stakes are much higher than they were for astrologers and alchemists when they fell out of favour. For in late-stage-Empires, the whole society is based on the endless empty, ill thought out ideas of no-skin-in-the-game Intellectuals. So their demise represents the demise, not just of their guild or 'scientific' community, it represents the collapse of society and all its institutions. For once credentialism takes over, what institution is not guided and - manned to the hilt by vast bureaucracies of ideas-always and action-never Intellectuals? While the astrologers and alchemists were prominent or accepted at an earlier stage of Empire, when other professions outside of academic ones were also valued - like being a soldier or farmer. As such their impact was limited - and so were the effects of their downfall.
Let's see what the only possible solutions to the Axis of Evil problem actually are:
Now, there's basically three reasons why this could happen. The first reason is that our entire idea of the cosmic microwave background is WRONG! And all of modern cosmology is wrong as well. The second reason could be that all of our current measurements of the cosmic microwave background radiation are wrong. There's a lot of filtering that goes on when we try to make these maps of the microwave background. Now, granted, these measurements have been done lots of times, through lots of different time periods using lots of different models, and they all show the same thing. And the third reason is maybe the Copernican principle is actually wrong! It could be that our Earth does have some special space in the universe. Does everything in the entire universe revolve around what happens on the Earth? ... Most scientists choose the second choice: there's something wrong with the data. But so far we haven't been able to find anything wrong with the data. And that's why this remains a mystery to the current day. We don't know why there are these patterns that happen to line up exactly with the ecliptic plane of our solar system. And that's why it's called the 'Axis of Evil.'" Does the Axis of Evil Scare You? - The Action Lab (5:37-6:46)
Of course, it is not the measurements that are wrong, but the theory and the unfounded assumptions that is was based on. You will recognize that reasons one and three are actually the same reason. Big Bang evolutionists have completely misunderstood what Light is! They haven't a clue as to its actual identity. Light is not a record of the surface of last scattering, a hypothetical event which never occurred. If that were the case how could it have an up-to-date record of the current state of the universe - as is reflected in how the whole universe is targeted towards the orbit of the Earth? You cannot have a updated relic database. It's either the database is a relic database like watching old movies. Or it's an updated database of current series showing on Netflix. What would you say if someone showed you what they claimed was an old black and white movie, but then one of the scenes showed a Lamborghini Aventador? Or what would you say if an archeologist in Egypt said he had discovered an ancient village, the first with plumbing, but when others inspected the site, they found that the plumbing was from the latest range from Philippe Starck? Relics do not, cannot, contain updated records. Light is not a relic afterglow of the Big Bang. It is one of Jehovah's most incredible works: it is a universe encircling vibrational lattice that produces blackbody radiation and used it to record the entire history of the development of the universe! Do you see the light? We now discuss how Light implements this recording functionality. Critical to such functionality of course, is its status as the only actual blackbody in the universe. Everything we know scientifically about the universe we have learned through light. Perfect blackbody light, gives us perfect complete information. How?
Emits AND Absorbs
The speckled pattern in Light has nothing to do with a non-existent "surface of last scattering." This presupposes that light came before matter and is the "pure energy" that is the source of matter. In this scenario light and matter were coupled to each other, with light turning into matter when it cooled, but matter turning back into light when it got sufficiently heated in the chaotic hot gas plasma that is supposed to have caused the Big Bang. Thus, light and matter were two sides of the same coin. As we have proven previously, matter came before light; not the other way around! The surface of last scattering represents a scenario that is in direct opposition to the facts, where somehow, light preceded matter. Are the Ricky Gervais' of the world starting to appreciate Jehovah's far reaching wisdom in understanding why God created the Earth (matter) before radiation? That ONE fact alone is enough to dispel any arguments in favour of a materialistic or naturalistic origin story for the universe because the laws of physics tell us that matter is a form of energy. By making matter come before all forms of baryonic energy God made sure that no such theory(ies) would have legs. As it would then become patently clear that the source of baryonic matter cannot be baryonic itself. It must be Inzintian! Such hopeless metaphysical theories would be believed for a time - a period of ignorance - but when the time came for Jehovah to set matters straight, they would be dropped like a hot potato. That is the BRILLIANCE of Jehovah! Are you getting the point of creating stuff in the dark yet - Gervais? How thick is that skull? Although grievously in error here, there is some hope for Gervais. Say what you will about Gervais' knowledge blind spots - at least he's not an Intellectual! The Office was hilarious. It's more than idea, it's a production. A great work that added much to the art of our times! Ignorance is a valid defense according to the Bible. And the hopelessly misled can use it as a get out of death card ... exactly ... ONCE! (Ac 17:30,31)
The speckled pattern of Light is related to its ability to record the development of the universe. Every part of the pattern is a blueprint of the celestial bodies and structures at specific locations in the universe. Every part of Light represents a specific location in the universe. And the speckled pattern shows what happened at that location, when it happened, and where that location is in relation to Earth! That is why I have been saying throughout that the MUMBR was like a subway station map. It shows you the whole network, and informs you of where each relevant part is. In that case the subway stations; in our case galaxies and the celestial bodies that make them up. Such maps would have little utility of course, if you didn't know where you were within the network. This is why such maps always have a big arrow pointing at a dot with the words: "You are HERE" written in bold. Similarly Light's universal map spreads out from us in all directions EQUALLY! Meaning it places us in the middle! The errant argument that the universe is infinite and infinity cannot have a center ... what we perceive as us being in the center is a consequence of the horizon of the observable universe being equally distant from us in all directions (since light travels at the same distance in all directions away from us) thus making us "feel" like we're in the middle, is falsified on all three points by the existence of Light. Since Light is the oldest form of light and exists as the background to all stars (from the Earth), and since all planetary bodies and moons are arranged in solar systems, i.e., around a central star(s), it follows that there are no stars beyond Light. And if no central stars, also no orbiting planets and their attendant moons! Thus Light proves there is nothing beyond it! Hence its alternate label as the Celestial Sphere! This agrees with the age old definition of the universe as: "Everything physical that exists. And so you can't have an external view of the universe. Everything that exists physically is inside the universe - by definition." (That was another part of the video from The Action Lab. From 1:51 to 2:00.) Of course, we now know that that definition includes non-physical, spiritual realities such as Space. In any case, Light not only shows that we are in the middle of the universe - the Axis of LOVE - but it also shows the layout for each and every galaxy in the whole universe. How can humans know that? How did we learn to read such a map?
Fourier Analysis
Multipoles are a way of breaking down more complex patterns into simpler ones, which can then be put back together to recreate the original pattern. This process is done so we can understand complex patterns from the ground up. The technology for doing this already existed in the form of a mathematical tool called a Fourier Analysis. It is used in music to isolate individual instruments in an orchestra say, and also to identify individual notes played by a single instrument. By breaking down more complex arrangements into their simplest subcomponents, it makes it easier to study the whole. Fourier analysis is applied to a very wide range of disciplines and it has proved crucial in allowing scientists to understand what the patterns in the Light were telling them about the structure of the universe, or as Huterer puts it, it enabled scientists "to explore the finest details of how the universe is put together." In my explanation of why Light has so many fields of information I used the illustration of the White House, Huterer uses music and how its notes can be broken down to their simplest purest subcomponents called harmonics. His example is more relevant as the Fourier analysis of Light uses spherical harmonics. Spherical harmonics are equivalent to what I called information fields in the address of the White House. I used a physical address because it is something we can all relate to. That was the first thing my dad taught me when I started school. So that if I ever got lost, I could tell a policeman and find my way back home. Similarly, armed with Fourier Analysis, breaking down the complex speckled patterns of Light and putting them back together became a straightforward, if not simple, task.
Blackbody Radiation
Since the slight variations in Light do not represent the surface of last scattering, what do they represent? They represent an up-to-date LiDAR map of the development of the entire universe! Light, you will remember, is the only actual blackbody in the universe. As such, it is also the only entity that has the capacity for compiling such a complete map. Because it is a true blackbody: it both emits and absorbs all frequencies of electromagnetic radiation.
As we have seen, blackbody radiation cannot be created without a lattice. So, in creating Light, Jehovah was creating the vibrational lattice that would produce the only blackbody in the universe. The only perfect physical material in the universe - perfect light! However, we do not know how long it took to create this material as it was created before the beginning of the creative days - whose length we can determine as I will show later. We cannot say the same about the periods of time that preceded the beginning of the creative days, including the period known as "In the beginning." We have no idea and there is no way to investigate how long God (and Christ) spent in creating the heavens and the Earth. Everything we know scientifically about the universe we have learnt through light. It goes without saying then, that in the absence of all light, we cannot glean any knowledge of what was happening in the darkness!
Everyone agrees on the following facts: Light (the CMB in Intellectual speak) is the Celestial Sphere. It is the only true blackbody in the whole universe. Light rays - through reflection - carry the image of the last surface it had contact with. (This is how you see objects.) Further everyone agrees that Light - the Celestial Sphere - has the capacity to RECORD such images onto its database.
Where there is disagreement is: what is the recording in Light ... of? Is it a snapshot of the initial conditions of the universe; OR is it a snapshot of its end state? As we discussed before under the subheading: "INCONSISTENCIES: Large Scale Structure VS Seeds at 380 000 Years - Which?" The Big Bang theorists are always trying to pull what I call a sleight of mind trick. It's exactly the same as a sleight of hand trick from a common conman, with the only difference being that it is executed by using false reasoning to arrive at an unfounded conclusion. It is a form of mental "bait and switch." Cosmologists argue that the snapshot was taken at 380 000 years after the Big Bang - the "bait." But then turnaround and claim the picture is of the large-scale structures of the universe, which according to their own supposed reckoning of events, occurred many billions of years later! The scenario is indeed metaphysical, for in the real world when someone takes a picture, the photo that results is of that exact moment. Not of a moment in the future.
Previously, I said that everyone agrees that Light has the ability to record to a database, but that is not a totally factual statement, here's why. Again, it boils down to sleight of mind. The majority of scientists would not agree with me - and the evidence - that Light has a DATABASE that it continually updates, just like a fully functioning LiDAR system. They claim to believe that Light only took one snapshot, of the development of the universe - at initial conditions. What gives LiDAR this the continual feedback of LiDAR information? When a LiDAR unit sends light energy to its target, that is called a "pulse." When that pulse is reflected back to the LiDAR receiver, it is called a "return." The source of continual returns that are updating the LiDAR database, is the continual broadcasting of LiDAR pulses. This is another reason the MUMBR cannot be relic radiation. For if it was, then it couldn't now have data of the large-scale structures of the universe! That much is clear. And it is that fact that establishes LiDAR as "an [active] emitter of light energy...." Question: how would you prove that the information Light has recorded is actually a database and not a one-time snapshot? The answer is obvious. If the information contained in Light's temperature signature represents images taken at different periods of time those images form a database; if on the other hand, all the images are of the same moment in time - then, its a snapshot. Selfie versus vlog. The difference is clear.
We have already shown that equating Light's information about the relative movements of the large-scale structures of the universe (i.e., galaxy clusters) with the so-called "seeds" of those clusters is wrong and not supported by the evidence. This is because the temperature lobes of the multipoles are information about the relative movements of large structures not gas atoms! That means Light gives us information about at least two great moments in the history of the universe: initial conditions; and the universe as we see it today! Initial conditions, because as we went through in detail, it is Light that gives us the "salient features of the universe," as per our earlier discussion of Paul Steinhardt's lecture. It was through that detailed analysis that he proved that the Big Bang never happened! Those salient features were all from a snapshot taken at initial conditions. On that we all agree. The second snapshot is of the large-scale structures of the universe, which we all also agree, represents the universe as it is today - replete with all its galaxies and constellations. Two snapshots. Two different periods of time = DATABASE! Light is not a relic of the past. It is continually broadcasting it's up-to-date database of the history of the whole universe to us! But some people don't appreciate it because the person who hit the "SEND" button is God. SETI the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has multiple radio antenna aimed at the sky looking for signals of intelligence. Everytime they get ONE signal they can't explain, the whole community gets excited. Light is continuously sending us information about the history of the whole universe - and our unique place in it. These signals stream towards the Earth 24/7 365 days of the year. There is no point of the sky that you can point your finger at that is NOT transmitting a Light signal of the most complete database ever compiled. Yet, all the same scientists continually downplay its significance by labeling it "a relic of the Big Bang" or an "afterglow of the Big Bang," and by not communicating to the public what its database CONTAINS!. It is biases, not facts, that guide most people's beliefs!
We thus come to the end of our cataloguing of the fantastic capabilities of the only perfect blackbody in the physical realm. The wondrous, unified, vibrating lattice Jehovah the all-wise God created when he said: "Let the be Light." That leads us nicely into just what Newton was busy with for over 30 years of his illustrious life when he was obsessed with the study of Alchemy!
LIGHT - The Holy Grail of Alchemy
The reason scientists were so interested in studying blackbodies once they had discovered them is because blackbodies are the perfect material. You will recall that everything we know about the universe scientifically, we have learned from light. Thus the light of a blackbody holds special significance because as a form of light that can absorb and emit all frequencies of electromagnetic radiation, it means it can tell us the full story of the object emitting it. In the case of Light, which has the dynamics of a high functioning LiDAR system - including the ability to record a complex database of universal development - it tells us the full story of that development. With no gaps in the story!
Newton - The Master Alchemist
Over the years, many scholars have decried the time Newton spent studying alchemy. For them alchemy represented an inferior occult practice similar to how astrology relates to astronomy. In their minds alchemy was about turning iron into gold. But, as you should have learned by now: never bet against Newton.
When Newton spent those countless hours studying alchemy, he was not trying to turn iron into gold, he was trying to find out what the perfect material would look like. How light could/would interact with a material and if they were convertible into each other. He wasn't looking to mint wealth. He was looking to mint knowledge. Remember he was the first to appreciate the special properties of light. It was him, who came up with the term, "spectrum." He had already made the connection that there was a possibility that light could be turned into matter, and vice versa, but died before he had the opportunity to explore where his intuition would have led him. Newton was the first describe, what we today call a photon. As Wikipedia says of him and his corpuscular (small divisible atom-like particles) theory of light, "Isaac Newton laid the foundations for this theory through his work in optics. This early conception of the particle theory of light was an early forerunner to the modern understanding of the photon." It is true, he did not know about the dual nature of photons: how they are both particle-like and wave-like. He had only accumulated evidence for the particle part of the puzzle, reasoning:
... That the geometric nature of reflection and refraction of light could only be explained if light were made of particles because waves do not tend to travel in straight lines. Newton's corpuscular theory was an elaboration of his view of reality as interactions of material points through forces." Isaac Newton | Wikipedia - Corpuscular Theory of Light
Put a pin on the part of that quote that I have highlighted. It will be vital shortly. All the dominoes have started to drop. So keep abreast of all the relevant facts so you understand what is happening when a domino does fall. Contrary to what scientists would have you believe, it was Newton, not Einstein that was on the right tract about the true nature of reality. As we shall soon see!
In addition to understanding a big part of the nature of photons, he also had the right intuition about the relationship between light, energy, and atoms. Here is Wikipedia again, this time elaborating on his work with light and the conclusions and suspicions he came away with:
In 1704, Newton published Opticks, in which he expounded his corpuscular theory of light. He considered light to be made up of extremely subtle corpuscles, that ordinary matter was made of grosser corpuscles and speculated that through a kind of alchemical transmutation "Are not gross Bodies and Light convertible into one another, ... and may not Bodies receive much of their Activity from the Particles of Light which enter their Composition?"" Wikipedia | Isaac Newton - Optics
That was Newton's interest in alchemy: "alchemical transmutation" between bodies and light not iron and gold. It should have dawned on you that Light, the perfect material, actively produces perfect blackbody light energy through a vibrational lattice. And does work on all incoming light "returns," turning them immediately into new emissions of light energy pulses THROUGH ITS VIBRATIONAL LATTICE. Light IS the alchemical transmutation that converts light into a material (lattice) and lattice to light energy pulses. Of course the real final situation is more nuanced and subtle than Newton's early speculations. In the case of Light, light and bodies are not strictly converting into each other, for both exist at the same time! The reality is more sophisticated: it is the ability for a second kind of special lattice - that is unique to the MUMBR only, to actively convert all incoming light into outgoing light! The light does not turn into a lattice and the lattice does not turn into light. That is the final solution to the kind of alchemical transmutation Newton was seeking. Bravo ... what a mind. He was looking for the interface between light and matter. He understood that light particles (photons) energized atoms. And he understood the foundations of E=mc2. However, he was ahead, even of the scientific thinking common to our current age, acknowledging that the kind of corpuscles that light was made from were different from the kind matter was made from. In this way he understood that there would be limits to the convertibility between matter and light. He knew, unlike today's scientific community that matter is not a product of light. He knew that light was not the "pure energy" from which all matter - Inzintian and baryonic - is born. Brian Keating still hasn't caught up! He is still trying to find the radiation which constitutes "pure energy." Shame.
You will appreciate from these few examples I have given you that Newton's interest in "alchemical transmutation" was a tool in a much deeper search for something fundamental. Had he lived long enough to be around when spectroscopy and blackbody radiation where discovered, he would have been the first to put it all together. There exists an element which is a source of complete information, for it absorbs and emits all frequencies of light! But no one appreciated that his interest in alchemy was a stepping stone in his search for the holy grail of all baryonic materials - the Mighty Universal Microwave Background Radiation. Can you imagine being so ahead of your time that nobody even understands the questions you're asking, or the value of the answers?
So a Perfect Material DOES EXIST - But Why?
LIGHT IS THE BOUNDARY OF ALL EMPIRICAL SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE! Physicists like Brian Keating spend all their time trying to find a materialistic and naturalistic "origin story" of the universe. All to no avail. Their hope of course, was that the existence of such a material would render God irrelevant. As Robert Jastrow said, he believes that all you need to explain the universe is matter and the laws describing how it behaves, together with the starting conditions. And from there, with those three factors, you can compute any scenario you might find in the actual universe. To his utter disappointment, he never found any such materialistic origin story for the universe.
But, as it turns out, a perfect material does exist! However, it tells us, not that the universe came into being, through naturalistic means - but the exact opposite. It tells us that the universe is the product of a mind! It was Light, that recorded the initial conditions of the universe. It was Light that tells us they were zero entropy. As Keating indirectly admitted earlier: if there is no materialistic or naturalistic explanations then there is only one other option - the universe is the product of a mind! Zero entropy conditions are confirmation of exactly that: the universe is the of a loving mind. The mind of Jehovah Most Precious! Which brings us to an interesting turn of events.
The BOUNDARY of EMPIRICAL Knowledge
Since everything we know about the universe through the scientific method we have learnt through light, you must already appreciate that without it, we would know nothing. Stated differently: light is the boundary of human efforts to glean scientific knowledge. What would we have been able to know - or confirm - about the time before stars were created, had there not been some form of light? More than that, such knowledge would have been lost in the darkness of the vast universe had the light that existed before stars been a one time wonder. A flash that shone brightly when there were no humans to decipher it, and that had disappeared by the time we appeared on the scene and had had enough time to accumulate the skills and technology to discover and study it. As it turns out not only does light exist before the advent of stars, but this light is the perfect repository of the universe's complete developmental history.
Since, the light that existed before the appearance of plants was not for the benefit of Jehovah, his Christ, and the angels - for whom was it created, since Jehovah never works without an express purpose? There is only one other species of intelligent beings in the universe - humans. If this light was for our benefit, but we were only going to encounter and study it many thousands of years later, it would need to have certain characteristics. It would need to be a permanent source of continual light pulses. Otherwise its information content would be lost to time. It would need some fashion of recording capability, in order for us to know what happened, after it occurred. For unlike the angels, we were not eye-witnesses to these creative events. For it not to miss anything, that is, for it to be able to record every detail, it would need to be a ... you know the answer: a blackbody. Its advent would then represent the earliest scientific knowledge man could gather by himself - independent of God. It's creation would represent the earliest point God thinks it is necessary for us to know about the creation of the universe. Such an entity would represent a loving journal from an omniscient Heavenly Father about how he went about creating his universe. And it would be available to all his human children to read and enjoy, once its discovery and purpose had been properly explained to mankind. It is identifying this light that is of outmost scientific importance to us. Initially, its purpose was to guide inquisitive perfect mankind into the knowledge of the history of the universe, for perfect mankind would have known that God is real, for we had a relationship with him. As things turned out, its pre-eminent purpose has now changed to being to either verify, or falsify Jehovah's account of creation as found in Genesis - to imperfect humans!
What the MIGHTY in MUMBR Stands For?
The CMB is the MUMBR. The MUMBR is Light. You will NEVER find me leaving out the MIGHTY in the name MUMBR. What does it stand for. Let it serve as a mnemonic to help remind us of why it is so awesome!
Manifest Godly wisdom and all human meaning! It's hard to argue with the silent witness in the sky when it is shouting so loudly about how special we are in the whole universe. Those details are manifested Light.
Inception to completion histograph of the entire development of the universe.
Growth algorithm that shows in minute detail, how each of the large scale structures in our universe came to be, all while maintaining Critical Density when God was stretching Space.
Human/universe information user interface. The MUMBR is the Light by which we get to interrogate the universe at will - if we know what questions to ask!
Timescale: that gives an accurate account of how much time has elapsed between our day and the initial conditions of Genesis 1:3! Remember initial conditions are not Genesis 1:1. There are three things needed for the zero entropy moment that scientists call "initial conditions." They are Space, matter, and light - in our case, that would be Light.
Yardstick. Light acts as a metering system for the whole universe. When humans become sophisticated enough in their use of this mechanism, they will be able to determine the distances to this or that galaxy without scanning the night sky or using the distance ladder. Reading the figures from the "subway station map" that will be scaled correctly will be good enough.
These are the reasons it is not enough to label Light as the UMBR. Light is the MUMBR! For it is undoubtedly mighty. It is this entity - the Mighty UMBR - that was the light that recorded the state of affairs at initial conditions. The Mighty Universal Microwave Background Radiation is "LIGHT!" What God created then before the creative days started was a blackbody: the perfect mechanism to record not only the initial conditions of the universe and their zero entropy supernature, but also to record the subsequent development of the whole universe for the benefit of mankind. And he named it "Light!" The map of the universe that Light presents to us today, is the idea Jehovah had of the universe, even before he created the angel we now know as Christ. Because Jehovah is perfect in all he does and is mighty in power, there is nothing which he has in mind to do, which is impossible for him. (Job 42:2) As such, he has 100% efficiency when he works. No thought that he has is above his ability to realize - and, in exactly the way he wanted it to be. Thus, the universe as it exists today is exactly the one Jehovah had in mind - with onc exception. The deviancy of mankind. If you know that, then you also know that the aberration of human rebellion is soon to be a thing of the past, as Jehovah, through Christ's Heavenly kingdom brings the Earth into harmony with the rest of the universe! (Mt 6:10) This. Will. Be. Accomplished. Via. JUDGEMENT.
Aganin, now that we have confirmed the true identity of the Mighty Universal Microwave Background, we must start getting used to calling it by its proper name - "Light!" The discovery of learning that what the Light in the Genesis account really is is profoundly exciting. It should be a cause for joy and excitement should it not? Why then am I equating it with negative emotions like judgement?
Some might have had the impression that The Greatest Story Ever Told was a long form science blod. If any of you did hold that view, I trust that you have long ago disabused yourself of that notion. You might still not know exactly what The Greatest Story Ever Told is. But, you know what it is not - a blog about science. Something altogether more definitive is slowly unfolding. To quote a contemporary poet:
Walk with me. Hold my hand and let me lead you. I take you on a journey and I promise I will lead you - I will lead you - until you get the full comprehension. And when you do: that's when the mission of survival becomes your every thought" Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr
judgement doesn't always mean a negative result. It just means you will reap what you sow. If you don't want to reap negative results, sow righteousness. At his appointed time, Jehovah will make sure that all knees bend to him, in recognition of his Supreme position in the universe!
But why do you judge your brother? Or why do you also look down on your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God. For it is written: "'As surely as I live,' says Jehovah, 'to me every knee will bend, and every tongue will make open acknowledgment to God.'" So, then, each of us will render an account for himself to GodRo 14:12-12
And ...
Give in and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations; I will be exalted in the earthPs 46:10
That reality leads us to the direct answer to Ricky Gervais' initial implied question - as insolent as it was: why did God create Light ... when he did?
ROMANS 1:20 - The Functions of LIGHT
We have learnt much by studying in detail the many amazing functions of what is truly, the most impactful baryonic element in the universe. The secret material which is only to be found at the edge of the universe - the wonderful substance we call Light. One of its greatest uses is that by defining what exists, it tells us what does not exist.
One such popular notion is the belief in alien life. Primarily this is a red herring intruduced by Satan to confuse people about the definition of life. First, he tried to mess with the definition of "death," then, he moved on to try and change man's perception of "life." Scientists, and all evolutionary biologists think life is a computational threshold past which, non-living entities suddenly attain conciousness and become living organisms. This is why Elon Musk and others think AI can come to life and terrorize the human race. Some genuinely believe this, but the smartest among them use it as a sinister ploy to scare the rest of mankind to support one or other point on their personal agendas. I believe Musk falls into the second category. Here is evolutionary biologist, Bret Weinstein whom, perhaps, falls into the first category in a recent interview talking about his fears around ChatGPT:
I don't know what we're supposed to do about [ChatGPT], but I do know we're not ready. We're not ready and the rate at which this is going to get better is clear. Exposing it to larger and larger datasets is going to make it better and better at simulating this kind of interaction. And, that's, you know, that's if it stays unconscious. The question of what happens if this doesn't stay unconcious, or this stays unconscious, but it's descendant picks up consciousness is even more troubling" Bret Weinstein | Valuetainment | "We are NOT Ready for ChatGPT!" - Bret Weinstein on the Dangers of AI (4:02-4:36)
Shame. The Intellectual class is a circus of the blind leading the blind. "Wicked men and impostors" the Bible says "will advance from bad to wors, misleading and being misled." (2Ti 3:13) I don't know, nor care which of the fools who spout such dribble fall into which of those two categories, that is for their own account with God. As for Mr Weinstein, who wants to tell him that consciousness is not something you "pick up!" And this is the Intellectual whom I have quoted previously in this blog for his stance that Academia is a failed enterprise that has been captured by big business. He and his wife Heather Heying are the professors who were run out of their university for not agreeing to some woke demand of the adminstration. He is the one who got many things right during the pandemic that the official narrative got wrong. He is supposed to represent the true vanguard of free thinking Intellectuals - representing the best of the current crop. Yet, here he is as confused as every other Intellectual, whom following after Maxwell and Boltzmann, have come to think of complexity in probabilistic terms. They believe life is a computational problem. Thus if you hav some atoms and you give them long enough they will eventually "come to life," they will "pick up consciousness!"
Explaining the True Meaning of a Familiar BUT UNDEFINED Word
You will recall that in our section on the Marvel Cinematic Universe on page 43, where we clarified the meaning of man's personal vital force that emanates from the combiation of Jehovah's breath of life, and a body, that I said the following:
I will not spend any time here explaining the full meaning behind man's spirit because in a little while I will tell you one phrase which will give you complete clarity as to what it is! Hint: it's true identity is something you are extremely used to, but that nobody knows how to define!"
The one word that is equivalent to the living force in all beings is CONSCIOUSNESS. That is why that particular definition of spirit is so closely aligned with our emotions, temperament or the personal energy levels with which we engage the wider world. When we say some is "mild-tempered," we mean his conciousness is mild-tempered. When we say someone is "weak spirited," we mean his consciousness is easily controlled by others or circumstances. Scientists use this word everyday in all sorts of situations without having the slightest clue as to its true identity. On YouTube science channels like Closer To Truth, they have all sorts of videos with titles like: Why is Consciousness so Baffling?; What is Consciousness?; Why Did Consciousnes Emerge?; Quantum Physics of Consciousness; Is Consciousness an Illusion?; What's the Essence of Consciousness?; What Makes Brains Conscious?; Must the Universe Contain Consiousnes? and my personal favourite, Is Consciousness Entirely Physical? Knowing that consciousness is the personal emergent "spirit" that results from two vital ingredients, you now know the answer to that question!
You now also know what force is being sent into objects to control their behaviour in Spirics. With Physics, humans use different forces to move things. For instance, the turbines that spin to create electricity can be spun by wind power, or thermal power, or hydropower (water). Different outside forces all brough to bear on a similar electrical system to produce electricity. It is not like that in the spirit realm. The power that is used is the personal power of the angel - his spirit, his consciousness. So when the angel freed Peter and the gate opened of its own accord, what was opening it? His consciousness. When the cherubs who generate the power to move Jehovah's chariot send their spirit into the wheels, what is it that they have sent? Their consciousness. When Jehovah, the Mighty God sends his Spriti into the four cherubs what is he sending? His consciousness! TAKE THE TIME TO PROPERLY PONDER THAT!
Examples of CONSCIOUSNESS Working Externally!
What do the highlighed portions of the following scriptural passage mean?
For who among men knows the things of a man except the man's spirit within him? So, too, no one has come to know the things of God except the spirit of God. Now we received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit that is from God, so that we might know the things that have been kindly given us by God. ... However, the spiritual man examines all things, but he himself is not examined by any man. For "who has come to know the mind of Jehovah, so that he may instruct him?" But we do have the mind of the Christ1Co 2:11,12,15,16
They mean that when God gives his Holy Spirit to humans, he is giving them his consiousness - his mind! That is why Jehovah NEVER gives his Holy Spirit to people who don't love him!
If you love me, you will observe my commandments; and I will request the Father and he will give you another helper to be with you forever, the spirit of the truth, which the world cannot receiveJoh 14:15-17a
In contrast the Bible gives numerous exaples of people who were "full of holy spirit!" What does that mean? Just like you can condition your muscles to not fatigue easily, if you are preparing to run a marathon, for instance. We can also direct our own minds to being more and more in line with Jehovah's thinking, by being continuously obedient to him without wavering. (Ro 2:7) This creates a virtous cycle in us, where the more righteous our behaviour gets, the more willing Jehovah is to support us with his spririt:
At this point, I must state explicitly that what I am saying applies to a select group of people that the Bible refers to by many names including the "anointed," or "holy ones." Have you ever heard someone say: "If Jesus were here. What would he do?" Sometimes it's said in jest by cynical non-believers, but sometimes it's a genuine question asked by people of faith in trying to find the right course of action. There have been moments in history when people have done exactly that because they have God's holy spirit. We should remember that the Christ is the exact representation of his Father. (Heb 1:2,3) That is to say, the Christ's inclinations and reactions are exactly the same as his Father's, so closely aligned are their perspectives on the world. So, even if the particular spirit that is in someone is God's spirit and not Christ's, that is a mere technicality in terms of the resultant outlook. There are only a few minor areas where that technicality actually has an impact. We will discuss one shortly. For now, realize that a person with God's holy spirit, has God's holy consciousness, his holy mind! The Bible, in several places mentions just such situations. In the last paragraph we spoke about the willingness to condition our consciouses to more accurately reflect Jehovah's. People who have that disposition and are also anointed by Jehovah have the unique ability to be full of holy spirit. That means they are full of Jehovah's consciousness. What effect does that have on their behaviour? That is the value of the last part of 1 Corinthians 2:16: "For 'who has come to know the mind of Jehovah...?' But we do have the mind of the Christ."
We must be clear about what we are trying to prove. It is a nested three-tier reality. FIRST TIER: The personal "spirit" that people have is their consciousness - their mental vigour and temperament. This is called vital force in all intelligent beings and is an emergent property when Jehovah's animating life force is combined with a body - either physical or spiritual. It is not emergent in Jehovah though, because he has always existed. And in his case it is called the Holy Spirit. SECOND TIER: Heavenly beings have the ability to use these personal spirits of theirs to manoeuvre things. When Jehovah gives people his holy spirit, it can be up to a limit called being full of holy spirit. In such cases people then act just as Jehovah would act - according to the laws of Spirics! But this is not mind control or a form of hypnosis. (Heb 10:26-29; 1Jo 2:18-22) The people always have free will in the matter. Nevertheless, when full of holy spirit they act as Jehovah would have, were he personally in that situation. It is this last part that we have to prove. For Jehovah has never been on Earth for us to see his personality though direct human interactions. Moreover, he never feels vulnerable due to being in a human body, so there is no record of his actions in such a scenario. But, the Christ is the exact representation of his very being! And he has experienced all those things! As such his life course gives us a clear picture of how Jehovah would act in those situtaions. (Joh 1:14) THE THIRD NESTED TIER: The last part of the puzzle then is finding situations that people who are described as being "full of holy spirit," were in, that Christ was also in ... and comparing their actions. If our personal spirits are, indeed, our consciousness, our minds - then the actions of those individuals and those of Christ, under the same circumstances, should be the SAME.
Stephen, who died at the feet of the Pharisee Saul (before he repented and became the Apostle Paul), is one such man. The scene is he is being matyred for his belief in Christ and his strong defense of Jehovah in the face of unjust opposition - just like Jesus had suffered earlier. In fact, not only are they being persecuted by the same people, but they use the same type of sham trial and mob justice to execute their murderous rage. This is what Acts chapter 7 is about. Not being able to resist the truthfulness of both the Christ and Stephen, they enlist the help of good for nothing men to testify falsely agains them. (Mt 26:59-61; Ac 6:10-14) Of course, in the end they were both killed by their persecutors. So they were in the same situation. What we want to know is, were their reactions the same, as they should be since Stephen was full of holy spirit? First, let us show that not everyone who is anointed is full of holy spirit. One must be exerting him or herself in a special way. It results from a combination of strongly wanting to do what is right and being anointed with Jehovah's holy spirit! The following scripture lists individuals who were all anointed, but only Stephen is spoken of as being "full of ... holy spirit.":
What they said was pleasing to the whole multitude, and they selected Stephen, a man full of faith and holy spirit, as well as Philip, Prochʹo·rus, Ni·caʹnor, Tiʹmon, Parʹme·nas, and Nic·o·laʹus, a proselyte of AntiochAc 6:5
The words, "as well" show us that the qualities of being "full of faith and holy spirit" are applied exclusively to Stephen, and then the rest of the individuals just form the rest of the over-all list of individuals chosen to perform the task at hand. Yet all these individuals were anointed! This scripture also shows us what is the difference between those who are full of holy spirit and those who have it at less than that level. It is an act of kindness from Jehovah to not give his spirit in full to those with less than full faith, as it would put them into problematic situations that their level of faith is ill-equipped to handle! Thus Jehovah and Christ always measure out the holy spirit according to people's faith!:
For through the undeserved kindness given to me, I tell everyone there among you not to think more of himself than it is necessary to think, but to think so as to have a sound mind, each one as God has given to him a measure of faithRo 12:3
From this scriture we realize there are different measures of faith. And the weightiest gifts required the strongest faith. (1Co 12:28-31a) The people who had them would have been first in the firing line in times of persecution. The following scripture just confirms that faith is not a cookie cut, one size fits all possession. It is proportional:
Since, then, we have gifts differing according to the undeserved kindness given to us, whether prophecy, [let us prophesy] according to the faith proportioned [to us]Ro 12:6
The goal is to then grow our faith until we attain the full measure of faith as it exists in the Christ himself:
Now undeserved kindness was given to each one of us according to how the Christ measured out the free gift. ... until we all attain to the oneness of the faith and of the accurate knowledge of the Son of God, to being a full-grown man, attaining the measure of stature that belongs to the fullness of the ChristEph 4:7,13
To be full of holy spirit then, you must also be full of "faith!" But faith is not the same for all people. Some have reasoned more than others; and others have reasoned less than some. That's the difference. It is not an act of favouritism from God. The journey then, starts from different points but the end goal is the same for all - attain the full measure of faith, for then we will be full of holy spirit. In the first century of our common era, Stephen was just such a man - he was "full of faith and holy spirity." Isn't REASONING wonderful!
Speech & Disposition
We will now highlight some exact behaviours between him and the Christ in the similar situations that each faced. When you read Acts chapter 7 for yourself, you will clearly see his boldness and draw parallels with the Christ. But we want more specific examples. Verses 51 to 53 shows us his bravery in the face of imminent death. I will quote it below, and below that Jesus' similar words:
Obstinate men and uncircumcised in hearts and ears, you are always resisting the holy spirit; as your forefathers did, so you do. Which one of the prophets did your forefathers not persecute? Yes, they killed those who announced in advance the coming of the righteous one, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become, you who received the Law as transmitted by angels but have not kept itAc 7:51-53
Stephen was in the Sanhedrin talking to the Pharisess when he made this speech. Below Christ is similarly addressing the Pharisees. The value of knowing that, is that they were the men in ancient Jewish society that could pronounce a death sentence on you. But that is not the similarity we are interested in. We want to take special note of how exacting Christ's and Stephen's replies to them are:
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you build the graves of the prophets and decorate the tombs of the righteous ones, and you say, 'If we had lived in the days of our forefathers, we would not have shared with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.' Therefore, you are testifying against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets. Well, then, fill up the measure of your forefathers. Serpents, offspring of vipers, how will you flee from the judgment of Ge·hen'na? For this reason, I am sending to you prophets and wise men and public instructors. Some of them you will kill and execute on stakes, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city, so that there may come upon you all the righteous blood spilled on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zech·a·ri'ah son of Bar·a·chi'ah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altarMt 23:29-35
You can see the exactness of attitude in the above quotes. The part of the last scripture that I have highlighted is effectively Christ telling the Pharisees: kill me, as it is prophesied you would do! Can you fathom that kind of willing bravery? Next we consider ...
Faith
It is due to their fear of death that most men live all their lives as slaves of this or that threat. (Heb 2:15) But Christ first, and all his faithful disciples after him had the commandment that they could sacrifice their lives and they would receive their spirits back. (Joh 10:18; 2:19; 1Co 3:16,17) For this reason both Christ and his anointed followers who were full of faith and holy spirit always looked death in the face and chose the glory of God, knowing that they could trust him to resurrect them at his appointed time. (2Ti 1:12) Hence both Stephen and the Christ make similar statements about their assured resurrection as they are dying. For that is what faith is: "the assured expectaion of what is hoped for." (Heb 11:1):
As they were stoning Stephen, he made this appeal: "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit."Ac 7:59
Christ of course - as always - sets the example:
And Jesus called out with a loud voice and said: "Father, into your hands I entrust my spirit." After he said this, he expiredLu 23:46
Loving Merciful Attitude
The Bible tells us that, "The insight of a man certainly slows down his anger." (Pr 19:11) How did Stephen and Christ give proof of that holy proverb? In the midst of their agonising deaths, they each uttured a truly emphathetic phrase that showed their clear understanding of the situation and its prophesied outcomes. It was foretold of course that the Christ would suffer. That is a central message of the prophets. But it was Christ himself who prophesied that there would be further perecution of his own followers after his ascension to Heaven. We just those words in Mt 23:34,35 above. Here is how both men responded to their executioners during their painful deaths. First Stephen:
Then, kneeling down, he cried out with a strong voice: "Jehovah, do not charge this sin against them." And after saying this, he fell asleep in deathAc 7:60
Then, his prototype - the Christ:
And when they got to the place called Skull, they nailed him to the stake there alongside the criminals, one on his right and one on his left. But Jesus was saying: "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing."Lu 23:33,34
At this point I must also bring to your attention that such merciful attitudes are over! The second time Christ comes "It will be apart from sin," and it will be to bring destruction upon those who do not obey. (Heb 9:28; 2Th 1:7-9) Time moves forward. Jehovah expects us to move with it!
I hope you have enjoyed have enjoyed learning the true definitions of two common but vastly misunderstood words and coming to understand that they are the same phenomenon. Your consciousness - that sense of being alive - is your spirit. Not Jehovah's spirit, but your personal spirit that emerges whenever a body made of dust is energized by God's breath of life - his "spirit." (Ps 104:29,30) Of course, after Adam and Woman, this happens through conception and childbirth, not directly as in the individual cases of those two first humans.
Angels also have this emergent entity, but theirs is not a product of the "breath of life" as is the case with all baryonic life. They do not have a user interface, so theirs is a product of Jehovah's spirit sans the breath of life interface. The spirit of Jehovah that energizes all life forms is NOT his holy spirit, for all humans and even animals have Jehovah's animating life force. (That is 50% of the formula for all life.) Yet, no worldly people have Jehovah's holy spirit, showing clearly that the two spirits though coming from the same person, are themselves, not the same thing!
Lastly, Jehovah also has such an entity, but his is different from that which is emergent in all physical life and in all the angels. His is eternal and can thus not be described as emergent! His is called the Holy Spirit, and NO ONE, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE CAN BLASPHEME AGAINST IT, FOR IT IS JEHOVAH'S CONSCIOUSNESS - HIS MIND:
For this reason I say to you, every sort of sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the spirit will not be forgiven. For example, whoever speaks a word against the Son of man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the holy spirit, it will not be forgiven him, no, not in this system of things nor in that to comeMt 12:31,32
In the spiritual realm all spirit beings have the capacity to externalize this entity, for it is also their power - just as Jehovah's holy spirit is his "active force." (Ge 1:2; Mt 12:28; Lu 11:20) At Genesis 1:1, it was Jehovah's consciousness that was "moving to and fro over the surface of the waters." It was the mind of the cherubs that was in the wheels of Jehovah's chariot. It was the angel's mind that was opening the gate when Peter was broken out of jail. When Adam came to be a living person and he took his first breath, what had just come alive: his emergent breath, spirit, consciousness or mind? All four are one and the same thing! A property that emerges with the combining of two separate entities a body and God's spirit; but that disappears when those factors are separated. That is what emergent means!
Let's test comprehension. If you have understood everything we have just discussed, explain the dynamics of the scripture below. Why do the thoughts perish "on that very day?"
His spirit goes out, he returns to the ground; on that very day his thoughts perishPs 146:4
Because the spirit and the thoughts are one and the same thing! Do you remember in the Matrix where Neo after a training session asks Morpheus, "If you're killed in the Matrix, you die here?" "The body cannot live without the mind," was the immdediate response. The opposite is also obviously true: the mind cannot live without the body! That's what Jordan Peterson means when he says intelligence must be "embodied." For all baryonic life that is true. Spirit beings as we have said can apportion some part of their mind/spirit/consciousness to go outside of themselves to perform some task. But for humans that statement holds true. What is perplexing is that people who believe that the body cannot live without the mind (this is obvious because many choose cremation, but are scared of hell), believe that the mind can live without the body! How can that be true? Both cannot live without the other! We all accept that the body cannot live without the mind. But even more fundamentally, the mind cannot live without the body. Now that we have come to know the truth about the true identity of mind and concsiousness, that they are eacj individual's emergent "spirit," we know without any doubt that no such thing survives death - or can survive it! Let us put the cause of the confusion down to not having known what the spirit was! Ignorance. That's good, for now we have made progress. Being afraid of burning in hellfire is equivalent to being afraid of your consciousness burning in hell, or of your mind burning in hell, or of your breath burning in hell. No such thing exists. Not only because hell just means the common grave of mankind, where there is no eternal fire, but all the entities we have just listed are emergent, they disappear when the body is separated from God's spirit!
Now that we have a full 360 degree understanding of what consciousness is, can you see clearly the foolishness of evolutionists claiming AI can "pick up" consciousness? You can give AI all the databases in the whole universe it will never come to life. For life and consciousness is an emergent property of embodied objects that also have God's spirit. Do you think the AI intelligence that the Google engineer claimed was "alive" had access to God's spirit? It is the spirit that is life giving the body is of no use at all! (Joh 6:63) Don't fall for the heady breathy excitement of these fools. Here is Jehovah the Creator of all life, telling you what Christ has just outlined above - without spirit, there is no life!:
All mankind is too stupid to know; every smelter is too ashamed for a statue, for his castings are counterfeit, they have no spirit in themJer 10:14 | The Bible in Living English
As long as there is no spirit in them, you can arrange and rearrange atoms for all eternity - they will never come to life. Life is not computational. Life is not statistical. Life is not a probability distribution. Those are the laws of physics! And spirit only comes from Jehovah. Since Jehovah has only given his spirit to creatures on the Earth, it means the rest of the univere is empty of any physical life forms! EMPTY. If you understand that then you are ready to accept that the vast universe we see is a loving gift from a Father to his children to keep them entertained ... f-o-r-e-v-e-r!
Isn't science wonderful!
Map of the Universe
That is why in addition to the Cosmos themselves, Jehovah has given us a legend to the universe. A subway station guide that tells us how to intelligently plan our Space missions. We can also use to search out and find the most suitable planets and solar systems to subdue. And as our knowledge gets better, we will excel at the exercise. Living forever will be anything but boring for Jehovah's people. On the other hand Jehovah is glad to make the declarations of people who say his gift of living forever would be boring a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you don't want to live, Jehovah will gladly kill you ... but first - pain. (Nu 14:28-32; 2Th 1:7-9; Re 9:5,6)
Humans were Created to be an Interplanetary Species
All this serves to bring us to the realization that humans were created to be an interplanetary species. One that controls the whole Cosmos. If that is true, it means there can be not aliens! That is of course true. So let us now move onto examining further clear definitive evidence that there is no such thing as alien life!
There are No Aliens - Only Extraterrestrials
The logic that defines this topic is clear and irrefutable. It can be easily described and explained using Venn Diagrams - a fantastic tool for visually sorting out the logic of any topic!
There are No Aliens ...
How can we possibly know that since we have never traveled to other galaxies and planets. That's not how these works. As we have already proved life is not a computational lottery. Inanimate matter doesn't "pick up" consciousness. So how does it work? Through a very simple but definitive metric, or way for us to measure the truth - public service! You will recall that Jehovah appointed all angels as public servants:
But with reference to which one of the angels has he ever said: "Sit at my right hand, until I place your enemies as a stool for your feet"? Are they not all spirits for public service, sent forth to minister for those who are going to inherit salvation?Heb 1:13,14 | New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - With References
Now, the holy angels have access through the filaments of Space to visit any location in the universe. Thus if there were aliens somewhere, their public service would encompass those regions of the universe. Anywhere where there was life they would have a access and perhaps even a permanent presence! Let's move on to our next point.
But angels are not the only public servants Jehovah has appointed! He has also appointed governments as public servants, to keep order on Earth. It is for this reason that we pay taxes. No one who fears Jehovah dodges paying taxes. Not because the governments use our monies responsibly, but out of the highest regard for the person of Jehovah!:
Let every person be in subjection to the superior authorities, for there is no authority except by God; the existing authorities stand placed in their relative positions by God. Therefore, whoever opposes the authority has taken a stand against the arrangement of God; those who have taken a stand against it will bring judgment against themselves. ... For it is God’s minister to you for your good. But if you are doing what is bad, be in fear, for it is not without purpose that it bears the sword. It is God’s minister, an avenger to express wrath against the one practicing what is bad. There is therefore compelling reason for you to be in subjection, not only on account of that wrath but also on account of your conscience. That is why you are also paying taxes; for they are God’s public servants constantly serving this very purposeRo 13:1,2,4,5,6
We now compare the two passages of scripture and see which has the larger footprint. We find that the governmental authorities have a larger area of responsibility than the angels do. The government officials police both the good and the bad on Earth. Whereas, the angels are only sent out to minister to: "those who are going to inherit salvation!" Christ told us plainly to
Go in through the narrow gate, because broad is the gate and spacious is the road leading off into destruction, and many are going in through it; whereas narrow is the gate and cramped the road leading off into life, and few are finding itMt 7:13,14
Now the "superior authorities" are policing both groups, while the angels are only taking care of the "few" who are going to inherit salvation, the ones on the road "leading off into life." What does the fact that the public service of Earthly governments is a larger footprint than the public service of angels who have the ability to police anywhere in the Cosmos tell you? The answer is: there is no one outside the Earth for angels to offer public service to. Put another way there are no aliens in the universe!
But a valid question arises, "inheriting salvation" has to do with sinners: what if there are aliens somewher else, other Adams and Womans who were successful in carrying out their assignment from Jehovah and who are thus perfect? That cannot be the case for the simple reason that all intelligent lifeforms have free will - with the only guiding principle being that we will reap what we sow. (Ec 11:9; 12:13,14) Since that is the case, such long lived beings can still fall away and start opposing Jehovah as Satan - who was thousands of years old when "unrightesousness was found in [him]" - did. (Eze 28:15) As the angels who took even longer to forsake their righteous standing with God and become demons also did. Why? Because all intelligent creation will always have free will, which means they can always turn against God - even after eons of righteousness:
When I say to the righteous one: "You will surely keep living," and he trusts in his own righteousness and does what is wrong, none of his righteous acts will be remembered, but he will die for the wrong that he has doneEze 33:13
We can all agree that any such perfect aliens would fall into this category. But that presents an unsolvable problem. Jehovah has decreed that all sinners who exercise faith will be redeemed by the blood of Christ. Yet that forgiveness of sins is limited to the Earth only! More than that Christ died once for all time, meaning he can never repeat this process for some new sinners who are not Earthlings on he one hand. While on the other, his sacricice which can be applied to all sinners is limited only to humans - leaving out any future sinners among this alien perfect race! (1Jo 2:2 vs Ac 4:12) How could Jehovah, the genius behind every detail in the creation of the universe have such a large hole in his governance of the universe? Here are the scriptures estblishing what we have just stated:
And he is a propitiatory sacrifice for our sins, yet not for ours only but also for the whole world's1Jo 2:2
And ...
For God loved the world so much that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that everyone exercising faith in him might not be destroyed but have everlasting life. For God did not send his Son into the world for him to judge the world, but for the world to be saved through himJoh 3:16,17
And again ...
The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and he said: "See, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!"Joh 1:29
So, while Christ's painful sacrifice applies without limit to the world, covering "the whole [world]," it is limited in one crucial way. That sacrifice cannot be applied to anyone who is not an Earthling. The value of the sacrifice of the "Lamb of God" takes away the "sin of the world," and nowhere else! Now let us consider some scriptures that show that this sacrifice was a one time only affair - that CANNOT be repeated!:
For Christ died once for all time for sins, a righteous person for unrighteous ones, in order to lead you to God. He was put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit1Pe 3:18
Since nothing escapes Jehovah's notice, the fact that Christ died once for all time "for sins" Means all the sins that are being committed are here on Earth. There is no possibility of new sins happening elsewhere, because there is no life anywhere else. Hence his sacrifice is limited exclusively to restoring order on the Earth.
Otherwise, he would have to suffer often from the founding of the world. But now he has manifested himself once for all time at the conclusion of the systems of things to do away with sin through the sacrifice of himself. And just as it is reserved for men to die once for all time, but after this to receive a judgment, so also the Christ was offered once for all time to bear the sins of manyHeb 9:26-28
From the "founding" to the "conclusion of the systems of things" everything having to do with Christ bearing the sins of many has to do with "the world!" It has to do with Earth and no other planet. That would not be the case if there were aliens, for Christ is also the only name that has been given as a means of salvation. Again, this next scripture juxtaposes two opposites: the fact that the range Christ's saving powers scale to cover the whole Cosmos; yet even with such wide coverage, the only candidates for people whom it can apply to are humans living on Earth:
Furthermore, there is no salvation in anyone else, for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must get savedAc 4:12
As we said, the saving power of Christ's blood reaches everywhere "under Heaven," i.e., the Cosmos, because as we established earlier the heavens are nested into each other in concentric spheres. Spiritual Heaven is the outermost shell of these concentric layers. That makes it the highest heaven, or the "third" heaven. As such when the Bible says "under Heaven," it is signalling the Cosmos. What this scripture is telling us then, is that there is no other name in the whole Cosmos that can deliver salvation to those who exercise faith in it. But the scripture has a second portion to it in which we learn that, although the value of the Christ's sacrifice scales to the whole Cosmos, it is only applicable "among men!" What does that mean? It is corroboration with our earlier point that the public service of the angels is narrower than that of the national governments. And that in turn means there are no aliens.
The first two reasons there are no aliens have been based on the fact that the Bible confirms there are no physical imperfect beings anywhere in the Cosmos - other than on the Earth. The last reason deals with the opposite: it shows why there can be no perfect alien beings. Jehovah says the Heavens are his throne and the Earth is his footstool. That saying means, the place where his authority as King of the Universe holds dominion - where his will takes place. (Isa 66:1) You can confirm, that, "footstool" means the place where Jehovah's will takes precedence by meditating on the scripture below:
He had affection for his people; all their holy ones are in your hand. They were sitting at your feet; they began to listen to your wordsDe 33:3
When people listen and obey Jehovah, he can rest knowing that his Earthly children are well taken care of. He is stress free, so to speak. (Isa 63:9 vs Heb 3:16-4:10) The connection between the people sitting at Jehovah's feet and his footstool is straightforward, for several scriptures explicitly equate Jehovah's temple as being both his footstool with the place of his feet. (Isa 60:13; Ps 132:7; Eze 43:7) Thus, in Deuteronomy 33:3 quoted above, when the people were sitting at his feet, they were at his footstool. As it turned out, humans did not listen to and willingly obey God. As a result, the Earth as a whole is not acting like Jehovah's footstool. This has meant that Jehovah and Christ have kept working to bring about that rest for everyone:
The sick man answered him: "Sir, I do not have anyone to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I am on my way, another steps down ahead of me." Jesus said to him: "Get up! Pick up your mat and walk." ... For this reason the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because he was doing these things during the Sabbath. But he answered them: "My Father has kept working until now, and I keep working."Joh 5:7,8,16,17
Why have he and his Father kept on working, because mankind is not well. Jehovah said the Earth was his footstool, but the renegade position of humans means the domain where Jehovah actually has dominion on Earth is much smaller than the Earth. That is why Christ taught his followers to petition God in prayer that his kingdom should come so that the Jehovah's will could take place on Earth, as it does in Heaven. (Mt 6:9,10) At present the Earth is not Jehovah's footstool in the absolute sense because the humans who inhabit are not obedient to him. This is the same reason that as Paul outlined in the scripture in Hebrews 4 that we cited above, there still remains a "resting place" that obedient humans must enter, for the first implementation was not utilized:
Therefore, since it remains for some to enter into it, and those to whom the good news was first declared did not enter in because of disobedience, he again marks off a certain day by saying long afterward in David's psalm, "Today"; just as it has been said above, "Today if you listen to his voice, do not harden your hearts." For if Joshua had led them into a place of rest, God would not afterward have spoken of another day. So there remains a sabbath-rest for the people of GodHeb 4:6-9
The resting place is an exact equivalent for the footstool. Just as the resting place has not been fully realized: so also the footprint is not wholly the Earth. Today the footprint of Jehovah's footstool is restricted only places where his authority is obeyed. The following scriptures equates the footstool with the resting place:
I will not allow my eyes to sleep, nor my eyelids to slumber until I find a place for Jehovah, a fine residence for the Powerful One of Jacob." ... Let us come into his residence; let us bow down at his footstool. Rise up, O Jehovah, to come to your resting-place, you and the Ark of your strength. May your priests be clothed with righteousness, and may your loyal ones shout joyfullyPs 132:4,5,7-9
Can you see why Jehovah LOVED David so much? David was special! David is special, for to Jehovah he is as good as alive - and soon will be again. Anyhow, the point of our quoting this scripture is to show that, essentially, the dimensions of Jehovah's footstool have been reduced to his temple (in the case of ancient Israel). That was were he was listened to. As it stands, the world is not his footstool. Instead:
... The whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one1Jo 5:19b
Now here's the point. If there was an obedient race of beings somewhere else in the universe, that location, plus wherever Jehovah is listened to on Earth - would be his footstool! But instead, we see that the dimensions of the footstool have shrunk since Adam's time not grown! Thus we know with certainty: that there are no imperfect aliens AND there are no imperfect aliens. Yet, we are not alone! Intelligent life does exist outside of the Earth. Jehovah, his Christ and all the holy angels who serve for our good are busy ... "working" ... as per Jehovah's instructions to make mankind whole again. That is the commission of Christ's Heavenly Kingdom: TO INCREASE THE FOOTPRINT OF JEHOVAH'S FOOTSTOOL UNTIL IT COVERS THE WHOLE EARTH!
Next, the end, when he hands over the Kingdom to his God and Father, when he has brought to nothing all government and all authority and power. For he must rule as king until God has put all enemies under his feet. And the last enemy, death, is to be brought to nothing. For God "subjected all things under his feet." But when he says that 'all things have been subjected,' it is evident that this does not include the One who subjected all things to him. But when all things will have been subjected to him, then the Son himself will also subject himself to the One who subjected all things to him, that God may be all things to everyone1Co 15:24-28
GLORY TO JEHOVAH IN THE HEIGHTS ABOVE, AND ON THE EARTH - OBEDIENCE AND WONDER! There is nothing sweeter than to ponder on Jehovah and meditate on his ways. That last part of the scripture, the portion I have highlighted is everything! That is life! When the footprint will be complete and Jehovah will be at rest - for his children are safe. The Bible often speaks of people who are "rightly disposed for everlasting life." (Ac 13:48) You might have wondered, what defines such disposition? It's joy at glorifying Jehovah and his ways - and taking any necessary action to make your life wholly aligned with such ways. If, as you are reading this, you are cringeing and shiftign in your seat - you are not "disposed for everlasting life." However, if you are overjoyed to learn how Jehovah is going to being everything to its grand conclusion: you are going to live so long that eventually you will count your age not by how often the Earth orbits the Sun, but by how many times the Sun orbits the center of the Mikly Way. Good guys finish last. Bad guys never finish - they are cut off. (Ps 34:16; 37:8-11)
... Only Extraterrestrials
Extraterrestrials are any life forms that exist in the universe but that are not native to the Earth. Christ plainly identified himself as such and this obviously applies to all angels too. So carbon based life is not the only kind that exists in the universe. There is also Inzintian based life forms.
He went on to say to them: "You are from the realms below; I am from the realms above. You are from this world; I am not from this world."Joh 8:23
And ...
The first man is from the earth and made of dust; the second man is from heaven1Co 15:47
Did you notice that what defines you as an extraterrestrial - or not - is not what you are, but where you are from? So Christ after he was born of Mary became human, "the Son of man." Yet, he is an extraterrestrial. If you truly understand what is going on, you will be able to answer the following question: "There are 144 000 from the Earth who will join Christ in Heaven. They are called the 'new creation.' Once they are in spirit form - like the angels - will they be Earthlings, or extraterrestrials?" The answer is Earthlings! The definition depends on your native environment - not your body type, whether spiritual or physical. That is why the Bible says God has subjected the inhabited Earth to come, to the sons of men. That description focuses on what we have in common, not on the technical differences. Christ is the Son of man, and all the anointed are all obviously sons of men. (Re 5:9,10) It is an exact parallel treatment of how Jehovah calls Abraham the father of all those having faith, and named him as righteous, while he was still in his uncircumcised state. So, that he could be father to both Jews and gentiles! (Ro 4:9-12)
Venn Diagrams
It is so pleasing to meditate on the intelligence, the subtle details behind how Jehovah makes all things work out for the good of the outworking of his will. But we return to our current main focus. What is the lesson of the Venn diagrams above? There are no aliens! When you look into the night sky and see all those star systems, know that each of them was lovingly created by Jehovah to be explored by you!
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has even put eternity in their heart; yet mankind will never find out the work that the true God has made from start to finishEc 3:11
That scripture is how Jehovah ensures that we will always have novelty in our lives, no matter how long we live for. It is his loving way of ensuring two things. One that we are always kept entertained by the variety in his vast universe. And, two, that Science is never the premiere way to learn about Jehovah, because that would favour the intellectual over the humble. The reality is that the humble always love Jehovah more than the intellectual do. Therefore, if science was the best and surest way to learn about Jehovah it would mean Jehovah created the universe in such a way that it would advantage those who love him less over those who love him more. A situation that would make no sense. Instead Jehovah limits the reach of scientific endeavours, and makes the best way to get to know him through the building a relationship with him! This has historically been the case, and will always continue to be so. And such relationship building is available equally to all his human family - to the great and the small alike. (Ja 4:8)
Humans Were Created to RULE the Cosmos
Adam Never Fulfilled his Potential
Don't be surprised that humans are meant to explore and colonize all the galaxies. The only reason you would be surprised is if you were basing your expectations on Adam, and his absolutely failed kingship. He never lived up to his potential! Not only did he not continue perfect, not only is he dead, but he didn't even finish naming all the animals. What animals were available, Jehovah gladly brought to the man to see what he would name them. But there were other animals which remained nameless, for they were not available at Adam's initial land-locked location: sea creatures that live in the ocean.
By the time humans got around to naming creatures that lived in the oceans, our relationship to them had changed. You can tell because one such creature was named, "Leviathan," which means monster. This name is testament to the fact that by the time humans encountered it, imperfect mankind was scared of it. Whereas, God's intent was for the animals to be scared of perfect humans. This disconnect between imperfect man and the animal kingdom continues down to our day. Mankind went from:
Then God said: "Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness, and let them have in subjection the fish of the sea...."Ge 1:26a
To ...
Can you catch Le·vi'a·than with a fishhook or hold down its tongue with a rope? ... Lay your hand on it; you will remember the battle and never do it again! Any hope of subduing it is futile. The mere sight of it would overwhelm youJob 41:1,8,9
Both statements by the way, are from Jehovah himself. He recognized the dramatic change in conditions between humans and the animal creation! Adam failed at subduing the Earth and turning it into a garden of pleasure. He failed at subduing the animals. He failed at naming all of them. He failed at fathering a perfect human race. And he failed at learning the full extent of the powers Jehovah had blessed him with - King of the Cosmos! How do we know? THAT, is another vital lesson we learn from Romans 1:20!
Romans 1:20 - In Focus
Let us look at this crucial passage of scripture once again:
For God’s wrath is being revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who are suppressing the truth in an unrighteous way, because what may be known about God is clearly evident among them, for God made it clear to them. For his invisible qualities are clearly seen from the world’s creation onward, because they are perceived by the things made, even his eternal power and Godship, so that they are inexcusableRo 1:18-20
What is the only way humans can learn about the universe when conducting their search through the scientific method? Light! Light: is how Jehovah God made the details of his personality clear to humans, and he made it so clear, so zero entropy obvious that we are inexcusable if we try to deny his existence. Now here is the point: WHEN did Jehovah start manifesting this evidence? "From the world's creation onward." And that, is the answer to Ricky Gervais' insulting rhetorical question. It's rhetorical, because he thinks answer is so obvious that it is self evident: the Genesis account is a myth and evolution is the answer. But, the evidence proves that the very opposite conclusion is the right one. The Genesis account of the creation of the universe furnishes an Evidence that agrees with Science on every point - big and small. And this Evidence Profile was established, "From the world's creation onward." How does Evidence Profile match the scientific one. From the five apparent salient features found in Light as explained by Steinhardt, we know that Light appeared as was is called the "initial conditions" of the universe. The exact equivalent to the Biblical phrase: "from the world's creation onward!" That is why God created Light more than two full creative days before the appearance of plants! Moreover, such light, we learn from this scripture was not just aimed at sustaining plant life. That little detail was meant as a narrowing factor for us who would later discover its existence and retrace its developmental arc. Since plant life can only be sustained by a very narrow range of visible light, we know that Light - the Celestial Sphere - fell within that range at its creation. From that knowledge we can reverse engineer what it's being in the microwave range of the electromagnetic spectrum today means. It gives us precise indications as to how much stretching the universe went through. It gives us valuable information - once we have factored in the variable speeds of light through the Space and voids of the fine gauze - about how much the universe must have expanded in the process of Space being stretched. Since Critical Density has been maintained throughout the history of the universe, it is short work from there to figure out what the volume of the universe was at initial conditions. (How big it was, since the only objects it contained was the Earth and Light.) From there, one answer leads to another in a domino effect of increasing knowledge.
But we have a more urgent use for the knowledge that we learned from Romans chapter 1. It comes in the form of another question. We have been saying consistently that the whole Cosmos belongs to man. And, yes, there is direct evidence of that from the Bible:
And when you raise your eyes to the heavens and see the sun and the moon and the stars - all the army of the heavens - do not get seduced and bow down to them and serve them. Jehovah your God has given them to all the peoples under the whole heavensDe 4:19
But it is not the only corroborating evidence that Jehovah God gave men, not only the Earth, but the whole visible realm known as the Cosmos! Understanding what Jehovah gave to mankind rests on when he gave it. If he gave it to Adam on the seventh day, then Earth is our eternal home and Alpha Centauri has got nothing to do with us! In fact, we have no right to claim Mars, and anything else in the Milky Way - we are restricted to Earth. For, all the other planets were around when God made us master over his works. Thus, if the context for Psalms 115:16 where the Bible states that: "... The Earth [God] has given to the sons of men" is something like Genesis 1:26-28, a scripture that puts such a gift at the end of Jehovah's creative works, then indeed, all we own is the planet called Earth. But, if the context is another scripture, with a different timestamp, then the value of the inheritance changes with the changing context! So let us look at the context of Psalms 115:16 by including the verse that comes before it, verse 15, seeing what other verse parallels that verse - and then recalculating how that changes our understanding of what was given to us:
May you be blessed by Jehovah, the Maker of heaven and earth. As for the heavens, they belong to Jehovah, but the earth he has given to the sons of menPs 115:15,16
The 115th Psalm makes it clear that it at the point of God creating the Heavens and the Earth that he assigned ownership of each: with him taking personal ownership of Space - the Heavenly ream; and him giving mankind the Cosmos. Why can we say that? Because Psalms 115 shows that the Earth was gifted to mankind, not at Genesis 1:26 and 28, but many thousands of years earlier - before temporal time even began - at Genesis 1:1.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earthGe 1:1
That is the only verse in the Bible which has a context equivalent with the context of the statement about God being the "Maker of Heaven and Earth." For, the creation of Heaven and Earth was a unique one time event, that is separate from the rest of the works Jehovah did in the creative days. Remember that the word for "create" in the original Hebrew was a word that signified completion of what was created. That is, Jehovah finished creating Heaven and Earth, and thereafter started another series of projects that added new features to them over time. So ther is no other context that falls within the definitions of Genesis 1:1, and Psalms 115:15. And it was at that time that Jehovah, the Supreme One gave the Earth to humans. Why is that significant? Because at that time (this is before initial conditions, for Light does not yet exist), the Earth didn't just represent one planet in a sea of galaxies throughout the Cosmos - THE EARTH REPRESENTED THE COSMOS AS A WHOLE! It was the only visible, baryonic, physical object in the universe! Put another way if God had only created the Heavens in Genesis 1:1, how many realms would have been in existence? ONE! The spiritual realm. In the absence of the Earth: everything else that existed - Jehovah, Christ, Holy Spirit, the angels, Space etc. represented the spiritual realm! But since Genesis 1:1 does include the Earth, it means the complimentary thought is also true: in the presence of the Earth there were two realms represented - a spiritual realm and a physical realm. Whereas the spiritual realm was represented by many entities, the physical realm was only represented by one object - the Earth! Thus, when God gifted man at this point in time, with "dominion over the works of [his] hands" it meant "putting everything under his feet." (Ps 8:6) Which in turn means, "God left nothing which is not subject to him." (Heb 2:8) True, David then goes on to list some of those things, and he only lists entities which are native to the Earth. Surely, that must mean Jehovah only gave the Earth to mankind - no? No! For the following reasons.
Part of why Christ is called the second Adam is because his inheritance is equal to what Adam was given ownership of. The fulfillment of Psalms 8:8 is manifested in the Christ:
For it is not to angels that he has subjected the inhabited earth to come, about which we are speaking. But in one place a certain witness said: "What is man that you keep him in mind, or a son of man that you take care of him? You made him a little lower than angels; you crowned him with glory and honor, and appointed him over the works of your hands. All things you subjected under his feet." By subjecting all things to him, God left nothing that is not subject to him. Now, though, we do not yet see all things in subjection to him. But we do see Jesus, who was made a little lower than angels, now crowned with glory and honor for having suffered deathHeb 2:5-9a
Do you see that there is no addendum to the inheritance. The things that God has subjected to the Christ are also seemingly limited to the "inhabited Earth to come." Here, as we just pointed out, the Holy Spirit, through Paul, expands on what is meant by "subjecting all things to him," by adding: "God left nothing that is not subject to him." Then afterwards, the scripture contrasts the failure of the first Adam, with the triumph of the second Adam in conquering: "Now, though, we do not yet see all things in subjection to him. But we do see Jesus ... now crowned with glory and honour for having suffered death." (Heb 2:8,9; Re 3:21) Now what do you think, is Christ's power as the Messianic King in the universe limited to Earth - or does it involve the whole Cosmos. More on that later.
For now, we ask: why then did God not use David to list the extraterrestrial entities that he has subjected to mankind? Simply because mankind's relationship with Jehovah didn't last long enough. Adam didn't even get to having the fish of the seas in subjection to him. As we have said before, by the time humans learned of Leviathan, we definitely were not their masters. Instead, we considered them to be monsters. This is the same pattern of Jehovah revealing his will little by little to humans. Consider Woman. Was she an afterthought? Or was she always part of Jehovah's plan for Adam and mankind? Genesis 1:26,27 answers because before they were created, when Jehovah communicated his intent to Christ, he said: "let us make man in our image, according to our likeness, and let them have in subjection.... And God went on to create the man in his image, in God's image he created him; male and female he created them." (Ge 1:26,27) "Man" doesn't mean a man, it means mankind. And mankind requires both men and women to exist. We are not angels, who were each created individually. Mankind exists only through sexual reproduction - which requires both a man and a woman. This is reflected in Jehovah's words to the Christ before he created man(kind): "Let them have in subjection...." "Them," obviously represented more than a single person, more than just Adam. But what exactly did "them" refer to? "And God went on to create man in his image, in God's image he created him; male and female he created them." Genesis 1:27 is the key scripture for us to understand. Woman was not an afterthought, she was always part of the plan, for them refers to both male and female! The staggered creation of Woman after Adam, was not Adam's idea, or spurred by his loneliness. It was God's idea, long before Adam existed. It was just brought forward because Adam didn't appreciate the alone time he had with Jehovah - his only chance to build character before getting married!
If you understand Jehovah's approach in the case of Adam and Woman, then you understand that in similar fashion he had not told Adam of everything that was to be under his eventual control. Adam had never even seen an island, and had no concept of what a continent was, or other planets. Why would Jehovah tell him about the solar system, nevermind the galaxy and the rest of the Cosmos, before he had even mastered the Garden of Pleasure? If you are a parent, is that how you train your children? When they ask you where babies come from when they are four or five years old, do you tell them everything about sexual reproduction? Or, do you give them enough age-appropriate information that their minds can deal with your answer without raising new questions unnecessarily. All parents know that you train children lovingly according to their level of current understanding and stage of development; not according to what represents the whole truth. Just because Adam wasn't born as a baby doesn't mean he didn't have to grow and mature to have a full character. Jehovah, as his Father, knew that - and lovingly, treated him accordingly:
... Adam, son of GodLu 3:38z
To test our understanding we ask a simple question: "who owns Earth, God or the man Jesus?" Of course, in the absolute sense Jehovah owns everything, and man being given the Earth is subordinate to Jehovah's ownership. Yet, the scripture cannot be nullified that Jehovah gave the Earth to mankind. (Ex 19:5; Ps 115:16) This duality is always the case. When Jehovah subjects everything under the Christ, Christ himself is subordinate to Jehovah. (Ps 110:1; 1Co 15:27,28) When Jehovah gave the land of Canaan to Abraham and his seed after him, the gift was a subordinate gift. (Ge 15:7; 17:8 vs Le 25:23,24) So, when we are talking about ownership, we are talking about subordinate ownership. To whom then has God subjected the inhabited Earth to come? You know the answer. (Ge 1:26,28; Heb 2:5) That man proved to be the Christ! Let us go deeper still: who owns Mars - God or Jesus? The answer is the same. And, it covers, not only the other planets in our solar system and the Sun, but Alpha Centauri, the Andromeda galaxy - and every other galaxy in existence! (De 4:19) The whole Cosmos belongs to man! (Ps 8:4-6; De 4:19) With the only difference being that in the fulfillment of the prophecy it is owned by immortal man, not everlasting "mortal man." (1Co 15:50-55)
"In The Beginning"
We've come full circle, but there is a missing ingredient that we have not yet formally identified in the philosophy of the Bible. The element that is key to all the work done in the Cosmos, and whose conversion is responsible for the appearance of matter - Energy!
The X-Factor!
As per the law of the conservation of energy, namely that: energy cannot be created of destroyed, only transformed from one form to another, we must still explicitly identify the "pure energy" that was used as the energy source for all the matter in the Cosmos. This energy source must also be responsible for two important developments: the creation of all matter in the universe, both Inzintian and baryonic; and it must "set up" the "rather special state" of zero entropy at initial condition! For these reasons the missing form of energy must be from the Inzintian realm, for otherwise, it would not be able to operate under zero entropy conditions, and it wouldn't be able to be converted into Invisible Zint of any kind. What's more, this energy source has to be in evidence within the Cosmos, for that is where it will be used - through conversion - for the creation of all baryonic matter and forms of energy, such as protons, neutrons, and electrons, and heat and the fusion reactions that power the Sun and stars.
E=mc2: Limited SCOPE in Chemistry
Einstein's E=mc2 equation has confused many people. They think it is the formula that allows for the creation of all matter from "pure energy." It is not. It merely describes the mathematical relationship in Chemistry between three variables in chemical nuclear reactions: the reactants (the ingredients), the products and energy. When substances undergo nuclear reactions as we have already seen, they transform into new substances and give off energy. The energy given off is calculated using e=mc2 and represents the difference between the energy content of the reactants and the products. This energy must always equal the difference so that the reaction as a whole follows the law of the conservation of energy. Thus e=mc2 is a formula that regulates chemical nuclear reactions and describes the relationships between the variables that, when added together give us the law of conservation of energy. It is not a formula for turning energy into matter. No chemical reaction has ever been performed by humans that turned baryonic matter into 'pure energy.' This is because as we have already seen "pure energy" is an Inzintian reality. You cannot produce an Inzintian, spiritual energy source from baryonic matter. The creation of baryonic matter from pure energy is an irreversible exercise in that regard. Otherwise, the energy content of the baryonic realm would not follow the rules of the conservation of energy! I believe the matter is clear. We move on.
"Pure Energy" is Unlimited SCOPE
What did Einstein have in mind when he said ...
Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. There is no matterAlbert Einstein
Surely, he meant radiation! Nothing could be further from the truth! By now we know very well what separates nature from supernature - light. Whereas many would like to think that entropy based light is the source of all matter, this was not Einstein's conception. In the quote below, look for the key word his explanation that will alert us to the fact that he was looking somewhere entirely different for the answer:
Matter is spirit reduced to point of visibilityAlbert Einstein
I will explain the reality behind this keen and true observation later. For now, we focus only on the fact that his answer for the source of matter is completely incompatible with the wishes of those who look to baryonic natural radiation as the identity of "pure energy." Einstein believed it was from the conversion of "spirit" - and he was RIGHT!:
The earth was a blank chaos, and there was darkness over the surface of the deep; and God's Spirit was hovering over the surface of the watersGe 1:2 | The Bible in Living English
Isn't. Science. WONDERFUL!