There Is No Now: An Existential Crisis @ e-Church.com
Very cool article over at e-church. Ever since I studied astronomy in college and had my mind blown by the possible implications of Eintein's theory of relativity, I have been fascinated by these discussions.

These theories are fascinating and may have incredible consequences for our understanding of God and what is considered supernatural.

In college and while reading Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time, I began to postulate that there is the scientific possiblity for a being to exist everwhere all the time both in the past, the present, and the future. The thought occured to me that we are always in motion. If we are not moving ourselves, then we live on a planet which is moving, and a galaxy that is moving.

So maybe to be everywhere all the time both in the past, the present, and the future means to be at rest. Perhaps God is stationary, at rest. To be at rest in a moving universe would give you quite a different prespective on what is going on in that universe.

Furthermore, it would affect how you understand "now" as the article on e-church points out. For a being entirely at rest, what would time be like or the perception of time be like? Is it possible that every moment in time could be defined by this being at rest as "now"?

Perhaps, a being at rest would also be able to experience different dimensions to our universe. If this is the case than what appears supernatural to us is actually child's play to the other being.

"Let us consider a 2-D world. To jail a criminal in such a world a circular boundary would have to be placed around the criminal. To extricate the criminal, all a 3-D creature has to do is to peel him off the 2-D world, and redeposit him elsewhere on his world. This feat, which is quite ordinary in 3-D, appears fantastic in 2-D. No one in the 2-D world understands what the up direction means. The internal organs of a 2-D creature would be visible to us. It would be trivial to reach inside a 2-D creature and perform surgery without cutting the skin. Viewing this 2-D flatland, notice that we are omnipotent. The 2-D creature cannot hide from us. He would see us as having magical powers." For more go here.

Well, time to change gears and focus my attention on Luke 13:1-9 for this week's sermon.