The Mystical Universe and Heaven

Science is a study that answers “what,” “why,” and “how.” Everywhere we look, science is seemingly sitting on a chair silently. Experts cannot say when science has emerged upon the soil of the earth. This field study enabled humans to finally realized ideas that were impossible at first: exchanging pleasantries between distances, cell phones/computers; traveling above the roaring sea, airplanes; traveling below the sea, submarines; traveling through waters, ferries; less traveling time, transportation; typhoon prediction, satellites hovering above the ends of the earth; studying the universe, space probes; outside earth civilization, MarsOne Project, and many more.

    Humans use science in attempt to making life easier, easier than the easiest. It is a field that for sure comes out of the blue long long time ago. It is impossible to trace back the starting point of science but it is obviously from the time when men do several activities connected to science but they do not know anything about it, they do not even know that it is science.

    Martin Cooper was the first to simplify Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone. Cooper’s customization to Bell’s telephone enabled humans on the succeeding years to enhance it even more. Cooper removed wiring attached to the telephone and in the long run, it became the first model of cell phone. Cooper’s development to the telephone has become the basic foundation to our modern cell phones. Thomas Alva Edison was the man behind all of the sophisticated types of lighting today as he was the first who invented the very first light bulb. Tycho Brahe first thought the idea of a device that would enable humans to see distant objects, and then Galileo Galilei materialized it through his telescope. Look around your room, or turn your gaze around the city, how many inventions could you count? Countless! And men literally live in a world where ideas put into reality. It is amazing how humans can overcome their endeavor to produce an invention that comes from their brain, an organ of tissues with millions of neurons doing specific tasks in the process of thinking. How is it possible for a clump of tissues to build an extraordinary civilization?

    Look how man talks, look what he is using, look what he eats, look at the environment of the city, everybody seems to ponder not the impressive outputs of human brains. The concrete grounds they step on, devices on their pockets, those engineered fluids they take in, vehicles they ride in, cosmetics they wear, substances they put on their hair, garments they use to cover their bodies, accessories, etc. The environment of our earth has changed wildly! From dusty and muddy to concrete and stable roads, green to gray, clean to polluted, and simple to demanding.

    Notice how we have changed the entire earth where we live in. Notice how we also destroy it. It is all the fault of our productive thinking, our knowledge. Let us take the passage from the Book of Genesis literally. Now why did God order Adam (and Eve) not to eat the fruit of knowledge? And I know for sure you have gotten what I am trying to convey. This is what God being scared for. Humans have gone too far from what He expects. We have exceeded the limitations bound to us. Human mind becomes unstoppable in searching knowledge down to the earth and up above the space. Humans have corroded the word impossible. Now we could go beyond the atmospheric limitations of the earth, walk on the distant Luna, examine the universe via establishing probes and sent them outside far from the earth looking for other possible life forms and possible planet that could harbor life.

    Talking about universe, how big it is! The size of the earth relative to the universe is like the size of the virus in earth terms. We are contained in a very minute planet. The earth is like the group of dusts aggregated in every corner of our room, silently existing and lonely and neglected and alone. If you try to imagine the vast size of the universe and then moved to earth with high resolution of zooming, we would have the notion ‘why and how we live and why and how we get in here’. Does the existence of life mean anything to the vast size of the universe? No wonder many of us ask, “Are we alone in the universe?” When we go deeper and ponder about the universe as well as the existence of life, the essence of God comes on our way. If we look at the universe, it is of vast space dotted by so many “particles”; planets and stars to solar systems to galaxies to group of galaxies, and nebula, black holes, comets, asteroids, and dark matter and dark energy. If we talk about earth, it is alone enormous but when we compare to other “particles” it becomes just as the speck of dust. Because of this fact, some people say that life has no meaning and that it has no purpose, existed by chance and thus the ideas we have about God is a hoax to fill human minds regarding our very existence. People above the earth do not understand the nature of life and God because at the first place, they lack wisdom. According to the Bible, wisdom belongs only to those who know and admit that god exists. The wisdom helps one to understand some issues which science and religious folk struggle to answer. When they lack wisdom, they could not understand even the very basic spiritual truths and atheists do have that lacking. We have known that God gave us everything. What about knowledge? Should we take the Book of Genesis literally or not? This book of Genesis tells us that god disallowed Adam (and Eve) not to eat the fruit of knowledge that would enable them to recognize what s right from wrong. Does it mean that God do not want them (Adam and Eve) to acquire knowledge? Sort of, am I right? It would eventually give us the conclusion that God did not give us knowledge but humans acquired knowledge through evil means. Did you get the point? It could be the reason why Pope Piux XII declared 50 years ago that the first chapters of that book in the Bible were merely creative literary writings. Surprising it may seem, the newly discovered Gospel of Judas tells us that “God gave the knowledge to Adam” contrary to the long ago story of Adam and Eve. It absolutely informs us that God precisely granted humans the needed “knowledge” for everyday living. But what is happening to the atheists? They are using their power of reasoning from the “knowledge” disproving the very existence of God. Atheists do not understand that existence (the knowledge in particular) because they do not believe that God exists which is the prerequisite of achieving wisdom. Wisdom is different from knowledge. Wisdom is something spiritual in nature but knowledge only depends on raw facts that the earth could offer. Atheists were not granted to own wisdom because they obviously are abusing their power of reasoning. It is possible that God has given the knowledge to humans later after they were able to stand with their feet. It means that He gave the knowledge not in an instant after creation. Why? When someone acquired even a bit of knowledge, he could cultivate it and make it grow. And the intelligence of men is actually abused, especially by the atheists. Humans hunger more for knowledge. But hungers not for wisdom. That is why they could not grasp the very nature of God.

    One joked, “Have you seen God?” Then someone answered, “No.” And he reasoned, “Then there is no God.” Here, the interrogator is using a schoolboy philosophy “to see is to believe.” Men are using their earthly standards to question the existence of God. In order to believe, there must be evidences. But isn’t the Bible says, “Blessed are the ones who believe in despite of not seeing Him,” and Jesus said it himself. This quote from the Bible propels us to put that schoolboy philosophy in reverse, “to believe is to see.” Atheists do not believe that is why they do not see. Humans are intelligent because their creator is intelligent. Humans talk because He talks, too. Humans do feel emotions because He also has the capability to feel different emotions. Humans can think and ponder because He does them. Humans have their figure because they were created according to the likeness of their creator (Genesis 1:26, 9:5). “Only a fool would say, ‘There is no God’” (Psalm 14:1a, CEV). We believe that there is God not because we do not want to be the recipient of that verse but because we really believe, and that He resides in Heaven.

    Some who do not believe also ask where Heaven is, and they are trying to corner the believers. Of course, we do not see Heaven. Knowing Biblical truths is the requirement to having heavenly perception, joy, and body. However, if we ask the Bible about the location of the Heaven, it says intriguing answers given by Jesus.

    “You will look for me, but you won’t find me. You cannot go where I am going.” –John 7:34 (CEV)

    Since Jesus is 100% God-like and 100% man, he is reliable for what he is uttering. He once again said the same thing:
    “I am going away, and you will look for Me, and will die in your sin. Where I go you cannot come.” –John 8:21 (NKJV)

    Why is it that we cannot come to the place where he is today? (Of course, he has already ascended in the heavens.) Is it because we are mortals and have fleshes that die, or something different? On the same chapter, we read another fascinating word s of Jesus.
    “You are from below, but I am from above. You belong to this world, but I don’t.” –John 8:25 (CEV)

    Where is that above? When we use prepositions, we need a physical reference. For example, “The bird is flying above the tree,” the tree is our reference. “The decoration was suspended above the table,” the table is our reference. We should have physical reference in pointing that something is above or below. Do not be confused that the Bible also calls the universe the Heaven. But talking about John 8:25, what reference could Jesus be using? Was it the universe? The universe is enormous, it stretches so far that men could ever imagine. Because of its size, we could not tell if it’s unending or has boundaries. One reason that disables humans to measure the size of the universe is the minuteness of humans with respect to the universe. Another factor could be the time needed to go beyond the space. For example, scientists have found out how viruses infect cells. But due to their minute sizes, they need so much time to successfully penetrate the nucleus of each cell. That which is the same for humans in penetrating the universe, however, universe is intently massive in size. Human lives shorter time than how long it would take to reach few light years across the universe. 1 light year is equal to 9,461,000,000,000 kilometers. The closest galaxy from the Milky Way galaxy is Andromeda which us about 2 million light years away. If 1 light year is 9.46 x10^12 kilometers, how long there would be in 2 million light years? This fact disables men to see what is beyond our solar system. Now, experts rely on Pioneer and Voyager space probes as one of them has reached outside Pluto’s orbit…only, knowing that it was launched several decades ago. Human tries to calculate the size of the universe although it is impossible. How is that?! If they try to measure the size then does it mean the universe has boundaries?

    If Jesus used for instance the universe as the reference to point where the Heaven is, then it also means that the universe has limits. An object has molecular boundaries making them one complete and separate object. Same is true to universe, probably. But if the universe has boundaries then what lies outside? (Additional Bible verse to ponder from Luke 11:40 (ERV): "You are foolish! The same one who made what is outside also made what is inside.") It could be the 4th dimension realm, the Heaven. Now why we could not get there? Several reasons! Humans are mortals, humans are not angels, and humans are not permitted to go to “heaven” because they have flesh, so these are the reasons for another reason why humans are tiny specks of dusts in the universe, unable to go through the edge of it. This is one of so many notions why we should believe that God exists, and that there are angels. These angels are the ones who control the heavenly bodies. In earth term, one should be high ranking in order to rule over people, and here is another schoolboy philosophy, “you should be 'tall'” to be able to control smalls. So what do we mean by this? That God and His angels are giants? Yes! In fact the disfavored Book of Enoch tells us about the height of the angels in heaven, also that Book of Enoch tells about the watchers who  impregnated women whom they lid their desire because were women are beautiful. After their rebellious acts, they begot children with extra ordinary heights. I know many do not claim that account as true and it is not literal. However, Genesis 6:4 summarizes the entire story of the watchers and beautiful women. These children who were giants are called Nephilims which when translated into general terms it means “giants.” Goliath is the very famous character in the Bible when we talk about height. Also, Enoch 9:1 says:
“And then Michael, Uriel, Raphael, Gabriel, looked down from heaven.”

    In simple logical explanation, you should be “tall” in order to “look down.” The children of the fallen angels inherited their angelic fathers’ characteristics like those rebellious acts and the physical trait which is for example the height. Search the internet and make a research about these Nephilims.

Long before this semi-theory ends, I want to ask you a question. What was happened to knowledge given by God to us humans? It was fully developed, many claim they are superior above others without even thanking the one who can recover it.

    “I will destroy the wisdom of all who claim to be wise. I will confuse those who think they know so much.” -1 Corinthians 1:19(CEV)
    “For it is written, ‘He catches the wise to their own craftiness.’” -1 Corinthians 5:196(NKJV)

    The issue has started because of knowledge. We have gone too far amassing knowledge. He granted us knowledge to satisfy our needs but we violated Him. What we, however, are clarifying here is that God is true. He is in the Heaven and heaven where men could not come. Universe is below the Heaven and heaven is above us universe. “Wait until I make them as your footstool.” This is from the Bible and it could mean that the universe is below the Heaven. They created humans just like themselves; have eyes, nose, mouth, ears, intelligence emotions, but have no flesh. Why? It is because flesh dies. However they do have Spirits that clothe them and a Spirit does not die. If we open our Bible and read Revelation 1:8, it says:
        “‘I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,’ says the LORD, ‘who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.’” (NKJV)

    It means that He is real, that He is a Spirit and that He does not have end or beginning because Spirits do not die.

    “The Spirit is the one who gives life! Human strength can do nothing. The words that I have spoken to you are from theta life-giving Spirit.” –John 6:63 (CEV)

    The Spirit Jesus is talking about in his words here is God, the Father. If you cannot grasp the essence then retry grasping through looking at the universe, a vast space with so many extraordinary particles. He is the only one who could create this amazing universe. God and His angels are powerful than what we think. They could even CRASH the universe including humankind without any warning in just on command. No wonder Jesus calmed the storm, heal the sick, raise the dead to life, multiplied loaves and fishes, turned water into wine, and a lot more. They are powerful that they could even read one’s mind, like Jesus. He always knows what the Pharisees and Scribes are thinking. Angels could in fact know what humans are thinking right at this very moment. We are hopeless but they could provide. Hence, God and His angels are true and they reside in Heaven.