The Mystery of Creation: Chapter 2: Who or What Created the Universe: Full Circle

Full Circle

                This brings us back to our beginning.  If something is eternal it must be indestructible, infinitely powerful, infinitely intelligent and it must exist everywhere throughout all time and space.  The word “Omnipotent” means “All Powerful.”  The word “Omniscient” means “All Knowing”.  The word “Omnipresent” means “Always Present”.  Therefore, we can describe this eternal something as being omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent.

                But could there be the potential that something eternal isn’t everywhere?  Nope.  If it is omniscient then it must also be present eternally throughout space and time, which is to say that it is omnipresent.  How can we deduce that it must be omnipresent, or everywhere?  How can we know that we cannot ever go beyond this something?  I mean, besides meeting the definition of being eternal, how can we really know that this thing must be everywhere? 

                Well, in order for you to know something you must be present to learn about that something.  Using the analogy about the terrorist with the grenade, how would you know that the terrorist is there waiting to throw the grenade unless you have intel that provides you with that information? 

                How is that intel gathered?  You must have something or someone present with the terrorist which can report to you where the terrorist is located and what he/she is planning.  Only by having something or someone that is present with the terrorist can you gain the knowledge of the terrorist’s movements.  If you have nothing present with the terrorist, you are blind to his/her actions and cannot be certain that you will be able to sneak up on them and take them out.

                Therefore, in order to be completely indestructible, the eternal something must be everywhere so that it can gather the information it needs to control all things in order for it to be all powerful in order for it to be indestructible in order for it to be never-ending.  Therefore, if this eternal something has always existed and will always exist it must be omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent.  Being omnipotent requires it to be omniscient which requires it to be omnipresent which requires it to be omnipotent, and so on.  It’s a full circle.  All three aspects require one another to be true.

                This is the concept that really causes people to struggle.  How can something be eternal throughout space?  How can something be eternal throughout time?  Doesn’t this mean that we are all, technically, swimming in a vast sea of some eternal something? 

                Yes.  That is exactly true.  Whatever is eternal is everywhere throughout space and time and we are swimming in this eternal something.  We are engulfed by it.  It is in all things.  Why is this so difficult for people to believe? 

                If you think about it, most people don’t have a problem believing that space, an endless void of nothingness, is eternal.  People also don’t have a problem thinking of a number line as being eternal.  No one has a problem with this concept.  And yet, all of the numbers in the number line are swimming in the midst of the line itself.  They are all limited definitions that make up an unlimited something.  So why do people have such a problem believing that something can be eternal and that we are all swimming in the midst of this single, eternal something?

                Let’s approach this from a geometry standpoint.  You cannot, for example, get a line segment without a line.  In geometry, a line is represented by the following symbol: “< --- >”.  We might call this “Line A”.  A line extends in both directions without end.  It stretches on into eternity.  

                A line segment is represented by the symbol: “----“.  The line is infinite, for it has no point of origin and no point of ending.  The line segment, however, has two points, a beginning and an end.  Therefore, a line segment is finite, or limited, or not eternal.

                Therefore, based on the concept of the line we know that we can only get something finite, with beginning or end, from something that is infinite, without beginning or end.  You can’t draw shapes without taking infinite lines and putting points on them, drawing beginning points and end points and creating many segments.  Only by drawing points on a line can you draw finite objects.

                Notice, however, that with the line, all finite things are still contained within the infinite line.  Every line segment you draw on an infinite line is contained within the line.  The line goes beyond the segment.  Therefore, no matter where the segment is, the line also is.  The line segment cannot go someplace that the line is not present.  However, the line extends on beyond the line segment so that the line segment is not present everywhere that the line is present.