The Mystery of Creation: Chapter 4: The Duality of Eternity: Always Changing but Never Changing

Chapter 4: The Duality of Eternity

Always Changing but Never Changing

                So now that we know the “who” and the “how”, it is time to discuss the “why”, the motive behind God’s act of creation.  Understanding the “why” should be fairly easy at this point.  We already know that God is the one who created all things and that He is eternal, indestructible, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, perfect, who has emotions and desires, and who created, and still creates, and sustained, and still sustains, all things.  He is one being with one mind made up of three personalities; three distinct beings that have one collective consciousness.  He is the Father, or Soul, the Son, or Word (or Definition or Exact Likeness), and the Holy Spirit (the Energy and Life Source of All Things). 

                We can also, then, conclude that He is self-sustaining, so we know that He didn’t NEED to create all things.  We know that He is self-sustaining because He is eternal.  If something is eternal it cannot be destroyed, and if it cannot be destroyed it cannot rely on anything to sustain it.  It must be self-sustaining.  Otherwise, if whatever sustains it is lost or stops providing it with life, it will die.  So God must be self-sustaining and therefore does not need anything else to be alive.

                Let’s take a look at the number line again.  Notice that there is always at least one constant and always at least one variable in the number line.  In other words, some things about the number line never change and other things never stop changing. 

                Therefore, we can conclude that in order for something to be eternal there must always be something that doesn’t change…ever… and there must be something that is always changing…always.  This is the duality of something that is eternal.  Whatever the eternal something is it is always changing and yet never changing.  Parts of it are always changing and parts of it are never changing.

                What about the number line is never changing?  You always use the same numbers over and over again.  You never suddenly throw in another character like “A” or “ZZ”.  It is always 0-9 and then repeat.  Forever and ever the 0-9 never changes in the eternal number line. 

                Besides this, another never-changing element of the number line is the pattern that you use.  The rule that dictates what order the numbers are to be set in never changes.  You always count 0 and then 1 and then 2 and then 3 and so on.  After you reach 9 you always return to 0 and then increase the digit to the left by 1…always. 

                So what is the always-changing aspect of the number line?  Everything else!  You are always moving from one number to the next.  When you add a 1 in front of the 0 you create a brand new number which is 10.  Every number is named something new and different.  You might be following the same pattern but you are creating brand new and newly defined things with each movement forward or backward on the number line.  The same number is never repeated twice.

                Therefore, we can conclude that this must be true for God.  There must be aspects of God that never change and aspects that are always changing.  This is why the scriptures say in Hebrews 13:8 that God is “the same yesterday, today, and forever.”  Actually, it says that “Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever.”  Jesus, being the Word of God, God’s Avatar on Earth, is what remains the same.  He never changes. 

                So, the Word is at least one of the eternal constants of God.  What does this mean?  It means that He never fails and He never changes as far as His very definition; what defines His personality.  The Word can be used in different ways by the Spirit and the Father, but His character and what defines Him never changes. 

                Again, it is just like the computer code in a computer.  A programmer would not change the computer language in a computer.  The computer language that it is programmed with to start with will remain the computer language for that computer and every program that is installed on that computer for the life of that computer.  Likewise, the programming that tells the control unit and the ALU how to function, what defines the way these two function and what they are and what they do, never changes.

                To put it in terms that hopefully everyone can understand, the PC (Personal Computer or IBM compatible computer) is quite different from a MAC (Apple) computer.  The games you can play on a PC do not transfer over to a MAC.  The MAC simply does not understand the PC’s language.  The programming is built differently.  Likewise, the Nintendo game system you have won’t play games using the same game data as the Playstation game system.  Their computer languages are different.  The Iphone won’t play the same apps as the Android phone.  If you change the computer language you essentially destroy the system itself.  EVERYTHING about the system would have to change even down to its very core processors. 

                So it is with the Word of God.  To change the Word of God would be to change the entire universe into an entirely different universe.  Changing the Word of God would be to change who God is.  That would mean God would not be eternal at all because God, as He has always been, would come to an end and a new God would continue going forward.  Therefore, since God is eternal, the Word cannot ever be changed, because eternal means without beginning or end.

                And remember…as soon as we say that God is not eternal, we are right back to square one.  If God is not eternal then nothing is eternal and if nothing is eternal then we would not exist.  It makes no sense that a God would be eternal in the past and then at some point kill Himself by redefining Himself into something new moving forward. 

                That is essentially what changing the Word would do.  It would be to kill God and make Him into some new being.  An eternal, all powerful being would never do something like that because an eternal being is eternal and therefore perfect.  Only imperfect people with regrets want to start over.  A perfect person would not have regrets and therefore would never want to start over.

                So Jesus, the Word of God, is everlasting.  Though He changed in form, - just as numbers change in name and meaning as you count on the number line when placed together in different sequences - His very personality and His very nature never changes.  For example, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 are used over and over again in a number line.  However, 150 is a whole new number on the line than 1 and 5 and 0.  Nevertheless, the same numbers, 0-9, are still used to define 150.  The same building blocks never change.  They are always there. 

                In the same way, Jesus, the Word of God, never changed in His nature or definition.  He merely changed around the words of a portion of His definition by the power of the Holy Spirit and based on the careful instruction of the Father.  By changing around the definition of the words that define the Physical and Visible Body of God, not changing His personality or anything that defines who God truly is, God created a new shell to house the very Word, or Definition, of God.  He, Jesus, was still God, the Word.  He still loved everything that God has always loved for all eternity.  He still hated everything that God has always hated.  He still believed everything that God has always believed.  Every piece of the nature of God WAS and IS Jesus.  This is why we say that Jesus IS God and He IS the very likeness of God Himself.  It is because EVERYTHING about Jesus IS the very Definition of God.

                This is why Hebrews 1:3 says, “The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word.”  The Son, the Word, never changes.  Even when the Word became Jesus, He never actually changed.  His very definition was just reworded so that instead of an ethereal body God created for Himself, using His Word, a fleshly body.  God’s Body was transformed into a new form.  However, His very nature never changed.

                So, this means that God’s very self never changes.  The definition of God is always the same regardless of what happens in the universe.  He is always the same in personality.  His relationship between the Father, Son and Spirit always remains the same.  They will never war with one another.  This never changes.

                Why am I discussing all of this?  The reason is that there are parts of God that ARE always changing.  Just as the energy within the computer never stops coursing through the computer, so the Holy Spirit never stops moving and changing.  He can’t stop.  If He ever did the whole universe would die.  He courses energy through all things and He is always shifting things and changing things and moving things and doing things.  He doesn’t change in personality, just as the control unit doesn’t change in the computer; always performing the same tasks and functions.  However, what He is doing is always changing.

                And the Father is always changing in some ways as well because He is always receiving new data from the Holy Spirit and the Word and He is always processing the new data and giving commands based on that data.  However, just like the control unit and how it never changes in its functions, so the Father never changes in His functions and His personality.  New “files” are always created within the Father’s memory as things transpire in the universe.  However, the Father always remains the great authority over all.  He always remains the same intelligent, loving, eternal, all-knowing being.  

                Likewise, the Word is always changing, just like the number line, to give new definitions to new things all over the universe.  New things are made and old things pass away because the Spirit is always changing and shifting definitions around and remaking and renewing.  Nevertheless, the basic elements of the Word never change.