The Mystery of Creation: Chapter 4: The Duality of Eternity: Patterns

Patterns

                So a motive behind creating all things is that God is always changing something about Himself.  He is a creating machine that is always adapting and always building and always changing and always destroying and rebuilding and so on and so forth throughout all time and space.  He just doesn’t stop.  Therefore, creating is in His very nature.  It is like He cannot stop making things.

                But again, this does not mean that He HAS to create something new and different.  He could just work like an endless circle all the time.  This would be like a number ring instead of a number line.  A number ring would be counting 0 to 9 and then starting over at 0 again.  You just continue to count 0 to 9 over and over again without ever adding a 1 or a negative sign or anything.  Over and over, the same thing repeats itself.  It never varies or changes.  It is just an eternal monotony.  The same exact thing that is happening right now will happen again and again throughout all eternity.  No variations…no changes…always the same…forever.

                A circle theory of existence really doesn’t line up with the evidence that we find throughout the universe.  Like the number line, life has patterns.  Things do repeat themselves.  However, even the theory of evolution will tell you that although things repeat themselves they often change as well so that new things are made. 

                So we might have the same conflicts today that people were having thirty or forty years ago, but the circumstances surrounding the conflicts have changed.  People are afraid of nuclear attacks from North Korea, for example, while back in the 60s, 70s and 80s people were petrified of a Russian nuclear attack.  Racism is resurging again, as it did in America’s history.  However, it is not quite the same as it was then.  There are different events occurring and brand new evils being done.

                So history is kinda repeating itself as we are dealing with the potential that someone could hit a nuclear missile button and nuke an entire country, and people are actually afraid of it again, but it is no longer the Russians people fear.  It is now the North Koreans.  Likewise, there are many similarities between Abraham Lincoln and JFK.  However, they were two totally different men and the circumstances surrounding their lives were different.  Still, people will say that it is almost like reincarnation.

                But let me say right now that reincarnation is NOT Biblical, and it certainly doesn’t make sense.  I don’t have time to get into it here, but suffice to say, reincarnation is not logical in the grand scheme of things.  The reason reincarnation makes sense to people is because they notice the patterns of history and life and they say that it is because people and things are reborn again and again, recreating similar events over and over again.  However, the reason for these patterns in history is that all things exist because patterns exist.  Just as 121, 122, 123, etc. is like 1, 2, 3, and yet they are not completely identical, so it is with history when events repeat themselves.  It is merely the pattern of history being recreated once more.

                This same thing is even seen in the Bible too.  Moses and the Israelites are a shadow of the things that would happen in Jesus’ life.  Pharaoh ordered the deaths of all of the Hebrew babies.  King Herod ordered the deaths of all of the children of Bethlehem that were 2 years and younger.  Moses and the Israelites were forced through the Red Sea before they could start the mission God had for them, which was to take over the land of Canaan.  Jesus had to be baptized by John the Baptist before He could start His mission to go and die on a cross for the sins of humanity. 

                So our universe repeats itself just as the number line repeats itself.  There are patterns that we see that occur over and over again.  However, small variables pop up with each repeat of the pattern.  Whereas before it happened to an old man with a stingy wife, this time it is happening to a young woman with a stingy husband.  The same basic story is happening, but the difference is in the details.  This still makes it something new and different, but it also makes it relatively the same.  Thus, it is not a circle but more like a series of loops.

                Another clue that tells us that God works in patterns instead of circles is found in human nature.  We humans get bored if we are forced to do the same things over and over again, day after day, without variation.  That is why the saying exists, “Variety is the spice of life.”  We like things to change, but we really don’t like them to change TOO much.  If things get a little TOO different, we start to gripe and complain.  “Why is this happening?  Why did God allow this to happen to me?  This is unfair!”  We want adventure and excitement, but when it comes we hate it.  It is because we are creatures made to like patterns, but we don’t like things to be forever stagnant and never changing.  Thus, it only makes sense that the God who created us would also feel this way. 

                I don’t know about you, but the thought of doing the same things over and over again throughout all eternity does not appeal to me in the slightest.  I want to experience new adventures and new exciting things forever.  Oh sure, it’s nice to have daily routines and habits and such to come home to, but it is also nice to have vacations and adventures; to do things that are not normal now and then.