Can We Let God be God Sized?

 As I have been involved in theological discussions in my life, I have noticed one thing. Many people attempt to make God manageable. They attempt to understand God using human limitations. Limitations like knowledge, time, and most importantly, free will. People behave as if God is not really in control, just managing some aspects of the universe. Why can't we let an infinite God be infinite in size and scope?

We have this idea that God cannot violate free will, but do we get that from scripture, or a view of a small God? If we pray for people to be saved, wouldn't God override their free will to answer our prayers? If we pray that God keep us safe, would it not require God to override the free will of those who seek to do us harm? If we seek to have favor with authorities, would God not override their free will to give us favor? I am not saying that God created humans as simply His puppets, but scripture really seems to indicate that our free will isn't something that God can override. In fact, free will doesn't seem to exist. We are slaves to sin or slaves to righteousness. Free will is not part of the equation.

Prophecy seems to indicate that free will isn't a thing. For example, if God says that descendants of Abraham would live in Egypt for 300 years, then return to the Promised Land and take the land, could they have used their free will to say no? Could Joseph had decided to stay in Jerusalem until Jesus was born, or did the prophecy override his free will? Could Pilate demand that Jesus be released and not crucified, therefore nullifying the words of Jesus?

People behave as if God experiences time the way we do. That He doesn't know the future, which prophecy already invalidates. Time is not a linear experience for God. Read my previous posts on God being at least a 6th-dimensional being (some hypothesize as much as 11th-dimensional). God exists in all possible realities at the same time. The question that people would ask is "how is that possible?" They ask that question because they have an idea of a man-sized, small, limited God. If they cannot fathom it, they reject it.

To have a proper, Biblical view of God, we need to understand that we cannot fathom God, we cannot understand God, we cannot limit God, and we need to stop trying. It's why we trust by faith, it is our only option.

Why Trying to Fathom the Trinity is Silly

 In my last few posts, I have explored the idea of God existing throughout at least 6 dimensions. This places God existing in every possible time, event, and possibility. If we really embrace the reality that God is truly in all times and all possibilities, then we don't need to question things like predestination. It's only pre from a human perspective. From a 4th-dimensional view or higher, there is no past or future. Just present. When we begin to think about how big and all-encompassing God is, existing simultaneously in every time and every possibility in that time, then we need not even think about all these aspects, we can just accept them. We can accept the fact that predestination and election have no impact on our abilities to make choices, because God exists in both choices simultaneously.

This is the reason it is silly for us to think about the Trinity. We struggle with the Trinity when we believe in a man-sized God. God has no problem being three in one, if He willed it, He could be an infinite number of people. The Trinity is God revealing aspects of Himself in a way we can understand. God is infinite, so we need aspects we can grasp. We can understand The Father, The Son, The Spirit. God reveals Himself in ways we can comprehend. What we can't comprehend is how those three are one. We also can't fathom what it's like to exist in the 4th, 5th, or 6th dimension (or higher). We need to stop trying to fathom and just understand it is beyond the ability of our mind to comprehend.

If you reject that, then the reality that there are things bigger than you can comprehend is something you can't comprehend. Trippy, right?

Dimensional Reality Pt 3 - Getting Trippy!

 So we have talked about the first through third dimensions, where we live and move and have some control. We have talked about the 4th dimension of time (not the spatial dimension), where we experience it but have no ability to navigate. Let us move into some of the crazier and more theoretical aspects.

Now, if you are a fourth-dimensional being, you can move around in time. You can go to the beginning and then end at will. Think of the Tralfamadorians in Slaughterhouse-Five by Vonnagant. Think Dr. Who without a TARDIS. This is a state we can imagine, but of course don't experience. The ability to see all of time at once, like we see a room. They can see the beginning and end of time simultaneously and move to the areas of time like we would walk across a room. There is no "has been" or "will be", everything just is.

It would be simple to say that God exists in the 4th dimension, but it goes higher. The 5th dimension as time becomes more complicated. This is the timeline in Loki and the MCU. If you have seen Avengers Endgame, the Ancient One explains to Bruce Banner that a change creates a new timeline. A 5th-dimensional being would see and be able to move in the branches. They would see every option for every choice and how each one creates a new branch. If you turn left or right, a fourth-dimensional being would see the choice you will make; a fifth-dimensional being would see the reality if you choose both. This, of course, creates infinite timelines. Every possibility in the universe exists for the 5th-dimensional being.

A sixth-dimensional being would see every possibility in every universe, multiversal theory. This includes a universe with different physics, different realities, and different beings. This begins to move more into Dr. Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, where things that don't exist in our universe may exist in another universe.

Now, I don't see a reason that we need to move beyond the 5th dimension; 6th-10th dimensions exist in theory. If we look at God as a 5th-dimensional being, then most of the things we struggle with in theology begin to erode. Ideas like predestination and election seem to fade away with God being a 6th-dimensional being. The idea of how all things work for the good of God, or the idea of the best of all possible outcomes, is easy to embrace when we think about God as existing in the 6th dimension. In my next blog, I will explore this further.