Relating to God

Cosmology

Relating to God Through the Sciences.

DEFINITION: Science is the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experimentation. It is both an organized body of knowledge and the dynamic process of discovering how the universe works.

  1. Physical Sciences: The study of non-living matter, energy, and the laws of nature. (Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy, Earth Sciences [Geology, Meteorology]).

  2. Life Sciences (Biological Sciences): The study of living organisms and life processes. (Biology, Zoology, Botany, Genetics, Ecology, Neurobiology.)

  3. Social Sciences: The study of human behavior, societies, and social relationships. Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology, Economics, Political Science.

  4. Formal Sciences: Unlike the first three, these are a priori disciplines—they don't rely on empirical observation of the physical world, but they provide the language and tools that all other sciences use to exist. (cosmology, philosophy, natural history, human history, mathamatics, logic)

Genesis 1:1-2 — Ge 1:1 ¶ In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

Internal Challenges in the Bible Text:

John 10:9 I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.

1. The Beginning

Days of Separation (Domains)Days of Population (Inhabitants/Rulers) Day 1: Light and Darkness are separated.Day 4: The Sun, Moon, and Stars are created to rule the light and dark.Day 2: The Waters above and below are separated.Day 5: Fish and Birds are created to fill the waters and sky.Day 3: Dry Land is separated from the Seas.Day 6: Land Animals and Humans are created to inhabit the land.

2. The Early Earth

  1. "Without Form and Void" (The Magma Ocean Stage) In planetary cosmology, a planet is considered "formless" before its internal layers differentiate and a solid crust stabilizes. Immediately following the accretion of cosmic dust and the cataclysmic, Moon-forming giant impact, the early Earth was a molten, chaotic mass with no permanent features (Allègre & Schneider, 1994; Lunine, 2006).

According to geodynamic modeling published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, the early Hadean Earth was characterized by:

"...an eon of extreme violence... when the entire planet was thought to be covered by a magma ocean between ~300 and 2000 km deep" (O'Neill & Debaille, 2014, p. 49).

During this window, the surface was a literal fluid wasteland of bubbling silicate melt—a planet entirely devoid (void) of stable geographic structure, topography, or life (Allègre & Schneider, 1994; Sleep, 2010).

  1. "Darkness was on the Face of the Deep" (The Steam Atmosphere)

While the phrase "the deep" typically evokes liquid water, in the context of a cooling planet, the initial "deep" was an oppressive, globally enveloping primordial atmosphere.

Research outlined in Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology demonstrates that the extreme heat of the young, molten Earth vaporized all volatile compounds, creating a dense, opaque blanket of supercritical steam and heavy gases (Sleep, 2010).

The Super-Greenhouse: This early atmosphere contained massive amounts of carbon dioxide (up to 100 bars) and water vapor (Sleep, 2010).

The Blocked Sun: This thick, ultra-dense cloud layer was so volatile and heavily saturated that it completely choked out incoming sunlight, blanketing the planet's surface in total, pitch-black darkness (Allègre & Schneider, 1994). The "face of the deep" was a pressurized, shrouded world where the sun would not be visible from the surface for millions of years.

  1. "The Face of the Waters" (The Global Hydrosphere) As the planet's surface cooled below the critical threshold, the thick steam atmosphere condensed, resulting in a global downpour of historic proportions.

As noted in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, "liquid water existed continuously on the surface within a few hundred million years" of Earth's formation (Lunine, 2006, p. 1721). Because the Earth had not yet developed robust, deep continental tectonic cratons to push up massive mountain ranges, the early water accumulation formed an unbroken, global marine environment (Korenaga, 2021). Geophysical models suggest that the Hadean Earth was essentially a waterworld, where a vast, deep, global ocean covered nearly the entirety of the planet’s surface (Korenaga, 2021).

3. Rise of Humanity

PHILOSPHY

The Core Logic

The argument relies on Modal Logic, which is the philosophy of what is possible, what is impossible, and what is necessary. It introduces the concept of Possible Worlds—a complete, alternative way the universe could have turned out (e.g., a world where gravity is slightly stronger, or a world where you had oatmeal for breakfast instead of eggs).

The argument hinges on a crucial philosophical distinction:

Maximal Excellence: Possessing the highest possible degrees of goodness, power, and knowledge within one specific possible world.

Maximal Greatness: Possessing Maximal Excellence across all possible worlds.

The argument posits that a being cannot truly be "maximally good" if that goodness could suddenly cease to exist or if it only applies to our specific universe. True, maximal goodness must be an unalterable, necessary feature of reality that holds true across every single possible reality.

Real Existence is Better Than Imaginary Existence: If you imagine a being that is perfectly loving, perfectly just, and maximally good, but that being only exists in your mind, it lacks a critical attribute of goodness: the ability to actually execute that goodness. A real dollar is better than an imaginary dollar; a really existing source of objective goodness is greater than a purely fictional one.

The Necessity of Goodness: If a being is truly maximally good, its goodness cannot be accidental or temporary. It must be a necessary truth. Because modal logic states that if something is necessarily true, it must be true in all possible realities, the existence of a maximally good being becomes an all-or-nothing proposition. If it is even possible for supreme goodness to exist, it must exist everywhere.

The Healthy Christian Mind

We relate, communicate and interact with God fundamentally with our mind.

A healthy, moral framework must:

By these standards, the traditional defense of this text is an irrational, harmful, and manipulative cognitive trap.

A brutal logical trap. If a system claims that its own cognitive dissonance and "mind-shaping" are holy, it loses the objective vocabulary to call another group’s identical methods a cult or a delusion.

has anyone done peer reviewed work on how to "EMPOWER" somone within such a system to "FEED THEIR INTERNAL ALARMSYSTEM" that is being systematically silenced?

Never Good Enough

TEXT: Matthew 19:16-22 (Mark 10:17-31; Luke 18:18-30)

DOCTRINAL: God is the only non-created.

TOPIC: Never being good enough. What is the Biblical teaching concerning God's expectations of our behavior and how that changes how we relate to God.

1. How Many Boxes Does He Check? (How eligible is he? -- competition)

Matthew 19:16 — And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life? [Where am I lacking/short?]

Matthew 19:21 — Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me. [telios: OF FULL AGE; 19:14 it is no coincidence jesus jesus suffer the little children to come unto me in the same chapter]

2. God is THE Creator (He caused it all; He is the uncaused cause)

Genesis 1:1 — In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. [1:21,27; 2:3-4; 5:1-2; 6:7]

3. God is GOOD and what HE does is good.

God is the ultimate definition of good. Imagine a massive, never-ending waterfall, but instead of pumping out water, it's constantly pouring out pure love, kindness, and awesome things for everyone and everything He created. God is the source of good will and generosity -- wishing good and doing good.

HEBREW: towb: beautiful, best, better, bountiful, cheerful, at ease, X fair (word), (be in) favour, fine, glad, good (deed, -lier, -liest, -ly, -ness, -s), graciously, joyful, kindly, kindness, liketh (best), loving, merry, X most, pleasant, + pleaseth, pleasure, precious, prosperity, ready, GREEK: agathos: a primary word; "good" (in any sense, often as noun):--benefit, good(-s, things), well.

Deuteronomy 4:32 — For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?

Exodus 18:9 — And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which the LORD had done to Israel, whom he had delivered out of the hand of the Egyptians.

Mark 10:18 — And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God.

That which proceeds from God, and is pleasing to him. It also signifies conformity to his will, and an assimilation to his character, Ps 12:1; Mal 2:15; 2Co 1:2; Tit 2:12 Godliness is the substance of revealed religion, 1Ti 3:16; 4:8; 2Pe 1:6

4. How Goodness DOES brings us to God?

Romans 2:4 — Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance

Isaiah 64:6 — But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

Ephesians 2:10 — For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

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