Prior
to expanding upon my Matrix Theory, I need to first cover in more detail the
assumptions it is based upon. I began this process in the last letter with Assumption
One and the first part of Assumption Two, that God exists and is our father.
Now let’s continue on.
The
third assumption of the Matrix Theory is that God purposely created the world
in a manner such that there would be viable evidence that he created it, and
also viable evidence that he did not. This is a very important principle that
is directly tied to the second part of Assumption Two, that God wants us to learn
faith by hands on experience. Faith is such an important topic and we will
discuss it much more later but for now, I will only define it so as to give
better understanding of Assumption Two.
The
dictionary states that faith is, “A strong belief based upon apprehension rather
than proof”. What is apprehension? Look that one up too and we get,
“Understanding or grasp”. If we turn to Religion for a definition we get,
“faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen”
from the Bible. Thus, if we apply these definitions to Assumption Two, we get
that God wants us to gain a strong belief in and a hope of things that we must
come to understand or grasp based upon evidence that we gather via hands on
experience, but for which there is no proof of. Interesting! Why would God, our
own parent, want to put us in a situation where we have to learn to believe in
and hope for things that we can never prove? Be thinking of that for there is a
lot to discuss on it later but for now, let’s take what we have learned about Assumption
Two and carry it over into Assumption Three.
Whenever
I have put Assumption Three to my scientific friends, I find they have a great
deal of trouble with it, to the point of getting a bit angry. I suspect that
this is a result of it being purely logical. When discussing the question, “Is
there a God?” you have to allow for both answers to be possible, and as I
detailed in previous letters, the possibility that the answer could be yes
makes it impossible to ever prove that the answer is no. Thus, there is no way
to eliminate the possibility that God exists and if he does exist, and we are
his children, and he wants us to learn faith, and he created this world as a
place for us to learn it, then the only way for him to successfully accomplish that
goal would be to make things according to Assumption Three. In other words, if
the basic tenants of Religion are true and God does exist, then in order for
him to have created this Earth as a place where faith could be learned, he would
have had to have made it in such a manner that there were at least two strong,
viable options for us to choose from. Thus, God would have had to have
purposely made the Earth and Universe in such a manner that strong evidence
exists to support both options, and yes that means creating false evidence indicating
that he did not create all things. Therefore, Assumption Three means, very
literally, that all physical and/or scientific evidence is worthless when
applying it to the question, “Is there a God?” because there is no way to know
if what you have found is valid. You may find as many fossils and layers of the
Earth as you like, you may peer into the Universe as far as you can. None of it
has any bearing whatsoever when considering how it all got there because of
Assumption Three and its connection to Assumption Four (that the World and
Universe are only virtual creations, custom made by God to give us experience).
This is what I mean when I say that if God exists, then trying to understand
the Earth and Universe on any other terms than his is illogical. If he exists,
then all of the research and experimentation and exploration, etc. that we have
done as humans in effort to explain how we and our world and the Universe came
into existence amounts to nothing more than frolicking around. If God exists and the
Matrix Theory is true… then all of these efforts amount to nothing more than
frolicking around inside of our own consciousness while we sit plugged into the
program, which program God created as a means of giving us the opportunity to learn
something very important: faith.
You
can probably see now why my science minded friends get frustrated with The
Matrix Theory. However, they are stuck with the fact that it is founded in
evidence that their side discovered, namely that the World and Universe are not
made of solid substance, but rather light and conscious energy. Thus, whether
they like it or not, their side has established (and continues to further establish)
Assumption Four and this assumption makes the whole theory come to life.
If
you recall, I nearly jumped ahead of myself a few letters back and stated that
I wanted to cover a principle that would bring The Matrix Theory out of the
movies and into real life. Well, that principle is tied to Assumption Four and thus
we are finally to the point where we can dive into it. We will do so in the next letter.
Until
then…
Joshua
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