The Bible talks about heaven and hell. I find myself wondering how much of those concepts we can understand. That sense of wonder expands to us understanding or grasping God in His expanse and Jesus as deity. What will it be like in their presence. Honestly, I don’t think we can comprehend it now.
We as human beings are locked into the four dimensions. I have no trouble comprehending four dimensions that we can understand: Length, width, height, and time. I was thinking about how we as human beings are locked into our sense of spatial reality which involves those dimensions. Scientist and mathematicians talk about additional dimensions. I really can’t remember the last number I heard, but it was far beyond me. Those dimensions can only be grasped in the human mind in terms of mathematical formulas or laws of physics. They have no relationship to our senses or our awareness.
Will we be locked into this box in eternity? Will God forever limit our abilities to comprehend, or at least know that we don’t comprehend? I think of Genesis 1:1 where God created the heavens and the Earth. We are having a hard time, understanding the Earth and all of the complexity involved in it, how can we understand heaven?
If God adapts us in the resurrection in such a way that we can comprehend some of these additional dimensions, will we still be human beings? We still think of ourselves as individuals? We don’t believe that we’re going to be absorbed into Nirvana or the Force. We believe we will retain our individuality. What does that look like when we are removed from the limitations of our corporal bodies?
So many questions.
homo unius libri
Tuesday, September 9, 2025
Opus 2025-415: Dimensions
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