Before I start I’d like to clarify what God is in this here context. One, the energy that exists in our universe is God. Imagine it as interconnected. Like every ray of light energy or radiation exists as part of an entity I’d call God. Two, the God that most theists worship relentlessly and who is the protagonist (and at times the antagonist) in the Holy Bible. I’m talking about the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The God who sent Jesus to “die for our sins”.
Newton’s laws are paramount and rigid and hold supreme power over everything. There are exceptions. But let’s stick to the third law. Tit for tat is a fair game. Scratch my back I’ll scratch yours. Those are just layman explanations or statements of Newton’s third law; every action has an equal but opposite reaction.
God obeys these natural (or should I say Newton’s) laws. I think God is an infinite being with wisdom and knowledge that’s too immense for us, mere mortals, to fathom. God looks down on us the same way we look at ants on the ground. We know we are more intelligent than they can ever be ( in the short term pending evolutionary natural selection). You can’t explain the mechanics of a phone to an ant but you understand it. Hell, you can’t communicate with an ant.
Ever heard this religious statement: God is a supernatural being that transcends both space and time. He was, he is and he will always be. Is it just me or does that sound like the theory of conservation of energy (which actually stems from Newton’s third law)? Energy can neither be created nor destroyed but can be changed from one form to another. In the Bible, God says he just came to be, in other words, he was never built, born or created. These claims on God’s existence sound like we are describing the infinite energy that resonates in the universe. Or am I wrong in hypothesizing God is the infinite energy in the universe? Maybe or maybe not. Its the dilemma of probability. Flipping a coin. Fifty fifty chance of success.
If we are to delve a little deeper into energy and physics, scientists have found reason to believe that everything that exists looks the same at atomic level. If you are to split your flesh into the tiniest possible particle (splitting the atom), you would realise you are basically the same as a tree or the sun or the air you breathe. So its just the arrangement of atoms or particles or electrons (even photons) that makes us different from other things.
Yet with further development of quantum mechanics we are beginning to see that the particle is synonymous with energy. Meaning they are by default one and the same. I’ll delve into deeper details of how all this scientific theory falls in place but for now we are just panel beating. I’m just drawing from existing scientific theory without boring you, the reader, with intricate details of what I’m talking about. So back to physics, we have discovered quite of recent that energy equals a particle. So we can also conclude that God is energy and is also the particle. So can we finally say everything that exists is part of God the same way we are considering the vast infinite energy (whose origin is unknown) in our universe to be Him?
P.S: I wrote this like 15 months ago when I still believed there was a God. In my self denial, this was one of the many philosophical ‘why’s/questions I was troubled with.
Derrick Witness 