Question #1: What is Prime Reality? (OR Where di

Have you ever wondered if there was a start to everything? All scientists agree that, just by observing the visible universe, there was a beginning to all we can observe. What we see now is not just something that has been in existence eternally. That begs the questions, where did it come from? If there was nothing, absolutely nothing that we see, in existence, how did everything pop into existence? Is it like Michael Jackson's hair spontaneously combusting on stage, during a performance. (A reference for people born before 1970)

Think of it. Nothing, nothing, nothing then BOOM, everything.

Some materialists think that matter has been in existence eternally and it is just expanding-contracting-expanding-contracting like a yo-yo. We just happen to be observing it in one of the long line of expansion events. But what of entropy? Everything is loosing energy, so if that is true, then matter couldn't be eternal because it would have reached a state of no energy, infinitely ago. AND even if you go way back where did all matter come from not to mention the massive energy required to start the explosion-expansion events we are witnessing in the universe? Hmmm. (Also who created time, that we can experience events in sequence?) Humanistic evolutionists fall in this category and students of this school of thought need to restle with the origin of all things and our observation of it.

Some Christians believe that God created the universe. The first verse of the Bible states, 'In the Beginning, God'. AND therefore in the very first verse in the Bible we have our answer to Prime Reality? God made time and God fills time with matter and the sequential actions those atoms become experience.

Other world views believe our experience is, that we are figments, characters, in the dream of a god. This is kind of a Matrix understanding of things and diminishes the concept of right and wrong and morality or even the concept of progress because as figments in a dream of a dreamer what accountability or justice can we expect on this earth. (Unless this dreamer is perfect and has perfect 'thoughts' of us in the dream, otherwise we are stuck in the dreamers vial painful thoughts. And if this god is a perfect thinker why is our experience so disturbing, sad, painful and frustrating?) In this understanding, should we even have a justice system in our cultures?

How would you answer, What is Prime Reality?
a. God
b. Matter
c. A Dreamer
d. Don't really care

Quote of the day

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

― Theodore Roosevelt

Bible Verse

2 Corinthians 2:14
New International Version (NIV)

14 But thanks be to God, who always leads us as captives in Christ’s triumphal procession and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of him everywhere.