Regarding: Mathematics and Physics from Genesis to Revelation
PART ONE
This communication comes in four parts. It is broken up into parts because this should make it easier to read and to criticize. Part One is composed of references and an overall summary.
REFERENCES:
"Might it not be a good idea to try to develop some understanding of issues related to creation and evolution (including theological anthropology and providence) from the NT? I am certainly not suggesting that we drop Genesis (or for that matter Psalms or Isaiah or the rest of the OT) in developing a full understanding of these issues. But it would be good discipline for us to put a moratorium on debates about Genesis 1-11 & focus on relevant NT texts (reflecting, of course, on related OT passages when necessary for interpretation). " George Murphy (February 2, 2001)
"I believe that the incarnation, cross and new creation are key to a full theology of creation...." Also, see all of "A NT doctrine of creation (was cannon within the canon)", which is full of Scripture references. Jonathan Clarke (February 2, 2001)
"... I do get the impression, upon reading Genesis 3, that something fundamentally important occurred at the time of the Fall, apart from the advent of sin, with the "opening of eyes" -- that, apparently, would not have occurred without the disobedience." Gordon Simons (January 16, 2001)
SUMMARY
It is impossible to understand Genesis without appreciating that Genesis describes the creation of a real, historical being called Adam, who is blessed with perfect, eternal, and infinite reason. In Genesis 3 Adam's reason is destroyed by sin, which is essentially an act of rebellion against the Person of eternal living truth. In rebelling against eternal living truth Adam is plunged into utter irrationality save for the grace and mercy of God. The Bible is the ultimate book of reason and logic as it records how man's sense of reason is restored to its original, living, eternally perfect and infinite state in Jesus Christ.
The logic of modern physics is governed by Einstein's principle of RELATIVITY and by Heisenberg's principle of UNCERTAINTY (or AMBIGUITY). It is proposed that these principles are the logical fruit of man's separation from God. This separation from God can be identified with original sin and the Fall of Adam. Being separated from God creates logical confusion about absolute truth. In a futile attempt to eliminate this confusion Adam (or man) has retreated to the logic of RELATIVE and UNCERTAIN human truth.
The difference between God's logic and man's fallen logic can be described in A PURELY MATHEMATICAL WAY. This difference is related to symmetries for COUNTING AND MEASURING with real and imaginary whole numbers in a positive or negative direction in the complex plane. Faith in Jesus Christ (the divine "logos", or absolute logic) restores man's logic to its pure, original state. In this state an arithmetic statement for counting or measuring is unambiguously true or false in four individual ways. In this state an arithmetic statement for counting or measuring is logically true or false "in absolute truth." In absolute truth and logic a quantum theory of gravity is absolute (and not relative mathematically), and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle is no longer valid.
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