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Quantum Physics, Mysteries, And Secret Revelations
Contributed by Dr. Craig Nelson on Apr 28, 2021 (message contributor)
Summary: The study of Quantum Physics can complement a person's belief in God, but it will not necessarily lead to belief in God - A message about using biblical Discernment
There has never been a time where biblical discernment is needed more when studying new findings in science. One of those subjects is the world of Quantum Physics, which is truly astounding, yet does not offer any mystical or spiritual benefits, nor does it connect or unify a person with the universe. Both Classical and Quantum physics show that everything is connected by many things, such as gravity, to some degree. All particles interact, but that does not mean that a human being can change reality, or the world, by merely thinking about it because they still must do something physically if they want to actually change it.
The study of Quantum Physics, or the natural world alone, cannot prove the existence of God. There is nothing that a human being needs to understand God than what is already revealed in the Bible and shown in His creation because "the heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands" (Psalm 19:1 NIV). Everything outside of it, including Quantum Physics, is not reliable.
The study of Quantum Physics can complement a person's belief in God, but it will not necessarily lead to belief in God. That requires faith. It is by grace through faith that a person comes into an eternal relationship with their Maker (Eph 2:8).
Quantum Physics helps explain how the universe works, but it is not the final authority for the Born-Again Christian. The Bible teaches that God designed and created the Cosmos even though that truth has yet to be proven irrefutably through science. God wants human beings to live by faith and not by their sensory experiences. He is not a cosmic quantum force that permeates everything. He is the Creator of the Cosmos who is separate from His creation (Rom 1:25; Isa 42:8; 46:9). No human being has seen how God created the heavens or the Earth.
"Where were you when I laid the Earth's foundation? Tell me, if you understand. Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it? On what were its footings set, or who laid its cornerstone - while the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy?" (Job 38:4-7 NIV)
Quantum Physics has not opened the doors to bring into the church the mystical teachings of other religions that were stolen or cleverly repackaged by the enemy and now need to be taken back because they already belong to citizens of the Kingdom of God. There is absolutely nothing to be found in mystical religions that have any eternal value within them. A fountain does not "send out from the same opening both fresh and bitter water" (James 3:11 NIV). This misguided belief has opened the doors to pseudoscientific nonsense infiltrating the walls of the church. The Bible warns the reader to avoid them at all cost (See Gen 12:1; 2 Cor 6:14-18; Rom 16:17; Gal 1:8; 2 Tim 3:5; 2 John 10). Someone once said that mysticism begins with a mist and ends in schism.
"But, dear friends, remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ foretold. They said to you, "In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires." These are the men who divide you, who follow mere natural instincts and do not have the Spirit." (Jude 17-19 NIV – see also 2 Peter 1:16-19)
While Jesus walked the Earth, He did not exhibit properties similar to those of quantum wave-particle duality. That belief would be considered 'modalism' which is a heretical teaching that understands the Holy Trinity as being just one person with three different aspects or masks and not as one-person-yet three simultaneously. Jesus is both 100% divine and 100% human at the same time. He is not the actual "God particle" because He is fully God and always has been.
Throughout the universe, Jesus Christ is not the pantheistic presence who learned to manipulate the system as an ascended master. He came from a reality separate from that of human beings. He said to the religious sign seekers of His day, "You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world. I told you that you would die in your sins; if you do not believe that I am [the one I claim to be], you will indeed die in your sins" (John 8:23-24 NIV).
Every Christian needs to remain focused on Jesus who alone is worthy to be worshipped and adored for all eternity. The spiritualization of science can be seductive. The Bible warns the reader about the dangers of trying to synchronize the physical elements of the Cosmos with spirituality causing their faith to be taken captive "after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ" (Col 2:8 KJV). The word "rudiments" in Greek is "stoicheia" and includes both the "physical particles" constituting the Cosmos and the "spiritual powers" inhabiting it (See 2 Peter 3:10; Gal 4:3-4; Eph 6:12-13).
