On page xv of the Author’s Preface of “Earth: In the Beginning,” Eric Skousen makes the following statement:
Heavenly Father is above all else a God of law. He deals with cause and effect. He is a divine Master Planner who works within a framework of purpose and design.
Before anything else, I must warn the reader that the LDS view of God, or heavenly Father, is different from any other Christian religion’s viewpoint, so far as I have been able to determine. I cannot explain it here because it would take a book to do so. I’m not even able to properly encapsulate it into just a few sentences.
For the reader to develop a proper sense of the LDS view of God, you might want to contact someone of the LDS faith, preferably missionaries. This is because missionaries are often able to articulate complex ideas in a shorter amount of time than we mere members. Some people, like myself, tend to ramble.
Because the LDS view of God is so complex, I would do it injustice by trying to stuff a large basketball’s worth of information into a small thimble. However, I have found that quantum physicists come the closest (without realizing it) to what I believe is the LDS view of God (although the LDS might not realize it, either).
So, some of what you read herein might not make any sense when taken within the context of one’s preconceived belief system. Therefore, it is hoped the reader will enter these waters (i.e., pages) with an open mind and lift up your oars (i.e., predisposed opinions) and float along with the current. Perhaps things will make more sense as we enjoy the beautiful scenery passing by.
But back to Skousen’s statement.
My belief, first of all, is that heavenly Father is a God of Love. He is the essence of Love. That is who he is. Love.
“Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love” (1 John 4:7-8, KJV).
Perhaps this is why Jesus said:
“Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, Master, which is the great commandment in the law [i.e., of Moses]? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all they heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment” (Matthew 22:35-38).
It might be that loving God is “the first and great commandment” because it is the best way in which we can even begin to relate to such an all-powerful, etc., God. I do not believe it is for the aggrandizement of God (who needs no aggrandizement) that we should love him, but that we should love him for our own benefit, for it is clear that love is the way we experience God.
Secondly, I believe heavenly Father works his purposes and designs within the framework of Law, not the other way around. Law is eternal.
There are basic physical laws, such as those we are familiar with. There are higher laws we call miracles because we see their effects but either we cannot explain them or they fly in the face of the laws we are familiar with. And there are even higher laws of which we know nothing at all.
Of course there are. Is God, after all, limited to what we mere mortals can understand? I think not.
For instance, we might ask: Why does everything spin—from the smallest particle to the largest galaxy? Or, what propels moons around planets, planets around suns, suns and their planets (i.e., solar systems) around galaxies, galaxies around other galaxies, and groups of galaxies around other groups of galaxies? All of which have been observed by astronomers.
While there are a few theories, they are very lame, in my opinion. Scientists simply do not know (and often hate to admit it). And these are only regarding laws governing our physical universe. And few scientists will acknowledge (at least publicly) that there exists anything beyond the physical laws of the universe.
But there are. There has to be, for God is a spiritual being. So there must be spiritual laws. Or perhaps all things are spiritual to him.
Nevertheless, we see some spiritual laws in the Bible, and in other holy books, but few scientists (again, publicly) will enter these things into their scientific method of discovering stuff. Fewer still allow for consciousness in their equations.
I do agree, however, that God does deal with“cause and effect.” But can we limit God to just cause and effect? Who are we to limit God to anything? Are we God’s masters, after all?
My own personal belief is that what makes God God is his constant presence in the zero point energy field, or, as I like to call it, the Consciousness of Everything. It is how he knows everything past, present and future; sees everything past, present and future; can be everywhere present; is all powerful; and all loving.
In my opinion, the zero point energy field is the source of the Higgs boson particle (if there is such a thing), or what has become familiarly known, even among scientists, as the God particle. This is what the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland, is attempting to discover. Good luck with that.
This should give you something to chew on for awhile.
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