THE QUANTUM PHYSICS OF SALVATION

THE QUANTUM PHYSICS OF SALVATION

                Neils Bohr once said concerning the quantum world: “Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.”

                I don’t want to bore you with too many details, but when you get down to the quantum level of existence, the tiny sub atomic particles of which all life is made, they seem to throw out every logical thing that we have come to believe in the macro world of Newtonian physics. The dance of life is so tentative and crazy that it leads physicists to wonder if anything real exists at all.

                I fell for an old trap in my article yesterday by saying that negatively charged electrons orbit the positively charged nucleus of the atom like our planets orbit the sun. But now they know that not to be true. Instead they now know that electrons are in a state of “frenzied activity and the world of the atom is in a state of violent quantum fluctuations.”      

                In trying to locate a photon, they isolated on Photon and shot it through a wall containing two slits. When the photon was a wave it passed through both slits at the same time, but when it was being observed it became a particle and as a particle it passed through only one slit. Not only that, but the particle/wave was able to predict when it would be observed or not observed ahead of time.

                Now, in my furtive little mind I immediately see the implications of this particle/wave anomaly. When a photon is in a wave form it is spirit and when it is in a particle form it is matter. This explains in a limited way how spirit, say like God, is non-local and omnipresent. But in order to appear to man He has to become a particle and enter into our world of matter.

                This gives us a quantum physics language for a Bible truth in that the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. Jesus Christ as a spirit (wave) was born into the material world as a particle and dwelt among us so that we could behold His glory as it was manifested in our realm. Only on the mount of transfiguration was Jesus momentarily manifested in His wave form, so that the disciples could see who He really was.

                But why is this important? Let me reiterate a point I made yesterday. I believe that when God created the universe, spirit and matter were united as one. As such the material universe was “self-correcting and therefore eternal. All things were upheld by God’s immediate presence. And man was created as a totally unique being in the entire universe. He was created to exist in both realms. He was both spirit and matter. (Flesh)

                But when Adam sinned, his spirit died and just as spirit and flesh were separated in him, so it was with the entire universe. Man was the connecting factor between spirit and matter and when he rebelled, he lost that function. His spirit died and he became locked into the world of matter. As such he lost his dominion and became the servant of matter and had to till the soil by the sweat of his brow to make a living.

                The truth is then that we can never truly enter the Rest that God gave us on the seventh day until spirit and flesh are once again united. So how did God rectify the problem? He set aside His wave form and became a particle and dwelt among us. He became a part of the material universe, but within Him He carried that spirit of God that Adam had had before the fall. Jesus came to reunite spirit and flesh and by doing so He would restore and reconcile not only mankind, but the entire universe.

                As I mentioned yesterday, this is what it means in Romans 8:19 where it says that all of creation is waiting anxiously for the revealing of the sons of God. Paul tells us that all of creation was subjected to futility. In other worlds the universe entered into an entropic state in which everything dies and since everything ultimately dies, there can be no eternal purpose and without an eternal purpose everything exists in a state of futility.

                We can’t hope to really understand quantum physics by what I say here, but what I am hoping is that by putting biblical truth into a different language we can gain a new understanding and a new appreciation for what God has done to redeem us.

                When Jesus came into the world as the second Adam, He came as both a wave and a particle. He came as both spirit and flesh and in Him mankind and the entire universe is reconciled (brought back together.) But as Paul explains, we do not see this reconciliation fully realized as of yet. Jesus came into this world to bring many sons to glory. He didn’t come here for Himself… He came here for us.

                But in order to pay the price for our rebellion and loss, He went to the cross and there on the cross He suffered the great separation of spirit and matter within Himself that Adam had suffered in the fall. This is why Jesus cried out in agony on the cross. “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me? The eternal oneness of spirit and flesh in Him was violently ripped apart and He suffered the separation of humanity from God. And if Jesus had not by His infinite power risen from the dead, that separation would have been final.

                So to give us a visible representation of just what happened on the cross, God used the Jewish temple, as He always has, to show us in physical terms what was happening in the spiritual realm. Just as spirit and matter were torn apart in Jesus on the cross, so the veil in the temple was torn apart from top to bottom. On the cross spirit and matter were eternally torn apart in the only being in the universe that had both… Jesus Christ.

                All of creation hung in the balance. Even the rocks were violently torn and rent asunder by this separation. And when Jesus said, “It is finished” He really meant it. Everything was finished. Our only hope for anything other than futility died at our own hands there on the cross. But as we now know, that ripping of the veil opened a way for us as particles to enter back into His realm of spirit so that the reconciliation of flesh and spirit might take place in us.

                How little do we comprehend the significance of Christ’s resurrection from the dead. Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead and that was a miracle, but nothing like the miracle of Christ’s resurrection, for when Jesus raised from the dead the entire physical universe was reconciled with the spirit realm. The rift between God and man was healed. Likewise we need to understand that the rift between the physical and spiritual universes was provisionally healed as well.

                But now we need to understand that this healing of the rift is in the Person of Jesus Christ. It has not extended to the universe as of yet. Entropy still rules and reigns in the universe… and why might that be? It is because the reconciliation resides in Jesus and the only way to enter into that reconciliation is to enter into His death and be born again in the power of His resurrection. Then we must grow in grace into mature sons, having learned to live by the spirit rather than by the flesh.

                Paul tells us about this in Galatians 3:16 saying: “Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He does not say “And to seeds,” as referring to many, but rather to one, “And to your seed,” That is Christ.

                Everything resides in Jesus Christ and when we have Him we have everything and in him, futility is broken and we enter into His eternal plans because we will never die. We, as born again believers now have eternal life. When we die, our spirit goes back to God who gave it, but in the resurrection we will receive new resurrection bodies and these “glorified” bodies will be made of both wave and particle, both spirit and flesh. In us the rift will be healed and we will reign with Christ for eternity.

                But in order for us to have the kind of authority that we will have in our eternal state, it is necessary for us to become mature sons now. Jesus is our example of the mature man. He is our example of spirit and flesh in perfect unity. It is something we need to grow into… for in this world absolute power corrupts absolutely. This is why humility and a servant’s heart are so important. When we are ruling and reigning with Christ we must exhibit His character or we will soon become a bunch of Hitlers. This can never be.

                It is also important to learn faith. Faith is the way God operates, for it is said that it was by faith that God created all things. But now let’s return to the cross for a moment. The reconciliation between spirit and matter, or spirit and flesh that Jesus worked out by His death and resurrection made it possible for God to do something that He had not been able to do since the fall of mankind. His death and resurrection made it possible for Jesus Christ to once again put His Spirit in us and that is why just ten days after He went back to heaven, or 50 days after His resurrection according to the pattern of the feast days, Jesus sent down His Holy Spirit (His wave form) to enter into our particle bodies) so that the reconciliation takes place in us as well. Spirit and flesh become one in us. The rift is healed and the Lord begins His work of maturing us into His sons and daughters.

                Again this is what is so wrong about false grace. Grace is not license to sin, but the power of God to overcome. Our  goal in Christ is to become mature sons and daughters of God… and this is why we will spend the next 1000 years, the Sabbath millennium learning how to rule and reign with Jesus Christ and how to live in that state of Rest that was created on the seventh day of Creation. You see, it is not the legal observance of a day that is our goal, but the uniting of spirit and flesh so that we enter once again into the rest that Adam had before the fall.

                Just as it currently is in every atom in the universe, we exist in a frenzied and frantic state of unrest. Something is terribly wrong. Spirit and flesh have been ripped apart by rebellion and we will truly find no rest until the rift has been fully healed. This is why all of creation anxiously awaits the revealing of the sons of God. “For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers pains of childbirth together until now. And not only this, but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body.” Romans 8:22-23.

                For now, we have only received the first fruits of the Spirit. We cannot yet be trusted with the kind of power that we will have when the Holy Spirit is fully vested in us.

                In this context then we understand that the Law was written to man before the reconciliation. A man without the Spirit of God cannot please God. He must abide by external laws written on stone. But in the reconciliation man becomes both flesh and spirit and has such his purpose now is to learn to live by that spirit so that he will not carry out the deeds of spiritless flesh. The Law will be fulfilled in us who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. Romans 8:4

                This is what Paul is talking about in Galatians 3:24-26 where he says: “Therefore the Law has become our tutor to lead us to Christ, that we may be justified by faith. But now that faith has come we are no longer under a tutor. For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ.”

                This does not do away with the principles of the Law. In fact, the Law can only be fulfilled in us who walk according to the spirit and not according to the flesh. The rift has been healed so that we can now live by the spirit, from the inside out, rather than the Law that works from the outside in.

                It is really important for us to understand the dynamics of salvation and what God is trying to do with us to make us mature sons. The Law can’t do it without the Spirit and the man who is not born again by the Spirit cannot do it. False grace cannot do it. We must enter by faith into Christ’s death and resurrection in order for the rift to be healed in us… and then we must learn how to live in the power of that spirit/flesh reconciliation until we become mature sons and daughters of God. (Gal. 2:20, 21)

                Quantum physics truly does help us to understand the dynamics of our salvation and why should it not? After all, God is the Author of both.