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The Physics of Immortality
Everyone knows Einstein's famous Physics equations which show that our physical reality is a continuum of Time, Space, and matter.
Removing one of those components messes up the equation (obviously), but is the equation a description that applies to everything that ever was or is?
Hollywood has fun playing with Time Travel, you may have seen the movie Gravity which postulates that Gravity, and Love can transcend Time, I'm a bit dubious about the first, but agree about the second.
Without messing up the equations, anything that transcends Time in our reality has to be "massless", Love fits the bill.
Love is a component of our psyche, the intangible "me" that is the sum of who "I" am. "I" have no mass, in the real sense, that part of me you see is just a vehicle in the physical realm we inhabit. As "I" have no mass, these equations cannot apply to the real "me", so what does that mean when my "vehicle" expires?
René Descartes' "Cogito, ergo sum" usually translated into English as "I think, therefore I am" confirms that there is a question to be answered about the Psyche, also variously refered to as the Soul or Spirit which is the "real me".
The answer to that question cannot be found by comparing what we 'know' from the investigation of our natural realm, confined by Space, Matter and Time, without reference to transcendence. Transcendence is looking beyond the properties of Space, Matter and Time as we understand them, into an area beyond the physical universe, variously called Heaven (or Hell). A place Theologians and Prophets can barely describe, the place where God either does, or does not exist.
It makes sense that a Transcendental Being, not restricted by the limitations of Space, Matter and Time could exist, but we would be unable to investigate such a being in the natural without using descriptive terms like dimensions (Quantum Physics) or miracles (Theology). It also makes sense that such a Transcendental Being would see everything happening at once (Einstein once said “The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.”)
It would make sense that such a Transcendental Being could be known, only if that Transcendental Being wanted to be known. We find that this is the case, written about for thousand of years by Theologians who have actually been in contact with the Transcendental Being.
2700 years ago one of these guys named Isaiah recorded:

Remember the former things of old,
For I am God, and there is no other;
I am God, and there is none like Me,
Declaring the end from the beginning,
And from ancient times things that are not yet done,
Saying, ‘My counsel shall stand,
And I will do all My pleasure,’

(Isaiah 46:9, 10)
Is it possible that this is a bona fide communication from a Transcendent God? Quite obviously it is possible, but the investigation would need to be based on checking that the claim is historically varifiable. That journey is found not in the physical sciences, but found in a journey that begins with understanding the message of the Bible, which is freely available in most of the world, and amazingly instructive personally to the "real me" that cannot be tethered to the physical universe.

The Physics of Immortality Everyone knows Einstein's famous Physics equations which show that our physical reality is a continuum of Time, Space, and matter. Removing one of those components messes up the equation (obviously), but is the equation a description that applies to everything that ever was or is? Hollywood has fun playing with Time Travel, you may have seen the movie Gravity which postulates that Gravity, and Love can transcend Time, I'm a bit dubious about the first, but agree about the second. Without messing up the equations, anything that transcends Time in our reality has to be "massless", Love fits the bill. Love is a component of our psyche, the intangible "me" that is the sum of who "I" am. "I" have no mass, in the real sense, that part of me you see is just a vehicle in the physical realm we inhabit. As "I" have no mass, these equations cannot apply to the real "me", so what does that mean when my "vehicle" expires? René Descartes' "Cogito, ergo sum" usually translated into English as "I think, therefore I am" confirms that there is a question to be answered about the Psyche, also variously refered to as the Soul or Spirit which is the "real me". The answer to that question cannot be found by comparing what we 'know' from the investigation of our natural realm, confined by Space, Matter and Time, without reference to transcendence. Transcendence is looking beyond the properties of Space, Matter and Time as we understand them, into an area beyond the physical universe, variously called Heaven (or Hell). A place Theologians and Prophets can barely describe, the place where God either does, or does not exist. It makes sense that a Transcendental Being, not restricted by the limitations of Space, Matter and Time could exist, but we would be unable to investigate such a being in the natural without using descriptive terms like dimensions (Quantum Physics) or miracles (Theology). It also makes sense that such a Transcendental Being would see everything happening at once (Einstein once said “The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.”) It would make sense that such a Transcendental Being could be known, only if that Transcendental Being wanted to be known. We find that this is the case, written about for thousand of years by Theologians who have actually been in contact with the Transcendental Being. 2700 years ago one of these guys named Isaiah recorded: Remember the former things of old, For I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me, Declaring the end from the beginning, And from ancient times things that are not yet done, Saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, And I will do all My pleasure,’ (Isaiah 46:9, 10) Is it possible that this is a bona fide communication from a Transcendent God? Quite obviously it is possible, but the investigation would need to be based on checking that the claim is historically varifiable. That journey is found not in the physical sciences, but found in a journey that begins with understanding the message of the Bible, which is freely available in most of the world, and amazingly instructive personally to the "real me" that cannot be tethered to the physical universe.

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I find the following very helpful when preparing a Sermon or Bible Study.
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- Writings of the Early Church Fathers (cross referenced to the New Testament) - https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/e-catena/
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#BibleStudy #SermonPrep Tools: I find the following very helpful when preparing a Sermon or Bible Study. - Cross References and more (340,000 cr, and labs) - https://www.openbible.info/labs/cross-references/search?q=Hebrews+2%3A17 - Writings of the Early Church Fathers (cross referenced to the New Testament) - https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/e-catena/ - Septuagint (LXX) alongside the KJV (Elohim/YHWH highlight version) - http://www.qbible.com/brenton-septuagint/amos/7.html#1 - Blue Letter Bible Tools - https://www.blueletterbible.org/nkjv/rev/20/6/p0/t_conc_1187006 WHAT TOOLS DO YOU USE?

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