Approximately thirteen and a half billion years ago (or six days) G-d set in motion a program. Maybe we should call it a loom since it is the formulation of the fabric of space-time, but since no one can really envision what actually it is, let’s just call it a program. The program which determined all aspects of our universe including all natural law as well as energy and matter, did not need to be touched for thirteen and a half billion years. But, as with all programs, eventually glitches occurred. Maybe not glitches, but in order to get the final result that G-d, The Eternal, wants, the program, like all programs, eventually needed to be tweaked. The program required to tweak the original program took more power than the original and yet it was only a small piece of the original that needed tweaking. The second program has been discussed and argued throughout human history in every institute of learning, both religious and secular. The name of this program is “free will”. Why did this program take G-d more power than the original program that set the universe in motion? The reason is simple but confusing; this program runs contra to the original program but mustn’t disturb the original program from functioning as it was intended. In fact the second program almost runs counter to G-d Himself, and that isn’t possible. Some of the perturbations of the second program on natural law become visible in quantum mechanics and the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.
Some say that this is not the first time that G-d has tried this programming and that this is the fifth or sixth universe. That means that He has not yet created what He wants. But this is speculation.
After the implementation of the second program, again G-d watched, (and rested on the seventh day). With the advent of free will “man” was closer, and yet further, from G-d. Man saw his own limitations and sought reasons and other powers. Man looked for G-d in the small powers on earth and in the sky. Man looked at the wind, the sun, the moon. Not until Abraham, the first convert, did man first see the hand of the Almighty. He saw by seeing the negative, that which was not there and realized that the only true power could not be seen. Man had taken his first step out of the cradle. Now man could think beyond that which he saw. Now man could grow and start to use the second program of “free will”. Now philosophy was possible. Now science was possible. Now man can possibly become that which the program was made for.
Of course, Earth is not the only Petri dish in this laboratory we call the Universe. There are trillions. Some are similar and some are so different we wouldn’t even think there was life. Some have the second program integrated in to their system and some have other programs involved in their evolution, but they are all tests. It is difficult for humans to understand that perfection is a concept and even G-d product tests during development. If only we had some idea when we were being tested, and for what. In school tests are used to insure learning of material. In industry tests are all stress tests of one kind or another.
Some religions feel that life on Earth is a school to learn for the afterlife. Others feel that we are stress tested to see if we are “good” enough for “Heaven”, what-ever that might be. Neither concept leaves room for a program that has been running since the Universe began, to create a product that G-d wants/needs. You’re all waiting for me to tell you what is needed, but honestly I can only guess. My best guess is that G-d wants to bring about the development of species that are able to be partners in creation.
The next question might be how far along is mankind? Again I can only guess. The one thing I am sure of is that the closer we get to be a finished product, the worse the stress tests will be.
For over 100,000 years mankind’s growth was almost stagnant. Although we had picked up sticks and stones and started early farming, it had taken forever because we were worshiping nature and the environment. We looked to weather, the sun, the moon and mother earth as our gods. We saw only through our eyes, and not through our minds.
Then G-d intervened, the second program. In five thousand years we went from the wheel to the rocket, from rudimentary writing to world-wide communication and the computer age. For five thousand years mankind prospered. And that despite 1500 years held back by the kidnapping of G-d’s worship and freewill, by a power hungry group that would not allow the free flow of thought as G-d had planned. Then just about one and a half centuries ago Nietzsche proclaimed that “G-d is dead”. Although others had tried to kill off G-d throughout the centuries in the eyes of the average person, usually by attacking the Jewish people who had brought G-d to mankind, Nietzsche was a better writer. Within a century Germany completely lost a sense of morality, not all, but most, and fifty million died.
Despite the World War and the end of the regime that followed Nietzsche’s logic, mankind is still suffering from a loss of all that G-d had brought. Mankind is rejecting G-d and turning back to nature and the environment. Although most would not say that they worship the environment, there very actions tell the lie of those statements. And with the worshiping of nature and the environment comes a negation of and restriction of the progress towards G-d’s goals. Protect the world G-d has given us, of course, but subjugate our future development to a worship of nature and the environment, never.
All the fears and prophecies of doom are there to tear at our faith in the Oneness of the Universe and our place in it. Yes, there will be tests and they will be harsh, but none of the tests will be impossible for Mankind to overcome if we have faith in the abilities that G-d has given us. Although we must be humble before G-d we must never humble ourselves before nature. Our place is to tame nature and the environment; neither to harm nor to worship them.
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