In April of 2013, I wrote a letter which explored
the possibility that our “mansions” in heaven might entered by
dimensional portals in the New Jerusalem. (See my original post below).
Today I read a Forbes article that reported that
Cern is powering up for more powerful experiments this month expressly
for the purpose of “searching for parallel universes and new
dimensions.”
Quoting from Forbes:
“Can we find a gateway to a parallel universe?”
“Another
major project for the particle-smashing LHC is to search for tiny black
holes, which might be gateways to parallel universes and new
dimensions. The existence
of multiple universes is a possibility that’s been well established by
much observational and mathematical data of modern cosmology and
particle physics. There are numerous theoretical models for multiple
universes that can be supported by current data, but
none are yet proven.
A paper published in Physics
Letters B by scientists at the University of Waterloo in
Canada — Ahmed Farag Ali, Mir Faizal, and Mohammed M. Khalil — proposes a
way to prove that tiny black holes connect our universe to other
universes. CERN intends to test this hypothesis.
The LCH has previously been used to look for tiny black holes, but
hasn’t yet succeeded. The paper’s authors suggested a possible
explanation for the absence of black holes at the LHC. They’ve designed
revised LHC experiments they hope will confirm their hypotheses
— in the authors’ own words, their paper demonstrates “it is possible
for black holes in six (and higher) dimensions to be produced at energy
scales that will be accessible in the near future.”
If they succeed, these tests could confirm a reality far different from the one most of us are aware of — but familiar
in some ways to fans of Star Trek and Isaac Asimov.”
Bruce Baber
(19 Apr 2013)
"Quantum Mansions?"
John 14:2
In My Father’s house are many
mansions; if
it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. NKJV
Strong’s Result
of search for "3438". 3438: mone mon-ay' from 3306; a staying, i.e. residence (the act or the place):--abode, mansion.
How
do you picture your heavenly mansion? Is it a great big mansion with
columns? Perhaps a castle,
or would it be a quaint New England cottage instead? Is it by a lake,
or on a mountaintop? With so many people from different time periods,
different backgrounds, ethnic origins and diverse tastes how will
everyone be accommodated according to their individual
preferences? Well, Jesus can do anything.
The late J. R. Church did a Prophecy in the News program on how heaven might occupy a different dimension.
It’s an interesting theory and who knows… it might be true.
Quite
a while ago I myself wondered not about heaven being in a different
dimension, but instead if each
of our individual heavenly homes might occupy a different dimension
with the access being through doorways in the New Jerusalem. It’s a
strange concept, but one that bears thinking about.
Picture
it this way. A Victorian era man from London dies and goes to heaven.
He enters the pearly
gates and sees all the glories of the New Jerusalem. Of course he
meets the Lord and is eventually given the grand tour. After a while,
he is shown a door. He is told that it is the door to his very own home
in heaven. Now this Victorian era man has always
desired a home in heaven and he hoped it might reflect his tastes.
But, from the outside perhaps all he can see is a blank door with no
clue as to what lies beyond the threshold. He steps through the door
and instantly finds himself in a different dimension!
In this new dimension, he walks down a cobblestone street until he
comes to a fine three-story Victorian house replete with all the
gingerbread styling of that period. In an instant he knows it is his own
home. Naturally the interior is excessively ornamented
and the furnishings are heavy and elaborately decorated. We might even
picture him sitting in an overstuffed chair and puffing on a pipe.
(For illustration purposes I didn’t talk about his function in heaven,
such as his work and worship… and we’ll leave
his pipe smoking for a different day).
As
you can imagine, the Victorian gentleman finds himself completely happy
in his surroundings. He even
has neighbors, family and friends who happen to share similar tastes.
But, would you be as happy in these same surroundings? Maybe, maybe
not. Perhaps our mansions are explained and our tastes are accommodated
by the different dimensions accessed in the
New Jerusalem. I do not doubt a Coptic Christian who lived a thousand
years ago would have pictured a mansion quite different from the one I
would choose.
Here’s another thought. If you live ten million years in the same house, might it become a little boring?
A little cramped? Not if the inside of the house is bigger than
the outside! What if your bookcase became the access to enter a huge
library and your smallish dining room became large enough to entertain a
hundred guests? Is that too farfetched?
Not if there are multiple dimensions and we have the ability to cross
them.
The
concept of different dimensions in heaven becomes easier to swallow if
we consider time as one of
the dimensions. At the Bema seat we will be given rewards in
consequence to our works. If a few billion of us are waiting in line
that would take a long, long time. But if all two billion of us meet
one-on-one with Jesus in different dimensions of time
what would have taken a million years could be done in a mere second.
God
loves diversity in His creation. The concept of occupying and
traversing different dimensions might
be completely wrong, but it does help explain a few things and would be
in keeping with God’s character, as far as I can discern.
However, one thing I can know for
sure… as
it is written "What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no
human mind has conceived" -- the things God has prepared for those who
love him— 1 Cor.
2:9
YBIC
Bruce Baber