The 270° Triangle
by
Frank Harshey and John Clayton
One of the themes we continue to attempt to present in this periodical
is the fact that many of the struggles people have in understanding God
are rooted in their inability to understand how God functions and what
His nature must be. Questions like, "What race is God?" "What sex
is
God?" "How can God hear the prayers of many different people in many
different places all at once?" "Who created God?" "Why does God allow
awful things to happen?"--all of these issues are a reflection of what
kind of a being we think God is.
The Bible gives us many
pictures of what God is like and what His nature is. All of these
descriptions portray God as a being who exists outside
of time and space. God exists in a different dimension than do
we. If
God
exists in different dimensions from us, then the rules that are
inviolable
in our dimensions can be no barrier in God's dimensions. To
illustrate,
I challenge you to draw a triangle on the ground that has three
90°
angles. You may reply "It is impossible. Don't you know the
rules of
Euclidian
geometry?" I then say it is easier to visualize if you start at
the
North
Pole, draw down the Prime Meridian to the Equator, make the first
90°
angle, go west to 90° West, then make a second 90° angle to the
north,
coming out at the North Pole perpendicular to the first line, another
90°
angle. By changing from two dimensions to three dimensions, the
impossible
becomes easy. How do we, stuck here in our dimensions, have the
power
to
comprehend God in His dimensions? The answer is, of course, that
we do
not! To answer the most profound questions about God, we have to
be
willing to
enlarge our understandings of the nature of God. When we do that,
the
statement
like "In him we live and move and have our being" takes on a whole new
meaning.
(We have two booklets that explore this concept more
deeply.
If you will send us a stamped envelope with your address on it, we will
mail them to you. They are also available on our home page at http://www.doesgodexist.org.
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