Theology is the study of both God and the things of God whereas science is the study of things and their origins — “ontology”. The word, “science” stems from the Latin, “scientia” meaning “knowledge” in general in the English.
The study of existence is “metaphysics”, having two parts ontology and cosmology. Metaphysics asks, "What is reality?", while cosmology asks the question, "How did the universe begin and develop?"
The Bible provides answers to those questions; The Book of Genesis is both the cosmology and ontology of the universe. As an ancient book, scientific processes would have been explained using metaphors.
When reading the Bible, especially The Old Testament (Tanakh, an acronym that represents the Hebrew writings); look for metaphors… examples explaining in simple terms complex ideas. The Hebrew “Torah” is the book of the Law in the manner that physics is a book of natural law.
The original Hebrew letters, or pictographs, would be metaphors for complex ideas. Those strange look symbols in Hebrew dictionaries each have very scientific meanings.
The Torah is a fine example, spelled תורה reading from right to left. There is meaning in those strange looking characters. [1]
Using scientific meanings, תורה which is spelled tav – nun – resh – hey provides answers.
The letter tav presents “scientific information”, or in theology and philosophy “truth”. The Torah, in the manner of a science book, endeavors to present information.
“Information” is literally factual knowledge… however science is merely theoretical with truth never quite discovered, but only a body of evidence.
Science is the study of observable or measurable things. In science, truth is supposed, then tested. So is theological truth: “Test all things and hold onto what is good” (1 Thes 5:1). So, there is much commonality between science and theology; even their intent — in search of knowledge.
Ancient men had a much different vocabulary as words like science, processes, quantum, and such did not yet exist. In fact, “The Word” would have been presented in picture graphics (pictographs) — objective images of mental ideas. Truth was represented by the letter tav, so the Torah (תורה) began with the idea of the presentation of truth.
The second letter in Torah is vav; in science, quantum entanglement is represented by a tent peg, the vav. In theology the vav represents the same thing — binding forces, ostensibly binding the letter tav to the letter resh, coming next. The letter resh scientifically represents the emergence of order from an origin point — the “beginning” in both science and theology. Hence, truth and the beginning are entangled as one thought.
The last letter is the Hebrew hey — the picture of a man with hands raised, indicating “beheld” Beholding what? Observing reality, or truth.
Hence, “Torah” is an ancient scientific term that explains the creation. It is not mythology, but the Torah is a way to present observable reality, or the “truth”.
In the beginning would have been, in scientific terms, the zero point energy field. In theology, the point “El” in “Elohim” is where El is God and Elohim his quantum probability function.
God is omnipresent (present everywhere in theology). How can that be? Quantum mechanics is beyond time as the prefix “omni” represents.
Quantum theory is that some particle seems to be right there when it is stopped wherever it is. So, it might be with God (El). In other words, the dynamics of God is very well explained by a quantum probability field, or in theology, either a cloud by day or a fire by night (Exod 33:22); then at rest on the Ark of the Covenant, God appeared as El. His presence follows quantum physics exactly.
That is not to say that God is science, but scientific terms are stated in different ways. Since God is real, then He should be observable scientifically. Quantum physics is a very good lens to observe God in any of His three states: Father (El), the Son (Bet), and the Holy Ghost (Gimmel).
Since science means “knowledge”, is there knowledge in scripture? About everyone has heard of both the Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil:
And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. (Gen 2:9)
“Out of the ground” may have some intrinsic meaning.
“Ground” therein is adama. From the man, Adam, God grew things. Hence, Adam was like God, both an individual and a kind as the letter mem implies. Adam would have been scientific and capable of consuming knowledge, requiring intelligence.
Knowledge from God “grew” (tsamach; צָמַח) things: tsade — mem — chet: a quantum path, fluid dynamics, and limits (different states of existence), respectively. In theology, God made things right (righteousness), by “living water” (Elohim), in two different realms, respectively.
“Tree that was pleasant” comes next. Was the author writing about trees or using “trees” as metaphors? Let’s examine that.
“Tree” in that passage is the Hebrew word, ‘es (עֵץ), translated “tree” but more generally it was a firm thing
The first letter in ‘es is ayin, a pictograph of an eye, which means observable. The second letter shin implies fusion by some power. An observable quantumly fused thing is the construction of all firm things.
Hence, in this case, a tree was not only a “tree” but any firm thing, even men as trees, according to the blind man seeing the firm thing of God, Jesus, approaching (Mark 8:24).
Therefore, among moving firm things were mankind “after our likeness” (Elohim), the fish of the sea, the fowl of the air, the cattle, and every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth. (Gen 1:26); with man having dominion — of a higher state — than any of the other moving firm things. Mankind had dominion — the body of knowledge of God — righteousness, or truth.
The other kinds were lacking dominion and would all have been base creatures without righteousness, or the truth non-cognitive. The lower states of animals would have been base creatures that only had the instinct for self-survival. Only Adamic man was like God with a “particle” of Elohim in him.
Scripture was defining the states of firm things and foremost among them was Adam whose spiritual state was God, , within a firm thing, his body, or “Jesus”.
The Tree of Life as it turns out seems to be Yeshua (Jesus; Rev 22:2). Adam would have had the knowledge of God within his mind, hence innocence from doing evil.
Without critically analyzing every word in Genesis 2:9, let’s skip on to “knowledge”.
If you recall scientia in the Latin is “knowledge”, so the alternate tree whose fruit was not to be partaken was the “Tree of Science.”
Both good and evil imply extended knowledge, not just the good body of knowledge but evil as well. Obtaining the full body of knowledge, Adam’s kind lost their innocence and would have become responsible for wrong choices. Hence, the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge would not have been apples nor figs, but “free will” to choose as enumerated in Galatians chapter five.
The two people of Adam’s kind had something the lower states of animals did not — the freedom to choose right from wrong. Now instinctive, Adam’s kind would generally take the path of least resistance; they became instinctual, doing the things that the lower states of existence would do. Sin lowered their state of existence from glorious man to beasts; hence, the term, “the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak” (Mat 26:41).
Only mankind has three states: thoughts, spirit, and flesh. The other beasts have lower cognition, no spirit, and beastly flesh. By now, as can be seen on the streets of big cities, men are more “beasts” than godly. They are double-minded, holding opposing thoughts at the same time; they are truly deranged and beside themselves.
Now consider, Hebrew daʿaṯ. (It looks like this may have been the Hebrew idea of the English word, “data”.)
Daʿaṯ (spelled דַּעַת) consists of dalet (door) – ayin (eye) – tav (a cross).
Theologically, the letter dalet is the “Way” of Jesus who John described as the “Word” in the beginning (John 1:1-14).
Scientifically, the dalet means a quantum gateway.
As the “Almighty God” the virtue (Greek, dynamos) of Jesus provides the gateway to heaven; and strait is the gate or as Jesus said it, “Strait is the Gate, and narrow is the Way, which leads unto life, and few there be that find it” (Mat 7:14). Hence the quantum gateway very adequately describes the “Way” of Jesus.
Through the door (dalet) leads to ayin, in science “quantum observation” — the ability to see things beyond the naked eye. Adam’s kind were naked while in the Garden. They would have seen things beyond the naked eye. (Sacred literature provides the evidence that that is true.) [2]
In theology, ayin presents divine vision and consciousness. Knowledge made the two salient — aware of themselves as independent consciences from God. They had become the “gods” (Gen 3:5) with a higher state of awareness than God intended. They would have become aware of their flesh and put on aprons of fig leaves (Gen 3:7). They would have been dutiful only to God, but soon, they would have been aware of their flesh and the pleasures it senses.
Lastly, in the word da’at comes the letter tav; in science “completion”, and in philosophy and theology, “truth”.
Literally, then knowledge (da’at) is the “gateway to observe truth”. Therefore, da’at is both science and the Way of Christ Jesus.
Because of sin, you are salient men and women conscious of your existence apart from God but seemingly blind to what small amount of Elohim that remains in you. Born again (John 3:7) is perhaps scientific as well. The Greek word for it means “engendered from above”.
“Engendered” is both scientific and theological. It is God breathing El into a person, or Elohim in persons. In science, el is Power and elohim the distribution of power (virtue), or perhaps the quantum action of Almighty God.
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