There are “realities” that cannot be sensed by the five human senses (sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste).
The scope of invisible realities is great, and they include mathematical and physical laws and all things spiritual.
Nature and creation itself prohibit the operation of our universe without them. In other words, the tangible and visible universe operates within this larger invisible framework. Further, all of the invisible “realities” are abstract, but are as real as any visually accessible reality.
I would even offer my personal conviction that even good and evil are part of this set of realities.
Parenthetically, you might consider that the laws of physics and mathematics which men like Newton, Leibnitz, Maxwell and Einstein discovered would have been discovered and been identically formulated even by a nation of little green men on another world, if such exist and have the intellect.
Realities are real. Everywhere and at all times. Men don’t create these realities. They must discover them.
One thing that man has historically exhibited, which lifts him above the animal kingdom, is the recognition of these unseen realities.
But alas, only wise men flirt with the implications. Fools disregard serious consideration of them.
Having studied history and science, there is one particular law of physics which has jumped the barrier for me between scientific observation and spiritual invisibility.
This law is called entropy, and physicists have only grappled with it and realized its truth for less than 250 years.
Entropy states that the amount of disorder within a closed system always increases. A dish that falls off the counter and shatters never un-shatters, nor does a banana that rots ever un-rot.
Science has concluded that the universe is running down, and the amount of disorder will eventually reach a maximum.
This disorder will ultimately result in sameness and darkness – at least in the physical universe.
I hope you realize that we are living in an age that has adopted a false world-view called existentialism, which postulates that there is no absolute truth, and that all worldviews should be respected because “your truth is your truth, and my truth is my truth” (other manifestations of this worldview are “relativism” and “post-modernism”).
I submit that both science and The Scriptures reject and even laugh at this worldview. Psalm 2 states that God laughs and holds in derision men who seek to break asunder the (spiritual) “chains and shackles” that constrain them. What these types of men call “chains and shackles” happen to be the spiritual laws by which God runs His world.
How entropy (disintegration into sameness, darkness, blandness) intersects with our modern world is most easily recognized by those who are older or who have studied history.
It manifests itself:
• in music as simplification of chord structure, repetitious (chanting) lyrics and phrasing, and out-of-proportion beat-to-melody ratio;
• in politics as the supplanting of meaningful dialogue with shallow platitudes mixed with emotional portrayals in positive-appearing photographs (laughs and smiles); In other words, whoever makes me feel good must be right;
• in government as the supplanting of the ruleof- law (the foundation of a constitutional republic) with a “democracy” (the rule of a vacillating majority unconstrained by fixed laws);
• in ethics with the abandonment of the Golden Rule;
• in finance by inflation; and
• in the replacement of the dignity of an individual work ethic with a victim and dependency mentality.
In light of all the above, avoid a fatalistic attitude. It is refreshing to realize that there are still exceptions and exceptional people. Your assignment: Strive to be exceptional.
