Place is important in God's imagination

Place in our imagination is crucial. As a sociologist I have been witness to and part of social research that clearly shows how important place is in our social imagination.  One book I contributed to a few years ago (Borders and Fields, Cultures and Places: Cases from Poland 2007) was based on a research project titled Ourness and Otherness. Conclusively, it was recognized that no matter how far people travel from home, there is no place like home.
God who made the world and everything in it,  is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands, ... from one man He made every nation of men that they should inhabit the world earth and He determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live.
Acts 17 24
In God's imagination, place is important, God is not far from anyone of us...  in Him we live and move and exist Acts 17 27-28

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God's Imagination created our imagination program

People miss the obvious because they have been taught something for so long they see the facts shaded... there are no facts that connect us to apes. Life does not just pop up out of nothing... In that case, after so long, there should be other evolved transition types? New life is not just popping up- spontaneous generation. The problem with evolutionists is that their facts are unprovable but as a sociologist, I say that they could argue that evolution is 'their' social construct acquired through like-mindedness. Their arguments for evolution reflect collective irrationality. What is rational is to think that existence is not a random event. Even if we argue that Christians act in the same way and their rationale is collective irrationality....in both deductions, what is not being solved is the question where did we come from and why. Some say space aliens, so where did they come from? Spontaneous generation again or confluence of agreeable events, how can we explain that and how does that come about? We are now talking about incredible mathematical odds; and yet so many people will bet their life on those odds. They refuse to believe that there is a greater mind above and behind their own mind who created this experience we call the universe - all heaven and earth and all things in it.
What the Christian imagination (God's imagination) gains is salvation in His Word. Our minds are conscious programs running in a wider program created by a wonderful and great Creator who can inject new things whenever He wants. He programmed evolution into all programs; a dog becomes a better 'dog' and a flower becomes a better 'flower', and a bee a better 'bee', and a man a better 'man'. The program gets better, and the variety is amazing. However, the nature of the universe goes from orderly to chaotic. Complexity breaks down. We seem to be heading toward a destiny where entropy breaks down all order and complexity and variety - the antithesis of evolution. What does that mean? It means that we live in a fallen world, a corrupted program. This was described in Genesis. Is there a reboot? Yes, for those who believe, who know that we were created in His image, in his imagination. We did not come from something else and certainly not from apes.  Let each produce after his own kind... Gen -first two chapters.
He, the Alpha and the Omega. He is the Lord of Lords and King of Kings. The Bible is His communication to us and for us and it is our true imagination!

Born Again in God's Imagination

Being born again means being made aware of this fallen world and that salvation is ours through Jesus Christ. If we want to live in the light and be saved we cannot be nor remain senseless children Jer 4:22.
Because, we live in a fallen world,  it is not easy to live in God's imagination. We must remind ourselves of that and that being children of light means to accept God's word as the ultimate truth and protection for us, for it is the way forward for our salvation. We can only be Saved by Him... imagine of a computer program as information operationalized. We are God's program and in order to be saved and not thrown into the vault where all corruption is contained, we must operate according to the word of God, live in God's imagination.

Living as Children of Light - Imagining the Holy Spirit

It is encouraging to see the diversity among people interested in this discussion.  As a sociologist and social psychologist, I was at one time quite sure that my views and observations laid out in academic expressions were correct. I was wrong and even now I am not sure I do the right thing in context of God's plan for me. Yet, I perserve with the hopes of doing what God intended for me
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I was reading Ezekiel 13 and saw my mistakes. It is not wise to prophesy out of my own imagination nor is it wise to follow my own spirit.

For it is He that can do more than we can ever imagine! Eph 3:20

God's imagination is Living as children of Light - this should be our imagination; and it is as long as we believe it is ours.
Let us look at Ephesians 4:17-25

So, I tell you this and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts, having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more. You, however, did not come to know Christ that way; surely you heard of him and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus. You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires, to be made new in the attitude of our minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness. Therefore, each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor for we are all members of one body - one imagination "God's".

This excerpt is truly for me the direction to be taken in studying the social imagination. For those who read and are of differing opinions,  understand this, I recognize diversity in context of differing cultures, histories, politics, economics in a place. The above does not negate any of those. In fact, it stresses that in our differences we are one - living as children of light. We can be different and share differences by being imitators of God - being in the light of the Lord.

And, now assuredly there are readers who find this impossible since there are many religions practiced who do not have the same God, or do they? Don't all religions call for us to leave behind darkness and live in the light of love...
In the social imagination, we connect with like minds more than unlike minds. There is no were in the Bible that says we must connect with unlike minds. It only asks that we move forward in like-mindedness. And it this movement do so as Christ did with love and forgiveness. In any society, speaking as a social psychologist, this is healthy to do toward positive functioning of the society.
But what about other religions, people have different belief systems....how can we move forward? There is no request made in the Bible that demands all people everywhere to conform, fall in line giving up their beliefs and nor does it say that all people should live together in order to move forward 'living as children of the light'
Acts 17:24 The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else. From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhavit the world earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and fin him thouh he is not far from each oin of us. For in him we live and move and have our being. 

We live in God's imagination, never let that go and live in another imagination, seek him and do not reach for anyone or anything else.
This is imagining the Holy Spirit

Quantum Faith - In God's Imagination Words are Energy

I have a fondness for quantum applications when it comes to explaining the social imagination of man in comparison to God's imagination which is the social imagination He wants for us, He has always had for us. One of the best small booklets I ever came across that jives with this view was written by Annette Capps who is an ordained minister, business woman and licensed airplane pilot. Her study of the Bible led her to investigate the similarities of quantum physics and the teachings of Jesus Christ. Words are energy and energy affects matter. Her publication - Quantum Faith is eye opening for anyone who doubts the presence of the Lord, and that this is His world.  Before I write more about quantum faith, readers I am sure have a question- if it is His world why do bad things happen. They happen because a 'virus' or 'hacker' got in His program. The way our Creator (Lord Jesus Christ) will deal with this 'hacker and or virus' not sure which term best suits him, will be to throw him into a vault - the bottomless pit where he can do no further harm.
As you see, I also like to use the computer as a metaphor for our life in this temporal state. Whether I am talking about social imagination (Gods' vs. mans') or faith.
Quantum Faith- Jesus told us that all matter responds to faith and words. The information substance from which our world (God's) is made of is influenced and manifested by words. In the beginning was the word - John.
So, the Lord said, "If you have faith as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, 'Be pulled up by the roots and be planted in the sea', and it would obey you." Luke 17:6

Remember, Hebrews 11:3 says: "Through faith we understand that the worlds ere framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear" -are as if/in they were already.

As we know,  electrons were once thought to be constantly orbiting the nucleus of an atom; however, that has changed because of Neils Bohr who realized that they pop into and out of space-time around the nucleus according to probability distributions that vary according to the total energy levels of the electrons. The probability density distributions look something like clouds that surround the nucleus and the shapes of the clouds vary according to a variety of conditions for the electrons. These shapes are called orbitals to differentiate them from the old Bohr orbits...orbiting electrons around a nucleus can not be fully described as particles, but needed to be explained by the wave-particle duality.well, in short...It is in a wave state, that requires observation to make it 'be'. Which means when it is observed by someone, the wave particle collapses into something. As least that is how I understand it.
Essentially, we as Christians can find explanation for this in Hebrews and in many other Bible excerpts that show how Christ lived in both worlds (God and Mans) - via quantum level.
Live in God's imagination - He encourages you to use words wisely as they have energy which affects the matter in your life.

God's Information Never Dies, it is our Social Reality, it composes our Social Imagination

In mans' imagination- the 'worldly' social imagination is a kind of public information. It is everywhere and somewhere. It is available to us as users through socio-historical and socio-cultural frames which means that it belongs to someone and no one. Not that the later means it is free; in saying it belongs to no one, means that it means nothing to those outside of such frameworks. In that case, it is always someone's (Florian Znaniecki)   It is public - out there for those who have the password to access it (being in a group is an example, as it illustrates that some members have different access codes to information and at the same time, all have the basic code to access everyday information as it pertains to and sustains the group as a whole; the elite have additional access codes - all societies have social hierarchies that orders system function).

In God's imagination, in the beginning was the word -  information has substance, it never dies, it is and it goes around... it exists in the universe everywhere, does that mean it is different from the social imagination mentioned above? Yes and NO. Yes because it was His desire to have us live life in a social imagination - to love thy neighbor as yourself. No, because in the worldly social imagination we find that some harbor information only for themselves and think that it belongs only to them. They think they have new ideas or 'our' ideas as they appear to be culture bound (they are and are not) , they are ideas that are recirculating in the social imagination - God's imagination of many potentials.

The best way to understand God's imagination is from a quantum perspective. The way things work in quantum theory is based on an infinite number of possibilities. In quantum mechanics the observation made in a place of something causes out of all possibilities a possible.
Out of vast circulating information, we make choices which ultimately define us in a place, as the choice was made in a place among others. It is important to recognize the platform that place offers to us in the mode of making a choice. The importance is that in a given place whereat others are engaged there is a history of  already collapsed wave functions acting as a background which has definite information in it and that affects all other observations, wave function possibles.
Can bad things from our past be changed? In God's imagination - Yes! In man's 'worldly' social imagination - No. That is the difference. God = Jesus Christ tells us that all we have to do is Repent = Rethink God's information as it never dies.

God's Imagination as the source of social reality

God's imagination is the source of social reality and the Bible is the multidimensional manifestation of that his imagination using the form of communication that man was given to use - words/language.
The Bible is literally a code for the program of our existence then and now and what will be. Some people like to think that the Bible is a literary fiction. Some say it was written by man but that this writer (s) wrote in the future and sent this information back to us and some say it was written by aliens. The later are incredible but not impossible either as they both point to a creator. We could argue that just because man wrote it in the future, does not mean he was not God inspired. As for aliens, they too are be assumed to have been created by someone or something. As for those who call it a literary fiction, what purpose would it serve? To entertain? Perhaps for some it is a form of entertainment as they deny the information contained in it as information to be applied in the program.
The Bible was written by men inspired by God, the creator or man.  In every man is a default knowing for his being on earth and that the source of his being was God. This knowing was written in on the default program by God, the creator of man who sought a relationship with His creation. At some point, corruption infected His program and for a long time this corruption ran its course. God intervened and sent his only son Jesus Christ to be the first patch 'upgrade' system application. If it sounds like I am using computer programming as a metaphor, I am. Why not. Why wouldn't God reveal himself to us and to his nature which is an omnipotent Creator of the universe. We live in His imagination and we need to seek a relationship with our Creator in order to be saved, ... Give the command and save me! Pslam 71:3
You see, God the Creator of heaven and earth so loved man (his creations) that he sent his only Son to repair the connection that was lost through man was corrupted. This suggests that another kind of entity exists, one against God. That is right and his name is Satan. He was fallen angel that he could become God and that he knew better than God, and envious of God's creation. Many people ask then, if God is all loving and forgiving couldn't He forgive Satan. Yes he could. But Satan cannot forgive and nor can understand repentance - (to rethink one's being in relationship with God) and because of that, Satan cannot accept that forgiveness can be his because he cannot imagine another way of being; he cannot imagine that he is actually part of God's imagination. Satan becomes a kind of rogue program and in the end, can only be sent to the vault where he cannot escape and where he cannot imagine what God is. 

In this instance, one can argue that this is conjecture... and all this is just our imagining; I say that it is our imagining that draws us to God's  imagination- his imagination is ours. He gave us imagination, because it is His.