Reading a Stephen Hawkings book

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A few years ago I decided to pick up a Stephen Hawkings book "The Grand Design" and I have been reading it looking for Godly principles in Space-Time, I found something! The book is some heavy stuff, I was sort-of able to understand it, sort-of not, it was tough. If you want to see what I found I am pasting it into this message below:

Space Time

X, Y, Z space flows through T time to form the 4 dimensional Space-Time Continuum. Each of us is an “observer”, always located at a single point in Space-Time known as an event. All the events in your lifetime, including birthdays and graduations, are assigned coordinates on a map of Space-time, a single point designated by Width(x), Height(y), Depth(z), and Time(t). The path we are on throughout our lives, called a Wordline, consists of a series of connected events forming a path in space-time from birth to death. Once you have discovered the “Wordline” for an object or even a person it cannot be changed, it is the complete “story” of it's or their lives. Everything that has ever happened to you is located on coordinates in the space-time continuum in your Wordline, from your first day in kindergarten, to that test you failed in grade school, to your first car, to when you got married, to the day you die, everything you do. The bible says that we will each be judged after we die based on the things we have done in our lives. Could this be the spiritual equivalent to the “Wordline” in the laws of physics? If we are on the wrong “path” in life (the Wordline) we can choose to repent and change our Wordline for the better! In physics the Wordline cannot be changed, it takes a miracle to do that (salvation)!
 
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This man Stephen Hawkings wrote this entire book "The Grand Design" when he was completely paralyzed, he was confined to an electric wheelchair, he wrote the whole book by twitching his cheek, the only part of his body he could move was his cheek! It is my belief that anything that took that much effort to write is worth reading!
 
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The bible says that we will each be judged after we die based on the things we have done in our lives. Could this be the spiritual equivalent to the “Wordline” in the laws of physics?
Yea, I think that’s a possibility.

In Revelation 20:12 the books are opened and another book, the book of life, is opened. This happens at the final judgment. An interesting way of looking at that verse is to say the books contain the pages of time, while the book of life has the names of those who are saved written in it.

So, say someone is standing before God as seen in Revelation 20:12 and the books are opened and they are being judged for something done on, say, 1-13-1932. That page of the book is opened and God and the person being judged go back to that moment and review it as it happens. In other words our future self’s could be looking at us right now along with God.
 

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Hawking,who suffered ALS, RIP, was not an atheist. He was Agnostic.

His Worldline theory does comport with the Bible.

I used AI to give a synopsis of how Worldlines apply throughout the Bible.Fascinating stuff.

Google AI Search term:
how does Stephen hawkings worldline theory connect to the Bible
 

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"We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special."
Stephen Hawking
 

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A few years ago I decided to pick up a Stephen Hawkings book "The Grand Design" and I have been reading it looking for Godly principles in Space-Time, I found something! The book is some heavy stuff, I was sort-of able to understand it, sort-of not, it was tough. If you want to see what I found I am pasting it into this message below:

Space Time

X, Y, Z space flows through T time to form the 4 dimensional Space-Time Continuum. Each of us is an “observer”, always located at a single point in Space-Time known as an event. All the events in your lifetime, including birthdays and graduations, are assigned coordinates on a map of Space-time, a single point designated by Width(x), Height(y), Depth(z), and Time(t). The path we are on throughout our lives, called a Wordline, consists of a series of connected events forming a path in space-time from birth to death. Once you have discovered the “Wordline” for an object or even a person it cannot be changed, it is the complete “story” of it's or their lives. Everything that has ever happened to you is located on coordinates in the space-time continuum in your Wordline, from your first day in kindergarten, to that test you failed in grade school, to your first car, to when you got married, to the day you die, everything you do. The bible says that we will each be judged after we die based on the things we have done in our lives. Could this be the spiritual equivalent to the “Wordline” in the laws of physics? If we are on the wrong “path” in life (the Wordline) we can choose to repent and change our Wordline for the better! In physics the Wordline cannot be changed, it takes a miracle to do that (salvation)!
Creation Causality is a problem for Bertrand Russell, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Hawking and their ilk.
 
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The path we are on throughout our lives, called a Wordline, consists of a series of connected events forming a path in space-time from birth to death. Once you have discovered the “Wordline” for an object or even a person it cannot be changed, it is the complete “story” of it's or their lives. Everything that has ever happened to you is located on coordinates in the space-time continuum in your Wordline, from your first day in kindergarten, to that test you failed in grade school, to your first car, to when you got married, to the day you die, everything you do.
The God who created space-time would necessarily be outside of space-time (uh, I think). I find this concept helpful in dealing with the paradox of free will and predestination.
 

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The God who created space-time would necessarily be outside of space-time (uh, I think). I find this concept helpful in dealing with the paradox of free will and predestination.
Freewill and predestination are not paradoxical to me, but elements of the same construct, as follows:

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