The Digital Jesus

Narnia, Harry Potter, Twilight, Tron, Inception, The Matrix, etc. All of these movies regardless of philosophies or theologies tickle our imaginations about a world within a world; a dream within a dream. I believe that we do indeed live in a world within a world.

In our modern day of science and skepticism it makes it harder for anybody to believe in a higher power or so called "god," but if we look closer we find that this isn't necessarily the case. Our universe is designed in a set of rules, kinda like a video game. We are limited in certain capabilities and laws that our free will rules within. For instance we can choose to eat meat or abstain from it but we can't choose to fly. We are affected by several different laws: the laws of physics, the laws of time, the laws of space, etc. We are free to roam and do what we please as long as we stay within these realms.

Now when God created the universe he did so very much like a computer program. He gave us various elements that react with each other in various ways much like a puzzle and a combination of data that is unique to each of us. Now everybody is born with different tendencies and characteristics that make us who we are. I maybe programmed to lust more than other people but I will always have a choice to do so.

From the moment that Adam and Eve ate from the apple and acquired the knowledge of good and evil our free will also had the potential for evil. Before we ate of the apple we still had a free will because we chose to eat of the apple even when God told us not to, but afterwards our minds were cursed with the dark things that existed previously only to God. This is what caused our worlds, ours and God's, to separate because now that we knew evil, we were cursed to die.

Genesis 2: 16 (The Message)
16-17 God commanded the Man, "You can eat from any tree in the garden, except from the Tree-of-Knowledge-of-Good-and-Evil. Don't eat from it. The moment you eat from that tree, you're dead."

John 1: 9 (The Message)
9-13The Life-Light was the real thing:
Every person entering Life
he brings into Light.
He was in the world,
the world was there through him,
and yet the world didn't even notice.
He came to his own people,
but they didn't want him.
But whoever did want him,
who believed he was who he claimed
and would do what he said,
He made to be their true selves,
their child-of-God selves.
These are the God-begotten,
not blood-begotten,
not flesh-begotten,
not sex-begotten.

14The Word became flesh and blood,
and moved into the neighborhood.
We saw the glory with our own eyes,
the one-of-a-kind glory,
like Father, like Son,
Generous inside and out,
true from start to finish.

Now I don't want to go into all the details so I'll briefly describe what I believe happened. When God looked down on the earth and saw what our evil thoughts + free will had wrought he decided to send a version of himself (Someone who would live both within God's spiritual world as well as within our physical laws). By sending the architect of the program into the game he was in turn able to make things right on our ends. He did this by dying on the cross for us and suffering what we deserved so that we could become reunited back into God's world. This even describes his miracles because he, being the architect of our world, was the only one who could manipulate it and do so.

Matthew 16:19 (The Message)
19"And that's not all. You will have complete and free access to God's kingdom, keys to open any and every door: no more barriers between heaven and earth, earth and heaven. A yes on earth is yes in heaven. A no on earth is no in heaven."

In closing because we believe in Christ we are also able to inherit what has been inherited to him. All his spirit and miracles and eternal life were now handed down to those how believe but the greatest reward is being able to be reunited with God.

Matthew 13:44 (The Message)
44"God's kingdom is like a treasure hidden in a field for years and then accidentally found by a trespasser. The finder is ecstatic—what a find!—and proceeds to sell everything he owns to raise money and buy that field.