There are no miracles in the Bible.. NOTHING SUPERNATURAL.. there is only symbolism, metaphor, and poetic words.. along with frequent ambiguities.. to make us think.. A blind man is a man without understanding.. a deaf person is someone who will not listen.. A person is DEAD.. because his heart has stopped working.. metaphorically speaking.. and when Jesus walks over the high waves of the sea.. and stills the winds and calms the waves.. All we need to do is ask.. what does this really mean..? and search the Bible until we find the answer..

JESUS WALKING ON WATER.. AND SILENCING THE WIND AND WAVES…A MIRACLE… OR ALLEGORY ? - “HE REBUKED THE WINDS AND THE SEA, AND A CALM SET IN”
“He is stilling the noise of the seas, The noise of their waves and the turmoil of the national groups. He causes the windstorm to stand at a calm, So that the waves of the sea keep quiet.” – “The national groups themselves will make a din just like the noise of many waters. And He will certainly REBUKE IT….”

ALLEGORY – As a literary device, an allegory is a metaphor in which a character, place or event is used to deliver a broader message about real-world issues and occurrences. Allegory (in the sense of the practice and use of allegorical devices and works) has occurred widely throughout history in all forms of art, largely because it can readily illustrate or convey complex ideas and concepts in ways that are comprehensible or striking to its viewers, readers, or listeners.
Writers or speakers typically use allegories as literary devices or as rhetorical devices that convey (semi-)hidden or complex meanings through symbolic figures, actions, imagery, or events, which together create the moral, spiritual, or political meaning the author wishes to convey.”

"Then, getting up, HE REBUKED THE WINDS AND THE SEA, AND A CALM SET IN. So the men became amazed and said: “What sort of person is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him?” – Matthew 8:23

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I'm asperger typical.. we tend to think outside the box.. we're information junkies.. lovers of good debate.. that prefer ideas to being with people.. I've being studying this stuff obsessively for 50y years.. and I'm 70 now.. so I could kick the bucket at any minute.. I want to write it all down.. so I can upload my spirit to the net.. and leave the best of me behind.. when I go.. The rest is for the worms..

OK THIS IS MY ARTICLE - How could any one believe they KNOW God doesn't exist.

I remember.. someone who seemed so sure that god did not exist.. which got me wondering.. What did he mean by the word - GOD.. because.. with out a clear definition.. the word could mean anything.. I needed to ask him.. what is the word you use referring to.. for the sake of clarity ?
It is what the word represents that is important.. not the word itself.. We need to ask.. is it a symbol.. a metaphor or a noun.. according to your understanding..? If it is a symbol.. what does it represent..? Does it represent something that we can experience.. i.e. ..Like experiencing a transformation of our consciousness to a higher level.. or is it a metaphor that expresses our perception of the underlying unity of all things.. the Infinite and Eternal.. the foundation of all things.. mysterious in its complexity.. far beyond our comprehension..?

Since we know.. for a fact.. there are things way beyond our understanding.. and things that we can never know..How could any one believe they KNOW God doesn't exist.. ?

Unless they mean... .They do not believe that THIER UNDERSTANDING of the word GOD... exists.. which is another thing entirely.. and seems a very strange position to take.... Why not just change their understanding..?

That there are things that will always be beyond human understanding.. is a FACT.. not a belief.. This was proved by Kurt Godel's Incompleteness Theorem .. and many great physicists also reached that same conclusion.. The universe appears TO BE so strange and goes far beyond the way we can think.. The picture that cutting edge physics paints is.. the universe appears to be a living entity.. just and teeth and bones are living.. yet appear life-less. CONCLUSION - W e are not even close to understanding the big picture.. and we never will...

All living things have a limited understanding.. and we are no different.. Just because the world.. as we experience it.. is beyond the comprehension of a door-mouse.. it doesn't mean our world does not exist.. it just means.. the door mouse brain has its limitations.. IT CANNOT DETECT THE EXISTENCE OF THE COMPLEXITIES OF OUR WORLD.. OR UNDERSTAND OUR KNOWLEDGE AND OUR SCIENCE... JUST AS WE CAN'T DETECT SOMETHING ELSE EXISTING.. THAT IS FAR ABOVE US (metaphorically speaking.. of course)

EVIDENCE OF A HIGHER STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS.. TO THE DOOR-MOUSE.. WOULD BE US.. because our existence goes far beyond the mouse's understanding.. so it cannot make sense of it..
Try explaining the internet to a door-mouse.. it will just look at you wide-eyed.. and go.... "DUH! .... NOTHING LIKE THAT COULD EVER EXIST".

BUT WOULD HE BE RIGHT... OR WRONG..?

“Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is STRANGER THAN WE CAN THINK.” - said Werner Heisenberg

As Heinz Pagels, a theoretical physicist explains: “The visible world is the invisible organization of energy.” - "This UNTHINKABLE void converts itself into the plenum of existence - a necessary consequence of physical laws. Where are these laws written into that void? What "tells" the void that it is pregnant with a possible universe? It would seem that even the void is subject to law, A LOGIC THAT EXISTS PRIOR TO SPACE AND TIME.”

”Mind and intelligence are woven into the fabric of our universe in a way that ALTOGETHER SURPASSES OUR UNDERSTANDING.” wrote Freeman Dyson

Albert Einstein said - "To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is SOMETHING THAT OUR MIND CAN NOT GRASP and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly and as a feeble reflection, this is religiousness. In this sense I am religious."

“God is a metaphor for THAT WHICH TRANSCENDS ALL LEVELS OF INTELLECTUAL THOUGHT. It's as simple as that. The Ultimate, Unqualified Mystery is BEYOND HUMAN EXPERIENCE” - Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor
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I had.. what I believe to be.. an original idea 30 years ago.. and spent many more years developing it.. and seeking evidence.. But I constantly having this nagging idea.. someone else must have thought of this... I mean.. it seems so obvious.. what with the idea of an underlying unity.. a oneness.. being the foundation of everything.. being common knowledge in our times.... How else could we describe THE ONENESS.. apart from using a field concept? In religion they can use the GOD symbol to represent the infinite and eternal.. which is nicely poetic.. but just does not fit in with acceptable science concepts..

Anyway.. This is my idea.. putting it concisely.. without the evidence I have acquired.. PLEASE.. LET ME KNOW IF YOU HAVE COME ACROSS A SIMULAR IDEA.. I would be interested in comparing them.. According to my reasoning.. all the diverse fields we discover in physics.. are simply diversifications in the Primary Field..
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In my opinion.. what still seems to be missing in physics is a concept of a Primary Field that connects everything together.. so we have a ONENESS.. instead of division. It is our brain that divides everything into parts.. and makes artificial separations.. that do not exist in nature. This PRIMARY Field could serve as a theatre.. for the multiverse to exist in (That is if the multiverse exists.. of course). It also seems probable that when a universe pops into existence..it borrows its energy from the Primary Field and the energy gradually returns by means of entropy. We might speculate.. that most of the Primary Field consists of energy in a dormant (or potential) state. AND.. This is the reason physics cannot detect it... and therefore labels it - NON EXISTENT.

Nevertheless.. it would seem EVERYTHING that exists is simply an activity in the Primary Field... including OUR CONSCIOUSNESS. Physics is the science that detects and describes this activity.. as waves, and particles. Material things have a beginning and an end.. but the Primary Field has no beginning and no end because it is not subject to space- time.. yet it exists both outside.. and inside.. space-time... It is therefore both.. TEMPORAL as well as... INFINITE & ETERNAL

This quote below is Einstein speaking to Schwinger.. (one of the founders of quantum field theory).. about what he saw as a problem of having six quantum fields…. instead of just ONE... - (Primary Field)

“This is indeed a beautiful theory, but it seems there are six separate fields – four force fields and two matter fields. As you know, my hope was to find a single field that comprises all forces and matter. This theory of yours does not meet that objective.”

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