The Dangerparty on the British Office.

Yeah, he doesn't get it either.

The mysteries of God are beyond man's feeble understanding, yet we continually, in our own arrogance, try to make the unexplainable, easy to digest and control. God is bigger than the scope of what we can or cannot understand.

Ten Dimensional Dangerparty

This summer I had the opportunity to watch a Youtube video that explained theoretical physics up to the tenth dimension. Naturally, about five minutes into it, my head started to hurt, and I'm pretty sure I had a nose bleed. Fortunately, by the fifth minute, I was into the fifth dimension, and man, what a rush.



The first dimension is any point in space, or time. Pick a point in the area around you. Any point. it has no length(the 2nd dimension), and no depth(the third dimension). No matter what angle you look at it from, it is only that one point in space, time, etc.



Now, pick out another point away from your first point and draw a line between the two. The line you have just drawn has a length, and a point in space. Congratulations, we've moved up to two dimensions! Unfortunately, there are some angles that looking at our line reveal only a point. Our line needs some depth.



Draw another line across the line we've already made, creating an X, then put a line through the center of your X. Blammo, three dimensions(Point, length, and depth).



Your mental image should look something like this:



Now, imagine our three dimensional construct in real time. For every moment that has passed since we started this exercise, that point, line, and 3D construct has existed in a certain place and therefore a certain time. No matter what happens, as long as the construct exists, it has a fourth dimension, time. In this case, the fourth dimensions of the construct is the time it exists. From now until it is destroyed it occupies a place in the fourth dimension.



Now the fifth dimension is where things really get interesting. For every choice we made when constructing our 3D construct, if we had chosen another point, another place to draw our second point and line, another color, another place to bisect the X, for every one of these options, there could exist a verison of you that chose that option. For every possible choice we could have made there exists a fifth dimension in which you chose something else.



Now, the ramifications of this in regards to Christianity and God are astounding. I cannot count the number of times I have heard the phrase "God is all powerful" or "God is omnipotent." It's a phrase that gets thrown around alot without much regard to what it truly means. If God is all powerful, then in every choice you could have made, and all the possible alternate realities they could create, then God is still God in every one of those realities, dimensions, and universes. That is what omnipotence means. That in every possible choice you or I could ever make God is in control of every one of them. And in every one of those possible universes, He knows the plan He has for you, and He is in control.



If God is this powerful, and you fully acknowledge it, how come we as Christians still refuse to let him have control over the choices we make? How come we still refuse to bow to His will for our lives? If God is this powerful, and is God in every one of those dimensions, then it means He created all of them, and He is in control of all of them. We say God is eternal, that He is outside space and time, but how many of us ever stop and truly think about what that means?



This has been one of the most mind blowing things I have ever tried to comprehend, and I feel like my comprehension is barely enough.



The God I serve is this powerful. I can trust Him with my life. It's time I lived like it.

The Dangerparty wants you to kill your idols.

The lengths that Christians go to justify or defend their actions astounds me. We can pour over the Bible, use objective reasoning, do critical word studies, and get into the ancient Greek to justify our desire to drink alcohol or our behavior of drinking, but we dance around the issue of what is and what is not lust, and what it really means to die to yourself, and what it really means to have the mind of Christ.

We go to such great lengths to justify the most minute goodness that can come from drinking, and we throw those scant few good points in the face of the countless potential negative consequences of drinking. Liver disease, alcoholism, compromised reasoning, not being in control of your faculties, poor decision making, the list can go on and on. But we throw out all of the potentially negative consequences by saying things like "It helps my witness", or "I don't feel any conviction on it", or "It's relaxing" or "I want to drink." Grow up, Christians.

Just because it's not a sin does not mean it is good. Just because you do not feel any conviction about it does not mean its beneficial. Just because you've justified it to yourself by taking certain verses out of context does not mean it's biblical. An important part of being a Christian is deciding what place the Bible has in your life.

An important part of growing up is being honest enough with yourself to think critically and objectively about the role faith has in your life.