Anaerobic Reflections of Eternal Moral Gravity:
Quid Scimus De Quid Nescimus¹

by
Dallas F. Bell, Jr.

“A wise man scales the city of the mighty and brings down
the strength of their confidence.”²--Solomon

The Congregationalist minister, Edward Hale, wrote of a double in his My Double and How He Undid Me. The image of an object by reflection is its mirror image in the axis or plane of reflection: the mirror image, p, of a reflection with respect to a vertical axis, q, or a horizontal axis, b. In mathematics, an involutory function or self-inverse function, f, is its own inverse for all x in the domain of f. Apply two times and it is the original value: f : x → x, thus f (f (x)) = x. (See endnote 4 for a discussion of gas, liquid, and plasma related mirrors.)

Reflections may be aerobic, with air, meaning requiring the physics of this tangible finite material universe, or may be anaerobic, without air, meaning it does not need the physics of this material universe. It is the instinct of humans to track the passage of moments with a tangible devise called a clock.³ If we make an exact mirror opposite of a digital clock, including the reversal of numbers and all circuitry it would not be harmonious with the electric supply. The hot and neutral connections in the outlet would have a reversed polarity causing possible shocks and fire, etc. The purpose of the created clock by an intellect includes the functional symmetry with its surroundings.

Likewise, we know that the biology of a frog needs the digesting enzymes of its food to survive. If it were possible to make a DNA mirror of a frog it would die because it could not turn eaten flies, etc. into energy. Therefore, the symmetry of the frog and its surroundings dictate it was created by a pre-existing intellect for a purpose within this tangible universe.

Mirroring technology and biology includes their complete or near complete working knowledge. That allows the prioritization for disruption operations by righteous and unrighteous individuals and institutions. In 2022, the Defense Sciences Office (DSO) of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) sought to accelerate investments in their “Disruptioneering” program to explore novel materials and structures, sensing and measurement, computation and processing, enabling operations, collective intelligence, and global change.⁴

Richard Feynman noted the physical laws of reflection include geography, chemistry, philosophy, life, and history etc.⁵ It was just discovered in the 1800’s that snowflakes have six points. Then, it is important to understand how finite intellects know. First is observation, e.g. two apples are on a table. Second is deduction, e.g. there are not three apples on the table. Third is revelation, e.g. the neighbor said they saw two apples on the table. Fourth is testing, e.g. have other people see if two apples are on the table.

Sylvain Bromberger’s (1992) writing “on what we know we don’t know”⁶ indicates the necessity of understanding what we know about what we do not know (quid scimus de quid nescimus). The apostle Paul wrote that for now we see in a mirror (riddle) darkly (dimly), but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known.⁷

Reflections often refer to neurological thoughts recalling events.⁸ Alfred Lord Tennyson’s Ode to Memory says “O strengthen me, enlighten me!” Li Bai’s (also Li Pai or Li Po) Reflections in a Quite Night tells how he thinks of home.⁹ The Hebrew king, Solomon wrote as in water face reflects face so the heart of man reflects man.¹⁰ Robert Stevenson’s Looking-Glass River also indicates water reflections. Sylvia Plath’s Mirror speaks of the flat surfaces of mirrors and lakes only being capable of reflecting back exactly the truth of what it “sees,” even the bad, as Walt Whitman’s A Hand-Mirror does. Thomas Hardy’s I Look into my Glass focuses on ageing.¹¹ Christina Rossette’s Passing and Glassing shows the evidence of the passing of time. William Shakespeare’s sonnet 3 says “Look in the glass and tell the face thou viewist”¹² as an encouragement to do something.

The Hebrew king, David’s psalm to God says “...eagerly utter the memory of Your abundant goodness and will shout joyfully of Your righteousness.”¹³ C. S. Lewis’ (1950) essay Historicism warned historians of pretending to know the hand of God (providence) in all history. Augustine, Dante, Hegel, and Marx etc. thought they understood the cause and effect of all history. Hebert Butterfield’s (1958) essay God in History argued God is not outside of history (human understanding of providence) or else humans could not have a relationship with Him.

The innate need to not be lied to, stolen from, or murdered causes all intellects to desire justice, love, and merciful redemption etc., which prompts the question of symmetrical purpose. That creates a demand to a supplied theology that answers that need. A crisis, e.g. a terminal health issue etc., can increase demand as well as someone pointing out that need, e.g. Jonathan Edwards’ sermon Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God which caused the American Great Wakening etc.

The mathematics of supply (s) and demand (d) quantity (Q) based on Christian theology (t) may be represented by an equilibrium of Qst = Qdt and an increased demand, as in the Great Awakening, Qdt > Qst = + Qst, and a decreased demand, as in the U.S. and world today, Qst > Qdt = - Qst.

Plato wrote “death, as it seems to me, is actually nothing but the disconnection of two things, the soul¹⁴ and the body, from each other.”¹⁵ In Albert Einstein’s (1932) My Credo, he explained “our situation on this earth seems strange. Every one of us appears here involuntarily and uninvited for a short stay, without knowing the whys and the wherefore.”¹⁶

The Bible begins with the book of Genesis addressing life (Adam etc.) and ending with death (Joseph etc.) and the final biblical book begins with death (Jesus’ redemptive sacrifice) and ends with life in heaven (for the redeemed). Solomon explained the righteous has a refuge when he dies¹⁷ and surely there is a hereafter.¹⁸ Death is understood as a separation (Greek chōres, space or apart from) now from the body¹⁹ and from God²⁰ and in the future second death from God.²¹

Finite humans neurologically know by recognizing nouns and verbs at birth and, as previously covered, innately do not want to be lied to, stolen from or murdered. It is also innately recognized that justice, love and merciful redemption requires the existence of an eternal afterlife and it is observed that this life was created by a just Being with symmetry that requires an eternal afterlife. Deduction means there must be life after death. Revelation would include eternal life for the forgiven just in heaven and eternal hell for the unforgiven unjust seen in biblical scripture. The tested theory of biblical truth includes the truth that none does good and all need redemptive truth. Neurologically, it is obvious that there must be an eternal reward for the forgiven of evil and for the unforgiven evil, and the seeking of the pre-existing creator Redeemer.

Therefore, there is a high probability that there is an eternal afterlife of heaven and hell. The Christian who combined the laws of electricity and magnetism with the laws of the behavior of light²² and rejector of the false theology of evolution, James Maxwell is often quoted as having observed that “The true logic of this world is in the calculus of probabilities, which takes account of the magnitude of the probability which is, or ought to be, in a reasonable man’s mind.” Thus, a definitive comparative theological supply for the common theological demand may be pursued, especially regarding the afterlife.

The theological supply for mankind’s theological demand must be either filled by the infinite true God of good or the finite false god of evil. All theological suppliers address not only the God of good but the god of evil. For example, evil is recognized in Japanese architecture.

In the photo above, the ancient Yomeimon main gate (Japanese mon means gate, of sun-light) of Nikkō (means sun-light),²³ Japan, has Chinese influenced carved columns, e.g. images of dragon heads etc., which are symmetrical except for one which was intentionally carved upside down to avoid being so perfect as to offend jealous divine spirits.²⁴ The dragon is a biblical name for Satan²⁵ who is transformed into an angel (demon) of light,²⁶ also called Lucifer, the Morning Star,²⁷ and ruler of darkness.²⁸

The psychology of the Shinto (Confucianism-Buddhism) Japanese theology may be seen in the collection of seven short stories (1974-1981) by Kenji Nakagami titled Snakelust (Jain). They all revolve around death (e.g. the book’s name sake story of “Snakelust” is about parental murder), and include demon deception and the perception that people are part of an accumulation, not separate individuals. Nakagami was of the underclass Burakumin (meaning hamlet, village people) condemned to do Kegare (meaning defilement) unclean work in the Tokugawa feudal class system. Japanese beliefs may also be seen in the poems of Shuntarō Tanigawa’s Akatsuchi no le (Red Clay House), such as in the Song of the Jelly Fish: “Me? What am I as a thing of emptiness, you know, emptiness swayed by the wages...” Ryuichi Tamura wrote of a “Zen temple” in The Thin Line Again and the “way of death is small insects” in The World With No Words. Mitsuhara Kaneko’s, who attended Catholic school in Toyoko, book Two Billion Light Years of Solitude includes ...many of us are generated... in Museum. Machi Tawara, a tanka poet, also represents Shinto underpinnings in her Salad Anniversary.²⁹ (Note: it is natural for the scientific structure, theomathēmatica, of true systematic theology to be articulated with poetic articulation as theopoetics, e.g. Asaph’s (Hebrew gather[er]) 12 psalms and Jesus’ Beatitudes etc. Unfortunately, legitimate poetic license of anthropomorphizing the Divine and His creation is often invaded by intentional heretical input, such as process theology where God is not always eternal, immutable, or sovereign, which mathematically fails to understand the infinite and holy set is always complete by definition. Additionally, related narrative theology also commonly errs by rejecting objective truth, which expects that no truth is objectively true, in the biblical narrative while embracing relativism, which expects that relativity’s foundation is objectively true. Theopoetics should reflect humility created from the incomprehensibility of infinite God revealed to finite man in the necessary incremental biblical process.)

A disciple of Lao-Tzu, Chuang-Tse (also Zhuang Zhou or Zhuangzi meaning master) criticized Confucian’s social and political philosophy. In section 6 (The Great Supreme: This human form is a source of joy, at least to some) of his book The Zhuangzi (The Master) translated by Lin Yutang, Chuangtse pondered in the relative terms of Taoism, “To Tao, the zenith is not high, nor the nadir low; no point in time is long ago, nor by lapse of ages has it grown old.” Yutang used that quote to begin Book I (The Daughters of a Taoist) of his book Moment in Peking. A few decades later Yutang wrote From Pagan to Christian and died as member of a U.S. Presbyterian Church.

Buddhism calls the realm of the dead (hell) Yan Wang, the king of the hell (Diyu) in the afterlife (narak), and heaven (tíen) with heavenly spirit (Shang Ti). The theological concepts of yin and yang, or good (symmetrical created order demonstrated earlier) and evil (unsymmetrical disorder), are obviously false because evil does not have the ability to be the First Causer of all effects, in that it is disorder, and so is not equal to but is inferior to the Being of good. That truth may also be applied to other false theologies, such as Mormonism were Christ Jesus and Satan are believed to be brothers (equals): infinite good ≠ finite evil.

In Arthur Schopenhauer’s The World as Will and Representation (especially Book 2), indicates the world is beyond the aspect of what appears to us with its inner essence containing will (Wille). This incorrectly condemns human life to directionless purposelessness. Einstein commented on this by saying, “A man can do as he will, but not will as he will.”³⁰ If the world has a will, then it has purpose. If it has purpose, it has intellect. That intellect would have created the intellect of humans, which would also have its reflected will and could not be directionless or purposeless, thusly contradicting Schopenhauer’s, and others, argument.

The sin of the created finite indicates freewill to choose unsymmetrical evil, the opposite of symmetrical good. Paul looked at both the sin of the flesh and sin of the soul.³¹ The root of rebellion against God is in the flesh. Thomas Aquinas, in his Summa Theologica, indicated the original sin is more flesh than soul because the rebellion of the flesh arises from the corruption of the original sin. The original sin is genetically passed down from fleshly parents pre-existing and not the soul, which is uniquely new. The soul leaves the body at death³² and is immortal (sinless in heaven where there is no sin).³³ There is no good in the flesh³⁴ and that which the soul would do it does not do because of the flesh.³⁵ All sin of the flesh and soul requires the society to address the affronts against God with material punishment now.³⁶

The biblical list of the basic commands of good behavior and results of evil behavior, as in the chart below, are the necessary fundamentals of all jurisprudence and the building blocks of civil education.³⁷ Speaker of eight languages and estimated to have the highest IQ of any U.S. president,³⁸ John Adams, U.S. ambassador, congressman, senator, secretary of state, and president stated, “The law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal [code] as well as a moral and religious code. These are laws essential to the existence of men in society and most of which have been enacted by every nation which ever professed any code of laws.”³⁹ Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar (Act 1, Scene 1; 66-67) has Flavius make an observation of generic commoners, “See whe’er their basest mettle be not moved. Tongue-tied in their guiltiness.” In verse 11 of the 86^th Psalm, David said the truth of God unites the heart to fear Him.

All humans innately desire an existence of perpetual happiness. The redeemed knowingly hope for a heavenly state where all of God’s holy commandments for man’s well-being are harmoniously complied with. The unredeemed unknowingly hope for a hellish state where all of God’s commandments for man’s well-being are not harmoniously complied with. For the unredeemed to achieve their desire of violating all of God’s commandments means only one could have this happiness and all others would be unwilling victims of that one’s lies, theft, rape, and murder etc. When the U.S. founders created the American constitutional government of ...all men are created equal... and ...are free to pursue happiness...based on God’s biblical standards, they knew it could be only for Christians who seek compliance with God’s standards in this fallen world. Societal violence and unsymmetrical disorder are the usual response toward bearers of truth (e.g. Isaiah, Paul the Apostle, and Polycarp etc.) even though societal acceptance and symmetrical order are occasionally the case (e.g. Huldah, Jonah, and Jonathan Edwards etc.).

Observable behavioral compliance with the commandments may allow an estimation of eternal moral problem solving IQ (mIQ). For example, based on credible biographical data, the highest mIQ of U.S. presidents would arguably be J. Q. Adams, followed by G. Washington, then A. Lincoln, D. Eisenhour, R. Reagan, M. Fillmore, W. McKinley, J. Garfield, G. Cleveland, and T. Roosevelt etc. With analysis of credible unrepentant sins, the lowest mIQ would be B. Obama,⁴⁰ then T. Jefferson,⁴¹ J. Biden,⁴² W. Clinton,⁴³ R. Nixon,⁴⁴ J Carter,⁴⁵ A. Jackson,⁴⁶ J. Kennedy,⁴⁷ D. Trump,⁴⁸ and F. Roosevelt⁴⁹ etc.

The unrepentant are as the famous picture of Oscar Wilde’s fictional character, Dorian Gray. It depicted an eternally true reflection of Dorian’s sinful state, observed by others, even though he saw himself as sinfully pristine: f : x → x or f (f (x)) = x. Self-will blinds finite intellect with pride, modeled perfectly by Satan, from seeing the unholy state of sin, which infinite God is only capable of fully comprehending. Dorian Gray had little eternal moral self-awareness, as did his inventor Oscar Wilde. This prevents the wicked from seeing their true state, such as with feces eating homosexuals, the bloody hands of the religious and political leaders that murdered Jesus, or baby murdering abortionists. That sight causes conviction to seek merciful redemption and prayer to the Father for Holy Spirit filling in order to stop sinful behavior.

The 20” x 16” oil on canvas painting by Dallas F. Bell Jr. is titled “Wheel Within The Will: Reflections of Genesis 1 and John 1 Barcodes.” It is a scriptural tropology of the passages of Genesis chapter one, John chapter one, and Ezekiel 1:16, 10:10 etc., especially with the rims of eyes in Ezekiel 1:18 which represent the Trinity’s omniscience. William Yeats referred to the obvious cyclical seasons in his The Wheel. Exposing his “theology within his will,” William Blake used Ezekiel’s “wheel within wheels” for a demonic parody (Jerusalem, The Four Zoas). Blake’s The (First) Book of Urizen is a parody of the Mosaic biblical book of Genesis with a “wheel without wheel” Urizenic opposite of Ezekiel’s true theology. Of course, Blake made accompanying paintings (plates) of his eternally negative poetic passages. The poem of 3-5-3 syllable lines by Dallas F. Bell Jr., that accompanies his same-titled painting above, is below.

Creation
Wheel within The Will
Reflecting

Equation
Something from nothing
Mathematics

Omniscience
In the beginning
Redemption

Infinite
Shape was on the void
Messiah

Prophesy
Born of a virgin
Isaiah

Elohim
The Word became flesh
Gravity

Agape
Whoever believes
Salvation

Lucifer
Running to and fro
Entropy

Potiphars
Falsely accused Him
Religion

Musician
After God’s own heart
Tehillim

Pre-diluvian demons saw how beautiful human women were and their lust caused them to take on human DNA and rape human flesh and enslave human souls. God sent them to a special place in hell.⁵⁰ Even the evil Oscar Wilde, with his retarded mIQ and temperament, recognized an eternally negative sinful state demands the reality of an alternative positive redeemed state. Negative 1 may exist because the reflected value of the positive 1 is possible and not vice versa: -1 < +1.

Due to the original sin, all finite humans have, by choice, a negative trajectory toward the gravity of an eternal hell. Obviously, it is not possible for finite beings to be pre-existent to themselves and self-create. With Divine justice, love, and merciful redemption, humans may be made a new creature by the self-existent infinite Creator.⁵¹ Any other way is a futile attempt to rob creator God.⁵² The new redeemed creature is no longer of this fallen sinful world and is on the eternal positive trajectory toward the gravity of heaven.⁵³ It is natural for the fallen sinful world to hate the redeemed and for the redeemed to hate the fallen sinful world.⁵⁴ Narrow is the trajectory to heaven⁵⁵ and the broadly accepted ways that seem worldly right lead to death.⁵⁶ If the redeemed trust in God and turn their backs on evil, it will be health to their naval (the source of nourishment in the womb) and marrow (watering; the making of blood cells for life) to their bones.⁵⁷

Sin against innocent souls may be prevented by innocent souls in self-defense or in the defense of other innocent souls. Sin against innocent souls must be justly avenged now by the holy God supernaturally (e.g. killing the rebellious Karah and Dathan⁵⁸ etc.) or by His righteous institutions, such as government (e.g. Israel killed Achan for his rebellious theft and deception⁵⁹ etc.), or justly avenged eternally in hell. Shakespeare’s Measure For Measure looks at societal legislation for sexual misbehavior. It is based on Matthew 7:2 where the same measure of judgement toward others that you display will be measured to you. The dominate theme emphasizes the reality of human nature, “Our natures do pursue, like rats that ravin down their proper bane, a thirsty evil, and when we drink we die” (Act 1, Scene II; 128-130), and how nature punishes, regardless, with sexual diseases (Act 5, Scene I; 126-127).⁶⁰

Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man,⁶¹ but His perfectly moral contrast with the fallen sinful world caused them to murder Him, if He allowed it. He could have prayed for the Father to send legions of angels to defend Him, but for His sacrificial mission of scriptural redemption, He did not.⁶² The redeemed are to speak to the fallen sinful world whether they will hear or not.⁶³ False theologies of finite works can never change moral entropy away for the gravity of hell. The redeemed will still sin in this fallen sinful world, but are eternally redeemed.⁶⁴ King David was a man after God’s own heart,⁶⁵ but lusted, then committed adultery, deceived the stolen woman’s husband, and finally had the husband murdered. The child of David’s sinful act died. Their next child was the future king, Solomon.⁶⁶ Jacob’s, Israel, son, Joseph, did not commit the sin he was accused of and so was falsely imprisoned for rape. He would become the head of Egypt and save his entire family, the Israeli nation.⁶⁷ God works all things together for good to them that love Him and are called according to His predestined purpose.⁶⁸

The philosophy of karma (Sanskrit, action) is obviously a false theology which ignores the reality of moral entropy in that it is never possible for finite beings to become behaviorally equal to infinite righteousness or sinless. Nor can finite beings reach enlightened freedom from ignorance and misinformation based on full comprehension of all problems, called nirvana (the act of extinguishing desire and transcendence of suffering and pain). A prayer for true enlightenment may be found in the poem below.

Mercury Mirror
by Dallas F. Bell, Jr.

Arise mirror: pity and cause winged men to see, vestīgāte,
The atomic mass of their seven abominations, so cruel,
As fractured silver harpooned with haughty eyes of hate,
Gazing pridefully without vertical affections, spited fuel
Poisoning the lying tongues of truce breakers, ‘cided gladly,
That justify bloody hands, vaded, thankless of slippery joy,
Withered corpses of covetous energy ever ill girded, sadly,
Where vengeful minds imagine blasphemy, styled to annoy,
Circling feet on rehearsed footpaths to mischievous wit,
Bearing false witness in disobedient poems of sour praise,
Like lava gushing, furrow shaped, from rhyming writ,
For incontinent lovers of cleft pleasure, expressed always;
    Sowing vassal discord among chiseled brothers’ decay,
    Crying “Repent!” before the sun’s black corona day.⁶⁹

Finite beings understand infinite God’s will by a systematic progression as mapped out in the topological order of the Scriptures—which are thusly immutable by necessity of the connected past, present, and future time surfaces.⁷⁰ Borrowed from two other mathematicians, the Benoit Mandelbrot set z = z2 + c explains the escalation process (z = z2) of variable boundaries of its content (c). The first output becomes its next input; a wheel within a wheel of The Will. The process of repeatedly applying the same function x → x (set x of itself) is called iteration in mathematics.

A flat space, not distorted by bending it or stretching it, may become a curved space with non-Hermiticity where curved spaces are duel to each other--two sides of the same coin. The Chinese researchers at Purdue University Qi Zhou, Chenwei Lv, and Ren Zhang et al. found that a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian has curved space where a quantum particle resides. For example, a quantum in a lattice with non-reciprocal tunnels is in fact moving on a curved surface. The ratio of the tunneling amplitudes along one direction to that opposite direction controls how large the surface is curved, which makes the phenomena seem more natural,⁷¹ to them. A team of Chinese and Indian researchers at Columbia University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science in 2022 that their artificial intelligence (AI) program, that they programmed, factored beyond Einstein’s basic energy, mass, and velocity and included other variables, such as angular velocity etc., which indicated, to them, a new frontier in physics understanding.⁷² They were merely recognizing the reflection of their own ideas in the AI program. Oxford University physics professor, Julian Barbour’s 2020 book by Random House, The Janus Point: A New Theory of Time, wrote the 2^nd Law of Thermodynamics of time moving toward disorder is wrong and there is no entropy. He explains the size of the universe is expanding proportionally and this makes time relative in that time is running in two directions simultaneously. (It should be noted that Purdue, Columbia, and Oxford University have gender pronoun policies that require males, having XY chromosomes, be called female, having XX chromosomes, if demanded and vice versa reflecting their rejection of truth and acceptance of truth’s relativity—an oxymoron in that truth is absolute, and worth seeking, whereas relativity is changing, and not worth seeking. If truth is rejected there is no mercy, no knowledge of God...there is swearing, lying, killing, stealing, and adultery, and blood touching blood.⁷³)

Violations of God’s commandments (for a discussion of natural law see endnote 127) have negative ordered energy (-1) and their consequences have negative ordered energy (-1); -1,-1. Compliance with God’s commandments has positive ordered energy (1) with positive consequences (1); 1,1. Ordered energy symmetry may only reflect the binary possibilities either negative (-1,-1) or positive (1,1). If deceit in a just war has a positive consequence of 1 this means the deceit was a positive 1 (1,1) and not a violation, -1.⁷⁴ If taking human life has a consequence of 1 it means the killing was 1 (1,1) and not a violation, -1.⁷⁵ On the other hand, if the consequence of adultery, -1, ends in the child’s death, -1, this is an affirmed violation, -1; -1,-1.⁷⁶ Homosexuality is an abomination, -1, and its practitioners have been turned over to a reprobate mind,⁷⁷ -1, worthy of the death penalty;⁷⁸ -1,-1. Their redemption is not possible because lest the Holy Spirit draws a person, by the Father, they can not be redeemed⁷⁹ and the truth of the Holy Spirit could not justly indwell the reprobate minds of the abominable.⁸⁰ It is common, however, for there to be remorse for their perverse unnatural acts, yet they remain as eternally unforgiven as Judas Iscariot.⁸¹ Evil pursues sinners; but good is repaid to the righteous.⁸²

A pecuniary (money) debt equation is: finitely justly paid = the finite debt + the finite sum of the debt owed paid by the finite debtor -or- a finite person on the debtor’s behalf. A moral debt equation is: eternally justly paid = an eternal broken (life) law + eternal retributive justice -or- an eternal perfect blood (life) sacrifice.⁸³ Given the wages of sin against the infinite (Holy) God is present and eternal death⁸⁴ and must be forgiven by a perfectly Holy sacrifice, only the Christian theology supplies the demand for merciful redemption. The Redeemer must be sinless by being both God (Christ) and man born of a virgin woman (Jesus) by the Holy Spirit. His blood (life) sacrifice has perfect symmetry of justice, love, and merciful redemption. By Christ’s blood the redeemed are justly saved from eternal wrath.⁸⁵ Abraham correctly asked the rhetorical question, shall the creator God only do what is just?⁸⁶ Only the Christian theology supplies this theological demand as seen in the chart below.

Jesus suffered hunger in the wilderness but did not sinfully turn the stones into bread at the request of His flesh. Before His sacrifice on the cross for the sins of mankind, He indicated His flesh was weak but His uniquely Divine soul was willing to remain perfectly sinlessly submissive to the will of God the Father.⁸⁷

The biblically recorded sinner on the cross with Christ Jesus needed justice, love, and merciful redemption, which was theologically supplied by Christ Jesus promising the forgiveness of his sins and eternal existence with Him in Paradise, beginning that very day.⁸⁸ With a win (1) lose (0) game theory matrix, this would be always eternally being infinite God (1) and that repentant sinner (1) or (1,1), whereas Christ Jesus (1) and the unrepentant sinner (0) on the cross eternally being 1,0.

An unbalanced emphasis of either justice, love, or merciful redemption is inadequate to create a theological demand for a true theological supply. For example, Islam emphasizes justice, New Age love, Hindu redemption, Buddhist make finite self the supply of all the components, and atheists simply ignore the innate transcendent demand. They create the demand for balanced true Christian theological supply. If the demand increases, the supply gains in value, and if the supply increases without increased demand, the supply loses value. In Idries Shah’s collection of 80 fables, titled Reflections, he believed Sufi beliefs, with a Hindu background, preceded Islam and adapted to it.⁸⁹

John Keats wrote in his Ode on a Grecian Urn of the innate recognition that “Beauty is truth, truth beauty—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”⁹⁰ Jesus told the enemies of truth that if they called their neighbor(s) worthless⁹¹ they did not love that neighbor(s) as themselves and so did not love God with all their hearts, souls, and minds, thereby breaking all of God’s commandments.⁹² The redeemed love God for His merciful forgiveness and love others, and want to help them be redeemed and also know God and His merciful forgiveness. Infinite God does not show partiality except for those that fear Him and do right.⁹³ We know that the enemies of Christ Jesus could not find fault with Him based on Divine law. They had to fabricate evidence⁹⁴ (violating the commandment to not lie) in order to murder Him⁹⁵ (violating the law to not murder). His sinless life must ultimately be accepted by faith from the high probability of the historical evidence. Augustine and Anselm of Canterbury (Proslogion, II-IV) promoted the theological method of Fides Quaerens Intellectum (Faith Seeking Intelligence), where faith in God begins the path to understanding God. Anselm indicated “Neque enim quaero intelligere ut credam, sed credo ut intelligam” (I do not seek to understand in order that I may believe, but rather, I believe that I may understand).

This is not to argue that we can not prove a negative. To say you can not prove a negative is a statement that itself cannot be proven. What is inferred is that in some cases there can never be perfect evidence to provide proof of a statement. To say Christ Jesus was/is sinless requires infinite knowledge. We may examine a valid argument where premise 1 is P > Q and premise 2 is not Q concludes therefore not P; as with if there is a possible fire (P) it needs oxygen (Q) and if there is no possible oxygen (Q), therefore there is no possible fire (P). A valid proof for the non-existence of x is if premise 1 is x and Q must be observable and premise 2 is Q is not observable, therefore x does not exist. So, if Christ Jesus sinned and sin may be observed and no sin was observed, therefore there was no sin. This avoids the false dilemma of either Christ Jesus sinned or He did not sin and sin can not be proven then Christ Jesus did not sin. A valid argument is premise 1 is either A or B and premise 2 does not prove A so it must be B.

The scientific method includes observation, theorizing, and proving or disproving the theory.⁹⁶ Frederic Nietzsche noted in his Beyond Good and Evil that it is a fundamental belief of all aristocrats that common people are untruthful. The ancient Greek nobles referred to themselves as “We truthful ones.” Thomas Hobbes (Leviathan) wrote to believe, to trust, to rely on another, is to honor him; sign of opinion of his virtue and power. To distrust, or not believe, is to dishonor. When Pilate asked Jesus if He was King of the Jews, Jesus asked Pilate “Sayest thou this of thyself, or did others tell thee...?” Sir Thomas Browne (writer of Christian Morals) observed in his 1646 Pseudododoxia Epidemica that common people were readily deceived and bad discerners of verity. Shakespeare’s sonnet 138 says “When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies,” (see endnote 12, p. 77). The experimental philosopher Robert Boyle (Aretology) postulated in all actions, the authority of the person gives authority to the example. Recorded in the Dayly Reflection (pp. 215-216), Boyle wrote to his sister Katherine that he thought the world was a great bedlam, peopled with fools and knaves. Hobbes indicated (Leviathan) that in beliefs there are two opinions; one of the saying of man; the other his virtue.

Thomas Kuhn (Function of Measurement) wrote what scientists seek in numerical tables is not usually agreement of all, but what they often call reasonable agreement. Furthermore, if we ask for a criterion of reasonable agreement, we are literally forced to look in the tables themselves. Boyle said we continue our study of mathematics which is (as I think) the bravest science in the world (after Divinity), and I hope to become proficient therein.⁹⁷

Christ Jesus loved the Godhead⁹⁸ with all His heart, soul and mind (commandments 1-4) and He loved His neighbor as Himself (commandments 5-10) evidenced by His dying for their sins.⁹⁹ He perfectly modeled the seven pillars of wisdom:¹⁰⁰ purity, peacefulness, gentleness, reasonableness, helpfulness, and sincerity, without partiality.¹⁰¹

What we seen now will soon be gone, but what we can not see will last forever.¹⁰² After conception, man may be sanctified and ordained for the purpose of their birth.¹⁰³ The symmetry of eternal moral gravity reflects¹⁰⁴ either the kingdom of God or not. Lazarus went to be in Abraham’s bosom and the rich man went to the lake of fire.¹⁰⁵ Christ Jesus said in His Father’s house were many mansions.¹⁰⁶ The heart has not seen that extravagance.¹⁰⁷ There will be a new heaven without Satan and sinners¹⁰⁸ and a new Jerusalem.¹⁰⁹ All darkness will be removed because there is only Divine light.¹¹⁰ It would seem that Light would infuse all things, even eliminating shadows.¹¹¹ Conversely, the fire of hell has degrees¹¹² and would be the absence of Divine light.¹¹³ There will be no painful suffering and tearful death in heaven¹¹⁴ or Shadowlands.¹¹⁵ The unredeemed will see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and the prophets in heaven before being cast out into hell.¹¹⁶

On the Mount of Transfiguration, Christ Jesus was talking with Moses, representing Divine law, and Elijah, representing Divine prophets, about His departure at Jerusalem and could be heard by the apostles.¹¹⁷ He promised to return, The Second Coming, as in the times of Noah where the people knew it not until the flood took them.¹¹⁸ In the last days, mockers will come following after their own lusts and question where the promise is of Jesus’ coming since all things continue from the beginning of creation. But they fail to notice their argument of uniformitarianism ignores that creation symmetry began first with Elohim in heaven then this universe was formed from nothing. Consistent with moral entropy of this universe, His word says this present universe is reserved for a day of judgement and the destruction of the unrepentant. One day with the Lord is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like one day. The Lord is not slow about His promise, as finite humans count slowness, but He is patient not wishing any should perish but for all to repent.¹¹⁹

The Lord says He will care for His redeemed when their hair grows white and He should be remembered in one’s youth before the days come when there is no pleasure in them.¹²⁰ In Shakespeare’s As You Like It (known as The Seven Ages of Man also called All the World’s a Stage; Act 2, Scene VII), Jaques observes (142) “all the world’s a stage” as he comments on the seventh and last age or stage of man’s life cycle (168) “...mere oblivion, (169) Sans (French for without) teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.”

The unrighteous Hebrew king, Saul threatened to murder people that ate when they were in battle but the righteous Jonathan ate and was refreshed.¹²¹ The unrighteous flatter themselves in their own eyes until their sin becomes hateful.¹²² David wrote the wicked will be cut off, and shall not be, and the meek will inherit the earth.¹²³ To not serve God justly deserves everlasting punishment and the righteous mercifully deserves eternal life.¹²⁴

Du Fu (also Tu Fu) questioned, in his Dreaming of Li Bai, who is to say the way of heaven is always fair?¹²⁵ The symmetry of Christ Jesus and His creation axiomatically does! Johann Bach, from a German Lutheran background, expressed his love of God with traditional symmetry, e.g. the Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F and with The Gavotte En Rondeau from the Partita No. 3 in E major for Violin. Igor Stravinsky, from a Russian Orthodox background, sought to express his love of God by expanding musically accepted symmetry, e.g. The Sacrificial Dance from The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du printemps).

Plutarch asserted in his Convivialium Disputationum (Liber 8.2) Plato said “God geometrizes continually.”¹²⁶ Material nature¹²⁷ is not self-aware (a non-material eternal soul is necessary to make the material neurological machinery work) and can not symmetrically theorize itself and the non-material realm.¹²⁸ Mathematics is then reasoned to be the unifying linguistic base for a symmetrical theory of everything. Therefore, there is an unseen mathematics that transcends human origins with potential for a Divinely revealed new mathematics. Christ Jesus is the beginning and end, anaerobically and aerobically, of the Theory of Everything!

“But of Him are ye in Christ Jesus, who God is made unto us wisdom,
and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.”¹²⁹ Apostle Paul

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