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As I have written about before, one thing I like to share with sci-fi fans is all the parallels between the genre and Christianity. I've posted about Star Trek and made a video that shows other franchises as well. I actually first started noticing connections with the movie ET back in high school. At the time I was heavily into anything that took place in space or dealt with space. I still am to a great degree though I know the Lord doesn't want me to watch sci-fi anymore. My goal is not to get Christians interested in science fiction, but rather to help those who think they have no desire to know the God of the Bible to realize what they have turned to has borrowed many essential elements of His truth.

I could go on with some sort of conspiracy theory, knowing that Satan mixes truth with error to make the error palatable. But I want to win friends and not arguments. So with that in mind, here is one more parallel that Seventh-day Adventists will find significant.

We have a belief regarding what we call "The Investigative Judgement", which is symbolized by the Day of Atonement ceremony in the book of Leviticus. All year the priests did their work in the courtyard and 'Holy Place' within the wilderness sanctuary/temple. Once a year the High Priest went into "The Most Holy Place". The ceremony was symbolic of the fact that the first phase of the judgement is happening now in heaven. Jesus went into a closer connection with the Father in the temple in heaven and is now carrying out what is described in Daniel chapter 7. The books are open and the dead are being judged.

Now think about those iconic words in The Wizard of Oz "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain."

I might have commented before on parallel universes but I'm going to share something I just posted elsewhere again. I don't believe they exist but they make for good sci-fi fodder. For our modern generation who makes no room for a Creator God who forgives sin, parallel universes are an attempt to deal with guilt and past regrets. Maybe out there somewhere there is an exact replica of me who took the other choice when I came to a crossroads point in my life and that me is living a much better life now. As I heard once in a sermon in my local church, one choice for eternity (in accepting Jesus) will outweigh a lifetime of bad decisions.

Einstein Needs Revision
The ancient Greek system of thought with its earth-centred view was workable to a great degree based on the observations available as shown by their use of the Antikythera mechanism, a device with a very complicated set of gears that could show the position of every known planet at any one time. This in some ways I believe compares to how modern science is viewing relativity. Just as the Greek view was corrected by Copernicus, Galileo and Newton, so Einstein’s theories are still being referenced from an earth-centred point of view and need a “thinking outside the box” revision.
In Einstein’s theories of relativity, the way one experiences time and distance changes as one approaches the speed of light so that “clocks slow” and “rulers shorten” as he stated. We see light as moving through the universe from our point of view. But since there is no time or distance and mass is infinite at the speed of light, what if light is in fact stationary and the universe moves around it? The equations and graphs that imagine time slowing, distance decreasing and mass increasing in the universe as beginning from the stationary observer, going on up to lightspeed and then beyond by adding the square root of negative one need to be re-imagined with lightspeed itself as the zero point. Maybe ”i” should be on this side of those equations?

This has several ramifications. One is that if someone could achieve lightspeed, the entire universe would collapse upon him or her. That person would not only be every “where”, he or she would be every “when” as well. There is then no need for Star Trek’s warp drive, transporters or hyperspace from Star Wars. Travelling through space and time would be more akin to the TARDIS of Dr. Who.

Another is that it may explain why an electron can move from one orbit level to another inside an atom without travelling the distance in between. It ‘joins the light’, shall we say.

The third is that the big bang theory needs revision as well. The singularity is imagined as an event that happened 14 billion years in the past from our reference point. However, lightspeed itself is the singularity and is still with us, timelessly always there. The universe came into existence from lightspeed on down to our reality.

The last is a purely philosophical ramification some may say but I do believe it to be true as well. This singularity, the converging of the universe, is not therefore to be found in a specific point in space or time. The convergence is on a person, His name is God. In the book of Job the Lord asks Job 86 questions about an incredibly wide variety of phenomena in the natural world. Modern science has discovered answers to about 2/3 of them. One still unanswered question is useful for this discussion. “Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And darkness, where is its place”, Job 38:19. Jesus said He was the light of the world. As Creator, He is the source of physical light and the light of intellectual and spiritual truth.