Chapter 3 of The Conceptual God – Presenting a Robust Case for Divine Conceptualism and Structural Realism.
In chapter 1 I wrote about how Hebrews 11:3 is an account of how God used rhema words to create a space-time out of information that could be parsed quantum mechanically. Hebrews 11:3 was written to provide a meta-physical foundation for understanding how faith works. Because the space-time universe is composed of prescriptive information, God can modify how the universe operates by embedding additional prescriptive information in faith
This faith is grounded in the facts that the universe is made up of information that can be programmatically modified. Think of our physical universe as a virtual reality simulation that God has programmed but runs in an ontologically distinct manner from the Divine essence. The revelation of the rhema word of faith is a way that God continues to embed input into the simulation. Our receipt of that word of faith is how we can access God. As we believe His promises and receive His promises, He will do exceedingly above all we can imagine.
We see that word ‘rhema’ again in Romans 10:17. Verse 17 is in a passage where Paul, writing under inspiration of the Holy Spirit, explains how we can access God. He begins by saying it is not necessary top engage in extra-dimensional travel or otherwise traveling far and wide to search for God. God has provided a means to access Him. He has provided the word of faith.
But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:) Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.) But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved…
…For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things! But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report? So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
– Rom 10:6-17
In Equipping the Saints, chapter 8, I provide a detailed theological understanding. Basically, the idea behind the verbalization of the confession resulting in that confession “is made” unto salvation means that the act of verbalizing the confession results in the power behind objective truth of God’s Word being released into the everyday world transforming it into a state that conforms to the description found in that Word from God being proclaimed. The focus of this understanding is found in the phrase “For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.“
In this chapter I wish to uncover the quantum mechanical underpinnings of how confession of God’s word releases power to transform life. The key phrase here is “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” This whole phrase is worded as present passive. Rewording this as an active sentence with identical meaning gives us
The Word of God (Rhema) -> hearing – > faith.
The rhema word of God first transforms hearing. This is the same word used in Hebrews 11:3 in which God used that word to describe how He framed space-time using rhema word to set up the wave-function. When God’s Word is proclaimed, this word produces an effect on the senses that receive it. The senses are instruments that humans use to conduct a measurement on the wave function and bring about its collapse. It is this collapse that produces a specific value that determines what events occur in the world of classical physics. God, in expressing His Word, is affecting how we parse the wave-function which will then affect what events will happen in our world of classical physics. This changed perspective produces faith.
The fact that the transformation of our senses by the confession of the Word of God produces faith bring us full circle. Such faith results in confession which is received by the senses which yields more faith. As Jesus said, “it is out of the abundance of the heart that the mouth speaketh(Luke 6:45).” As I explain in chapter 3 of Mystery Jerusalem Rising, faith is the seed of the works God wants us to do. As this cycle produces ever growing faith, the senses are increasingly transformed in a way which affects how they parse the wave function. As I will show in the next chapter, a coherent shared logical space-time will also mean that such faith will affect how other parse the wave-function concerning the subject of your faith and confession of the promises of God. Such changes in how the wave-function id collectively measured will produce results in the events that are described by the Rhema Word of Faith coming to pass. It is through confession of the word of God – specifically the promises of God – that power from is released quantum mechanically to change your life and the world. The next chapter will reveal how this takes place on a meta-narrative level.