Read The Bible wrote:

Michael Rippie said on Jan 2, 8:08 pm: Einstein
theorized that we could cause energy to become
matter.

Doesn't this sometimes happen all by itself, i.e.
when "virtual particles" pop into and out of
existence even in a vacuum? I've heard it said that
some physicists attribute this to "vacuum-point
energy", i.e. that even in a vacuum there must be
enough almost-zero residual energy at all
wavelengths that together can form a particle of
matter; and that for the physicists' equations to
work out properly, they have to set this vacuum-
point energy at an infinite value.

If this is true, i.e. that every point of empty
space must be considered as containing an infinite
amount of energy, then, as a Christian, I would
understand the ultimate source of that infinite
energy, and so the ultimate source of all particles,
to be the infinite God, Jesus Christ, just as He is
the ultimate source of all things:

"In the beginning God created the heaven and the
earth" (Gen. 1:1); "In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The
same was in the beginning with God. All things were
made by him, and without him was not any thing made
that was made" (Jn. 1:1-3); "For by him were all
things created" (Col. 1:16); "He is before all
things" (Col. 1:17).

More than just creating everything, God, Jesus
Christ, is the One who maintains everything in
existence: "By him all things consist" (Col. 1:17);
"For in him we live, and move, and have our being"
(Acts 17:28).

Michael said: The field of Quantum Physics is
actually proving that all matter is made up of
energy.

Are there any physicists who still doubt that? And
doesn't E=MC2 (superscript 2) mean not only that
energy and matter can be converted from one to the
other, but that every portion of matter contains
vast amounts of energy, as if a huge amount of
energy were congealed and compressed into every tiny
particle? What if the same relation applies between
God and energy, i.e. that S=EC2 (superscript 2);
could every portion of (E)nergy contain vast amounts
of God's (S)pirit, as if a huge amount of Spirit
were congealed and compressed into every portion of
energy?

Michael said: all matter we can experience with
our senses, is ultimately made up of particles of
light.

Isn't light energy, i.e. electromagnetic waves?
Aren't photons both particles and waves at the same
time?

Michael said: Collisions of photons, which are the
basic building blocks of light, release sub-atomic
particles

They do? If they do, does that mean photons are made
up of sub-atomic particles, or that energy in the
photons released in the collisions coalesces into
sub-atomic particles?

Michael said: When photons collide, they not only
give off particles, but they continue to be
photons and maintain the same size and weight as
they were before the collision.

Isn't the mass and momentum of photons dependent on
their wavelengths? Wouldn't then their wavelengths
have to decrease in any collision where energy is
given off which becomes particles? If the colliding
photons' energy didn't decrease, but energy was
given off, wouldn't that go against the law of the
conservation of energy, which law all particle
interactions have always been seen to obey?

Michael said: the electrons orbit the nucleus of
the atom so fast that it is everywhere around that
atom at the same time.

Hasn't that idea been replaced by the idea that an
electron, like a photon, is both a particle and a
wave at the same time, i.e. it's not so much
"moving real fast" around the nucleus, as it is a
sort of spherical wave around it? And that's why
there are discrete "shells" into which electrons
can fit around a nucleus, as these are the spheres
the size of which match exact multiples of their
wavelengths at different energy levels?

Michael said: The nature of reality is just
beginning to be understood and it seems like there
is very much evidence that it is all an illusion.

Why? What has been shown that proves this is the
case? And what do you mean by "illusion"? The old
false Hindu theory of "maya", which was brought by
different forms into Buddhism, Gnosticism,
Theosophy, the New Age religion, and "The Matrix"?
If so, that's a dangerous concept as it leads to the
idea that God has "hoodwinked" us, or gotten us to
hoodwink ourselves, into believing that the material
universe is real, when it isn't. And this leads
inexorably to the false Gnostic idea that the God
who created the material universe is an evil
"demiurge" who wants to imprison the free spirits of
people in physical bodies and make them go through
endless reincarnations, the cycle of which they must
try to escape through "knowledge (gnosis)" of the
truth, so that their spirits might return to the
"Pleroma", the original, purely-spiritual Paradise
in heaven from which they fell.

Gnosticism was the 1st great enemy of Christianity,
and it will be the last; for it will be the doctrine
of the Antichrist, who will deny that the Christ
became flesh (1 Jn. 4:3), and will deny that Jesus
was himself the Christ (1 Jn. 2:22). The Antichrist
could claim that Jesus was simply a perfect man of
flesh and blood who became a temporary vessel for
the Divine Spirit of Christ, just as the Antichrist
could claim that now he is the perfect vessel of
that same Spirit of Christ returned from heaven to
be worshipped as God and served through him. He
could even claim that Lucifer the Light Bringer is
that Divine Spirit of Christ, i.e. the Morning Star
(Is. 14:12, Rev. 22:16), so that the whole world
will be deceived into worshipping the dragon Satan
and the Antichrist as God (Rev. 13:4, 12:9).

Michael said: We are literally one with the
creator.

This is the New Age teaching, which is ultimately
derived from the same "maya" doctrine of the Hindus,
i.e. that there is no material universe, that really
everything is "one", everything is God. It's the old
Luciferian pride that thinks because its been
allowed to partake of spirit it must be equal to God
Himself (Is. 14:13-14); when in fact it will die
because of its rebellion against God (Is. 14:15, Ps.
82:6-7, Mt. 25:41), for God is the only one who can
sustain things in existence: "Know ye that YHWH he
is God; it is he that hath made us, and not we
ourselves" (Ps. 100:3); "None can keep alive his own
soul" (Ps. 22:29b).

To this the New Agers could cry back: "No! We ARE
GOD! We can keep ourselves alive forever once we
escape the material universe through our REALIZATION
OF WHO WE REALLY ARE!" They've been completely
hoodwinked by Satan and his pride of life, thinking
that "I am, therefore I AM THAT I AM", when in fact
the true I AM, YHWH (Ex. 3:14), can pull the plug on
people anytime he wants (Job 34:14-15), ending not
only their physical lives, but ultimately their
spiritual lives as well, so that they'll suffer "the
second death" forever in the lake of fire (Rev.
20:14-15).

To this the Gnostic New Agers could cry back: "No!
We will defeat YHWH! We will become perfectly united
as one on earth and then, led by Lucifer Christ, our
Liberator God, we'll storm heaven and capture the
tree of life and live forever and do as we please,
just as we did before!" Again, they are completely
deceived by the Luciferian pride (Is. 14:13-14), for
there's no way to defeat YHWH (Prov. 21:30). When
He returns at the 2nd coming (Zech. 14:3-4, Acts
1:11-12, Titus 2:13), they will do their damnedest
to fight Him, all to no avail (Rev. 19:19-21, cf.
Rev. 16:13-16).

To this the Gnostic New Agers could cry back: "No!
That's all propaganda invented by YHWH-deceived
men! The Christ Himself never taught any of those
things. The Bible was corrupted; you must go to the
Ascended Masters to recover the original truth."
And so they've rejected the Bible in order to follow
masquerading demons (2 Cor. 11:14; 1 Tim. 4:1;
2 Tim. 4:2-4); they've allowed Satan to steal the
Bible from their hearts and blind them to the truth
(Mk. 4:15, Lk. 8:12; 2 Cor. 4:4).

But there is still time for them to escape Satan's
clutches and be saved (2 Tim. 2:26, Acts 26:18). But
if they continue to reject the Bible, and, in the
future, perhaps only some six years from now, they
are deceived by miracles into taking the mark of the
beast and worshipping the dragon and the Antichrist
and his image (Rev. 13:14-18), then it will be too
late for them (Rev. 14:9-11; 2 Thes. 2:9-12).

Why are you asking Michael Rippie? You should be asking the author of
that piece not the ignorant religious con-man who stole that text and
signed his name to it.

If Rippie does try to answer notice how the intellectual and educational
level drops down three gears as he does so.

I have alerted the original author to this act of plagiarism, and I will
do so every time that Nevadan con-man tries to pass off other people's
words as his own.

Earlier today in his own newsgroup he published an email he got in 1999
(as if he had just received it) praising him for the lucidity of his
writing, he stole that text too. Michael Rippie is incapable of writing
anything compelling, cogent and coherent, even by the standards of
religious newsgroups.

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Martin Willett


http://mwillett.org/