Dave Jones’s Reviews > Beyond the Cosmos: What Recent Discoveries in Astrophysics Reveal About the Glory and Love of God > Status Update

We turn to Heaven and the new Earth. The current laws of physics will not apply. Dr Ross describes the new Creation and our new status and capabilities. Mind-blowing!

The problem of suffering.

This is the best treatise on the security of the believer that I have ever read!

Freewill and predestination. A pretty good description of how this would work given the extra-dimensionality of Good. 2 possible resolutions are described on pages 171-172. The interplay of our wills, God's will, and Satan's are described graphically. God's ability to operate outside or timeline is also reviewed.

In chapter 11, Ross examines the dimensional capacities of created beings. Specifically, he looks at plants, animals, soulish animals, humans, angels (including cherubim, seraphim, and archangels).

In this chapter, Dr. Ross describes the Trinity using an extra-dimensional model. It's a good illustration but the thing that struck me was when he challenged some of the traditional Trinity models that we often use to explain this often confusing concept. I didn't realize how inadequate they were. His extra-dimensional analogy was intuitive.

God operating in extra time dimensions can explain how he can pay attention to millions of prayers simultaneously.

Psalm 90:4 Good operates in a time realm beyond ours; he can experience time faster or slower than we can (represented in a brilliant chart).

Hebrews 11:3; The cosmos we can detect came from that which lies beyond our ability to detect. He is One who operates in a realm beyond our matter, energy, space, and time.

The discoveries mentioned in the prior chapter led some influential voices in the scientific community to speculate that the mind of God can be found. Heisenberg's uncertainty principle and Godel's incompleteness theorem put the brakes on such presumption. These limits highlight that we are the creatures - not the Creator. However, there is plenty to discover through His inspired Word and His creative work.