Hi Randy,
Last year at the Mobile conference Ray touched on this subject of 'Is matter an illusion?' Some very interesting stuff there. I think these are some of the deep things of God that is being revealed.
1Co 2:10 But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.
Here is a little from the Mobile conference on this subject.
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You think things are what they appear to be, they are not. This podium seems solid, it’s not, it’s all space. Suppose as big as this stage is (6’ x 6’) and that high, there is a big block of solid polished stainless steel. It would weight a lot, very heavy. Do you know that 99.999...% of that block of steel is space. It’s an illusion and for all practicality, it isn’t even there. If you took the space out of it, then it would be so tiny that you couldn’t see it. Why? Because it would be to tiny to see.
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There are so many magical things out there in science. It all goes down to these little things that you can’t see that we call atoms. But then the atom is made of other things. They are made of quartz and things. Then they’ve got alpha and beta quartz. So it just keeps going on and on.
Well it says that God created everything, out of that which does not appear. Yet when we look, the closer we go… Only now can science do that, it couldn’t do that 100 or 200 years ago, now they can.
It’s made out of stuff that once you take the atom apart it’s no longer solid material. Now it’s energy and has no specific shape and it starts to loose it’s weight. How much does a light ray weight?
Well there is another problem. Light is a beam, a particle beam and light is a wave. But it can’t be both, it’s got to be either a beam or a wave. Light is both. Scientist can’t figure it out, how can it be both? It just is, light is both. But it can’t be both, but it is. I mean there is a lot of mysteries out here.
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Well it ends with God, because it started with God. But I want to expand our minds a little bit. For whatever reason I think God is teaching this generation some things that were not known in the past. The Apostle Paul and Elisha and Moses didn’t know these things. Why do we know them? I don’t know. I don’t know why we have all of this knowledge, but it must be going to serve a purpose, some how, some way.
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When the sun goes down or actually when the earth turns away from the sun, it gets dark. God says He created the darkness. But you say, ‘no everything just naturally is dark and when He created light and it lightens up the dark. The dark was always there.’ No it wasn’t, God created darkness. You say, ‘well Ray you are loosing me now.’ Things are not what they appear to be.
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mercy, peace and love
Kat