The idea of the existence of other spatial dimensions comes to us from science and not from the Bible. At times it is just a result of sci-fi imagination. There is also the “scientific” idea of an infinite number of “parallel” universes, sometimes called the “multiverse”, which is more of a lame attempt to reconcile the statistical improbability of the fine-tuned universe which supports life on our planet with the idea that all of the universe is the result of chance, not Creation. There is no real proof for the multiverse, but it makes atheists feel better. There is also the suggestion of the existence of other spatial dimensions because of the strange behavior observed at the quantum level (how things behave at the size of an atom). This we should take seriously.
Other spatial dimensions that we cannot experience are a hard thing to wrap your mind around. I recently learned a useful way of getting there from Dr. Trey Cox, a mathematician. A “dimension” is nothing more than a direction that something is constrained to move in. Consider a comic book character on a flat page. What if that character were alive? In what dimensions could he move? Since he is part of a flat page, he can only move in 2-dimensions. Could this character experience a 3-dimensional character like myself? It is possible that my voice could penetrate his world. He would experience a cross-section of my voice’s pressure waves. He would not necessarily see me however. I could penetrate his world physically, and from his perspective, he would experience a 2-dimensional cross section of me. The walls in his two-dimensional world would not stop me. I could pop in and out of his world at will. This two-dimensional character would have to be quite imaginative to conceive of me as I am, a three-dimensional creature.
Now consider an interaction of a 3-dimensional creature like us with someone who is 4-dimensional or more. Could our walls keep him out? He could be very near to us but not intersect our world. We struggle to even imagine such a being, because all of our experience comes from our 3-dimensional universe, yet science itself suggests that reality is more than three-dimensional.
There are a number of things in the Bible that people struggle with because it doesn’t fit their small model of reality. Could multi-dimensionality help? First, where is Heaven, or Sheol (see my other site: https://afterdeathsite.com/?s=Sheol) ? Ancient people weren’t any better at conceiving of other dimensions than we are. They thought of Sheol/Hades as being inside of the Earth, and Heaven as being far out beyond the observable universe. We have demonstrated that this model is not correct. Are Heaven and Sheol part of other dimensional spaces that are “near” but normally unreachable. Is even our own spirit part of other dimensional space?
What about this little interaction with the resurrected Jesus:
19 On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.”
John 20:19(ESV)
Did Jesus now have the ability to pass through walls or did he enter from other dimensional space?
Consider what is said about the Lord’s Supper. Many insist that the bread and wine are merely symbols. It seems weird and culturally inappropriate to eat someone’s body and drink his blood symbolically or in a cannibalistic fashion. What if it is present other dimensionally? It is not that we are thinking about it, or even believing it, it is actually there and doing what the sacrament needs to do for us.
We can think similarly about the sacrament of baptism. In our space a person gets wet. In the other dimensional space that contacts the person, Jesus forms a bond (the mystical union) that connects the baptized with Christ’s righteousness, His forsakeness on the Cross, His power to work within them and through them, and makes them a part of the mystical body of Christ.
We can even get some insight into angels, demons and Satan. They are all properly other-dimensional beings with the ability to intersect our space. They move unseen. They influence our minds. They could even seize control of them, unless there are barriers in place that they can’t transcend.
Many other Biblical events could be explained by this: God’s voice at Jesus’ baptism and the Transfiguration, Paul’s experience of Jesus on the road to Damascus, maybe even the Trinity itself. The Bible leaves all of these things as mysteries. Perhaps many of these mysteries are simply other dimensional. it is something to think about.
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