The behavior classified by some as the "sin of Satan" is pride or arrogance. For this article, pride includes the notion that humankind is intelligent enough to comprehend all of God's wondrous methods and purposes. Mostly, this comprehension is displayed to others using various "languages," and includes human modes of deduction.
As an example, one of the more perplexing notions not specifically mentioned within the Bible, but that is deduced from human forms of logic and language, is the idea of "material creation out of nothing." On page 210 of the above book, I write,
The GGU-model does predict partially, very partially, the behavior of a background universe, the ultranatural world. It predicts the unperceived "ultimate subparticle" model that should not be imagined as an actual object. One should avoid the strong human tendency to "picture think" and, in this case, replace imaginations with operational statements. The model rationally predicts the important "lack of knowledge notion." This notion cannot be eliminated from the model not from human endeavors. You can, as many scientists do, ignore its significance by considering it as but an extraneous result.
We can ask all types of questions about theological concepts. The atheistic community uses this as their major tool in discrediting supernatural beliefs. For example, "What type of stuff comprises God's Spirit?" "It's it irrational to believe that God created everything that exists using nothing that is perceivable or, indeed out of nothing perceivable or not? "How can God just 'speak' objects into existence?" "How can God know the past, present and future and does this not contradict the concept of free-will?" "How can a 'good' God allow . . . ." "Did God create evil?" Indeed, many such questions are answerable in various ways, even directly by GGU-model mechanisms. But, the answers are not acceptable to the "arrogant" minded atheist who requires detailed and humanly comprehensible answers. Some might even require "laboratory demonstrations." Of course, this method is not new and, yet, many individuals, as I did for years, still spend considerable effort in concocting similar questions. It's contended that only if acceptable answers are forthcoming would any but the most ignorant believe in a Biblical God.
One does not need an in-depth analysis of the various ultrawords or ultra-logic-systems, basic GGU-model entities used in the GGU-model for universe creation, to be convinced that the
"higher-intelligence" signature represents a mode of intelligence that cannot be duplicated by humankind. However, aside from this ID interpreted signature, the behavior of these entities can be, at least, partially described in a humanly comprehensible language. In the pure physical-like interpretation, the notion of the higher-intelligence signature can be regarded as but an artifact of the modeling processes. So, how does the GGU-model come to ones aid when confronted with questions that may seem to be impossible to answer satisfactory?
The GGU-model is based upon the coding of actual languages and then this coding is embedded into a mathematical structure. These languages represent modes of standard human perception. When an in-depth analysis is applied to the physical laws, the scientific theories and the physical events describable by these languages, startling conclusions emerge from the hidden confines of the structure, conclusions that cannot be eliminated. The model predicts the rational existence of "ultranatural laws" and "ultranatural theories" that behave, generally, in the same "linguistic" manner as the physical laws and theories. But, there is a vast difference between languages we use to communicates and the descriptive "ultranatural language" that rationally exists. Analysis shows that we can have almost no knowledge as to the specific contents of this predicted language.
The model predicts the "ultranatural events" and these events satisfy the ultranatural laws. It is predicted that our physical universe would not exist without there being these ultranatural events. They apparently are necessary to sustain the development of our universe and supply yet another higher-intelligence signature.
This ultranatural language behaves, in general, like the original standard language; it includes the original languages and a vast amount of additional "language," a pure nonstandard language, which cannot be "comprehended" by means of any form of standard human perception. In general, expressions from this language can totally or partially contain incomprehensible strings of symbols. They can also be composed completely of knowable components. There is nothing one can do about these predictions. They are there in the structure. They will not cease to exist. It is certainly possible that such questions, if they were indeed meaningful, would require such a "higher" language and enhanced comprehension to accurately answer. So, although arrogant atheists who consider humankind capable of all knowledge would certainly reject this possibility, the possibility is rationally obtained not through some philosophic dialectic but rather by means of pure mathematical deduction.
Is it possible that such a language has scriptural support?
The first CRSQ editor with whom I dealt, Armstrong, agreed with me as do some commentaries that this result predicts the clear intent of Paul's statement in 2 Cor 12.2. ". . . our unacquaintedness with the language of the upper world" (Matthew Henry). "Paul had not the power adequately to utter; nor if he had would he have been permitted; nor would earthly man comprehend" (R. A. Faussett). The scriptures seem to teach that we may be accorded more information once we are no longer in our fallen state. So, at present, I accept that I do not possess the communication skills required by some to answer many of these types of questions. But, is there a slightly more refined notion of creation out of nothing?
There is one entity that most agree has existed forever and will never cease to exist. This is God's Spirit. This Spirit behaves like a "mind." Hence, a term such as "thoughts" can be applied. There is most likely an actual "higher form of deduction" using the nonstandard language that would convincing and rationally establish that God transforms His thoughts into the unperceived and immaterial ultranatural world from which the observable physical world is created. However, since it's not possible for me, as yet, to comprehend such an argument, then I am content with simply stating that all there is and all there every will be has come from God through application of "pure thought." Except to state that God's thoughts are equivalent to a scientific primitive, in that we only know their behavior, what we lack is any further in-depth comprehension.
In my book "Science Declares Our Universe IS Intelligently Designed," I discuss the significance of one of the more remarkable GGU-model predictions. Clearly, the mathematical operators that model a "higher-intelligence" correlate to many Biblical statements that declare that God's ways are not our ways, and that His intelligence is greater than anything that we can possibly reproduce or comprehend. Indeed, such differences satisfy a mathematical model and, as such, it is rational to assume that an entity that possesses such attributes exists.
The notion that God created everything out of nothing still holds in this model. If you consider the meaning of "nothing" as "a state of nonexistence," then this holds for the ultranatural world. This "world" did not exist, in any manner, until it was "thought of" by God. It's the "world" consisting of the methods that God uses to create both the supernatural and the natural. . . . The Hebrews 11:3 and Romans 1:19-23 statements hold. . . .
Notice the phrase "thought of by God." Why is this stated in such a naïve manner? As I'll explain, this phrase is a direct acknowledgment that the GGU-model is an analogue model for behavior, behavior that most probably cannot be described in great detail and communicated to us while we remain in our present physical and fallen mode. The notion of creation from "nothing" does not directly appear in the Bible. It must be qualified. God Himself is not composed of "nothing." For the GGU-model, physical creation, what the Bible considers as "perceived," is not created from the perceived nor from what is totally comprehensible.