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    Thoughts on Creation
    Thoughts on Creation
    Thoughts on Creation
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    Thoughts on Creation

    By Curtis B Cline

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    Thoughts On Creation is a synthesis of the author’s understanding of science and religion trying to make sense of creation and our place in it. Throughout the work there is a basic theme of relating man’s activities and responsibilities in day-to-day life, to the impact his choices make regarding his existence in creation.

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThoughts On Publishing
    Release dateJun 5, 2016
    ISBN9780997525915
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      Thoughts on Creation - Curtis B Cline

      IN THE BEGINNING

      My first subject is in the beginning where it all began, how it began, and why did it all start? When discussing creation, I think there are a couple of things that must be observed in order to discuss creation effectively:

      Put aside the concept of time and space, outside of our everyday world, time and space really don’t have any purpose except to confuse and clutter things up. Just for the time being, put time and space somewhere else.

      The next thing we avoid is using the name God. When a person uses the name God it brings in religion and all the biases that we carry from childhood. This does not allow us to see clearly.

      It has been said it is possible that creation has always been here and will always be here. I think acceptance of this fact is exremely important for a person who is trying to understand creation or at least our part of it.

      Consider this, if we were ants with about a two month lifespan and we saw human beings with an 80 year lifespan, what would we think? An ant would say that humans have always, do and will always exist. My conclusion is this, for the purpose of this discussion. I acknowledge that I lack the mental faculties to fully comprehend the infinite. It is a given, for the purpose of this discussion, that creation has always existed, does exist, will always exist.

      I see creation as a force. I don’t know what it is, but it is powerful and very much exists. I would say that nothing exists outside of creation. This is a hard concept to get one s mind around if one looks at it from the outside. I can, however, envision creation from the inside. I see light totally filling every space as I look around extending into infinity. Everything is filled with light, light is energy, and energy is creation. Consider this, there can be nothing outside of creation. Everything that exists, has ever existed, or will exist must exist within creation.

      I suggest that we exist outside the concept of time. We are all timeless. We are all immortal because energy cannot be made or destroyed; it can only be changed. As people, we experience a change of state when we die. Our physical body decomposes and, given time, will return to its various elements. We can be cremated, hacked up, put through a blender, whatever you want. The smallest you can get is back down to subatomic particles or if you want to go with a molecule, which is the smallest unit that still retains its identity, that s all good. As I said, when we finish our lifetime, at whatever point that is, however that occurs our body gets recycled back into the system, on this physical plane of existence.

      At physical death our unique unit of energy, which I like to refer to as our Divine Essence, moves on to non-physical planes of existence in creation. Each of us is a Divine Essence, a specific, unique, unit of energy in creation. Consider an analogy of drops of water in an ocean; we are each a drop. Each drop is unique and has its own existence but is still part of the ocean. It is home in the ocean, accepted, a loved part of the whole. Each drop is totally aware of everything around it.

      It is my thought that when we die our physical body gets recycled and our Divine Essence returns to creation. We are unique little specks of energy that move to a different plane of existence, where we are once again, aware of being part of the whole. Physical death is nothing to be worried about. We are not being destroyed; we are only going through a change of state from our Divine Essence inhabiting a physical body for a brief period, to our natural state as part of creation. Once again, we only get a change of state. This understanding, for me, takes the fear out of the death experience.

      It has been said that there is no heaven and hell; there’s just going home. In addition, someone else said that we all make our own heaven or hell. Both statements are true. More on that in the discussion of Heaven and Hell.

      A question comes to mind that bears discussion, which would be. Why would creation with all its perfectness and all its completeness, create? The simple answer is that it must! Otherwise,

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