God Is Not Dead

God is not dead! Whew, that’s a relief!

I’m about halfway through Amit Goswami’s God is Not Dead: What Quantum Physics Tells Us About Our Origins and How We Should LIve. It’s a fascinating book. Although Goswami and I disagree about a few things – he’s Hindu and believes, for instance, in reincarnation – I find many of his arguments compelling.

The author is a physicist, and a believer in God. His idea of God seems to be something like an all-pervading quantum consciousness, which God actually is in a manner of speaking. But I’m not sure that Goswami believes that God is a personal, transcendent, loving Person. Although he respects and quotes the teachings of Jesus, I also am not sure if he believes that Jesus was God in the flesh, and that the sacrifice of Christ is the power of salvation. However, just as I can learn new things from my non-Christian mechanic, so I am learning a lot from this author about how God operates.

I recently did a house lecture in Dallas in which I discussed my book, and the primary theme was first to establish the intimate relationship between created matter and God Himself, since God created all things through the breath of His word and intentionality. Second, I focused on how God’s presence and his dunamis power permeates the entire universe, and this is the same power that He holds out to us in order to heal, encourage and love others. This omnipresent power and personality of God in the universe is what Goswami calls the Quantum Consciousness and I don’t think he’s far off. In fact, I think he nailed it.

God is, after all, omnipresent. And God does, after all, possess an active and creative consciousness. When God-followers get plugged in to that source, then we also have access to the very power and faith that God possesses. In this respect God is the Consciousness that holds all things together as the Apostle Paul teaches us in Colossians 1:17. The approach that I find fascinating in Goswami’s book is that he equates God’s consciousness to the probability waves of quantum realities in which all possible decisions exist as possibilities until someone (God) makes a decision, at which time the quantum wave collapses and we have an outcome.

Sounds like a bunch of physics mumbo-jumbo I’m sure, but I’ve been reading about and trying to understand quantum physics for many years now, and this makes a lot of sense based on our relatively new knowledge of quantum physics and the unpredictable and sometimes random behavior of matter on a subatomic level.

God Is Not Dead can get a bit heady at times, and the reader needs to rely on what the author is saying about the things science is discovering about the necessary relationships between matter and consciousness. There is plenty of corroborating information about this out there, so if you’d like to check his sources, I think you’ll find that he’s onto something in describing God as the Ultimate Arbiter of all things through His purposeful collapsing of all quantum possibilities into particular choices (things that we call miracles or provision from God). And the fact that he devotes a section of the book to love and its source and meaning also convinces me that the author is sniffing around the correct tree.

If none of this makes sense, don’t worry. God is still on the throne whether or not we understand how He runs the universe. I just found this to be a very enlightening book that points me in the direction of a God who is even more magnificent than I had realized.