Matter
I finally confirmed but always want to find in scripture: What is matter? Why does it? If something doesn't exist then it isn't matter, it is nothing.
The same way a thought is formed in our minds: out of sight, out of mind. If nothing is thought of, then does it exist. The answer is yes it does very much exist as soon as it becomes a thought. What are thoughts? They are intelligence!
This is where scriptures comes into play; however, I am not going to outline all the scriptural references. I will allow you to search for yourselves like I did and find the scriptural passages that denote these things. We are taught that God "organized" all the intelligences. After that was, Lucifer came and wanted that "glory" to "organize" unto himself: give me thine honor (is the adage used). And Satan (who he became after this moment) deceived them unto a lesser glory. A glory if left unchecked would consume all of creation in an elaborate lie. Going back to our main topic...
Imagine all thought ceasing to be. All because you don't allow yourself to think but instead allow others to think for you. How could we ever create an earth if no one could think on their own: how to act and therefore becoming perpetually a higher and higher intelligence. *FYI by a rudimentary calculation there are approximately (~) 6.71 times (10 to the power of 27) elements in a 70kg human body according to studies of nano medicine that is: 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms which equal an Octillion. (That is that same as 1 billion times itself 3 times).
This leads to my next line of questioning (it's okay Heavenly Father put us here to question and "prove herewith" all things such that we should obey his commands) for it is easier to prove something while ellecting to obey rather until the point at which something can be disproven than to disobey and learn nothing. Think then at what Jesus is really saying (now we having much more knowledge about the universe than any other branch of humanity at any other time [taking into consideration these things] in the known history which we possess) when he states these two scripture sets:
Matthew 25:15-16,20,22,24-25,28 (I will emphasize the two that matter out of this set)
25 And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine. 28 Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which hath ten talents.
John 2:14-15,19-21
14 And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: 15 And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers’ money, and overthrew the tables; 19 Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. 20 Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days? 21 But he spake of the temple of his body.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (want to include this scripture which is not Jesus’ words but one of his servants)
19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.
In consequence to a saying, “you can’t keep a good man down” Jesus said he would command his temple to be raised in reference to his body it reminded me of this saying and it being true and therefore an adage to be certain. How can a body listen to your orders and raise itself back if it was devoid of intelligence. It wouldn’t be able to do it on its own; it needs a higher intelligence. Why doesn’t all the elements in your body disintegrate? How does the spirit leave the body? Just as a spirit can tell elements to pull themselves back together (through Christ and his sacrifice; to show the lesser intelligences that we can overcome the limitations of flesh; being born of spirit, not succumb to the temptations of the elements in which we are derived) the elements can tell the spirit to leave (that the body is too badly damaged to contain authority; or the intelligences that consist of the smaller parts of the whole rent themselves rather than to allow you to no longer glorify God in your body). We are taught there is opposition in all things, also, that all things are possible through God and through Jesus, then why not a spirit that can heal the body entering back into that body, who are the elements that they can tell Jesus, “no”:
Abraham 3:21-22
21 I dwell in the midst of them all; I now, therefore, have come down unto thee to declare unto thee the works which my hands have made, wherein my wisdom excelleth them all, for I rule in the heavens above, and in the earth beneath, in all wisdom and prudence, over all the intelligences thine eyes have seen from the beginning; I came down in the beginning in the midst of all the intelligences thou hast seen. 22 Now the Lord had shown unto me, Abraham, the intelligences that were organized before the world was; and among all these there were many of the noble and great ones;
So again the topic is, “What is matter”? I have to ask another question to get further into where I am going with the real world to show us that we might realize these things. What is the difference between a hydrogen element on a planet far from our solar system verses a hydrogen element here on our planet’s surface? Opportunity. The element that is on our planet surface (in the biome where humans are) can observe us and choose to act or remain an element that it is and be acted upon:
Moses 7:55-56
55 And the Lord said unto Enoch: Look, and he looked and beheld the Son of Man lifted up on the cross, after the manner of men; 56 And he heard a loud voice; and the heavens were veiled; and all the creations of God mourned; and the earth groaned; and the rocks were rent; and the saints arose, and were crowned at the right hand of the Son of Man, with crowns of glory;
1 Nephi 19:12
12 And all these things must surely come, saith the prophet Zenos. And the rocks of the earth must rend; and because of the groanings of the earth, many of the kings of the isles of the sea shall be wrought upon by the Spirit of God, to exclaim: The God of nature suffers.
Mark 15:37-39
37 And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost. 38 And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom. 39 ¶ And when the centurion, which stood over against him, saw that he so cried out, and gave up the ghost, he said, Truly this man was the Son of God.
The earth moved with compassion at Christ, whatever, whenever; he had the attention of the elements, they (if it can be called such) were watching his actions. The point to be taken from all of this is that all the atoms exist in their default state (waiting to be acted upon), when God’s great and noble ones appear the elements take notice and act accordingly. Or in our situation we use science to manipulate these atoms by applying heat or some other less holy means to enacting our will on the universe around us. Now let’s talk about the opposition once again. Satan the default force in the universe: the force that is base (lowest or bottom part) having made himself the lowest in God’s kingdom. Satan wanted all the Glory but none of the work and required that all that come to him will automatically be allowed and “not one shall be lost”. Understanding that when Satan does and says these things he is telling an absolute truth, but to us it is what we call a half-truth because once you realize you were fooled you end up with half of what you started with. We know if someone sits around and does nothing they end up with nothing. We also know that Satan basically told everyone to sit around and do only what he asks and that he would do all the organizing of this new found responsibility and all the suffering and work will fall on who he declares. When I say who I mean to say all the intelligences that are or shall be. Because with God all things are one eternal round. In this way matter, space, and time are all constructs in the physical universe of what is left to witness after the war in heaven and creation. We saw in the Book of Mormon how according to the history of the Nephites we are told that they could not write the hundredth part of all the proceedings of the people. The plates are reserved for us in our day and our time to contain what we need to know. The point is that we don’t need to know that all the elements in our universe comprise intelligences that were deceived by Satan and just sit around waiting for his command, but when a higher intelligence like God comes around (or one of his servants; see Jesus Creation Topic in Scriptures) all those elements move to become planets in their regular alignments. Once certain elements are bunched together in a large congregation of intelligences their influence can be felt as one great body; the gravity well of a celestial body. In this fashion God is able to get those intelligences that wait to be acted upon and get them to act without being present by organizing them in a way that influences them to act according to they way they naturally align. In this way God has created nature by forming intelligences into shapes, patterns, and manipulating them to do the most that can be asked of that intelligence.
Where much is given, much is required; we know this scripture, it goes along with Jesus teaching of the talents. Those that buried their talents ended up with nothing more than they started merely remaining a single atom intelligence that can no further grow on its own. In fact we are taught beyond this New Testament idea even further in the Book of Mormon:
Doctrine and Covenants 43:10
10 That inasmuch as ye do this, glory shall be added to the kingdom which ye have received. Inasmuch as ye do it not, it shall be taken, even that which ye have received.
If everything were taken away from us at the beginning then we would become eventually as empty and dead as space; absent in the fact of existence, but existent nonetheless to the fact that a place where you don’t exist does exist and that is called space. We don’t need to worry about this because we kept our first estate and God promised this much, that we were intelligent enough to keep our body (we have been promised our bodies, even though they aren’t ours, we are borrowing them from the elements); however, when we get to be reunited with those bodies depends on our worthiness to be called upon in that resurection.
What makes a leader different than all their constituents? Higher intellect must lead lesser intellect which is evident in nature and society. When a leader arises like Satan, the people are caught up under their promise of superior leadership (for they seem to know what they are talking about); however, like all things in life the shoe always drops. In the Satanic leader’s diadem they trust that by the time a person with less intelligence gains the fact that they have been deceived that there is already power over that person: some never gain the intellect necessary to free themselves from that hell. We are taught by God that the natural man is an enemy to God and as such in this natural world there is a force that can destroy your spirit just as there is a force that can build it up:
St Luke Chapter 10
13 Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been done in you, they had a great while ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. 14 But it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment, than for you. 15 And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shalt be thrust down to hell. 16 He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me. 17 ¶ And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name. 18 And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. 19 Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you. 20 Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven. 21 ¶ In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight.
Satan’s power lies with forcing people into the place he has fashioned for them: social standing, status, position, conformity(worldly), and political influence/affluence. Notice I opened to the fact that political power has more to do with wealth & Jesus opened to the fact that heaven has nothing to do with that:
Luke 18:25
25 For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Matthew 19:24
24 And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Mark 10:25
25 It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
You cannot just Hie to Kolob; space is required for you to distance yourself from God because you are an enemy to him (natural man), time is required that you may choose to make you way toward the ultimate promised land, the place where God resides, Kolob. And he doesn’t want your money; he wants your broken heart and contrite spirit, he is God he can make anything he wants, his motivation is to create leaders (Chiasmus; respectively):
Moses 1:4-6,38-39
4 And, behold, thou art my son; wherefore look, and I will show thee the workmanship of mine hands; but not all, for my works are without end, and also my words, for they never cease. 5 Wherefore, no man can behold all my works, except he behold all my glory; and no man can behold all my glory, and afterwards remain in the flesh on the earth. 6 And I have a work for thee, Moses, my son; and thou art in the similitude of mine Only Begotten; and mine Only Begotten is and shall be the Savior, for he is full of grace and truth; but there is no God beside me, and all things are present with me, for I know them all. 38 And as one earth shall pass away, and the heavens thereof even so shall another come; and there is no end to my works, neither to my words. 39 For behold, this is my work and my glory—to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.
God himself never ceases to work; we can therefore never catch-up to his works and because of this he will always (have the glory/honor) remain to us a God which we shall reverence. Those are your choices keep “[working] out your salvation” or become a base element an intelligence that has nothing good but to be acted upon by some other intelligence whether good or bad. Those that Love God fear him for this reason: to be cast into outer darkness is to become nothing and to no longer exist. Existence is relative, if no one ever sees you again do you exist? A death to a God would be to no longer exist. We don’t see God anymore, but that doesn’t mean he no longer exists. We see the evident nature all around us that proves he exists: in essence we see his ghost or the non-physical manifestation of his impact on the world/creation/everything. Since God is Holy he left his impression upon us all: workmanship of his hands; possessed of whatever he put in us (spiritually) to have... What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own… The Holy Ghost is the part, very core of us, that is remnant of God’s fire he put in us: the first creation of ourselves. The unpardonable sin is to deny the Holy Ghost, deny yourself, deny that you exist, and that you were created perfectly by a loving and benevolent being. To put out the spiritual fire yourself and murder your own spirit that the Holy Ghost can have no place in you and altogether turneth therefrom was (in a one eternal round situation) as if you never have been, nor ever were created: (opposition in all things) the opposite of eternal life. It would have been better if you were never born because as a higher intelligence (back on topic once again) all other intelligences look up to you and follow suite and we do in fact (each and everyone of us) whether we choose to or not have an impact on our universe. All eyes are on this planet where Christ was born. The testimony and what you do with it can never be taken, only you can put it out yourself through unbelief and doubt. That is what matters. Just a thought.
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