About the Book
Our Origin and Our Immortality addresses the two most important and compelling issues of humankind. The most crucial question that the answers to these inquiries engender is whether deity is involved in the beginning or sustenance of our world. If it is, we are faced with the dilemma of how evil can exist in the world of a perfectly good God, and I have have included a theodicy to cover that eventuality. This book is Volume 2 of a two-book series entitled The Inevitable Truth, a work of Christian Philosophy named for the abstraction that exists without beginning or end with no need of creation and which gave rise to the one true God, with whose Person It is in eternal equilibrium. It consists of everything that is good for cognitive individuals. The first book of this series, Things Are Not as They Seem, prepares us for the second mainly by detailing the disabilities of our physical senses. The latter are designed to guide us through our time-bound lives that we live in order that we might change repeatedly in developing into the eternal beings that God wants as friends and as a sort of progeny to allay His solitude and to work with Him on epic matters. For purposes of trying to understand the ultimate, we need rationality and faith. The latter is a sixth sense that may be the only sense that we never lose; we are therefore to hone it and take it to the highest level possible. We are on earth also in order that we might hone our identities and develop personalities that will serve us well in the world to come, a realm of fulfillment and joy. Part 1 of this book begins with the chapter, ?Treasure in Heaven, ? which posits the claim that the treasure Jesus asks us to lay up in heaven consists of instants of present that we generate in timelessness through our acts and behavior in time. Chapter 2 imagines us as part of a program in ?God's computer, ? an extension of His mind, as computers are extensions of ours. Death in this instance is a print-out of sorts wherein we add another dimension to our lives and cease living as ?becomers? and become beings in concert with Being Himself. While we are on earth, if we follow the Christ, God makes the best of our bad choices. In Chapter 3, we explore the ultimate structure of the universe and discover various levels of existence in terms of size and otherwise, wherein there are parallels, similarities, that exist from level to level. Here we compare comparisons, for example, the few among the many, an example of which is the number of salmon eggs produced in time compared to the number of mature salmon that develop from these eggs, as opposed to, on a higher level of existence, the number of people born in a given period of time compared to the number of these that achieve heaven. In Part 2, we come to the major theses of Our Origin and Our Immortality and The Inevitable Truth. In Chapter 1 here, we find that the bare essentials of immortality accrue, on the basis of the precepts of Relativity alone and that whether we achieve happiness in eternity is not a scientific matter at all. In Chapter 2, we discuss how God derives, in the present tense outside of time and from always to always, from The Truth, which is all-Goodness, consisting specifically of, at least in part, mathematics and ethical principles e.g. ?Love is a good thing.? It is axiomatic and irrepressible, and it must personify because it is the most compelling potential imaginable and can actualize in no other way. In chapter 3, we see how science has, in recent decades, found God and note that quantum observation, representing a principle of quantum physics, turns up not only in quantum experimentation, but in the two-fold nature of creation in the book of Genesis in the Bible. Chapter 1 of Part 3 is a theodicy, as I have noted, and Chapter 2 is where I field questions that I believe are the main ones that readers of this series might wish to ask. Part 3 is followed by a glossary.
About the Author :
As the author of Our Origin and Our Immortality, I have thereby come to a point of completed research and conversion of the proceeds thereof into conclusions that represent about thirty years of effort, during which time I have assimilated information that, in my estimation, is equivalent to two additional scholastic degrees. I have made the most of my inquiries because I have more ability to retain that which I take in than does the average person. My capability in this respect is a great blessing because it enables me to connect, compare, and correlate reams of material from various disciplines of human endeavor, and the most fundamental aspect of my work in Christian philosophy emanates from the precept that material gleaned from differing ways of considering this or that issue is particularly valuable and in fact more valuable than that of any other source, especially when I am able to find agreement with me on matters wherein others ordinarily disagree. I am the product of a musical family and one that is somewhat intellectual, mostly because of my maternal grandfather, who was an attorney who did math for fun and who was a math prof at the University of Alabama before he became a lawyer. My dad was a pharmacist whose main hobbies were astronomy and other aspects of science. He subscribed to Sky and Telescope and Scientific American magazines and taught me astronomical lore that put me in good stead with my teachers and fellow classmates. My paternal grandfather endowed me with a love for the outdoors, hunting and conservation, and my medical school education caused me to demand sound evidence for anything that one expected me to believe. My first wife, Nancy Joan Martin Ivey, the finest woman and most faithful Christian since Joan of Arc, taught me the love of Jesus and endowed me with hope in the Christ that has developed into belief without doubt. She also caused me to have five children and twelve grandchildren who are loving believers and a source of deep satisfaction and unending joy. Adding these to two God-children, two foster children, one step-daughter, three step-grandchildren, and a second wife of supreme consideration and caring as well as astonishing tolerance, I have a life that I believe cannot be matched in richness and happiness. These advantages, together with an ideal employer, afford me an ideal milieu in which to pursue not only the practice of medicine but an additional vocation that gives me the greatest possible pleasure.
