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Athiest are saying God does not exist. How can I prove them wrong? If I say the God's existence is beyond Time, Space and Matter, beyond physical dimension, natural dimension, supernatural dimension. He is existed in Trensendental Dimension.
“Elohim exists beyond time, space, and matter, in a transcendental dimension”, you’re making a claim that:
Elohim is not part of the universe – so He isn’t bound by the laws of physics.
God is not limited by categories like natural vs. supernatural – He is above and beyond all dimensions we can conceive.
“Elohim exists beyond time, space, and matter, in a transcendental dimension”, you’re making a claim that:
Elohim is not part of the universe – so He isn’t bound by the laws of physics.
God is not limited by categories like natural vs. supernatural – He is above and beyond all dimensions we can conceive.
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00:00Elohim's Transcendence
00:01Beyond time, space, and matter all through history,
00:04humanity has asked the deepest question,
00:07does God exist?
00:08Atheists say, no, because you cannot see Him or measure Him.
00:12But the truth is this,
00:13the existence of Elohim is not confined to the categories of nature or science.
00:18His reality is beyond time, beyond space, beyond matter,
00:23beyond everything we can comprehend.
00:25In the Scriptures, Genesis 1, one declares,
00:28In the beginning, Elohim created the heavens and the earth.
00:32That short statement reveals more than a thousand arguments.
00:36It tells us that before time began, before space expanded, before matter appeared,
00:41Elohim already was.
00:43He is the source of all.
00:44To grasp this, we need humility because our human minds are limited.
00:49And there is a story from St. Francis of Assisi that illustrates this perfectly.
00:53By the end of this message, we will
00:55Understand the transcendence of Elohim,
00:58that He exists beyond time, space, and matter.
01:02Recognize the limits of human reason.
01:04We cannot fully contain Elohim in our thoughts.
01:07See how both Scripture and modern cosmology affirm the universe had a beginning.
01:12Respond to atheistic objections that deny Elohim's reality.
01:16Deepen our awe and faith in Elohim as both transcendent and near.
01:20Let us kill it with the story of St. Francis St. Francis of Assisi once walked along the beach
01:27near his monastery, pondering the mystery of God's existence.
01:31He longed to understand how the eternal Elohim could be the cause of all things.
01:36As he walked, he saw a little boy digging a small pond in the sand.
01:40The child was running back and forth with a seashell, carrying water from the vast ocean
01:45and pouring it into the hole.
01:47Francis asked,
01:48My boy, what are you doing?
01:49The child replied,
01:50I am trying to pour the whole ocean into my pond.
01:53Francis smiled and said,
01:55That is impossible.
01:56The ocean is too vast for such a small hole.
01:59The child then looked at him with a heavenly light and answered,
02:02And so it is with you, Francis.
02:04How can you, with your limited human mind, contain the infinite nature of Yahweh,
02:09the one who brought the universe into existence?
02:11The child then vanished, for he was no ordinary child, but an angel.
02:16Francis fell to his knees, realizing the lesson.
02:19We can know Elohim is real, but we can never reduce him to the limits of our human reasoning.
02:25Reasoning with scripture and science, let's see.
02:27The scriptures tell us,
02:29In the beginning, Elohim created the heavens and the earth.
02:32Genesis 1, 1.
02:34Science tells us the universe had a beginning about 13.8 billion years ago with the Big Bang.
02:39Before that event, there was no time, no space, and no matter.
02:44This means the universe cannot be its own cause.
02:47Nothing cannot cause something.
02:49The cause must exist outside of time, space, and matter.
02:53The cause must be timeless, spaceless, immaterial, and powerful enough to bring all things into existence.
02:59That cause is Elohim.
03:01When Moses asked Elohim for his name, the answer was,
03:04I am who I am.
03:06Exodus 3.14
03:07He is the necessary being, the one who simply is.
03:11Unlike the universe which began to exist, Elohim has no beginning and no cause.
03:16He is eternal and self-existent.
03:18John 1.1-3 echoes this truth.
03:21In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
03:26Through Him all things were made.
03:28Without Him nothing was made that has been made.
03:30The order, beauty, and rational structure of the cosmos point to a divine mind, the Logos.
03:36Atheists may argue, if Elohim is beyond time and space, how can you know Him?
03:41The answer is simple.
03:43Through revelation.
03:44Just as we know gravity by its effects, we know Elohim by His works.
03:48The fingerprints of Elohim are seen in creation, in the fine-tuning of the universe, in the moral law within us, and in the testimony of lives transformed by His Spirit.
03:58Etheists are saying God does not exist.
04:02How can I prove them wrong?
04:03If I say that God's existence is beyond time, space, and matter, beyond physical dimension, natural dimension, supernatural dimension, He has existed in transcendental dimension.
04:15Elohim exists beyond time, space, and matter, in a transcendental dimension.
04:20Elohim is not part of the universe, so He isn't bound by the laws of physics.
04:33Elohim is not limited by categories like natural v. supernatural.
04:38He is above and beyond all dimensions we can conceive.
04:42Elohim is the necessary foundation, because if He is beyond space, time, and matter, He could be the source that brought them into existence.
04:50This position is very common in theology, ETH, classical Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and some strands of philosophy.
04:58However, atheists will often respond.
05:01If Elohim is beyond time and space, then how can you know anything about Him?
05:06If Elohim is beyond physical reality, there's no way to test or prove His existence, so belief is just faith.
05:13Human limitations.
05:14Just because something is beyond science doesn't mean it doesn't exist, example.
05:18Love, consciousness, or the reason why the universe exists.
05:23Indirect evidence.
05:24We can't measure God directly, but we can see signs, order in the universe, moral truths, personal experiences.
05:31That point to something beyond.
05:33Philosophical necessity.
05:34If everything in the universe depends on something else, there must be a necessary being outside at all, otherwise nothing would exist.
05:42The universe exists.
05:43Science tells us it began 13.8 billion years ago with the Big Bang.
05:49But that raises the deepest question.
05:51Why does the universe exist at all?
05:53Everything that begins to exist has a cause.
05:56The universe began to exist.
05:58Therefore, the universe must have a cause.
06:00But this cause cannot be inside the universe, because the universe itself is what began.
06:05So the cause must be outside of space, time, and matter.
06:09That means the cause is spaceless, timeless, immaterial, unimaginably powerful, and able to bring everything into existence.
06:17In other words, a transcendent creator.
06:19Some say maybe the universe caused itself, or maybe quantum physics explains it.
06:24But self-causation is a contradiction.
06:26And quantum physics still requires laws of nature, space, and time, which didn't exist before the universe.
06:33Nothing cannot cause something.
06:34Transcendental being exists beyond all dimensions, not natural, not supernatural, but the very foundation of existence itself.
06:42That is what we call Elohim.
06:45In the opening line of scripture, Genesis 1, one declares,
06:49In the beginning, Elohim created the heavens and the earth.
06:52These words are more than poetry.
06:55They are a profound statement about the origin of all things.
06:58The phrase, in the beginning, refers not just to a point in human history, but to the very beginning of time itself.
07:05When the universe began, Elohim was already there, standing beyond it.
07:10Modern cosmology confirms that the universe had a beginning.
07:14The Big Bang theory shows that space, time, matter, and energy all came into existence about 13.8 billion years ago.
07:21Before this event, there was no time ticking, no empty space waiting, no matter floating in a void.
07:28The beginning of the universe matches the biblical picture.
07:32Elohim exists before and beyond what we now call the cosmos.
07:36If space, time, and matter had a beginning, they must have a cause.
07:39A cause cannot come from within the system that began.
07:42It must come from outside.
07:44In the opening of Genesis, the Bible reveals that Elohim existed before the beginning of time itself,
07:51showing he was present even before what modern science calls the Big Bang.
07:55Genesis 1, one declares,
07:58In the beginning, Elohim created the heavens and the earth,
08:01affirming that time, space, and matter came into existence only when he willed it,
08:05while he himself is eternal.
08:07Verse 2 describes the primordial condition as formless and void,
08:12with darkness upon the face of the deep,
08:14which resonates with the scientific understanding of the early universe
08:18as a chaotic, unseen, energy-filled state before structure appeared.
08:23The spirit of Elohim hovering over the waters speaks of his sustaining power preparing creation for order.
08:29Then in Genesis 1-3, Elohim said,
08:32Let there be light, and there was light.
08:34This divine command mirrors the cosmic explosion of light and energy we know as the Big Bang,
08:40when the universe suddenly expanded and illumination burst forth.
08:44Thus, scripture testifies that Elohim's word was the true origin and cause of all existence.
08:51This cause must be timeless because time itself began.
08:54It must be spaceless because space itself began.
08:57It must be immaterial because matter itself began.
09:00That description fits Elohim perfectly.
09:02When Elohim revealed his name to Moses in Exodus 3-14, he said,
09:07I am who I am.
09:09This statement is not merely about identity but about existence itself.
09:13Elohim is not a being that derives his existence from something else.
09:17He simply is.
09:18This is what philosophers call a necessary being, one who cannot not exist.
09:24Unlike the universe which began to exist, Elohim's being is eternal, self-existent, and uncaused.
09:30The Big Bang, then, does not compete with Elohim.
09:33It points to him.
09:35Science can describe the unfolding of the universe from a singularity,
09:39but it cannot explain why there is something rather than nothing.
09:42The Big Bang is the what happened.
09:44Elohim is the why it happened.
09:46Without Elohim, one is left with the impossible claim that the universe created itself,
09:51or that something came from nothing without cause.
09:54The Gospel of John echoes Genesis with philosophical depth.
09:58In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
10:03Through him all things were made.
10:05Without him nothing was made that has been made.
10:07John 1, 1-3
10:09Here the word logos is the rational principle,
10:13the divine mind through which creation took shape.
10:15The universe is not a blind accident but the product of wisdom and purpose.
10:20Elohim, therefore, is not simply a God within creation,
10:24bound by its rules, but the source of creation itself.
10:28He transcends the categories of natural and supernatural.
10:32The natural describes the ordinary order of the universe,
10:35and the supernatural refers to extraordinary events within it.
10:39Elohim is beyond both.
10:41He is not inside the play as a character.
10:44He is the author of the play itself.
10:46This transcendence places Elohim in what we might call the transcendental dimension.
10:51This is not a location, or a layer stacked above the universe, but the very ground of reality.
10:57All dimensions, physical, natural, and even what we call supernatural,
11:02derive their possibility from this transcendental source.
11:05Without Elohim, nothing could exist at all.
11:08Atheists often respond by asking,
11:11If Elohim is beyond space and time, how can you know anything about Him?
11:15The answer is revelation.
11:17Just as we cannot see gravity itself but know it through its effects,
11:21we know Elohim through what He has revealed through creation,
11:24through scripture, and through lived experience.
11:27The fingerprints of Elohim are visible in the order of the cosmos,
11:30the moral awareness within us, and the testimonies of human history.
11:35Another objection is that if Elohim is beyond science,
11:38belief in Him is only blind faith.
11:41Yet science itself rests on unprovable assumptions.
11:44That the universe is orderly, that our minds can grasp truth,
11:48that logic and mathematics are reliable.
11:51These assumptions are not derived from experiments but presupposed for experiments to be possible.
11:57They point beyond science to a rational ground,
11:59the Logos of Elohim.
12:01Philosophers argue that every contingent thing, that is,
12:05every being that could either exist or not exist,
12:08requires an explanation.
12:10The universe is contingent.
12:12It began and could have been otherwise.
12:14Therefore, it cannot explain itself.
12:16There must be a necessary being that explains why the universe exists.
12:21Elohim, whose name means I am,
12:23is that necessary ground of all existence.
12:25This stands in stark contrast to the idea of self-creation.
12:30For the universe to create itself,
12:32it would need to exist before it existed,
12:34which is a contradiction.
12:36Appeals to quantum fluctuations do not solve the problem either,
12:40since they presuppose physical laws and energy fields.
12:43Quantum laws are part of the universe.
12:46They did not precede it.
12:47Elohim's transcendence means He is not constrained by time.
12:50All of history, past, present, and future is equally present to Him.
12:55While we move through time, He stands outside it.
12:57From His vantage point, the Big Bang,
13:00today's world, and the end of the universe
13:01are all visible in one eternal now.
13:04This timelessness is consistent with the scriptural claim
13:07that with Elohim, a thousand years are like a day.
13:10Psalm 90, 4.
13:12Likewise, Elohim is not constrained by space.
13:15The universe expands.
13:17Galaxies move apart, but He is not somewhere within space.
13:21Instead, all of space is contained within His sustaining power.
13:25As Solomon prayed,
13:26Even the highest heaven cannot contain you.
13:291 Kings 8, 27.
13:31This means that Elohim is not measured or limited by physical dimensions.
13:35Being beyond matter also means Elohim is not composed of atoms or energy.
13:40Unlike us, He is not dependent on chemical reactions or physical structures.
13:45This immaterial nature explains why scripture insists that Elohim is spirit.
13:50Matter is contingent, decaying, and finite.
13:53Elohim is unchanging, eternal, and infinite.
13:56To understand this, imagine absolute nothingness.
14:00No particles, no space, no laws, no time.
14:03Could such nothing ever produce something?
14:05No, because nothing has no power.
14:07The very fact that something exists instead of nothing requires a reality that is self-existent.
14:13Elohim alone fits that role, but transcendence does not mean distance.
14:18Elohim is also imminent, actively present within creation.
14:22He not only initiated the Big Bang, but also sustains the universe moment by moment.
14:27As Paul told the Athenians,
14:28This dual truth, beyond and within, allows us to know Him personally, even though He is infinite.
14:40Human limitations should humble us.
14:42Just because we cannot fully grasp eternity does not mean eternity does not exist.
14:48Mathematicians work with the concept of infinity, though it cannot be physically measured.
14:52Similarly, we can reason about Elohim's transcendence even if it surpasses our complete comprehension.
14:59Indirect evidence strengthens this reasoning.
15:02The fine-tuning of universal constants points to deliberate calibration.
15:06The existence of universal moral truths points to a moral lawgiver.
15:11The irreducibility of consciousness points to mind as fundamental.
15:15None of these can be adequately explained by blind physical processes alone.
15:19They make sense when grounded in Elohim.
15:23Personal testimony also plays a role.
15:25Across cultures and centuries, countless people have reported experiences of Elohim
15:30in prayer, in miracles, in inner transformation.
15:34These cannot be dismissed as illusions,
15:37because the consistency and transformative power of these encounters
15:40testify to a real and transcendent source.
15:44If Elohim exists beyond space, time, and matter,
15:47then atheists demanding physical proof are asking for the wrong kind of evidence.
15:52It would be like asking a telescope to measure love or justice.
15:56Instead, the appropriate methods are philosophical reasoning,
16:00moral awareness, and experiential testimony.
16:03Together, these provide a cumulative case that is powerful and coherent.
16:07The Big Bang is finite, measurable, and temporary.
16:11Elohim is infinite, immeasurable, and eternal.
16:14The Big Bang is the opening note of a cosmic symphony.
16:18Elohim is both the composer and the sustaining harmony.
16:22The scientific model explains expansion.
16:24Scripture reveals the one who spoke it into existence.
16:27The universe bears his fingerprints, but he himself is beyond the universe.
16:32For this reason, the name Elohim is deeply fitting.
16:35It conveys majesty, sovereignty, and power.
16:38He is not merely one being within reality, but the foundation of reality itself.
16:42The one who simply is, the I am.
16:46Genesis, Exodus, and John come together with cosmology to proclaim the same truth.
16:51The universe began, but Elohim has no beginning.
16:54He is the eternal ground of all being, the source of time, space, and matter,
16:58and the reason anything exists at all.
17:01St. Francis learned that we cannot pour the infinite ocean into a small whole,
17:05and likewise, we cannot contain Elohim in our limited minds.
17:09But that does not mean we cannot know him.
17:11It means that his greatness surpasses us, and we are invited into wonder and worship.
17:17Science can tell us how the universe began, but only Elohim can answer why.
17:22He is beyond natural and supernatural.
17:25He is transcendental.
17:26He is the ground of all being, the necessary foundation of existence.
17:30So when atheists say, there is no God, we can answer.
17:34Look at the universe.
17:36It had a beginning.
17:37It needs a cause.
17:38That cause is Elohim, timeless, spaceless, immaterial, all-powerful, and ever-present.
17:44And we can bow in faith with St. Francis, declaring,
17:46Even the highest heavens cannot contain you, O Lord, 1 Kings 8, 27.
17:521. Walk in humility.
17:54Acknowledge that our human understanding is limited.
17:57Instead of trying to shrink Elohim to our reasoning, let us stand in awe of his greatness.
18:022. Trust his revelation.
18:03Though Elohim is beyond space, time, and matter, he has revealed himself through creation,
18:09through his word, and through his dealings with humanity.
18:12He makes himself known in ways we can grasp.
18:153. See his fingerprints, the order of the universe, the moral law written in our hearts,
18:20and the depth of human experience all point to Elohim as the eternal ground of existence.
18:264. Live in his presence.
18:28Elohim is not far away.
18:30Though he is beyond all dimensions, he is also imminent, sustaining our very breath.
18:35In him we live, move, and have our being.
18:37May the eternal Elohim, who is beyond time, space, and matter,
18:42yet present in every moment of our lives, fill us with wisdom to know him,
18:46humility to worship him, and strength to testify of his greatness.
18:50May his presence guide us, his truth uphold us,
18:53and his eternal light shine upon us until the end of days.
18:56Amen.
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