Season 3 Podcast 16 The Principle of Opposition

The Principle of Opposition There is a principle that could even be stated as a law.  I call it the law of opposition.  Try to imagine a world without opposing forces.  On a stormy day, we want the wind to quit.  On a cold day we want the sun to come out.  On a hot day we want a breeze to blow or a cloud to cover the sun. We like a perfect environment where nothing distracts us—no flies, no mosquitoes, no gnats, no ticks, no wasps, no thorns, no thistles, no storms, no strife, no opposition. Well, we all have our own utopia.  Try to imagine what it was like to live in the Garden of Eden before the fall. The Garden of Eden was considered the first Utopia. If you think the Garden of Eden was Utopia before the fall, think again. Before the fall there was no opposition. They did not know good from evil. They couldn’t have children.  They didn’t even know they were naked. You cannot know joy unless you know sorrow. God knew that the fall had to occur for Adam and Eve to “multiply and replenish the earth,” but it had to be Adam and Eve’s choice. God cannot force some one or even advise someone to transgress a law. He knew it would bring death into the world, both a temporal death for temporal opposition and spiritual death for spiritual opposition.In our mortal world, scientists have brilliantly defined at least four forces of nature. The strong nuclear force.  The weak nuclear force. Gravity, and electromagnetism. Laws depend upon the principle of opposition. Remove opposition and you remove those four forces. Remove those four forces and everything you see would disappear. I keep on my shelf in clear sight Newton’s Cradle. You know the frame with steel balls dangling from a string. Lift one steel ball and drop it, the steel ball on the other end flies as high as the first one was lifted, demonstrating the existence of equal and opposite forces. So much depends upon Newton’s cradle.Now again, imagine a world with no opposition.  Regardless of what you imagine, I can tell you what you will get—absolute nothingness. You would have maximum equilibrium, what scientists refer to as the giant heat death.  There would be no atoms.  What forces would hold them together?  There would be no strong nuclear force, no weak nuclear force, no electromagnetism, no gravity. Without atoms, there could be no creation; therefore, no creator and no life. There would be eternal silence, eternal nothingness.