Season 3 Podcast 230 "What is Real, Pt 1: Introduction"

What is Real Pt 1  IntroductionIn other podcasts I have written about the subject, “What is Real?” The question is simply too large to cover in a few podcasts, so I keep coming back to it. In this podcast, because of the limitations of time, I shall be obliged to just give a brief introduction. It will be followed in Podcast 231 by a rather strange, but hopefully revealing, allegory. The theme of reality is not easy to deal with. I realize that trying to explain the real with the unreal is a rather strange way to approach reality.We are dual beings. We are temporal beings subject to temporal laws, and we are spiritual beings subject to spiritual laws. The subject of reality must address both natures and both sets of laws. Laws define reality. Laws define truth. Temporal laws define temporal reality or temporal truth, and spiritual laws define spiritual reality or spiritual truth. To understand reality, we must understand law. Truth and law cannot be separated. When studying science, you must separate true science, or true law, from theories of law.  Theoretical science is not strictly speaking science. It is a sort of working hypothesis that has not been proven to be an absolute law. Some of the wild theories surrounding evolution are a case in point. Probability is a gamble. True science cannot play dice. There is no proof  that man descended from apes.  The gap is too large. There is no evidence that life began by accident, the probability is too small.  The same is true for religion. One should not confuse science with theories of science any more than one should confuse religion with theories of Religion. The Apostle Paul said, “For why is my liberty judged of another man’s conscience.” There is true science and true religion both based on law, or neither have meaning. There is that which is real and that which is merely presumed to be real. This podcast and others like it are based on the following ten assumptions. Obviously, there are other assumptions, but the following ten are sufficient for my purposes. If any of the assumptions are false, then any discussion about reality is meaningless. The assumptions are: 1.     All truth is circumscribed or bound or encompassed under one vast universal whole.2.     Truth can never contradict truth just as law can never contradict law.3.     Truth and law are absolute.4.     Something can never come from nothing, which include the obvious, nothing can create itself.5.     Everything is made of matter and energy.6.     Matter and energy self-exist or it violates propositions 4 & 5 above.7.     Intelligence or consciousness or life force self-exist for the same reason that matter and energy self-exist.  8.     That which self exists cannot be created or destroyed.9.     Everything has its opposite or even life couldn’t exist, laws couldn’t exist, creation couldn’t exist.10.  All creation is organized by law through intelligent design. Only through law can it be protected, perfected, and sanctified. The intelligent designer is God who never changes. The above assumptions validate the existence of God and deny