The Most Important Question in our Universe
One thing sure about this universe is that it is finite.
They say it has the width of 47 billion light years. It is very huge but still finite. For a space which is finite, there is the outside. Then what is there outside the universe?
If something or other universe exists outside our universe that is also finite, what exists outside it. Maybe this structure might be repeated infinitely. But will it satisfy our mind and sense?
From a religious point of view, it doesn't matter what structure, simple or complicated or finite or infinite, our universe and other universes take. It is the very act of God. He can exercise his infinite ability and power in handling material universes. But there must be one important sphere called Heaven in addition to the hell.
Our minds and souls are linked to some functions or spirits which exist in Heaven or some spiritual sphere. When we were born and grow, gradually a link between a physical human and a spirit in the heavenly sphere must be established. A human being as a physical entity lives following various physical and biological conditions, but the mind and soul of each man is linked to a corresponding spirit in Heaven or the spiritual sphere.
According to the Gospel, Christ Jesus was directly linked to the spirit of God. But ordinary persons cannot have their souls connected to God. However, as Christ Jesus told to accumulate treasure in Heaven, we can have our souls linked to higher-ranking spirits in Heaven through good work we do on the earth.
In contrast, if we do wrong, neglecting the poor, the weak, the oppressed, etc., we will be surely connected to the hell.
When we die, leaving our physical bodies and this world, our souls will be completely united with other ourselves in Heaven or the hell. Then we will start a new life in the spiritual world. And such a life can be infinitely long. Further, if we are united with our own remote spirits in Heaven, no one would like to come back to this wild, namely the rotten, and painful material world. If we can live more closely to God in Heaven, why do we like to leave it to live in this incomplete material world so far away from God?
So, it is far more meaningful for us to think about Heaven than imagine what exists beyond our finite material universe and beyond.
Nonetheless, we may ask why God created this material universe? Was it to create human beings who will eventually enter Heaven or fall in to the hell? Why does God need us? According to Christ Jesus, it is love. But mankind cannot yet fully comprehend the love of God toward us.
Finally can mankind believe that God loves us so much, while there are so many people who have to live a horrible life and die a terrible death? This is the most important question for us who will die someday at 100%.
Our Material Universe in Gray and Other Universes
Anyway God can be defined, if so humanly, as the one that governs everything, including Himself, that exists and does not exist.
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Joh 12:1 Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.
Joh 12:2 There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him.
Joh 12:3 Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
Joh 12:4 Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which should betray him,
Joh 12:5 Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?
Joh 12:6 This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.
Joh 12:7 Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.
Joh 12:8 For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.