Interstellar was simply stellar! Although, I am sure you have heard me say that about many movies about which I have written (except for maybe the non-fairy tale Bridge to Tarabithia), this one was truly exceptional…well atlas what I saw in it was. So here is my take. It just seems that my eyes are always seeking and searching for the deeper truths that can be revealed in movies and stories in general. Interstellar was no exception. If you have not seen it then this blog post might be a spoiler. Spoiler Alert! If you have seen it, it still might be a spoiler. Spoiler Alert! And the fact is, it might be neither either way!
Jumping right in. I saw Interstellar as explaining love to be the 5th dimension. Well, maybe not Interstellar in and of itself…but Interstellar joined with my love and knowledge of Scripture and science.
found @ http://multi-dimensions-physics.blogspot.com/2010/08/tesseract.html
It all comes down to the tesseract. A tesseract can be described as an unraveled four dimensional cube, also known as a hypercube. Here is a brief explanation. If you take a two dimensional cross (composed of six squares), you can fold that shape into a cube. A cross is therefore an example of an unraveled cube. Therefore, a 2D cross when folded together becomes a 3D cube. What does a 3D cube become when it is folded? To answer that, you first have to know that the 4th dimension is time. So a 4D “shape” has to somehow include time in it. Since we cannot really comprehend that, what we can do is draw a picture of what an unraveled four dimensional cube would look like. It would be a tesseract. See pictures.
found @ http://multi-dimensions-physics.blogspot.com/2010/08/tesseract.html
Towards the end of the movie, when the main character, Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), finds himself in a tesseract we get to see a picture of all of time happening concurrently. The more powerful aspect is that which brought Cooper to that time and space. What brought him there? Love! It was love that Brand (Anne Hathway) was so desperately trying to quantify when she was pleading to get Cooper to go to the planet where Edmund was waiting. Cooper ignored this pull of the Fifth Dimension, denied its existence and ended up experiencing it first hand when he had to sacrifice himself for all of mankind by flying into the center of the black hole. Once there, he found himself in the tesseract. Love is that which transcends all of time and space! Love is the fifth dimension…or maybe it is the quintessence. In physics the quintessence it the fifth fundamental force. It is potentially the force which holds the other dimensions and universe together.
Love! Now let me come to my point. God is love! 1 John 4:8 says that God is love! He is the very essence of all that is and from His word all that is has come to be and all that is, is sustained by Him (John 1:1-4; Genesis 1:1; Acts 17:26-28). And God is love. But He is very personal! He is not just some abstract force that holds the universe together or that the universe is made of, as postulated by some pantheistic philosophies. No God is Love–and God is a person. One of my favorite paintings of all times is Salvador Dali’s Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus). Why?
Look at it below! It shows that the very act of God was something that transcended all of time and space. It shows that Jesus, who was 100% God and 100% man, was capable of being the just sacrifice for the sins of all of mankind across all of time, in order to reconcile us to Himself, the Creator. I also love that His act as, shown in Dali’s painting, is overshadowing a checkered game board. To me that shows that His act was a “check-mate” against the schemes and the games of the enemy. (It’s kind of hard to play chess with someone who can see all of the potential moves that can be made and as a result can see the ones that will be made.) Not only does Christ being crucified on the tesseract explain how love transcends all dimensions, it also shows how that which is incomprehensible to our minds became comprehensible. In other words, Jesus is a tesseract. He is God unraveled into our finite dimension. And again, God is Love! “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life (John 3:16). Oh yah, I did I mention that five is the number of Grace?!
Jesus’ love and sacrifice transcend all of time and space!
Sunday, February 18th, 2018
SPOILER ALERT – You have been warned! If I’m writing about Black Panther that means I am going to totally spoil it for you if you haven’t seen it. And I mean spoil it way more than the spoilers (trailers) do. (#trailerssuck) Read this after watching Black Panther. I just got back from watching Black […]
Monday, December 5th, 2016
It Was the Worst of Times,…actually that about sums it up I have just realized, the Old Testament (OT) is a picture of a father dealing with an infant, then toddler, then tween. This is why Yahweh’s ways seem so barbaric to us now. We live in an age after the Messiah has returned. When […]
Friday, September 9th, 2016
I have heard it said that most people deny the claims of Christ for moral reasons and not intellectual ones.((I think Ravi Zacharias states this. )) When I consider the wealth of evidences that converge to confirm the Deity of Jesus the Messiah my heart often aches for those who fear to face the real […]
Monday, August 8th, 2016
Our Wedding 8 years ago today on 8/8/8 I married Her! I love you Jenni! Happy Anniversary. To 88 more. To Infinity and Beyond! (The first part of the video has no images, just the music and a dark screen.) [flowplayer src=”https://faithfight.org/Our-Wedding.mp4″ width=”480″]
Thursday, March 21st, 2013
Just watched another fantastic fairytale: Rise of the Guardians! As usual I am so entirely enveloped, that to even explain what I experience while watching such a tale (or reading one) is to invite slight puzzlement as most see such tales as simple child’s play. Yet there is a “deep magic” in myth, undeniable truth, […]
Wednesday, September 28th, 2011
The other day I met yet another displaced Louisianian. I have met so many over the past few years who were compelled from Louisiana to Texas because of Hurricane Katrina. From what I understand, Louisiana and particularly ground zero were one of the most poverty stricken areas in our nation. Although I definitely don’t believe […]
Monday, June 20th, 2011
When I was a child I discovered that great thrills could be found in cereal boxes. Oh, the treasure of the buried toy in my Cinnamon Toast Crunch! My favorite cereal box collection of all was a phosphorescent solar system. I collected planets, stars and space ships that glowed in the dark. I then carefully […]
Saturday, February 26th, 2011
“And when the king heard the words of the Book of the Law, he rent his clothes” (2 Kings 22). Josiah’s response was direct and decisive. Josiah’s response was the only response. His heart was so torn that the only way he could convey his brokenness was to violently tear his garments. He took the […]
Monday, January 17th, 2011
Are you a Calvinist or an Armenian? Many Christians have no doubt had to wrestle with whether they fall under the banner of John or Jacobus, whether they think the rapture could happen at any moment, whether they should be sprinkled or dunked and other such theological issues. So often I hear these debates and […]
Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
My son is about nine months old and he is not yet potty trained. When he was younger he couldn’t really stand to have a poopy diaper. It was really quite amazing. As soon as he would finish taking care of business he would look at you with pleading eyes saying, “Please take this smelly […]
Wednesday, November 10th, 2010
I am such a big fan of brain washing! In fact I have found it to be a daily necessity. Have you been brain washing? During one of our staff meetings a few days ago we were discussing how to go about building up faith and resolve. The realization that was echoed and reechoed was […]
Monday, September 13th, 2010
As I stood there in the arena beneath the bleachers equipped in my fight gear, taking a break from warming up, I looked out towards the cage and beheld time. The announcer was introducing a karate star of old. In his prime he had won multiple titles including several world karate championship titles. He had […]