As I've mentioned in the past, while NLT and EHT both provide a potential explanation (mathematically acceptable) for god and an afterlife, neither completely eliminates a "religious" god because even if you accept that God is the concentration of all intelligence (past present and future) concentrated in one place without time or dimension, you still need some sort of explanation for the "environment" (timeless and dimensionless) where non linear time exists.
This doesn't require a god, perhaps it even teaches away from one, but it NLT and even String HT (a primitive but mathematically more fully version of EHT) only takes us so far into the infinite onion of existence.
And, of course the mathematically sound god can be measured mathematically (see The Einstein Hologram Universe for a sample of what the calculation would look like); while no religion I am aware of is audacious enough define the almighty in terms which are so easy to describe in EHT. More interesting still, is our ability to define the universe in terms of a single non-linear point defining not only the entire universe, but defining the moment by moment changes in the universe (This is covered previously and will, one day soon if I have the courage to make it happen in the second edition of EHT).
So while there is a distinctly non-romantic version of the afterlife (everyone being part of some dimensionless existence where everything happens at once); it is possible that this timeless existence feeds into something where existence could easily be unimaginable to dimension/time phenomena like ourselves. Answering this question is much more interesting than the existing answers to our universe.
I am not going to deny you your god, perhaps my god too. Our only difference is in approach and so many wars have been fought over approach and I have no intention of fighting you because your god is based on faith and mine is based, at least as far as non linearity can take it, on science; for both of us rely on the teachings of men. And your oldest books are not as old as the teachings on which mine should be based, and your oral traditions precede mine by centuries if not millennium.
What type of heaven, hell or purgatory would you have, what have you done with your life, that it would exist all at once, forever. And how would you describe this 2500 years ago and how would you describe it today.
The idea of a prophet, someone who understands the non-linear universe because of insight, versus a pure mathematical understanding, is very likely, especially in EHT and those parts of NLT that would accept that non-linear time means that everything happens at once before their is linear time and that it would be possible for someone to envision the existence of the entire universe, the past the present and the future. It is also possible that we would all have some part of this and would have a natural inclination to follow one of these prophets who descriptions resonated with what we internally comprehend on the level where our intellect is one with non-linear time.
The non-linear time concepts might sound like a lack of self determination, but the truth is that we have more obligation to attempt to act correctly under a predestination, "everything happens at once", argument than any other. It is even more crucial when we talk about the possibility that we will have to live whatever life we've made for ourselves through eternity. The need to take where we find ourselves tonight and make our lives something we'd want to live is greater in a universe where what we have to look forward to is experiencing this for eternity. Is there anything that would be worse than this.
And who am I to act as a prophet, when I don't show the courage to save myself from this version of damnation, and unwilling to save you.with me.
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