Hardware, Software of Soul and Spirit

On Hardware and Software, Soul and Spirit

Chuck Missler was fond of noting that our soul and spirit are software not hardware. His assertion was that the body we occupy as we read this text is hardware and the meaning of the words and the thoughts conveyed are not physical things and are being understood by a software package called mind.

Chuck analogized that assertion with a compact disc and the difference of weight before data is downloaded and after data is downloaded to the disc. His point was that there is no difference in weight. The software data has no mass thus it has no weight. The disc weighs the same before download and after download. Let's focus more deeply on the notion(s) inferred by this assertion, because Chuck is correct, that our soul and our spirit are not hardware thus they have 'eternal existence' and the state in which they will express is something each of us ought to deal with.

We will start with the compact disc and the reality of a media in the hardware which allows data to be downloaded to the disc. The floppy discs Missler was referring to had a magnetizable surface. Data is transferred to the medium on the surface of the disc in bytes of 1s and 0s, ons and offs, opens or closeds, or how ever you wish to denote a binary language, a language with only two expressions.

A message is coded then transferred to the disc in the binary language. It is then up to a receiver of the data to upload the string of information and translate it into whatever language the mind of the recipient is using or the receiver uses for thought. The message starts as a thought from a source, is translated into a code and imprinted upon the disc, then read by another device to decode the data into a language targeted. The message has no mass, but there is a requirement for there to be some mass which is manipulated to express the message, then mass in a receiver to interpret or re-express the message.

Our DNA does something very much similar, in that the molecules making up the DNA strand have been 'arranged' into an information message which when 'read' manipulates masses to build a body (masses of molecules which arrange into proteins and then into larger arrangements or tissues and organs). I am information expressed by an arrangement of molecules ... an arrangement which will eventually decay and revert back to the atomic level of carriers for data. But wait! There's more!

This leads to a new insight building on Chuck Missler's assertion. The data is not any thing unless it has a receiver to express the message of the data, so our soul and spirit must have some actual / physical carrier that does have space and time reality! So Chuck's assertion is not a finished expression because our soul and spirit are not just the software but are also the hardware. The message has a carrier that is vital to the existence of the whole.

There are two axioms given to me by a very dear and intelligent Lady: without time events do not occur; without space a thing does not exist in the Universe God has created. Let's apply those two axioms to this discussion of soul and spirit as software. The soul and spirit of you do exist IN the Universe God has created, but they exists as software being carried by / expressed IN hardware of some sort.

Now the fun begins ...

The Bible gives us many clues to the existence of real space and time coordinate systems which are un sensed by us in our current configuration. Our sensory mechanism is limited to three variables of space and one of time. Science is telling us that there are more variables of space and perhaps time which are beyond the smallness level to be located. In effect when a thing goes smaller than 10 to the minus 33 centimeters it loses a property called 'location' ... smaller than 10 to the minus 33 centimeters and you cannot say it is 'there' or 'here', it is non-local.

There is a similar limit to span of time. If an event happens faster than 10 to the minus 43 seconds it is said to cease being a temporal event.

[Here's an aside: the Bible describes a physically real transformation of those Christians alive when the snatching away of all believers happens. This transformation is said to happen in the twinkling of an eye. That span of time is the time it takes a beam of light traveling at approximately 186,000 miles per second (or 300,000 kilometers per second) to pass from outside your iris to inside your eye, an event lasting about 10 to the minus 43 seconds!

We have referred to Daniel chapter five many times in essays, but let us now focus upon the reality inferred from the scene, specifically the nature of the being who wrote upon the wall while just the hand of that being was visible to the palace party central participants. We would presume that the hand was attached to an arm that was attached to a body of a real, physical being. Why so sure the being was physical? The hand made changes to the physical wall that remained visible in the party zone. We would presume that being has mass and was standing somewhere in some when. But, was the coordinate system of time and space for the messenger different from the party room such that some variable in his coordinates makes the messenger invisible?

[ Here is an aside: When Jesus appeared to His disciple after His resurrection they were frightened as He suddenly appear in their locked and shuttered room. The room had six sides: floor, ceiling, plus four walls. And Jesus entered the closed six-sided realm without going through any of the sides. He enters, somehow, and exhibits His physical body of flesh and bone. Once visible to them, He then responded to their fear by telling them to handle His body, challenging them with: “See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me, and see. For a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.” ( Luke 24:29 ) Aside from the fact that He did not mention blood, Jesus brought a physical body into their midst, without using a doorway or window! And He was using that physical body to convey a message, so the mass-less information was being translated by a real physical transmitter / sender of the data. The scene in Luke 24 is like the scene in Daniel five, except the whole being not just the hand is in the same space and time realm as the disciples! ]

If the soul of mind, will, and emotions is not hardware and the spirit is not hardware, but there is a hardware carrier / expressor for each, we wonder what it is 'shaped' like? Well, it is likely a match for the shape of the body limited to the spacetime of our now physical senses. The coordinate system must be different than our now physical body because the spirit (and perhaps the soul / behavior mechanism) continues to exist in the Universe God has created even as the now body is giving up the atomic structures for life in the air world with four-D bodily death. Literally, the message of life carried by the DNA hardware is no longer being expressed by the thing the carrier of the DNA information fabricated.

So, perhaps, just perhaps, the coordinate systems of space and time for the soul carrier / receiver and for the spirit carrier / receiver have more spatial variable expressions than our air world space and time coordinates?

Addition of just one more coordinate variable would form a coordinate system beyond our senses. So long as that extra is intertwined with our where / when three of space and one of time, the greater would have access to the lesser, as in Palace Party Central, Babylon. The extra variable would needs be intertwined with our four-D limits so that an interface can happen between coordinate systems. At our death in this where / when the connection, the interface is broken to our four-D realm but continues in the five-D realm where expression of mind, emotion, and will are real. And since the Word of God is sharper than any two-edged sword, able to separate soul and spirit, an extra variable might be a six-D where / when of the spirit and can be separated so that God can cleanse it from sin stain and abide therein. [ See 1 John 3:9 ]

Can we say that life is a software expression utilizing a hardware carrier; is the life of the body more primitive than the life of the soul, and the life of the soul more primitive than the life of the spirit? Biblically, before being born again, there is no life in the spirit. The carrier is non-functional so when born again it is God-life animating the spirit and its carrier.

Is that what Jesus meant when He said He had come to give men life and more abundantly? [ Berean Study Bible “I have come that they may have life, and have it in all its fullness.” John 10:10 ]

Part Two

What of angels? What is the where / when of angels? There is a reason to ask this question since the voice of an archangel will be involved in the snatching away of all believers. [ Berean Literal Bible 1 Thessalonians 4:16 because the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. ] Angels are real beings, alive in a sense that we cannot comprehend. They do things and occupy space so they are in the created Universe, but where are they? We would presume they are higher dimensional beings but can share our dimensional limits if they choose to do so.

That verse in the first Thessalonians letter seems to indicate there are three phases to the snatching away of all believers, dead or alive. We are about to see (figuratively) an event men would characterize as supernatural because it involves aspects / realities not sensed by us in our current where / when. If extra dimensional variables cited previously are real in the Universe God has created -and we believe they are because of clues found throughout the Bible, then what occurs in the Universe is not super natural, it is natural to the Universe because it is happening in the Universe created. The event is very real and involves hardware -new bodies- and software -new behavior mechanisms- conveying life in more fullness than we can express now as we posses deadness in our real spirit ( unless we are born again, born from above John 3:3 ).

First, there is the command from God as Jesus descends from the Third Heaven Throne Room ( or the second heaven, not the Throne Room; who knows, this is not Google Earth driving directions ). We are assured that God is bringing with Him ALL spirits of those who have died in Christ. They are either in the Third Heaven or the Second Heaven, not here upon or in the Earth because Jesus is there and God is bringing them with Jesus. We might liken that loud command to the scene when Jesus raised his friend Lazarus from the tomb. [ John 11:43 ]

Is the voice of the archangel a redundancy, or is there an other step in the process, one aimed at those who are not coming with Jesus but are still alive, in Him by the Holy Spirit Presence in their spirit? [ Ephesians 11:13&14 ] Is the voice of the archangel to transform us?

It could be that we who are alive are transformed in the same instant Jesus creates new bodies and behavior mechanisms for the dead. So what meaning can we assign regarding the voice of the archangel? Here is an odd conjecture, a suggestion for the world-wide thundering voice of the archangel.

Our atmosphere is teeming with electromagnetic filth being beamed all around the globe. Would Jesus descend into such filth and meet us in such a nasty environment? We are to be caught up into the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. Those electromagnetic waves are a form of pollution seeking a receiver to manifest their filth. Perhaps the voice of the archangel suddenly stops all electromagnetic transmission and erases the waves of filth! Such a cleansing need last only a brief amount of time and would cause such chaos upon the earth that everyone everywhere would be aware simultaneously. This sweep would not be permanent for we see in the Revelation of John that the whole Earth will witness events in Jerusalem not long after this snatching away event -maybe just three years later.

The third step in the snatching away of all believers is Trumpet of God. We have a big clue for this step, found in the opening verse of chapter four, the Revelation of John; Revelation 4:1 After these things I looked, and behold, a door was standing open in heaven, and the first voice that I heard like a trumpet was speaking with me, saying, “Come up here, and I will show to you what it behooves to take place after these things.”

The simultaneous blast of the name of everyone just given new bodies and behavior mechanisms might well sound like a trumpet blast, to those not called up into the clouds to meet the Lord Christ in the air. The action is so fast in this process of snatching all believers away that the electromagnetic collapse and the blast of God's Trumpet may seem simultaneous to the left behinds, the earth dwellers.

How easy will it be to explain away the snatching away disappearance of hundreds of millions of people simultaneous with the electromagnetic collapse and that never heard before sound created by the blasting noise simultaneous as the moment of every name of believers is suddenly called out? You can bet there will be some great lie told to explain it away. There are thousands of scientists who have bowed to the anthropogenic global warming lie ( man made global warming ). They appear easy to be controlled. There are already what sound like trumpet blasts happening around the globe, as if preparing humanity for the great lie. The public is already taught the real chance of a devastating electromagnetic pulse from the Sun or a EMP, pulse weapon(s) detonated in the atmosphere.