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Economics, Law and Policy 
ISSN 2576-2060 (Print) ISSN 2576-2052 (Online) 

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Short Research Article 

A Secular Interpretation of God in Christianity under 

Holographic Theory 

Yu Fu1* & Xi Kang1 
1 Sichuan University, Chengdu, China 
* Yu Fu, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China 

 

Received: May 30, 2019          Accepted: June 26, 2019        Online Published: July 1, 2019 

doi:10.22158/elp.v2n1p129              URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/elp.v2n1p129 

 

Abstract 

God is the core of Christian religion, where the whole Christian faith and creed rest upon. While the 

relationship between the mortal and God is the fundamental question that makes Christianity 

distinguish from other religions. This paper aims to discover the secular meaning of God, such as in 

China, with the perspective of relationship between God and mortal and the theory of holographic 

theory, which brings atheists a better comprehension of human beings and the universe through a 

religious philosophy.  

Keywords 

Godholographic theory relationship  

 

God in Christians is beyond direct human experience and comprehension and omnipresent who acts 

like a shepherd or a king to human being. It essentially means that everything in the society is 

connected with God. 

On the one hand, God is beyond direct human experience and comprehension. Christians, not unlike 

Muslims, stand in awe of the majesty and dominion of God over the earth. Christians proclaim that just 

as the human eye cannot look directly into the sun, so human beings cannot comprehend the full 

magnificence of God.  

On the other hand, the Bible is filled with analogies for God, such as a parent, a woman who is 

searching for a lost coin, a king, or even a hen. And it’s reasonable for Christians to believe God truly 

loves humanity, like the way a shepherd tending a flock or a parent looking after children. The 

challenge for Christians is to maintain the view of God as both in and outside of the world—to 

remember that although they believe God cares for them tenderly like the mother, God is still a mystery 

they can’t understand. Thus, Christians commonly feel reverence, love, and trust in God: they 



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recognize God’s majesty and appreciate God’s thoughtful care for them and the world as a whole. 

Christians believe that God is an omnipresent (b. 1225-d. 1274). This God is understood as immanent, 

or present in the world, and also transcendent, existing far beyond the world and beyond human 

imagination and experience. Christians also hold the belief that individual persons and groups can keep 

a personal relationship with God, however, God always remains a mystery beyond human 

understanding. Catholics and Protestants share this kind of view of God, although Catholics often stress 

the God’s immanence more than Protestants. 

In conclusion, God in Christianity is pure spirit, all-powerful (Jn 4:24; 1 Jn 4:12). God is omnipotent 

that deserves mankind’s worship and love. Obviously, this relationship focus more on mankind’s 

attitude to God. The whole doctrine is subjective since it is established by humankind. The relationship 

between God and human kind is in nature man’s aspiration towards God. 

It is surprising to find that ancient China also paid much attention on exploring the relationship 

between human kind and other higher level power. In this process, they also discovered some 

disciplines of human and some unknown power, which is considered to be the Nature, which plays the 

similar role as God does. 

The I Ching, with its seeming infinitude of applications and interpretations, was the essential guide to 

the universe for two millennia. One of most significant theory in The I Ching is Heaven and Man Are 

United as One, which almost decided the whole direction of Chinese ancient philosophy. It stands for a 

way of thinking and an overlook of world order, considering that heaven, earth and mankind are 

somehow interrelated. The key conception of this world outlook is that human are bonded with nature, 

including heaven and earth, that is, there are an internal relationship and interaction between human 

and nature. Furthermore, a foundational importance of nature to human affairs has been expressed in 

different ways throughout historical record, such as the same category of heaven and man, sharing the 

same important energy. Many Chinese philosophers like Mencius, Confucius and Laozi expressed their 

ideas. For instance, Mencius believed that people could gain an understanding of human nature and 

heaven, emphasizing the unity of thought, humanity and heaven through psychological reflection. And 

Confucian scholars in the Song Dynasty tried to link nature, humanity and the principles of human 

thought. While Laozi held the view that, “human law is heaven and man, human law is nature, and 

heaven law is Tao”. According to different schools of philosophy, the relationship between heaven and 

man, the term is explained differently. 

Zhang Dainian had a contribution: He pointed out that there are two meanings for the unity of nature 

and man: one is that heaven and man are connected, and the other is that heaven and man are similar. 

The latter is the thought of Dong Zhongshu in the Han Dynasty, and said that “the heavens and the 

humans are a kind of thinking that is far-fetched”. Of course, it seems that these arguments may be 

considered in some places, because the connection between heaven and man is similar to that of heaven 

and earth. At the beginning of the connection between heaven and man, at least there is a saying that 

the evils of the heavens and the blessings are there, and there is the saying of “Hong Fan”.  



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To sum up, when Chinese philosophy discussed about this issue, the key word must be Heaven and 

Man Are United as One. It stresses the integration and relationship between heaven, earth, and man. It 

also emphasizes the fundamental significance of nature to man or human affairs, and describes the 

endeavors made by man to pursue life, order, and values through interaction with nature. 

Even we live in a time when science made a great success we still ask ourselves: Is there any unity in 

the universe? What is the universe unified in the East? This is one of the most concerned issues of 

philosophers and scientists both at home and abroad.  

The idea of the universe of holographic holism is reflected in its cosmology and the unity of cosmology 

in information. The specific content is, first, the introduction of the universe holographic gene theory. 

This view holds that the cosmic gene is an infinite small singularity that contains all the information of 

the universe. Its external form is the “singularity” in cosmology. The singularity is the epitome of the 

universe, and the universe is a singularity. Cosmic holographic genes show that the universe has 

homology, and homology is the source of cosmic unity and cosmic holography. 

Second, any system and even parts of the universe have a common origin, which are the result of 

orderly manifestation of the same prototype. A lot of things prove that the universe has homology. The 

trees are made up of simple seeds. The people with the internal organs and the spiritual world are so 

complicated that they are created by a small zygote. The various solar systems are all in a simple 

nebula.  

Third, cosmic holographic theory reveals the reasons for the unity and difference of the universe. The 

existence of the window is the same because the universe has a uniform material level, and there is no 

identity of the university. When the universe is in the prototype stage, the unity of the universe is the 

greatest, and the things of the difference are still manifested, contained in the prototype material, and 

can only exist in the form of information. With the manifestation of the prototype, the unity of 

university gradually receded, and the information of the difference continued to rise. Everything in the 

universe is different. The phenomenon is due to the manifestation of the prototype, which is attributed 

to the different forms contained in the prototype. The unity of the universe is rooted in the qualitative 

identity of the prototype. This reveals why the universe is what it looks like, but it actually has the root 

cause of unity. Fourth, information is material, and the universe is unified information. Cosmic 

information exists in an infinitely dense form. This form of battalion and body is the unified field of 

cosmic information. All the things that are different from each other are the expressions of the unified 

field of cosmic holography. The physicists finally found it. The unified field must be a unified field of 

cosmic holography for the universe. 

The unity of universe in holographic theory demonstrates not only the originality of the whole world 

but also its law. Everything is originated from and affected by it. Combining this conclusion with the 

relationship between God and human beings, we can say that Christianity and Heaven and Man Are 

United as One share the similar philosophy, which appear in cosmic holographic theory. In secular 

world, we don’t have a God but we think the universe as our sacred God. 



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