Microsoft Word - ELP-V2N1-p129 Economics, Law and Policy ISSN 2576-2060 (Print) ISSN 2576-2052 (Online) Vol. 2, No. 1, 2019 www.scholink.org/ojs/index.php/elp 129 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 www.scholink.org/ojs/index.php/elp Economics, Law and Policy Vol. 2, No. 1, 2019 130 Published by SCHOLINK INC. 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”. www.scholink.org/ojs/index.php/elp Economics, Law and Policy Vol. 2, No. 1, 2019 131 Published by SCHOLINK INC. 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. 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