Here is what I have to say on the matter. It is radical to say the least, and it could use a bit more polish. It is not like any idea that you have ever heard before…
God exists, but not in the way that you think.
Our multiverse is not real. We are not real. Everything that we know of is just part of an extremely advanced computer program. God is simply the administrator of that computer. He constantly watches over the program.
If he feels the need to intervene to help one of the worlds in his program, he creates a character, and he uses advanced virtual reality (like in the movie
Avatar) to enter the body of his character. This explains how Jesus came to exist. Bad situations were taking place, so God intervened on Earth to help others more accurately understand how he wanted things to work in his multiverse. Who is to say that God has not done the same thing for other life forms in the multiverse? Maybe Jesus has already returned, but not in our particular solar system, and not in human form.
How did Jesus perform his miracles? Simple; it was just like hacking and homebrew! As the person with full control over his computer and the programs running on it, he decided to temporarily overwrite some of the physics and science code to help illustrate points to humans via normally impossible means.
How did God make it possible for digital beings to form and develop? Probably something like in the movie
Chappie. At some point, the technology in God’s world was finally advanced enough for someone to develop code for digital consciousness. Later on, the first digital beings figured out a way to back up the consciousness of God’s kind to digital files. This enabled God’s kind to live forever and be as efficient as high-end computers. With the infinitely faster technological developments that took place after this, God and the others managed to create a computer program that was the digital equivalent of their multiverse! With the efficiency that only digital beings can have, God and his team developed a physics engine, laws of science, and various program assets (such as the elements on the periodic table) for their digital multiverse in only seven days! After some initial tests, they finally booted the program, and watched on the screen as their digital multiverse started out with the big bang.
Other advantages to a digital multiverse included being able to run diagnostics to analyze every single outcome for each possible variable, and the ability to “fast-forward” and “rewind” to quickly see every event without waiting it out in real-time. This has always been useful for whenever God feels the need to become Jesus in order to set the digital multiverse on the best possible path.
Does heaven exist? Of course! God and his team are always analyzing the digital beings and the type of people that they are. If a digital being has demonstrated exemplary morals, the being will have its consciousness uploaded to God’s cloud storage servers, where it will live on eternally in those servers in a program known as “Heaven.” Otherwise, the being will be moved to the Recycle Bin, and later be deleted once the Recycle Bin is emptied.
God may also live in a digital multiverse and not even know it. The God that created God’s multiverse may also live in a digital multiverse. And this could go on infinitely…
Therefore, there may not even be a God at the “root” of everything, because the “root” may not even exist! It could just be an infinite chain of digital Gods, and humans may be the next Gods in that line!
TLDR:
God is a digital being, who exists, and yet may not
technically exist.
Sorry for the huge wall of sentences. Despite how overwhelming it may seem, I think that I have compacted the information as best as I could.
Describing our existence in a GBATemp post in only 42 sentences is no easy feat!
