Hosea 11- Physics, Biology, Central Limit Function
Hosea 11:1-2
When Israel was a child, I loved him,
and out of Egypt I called my son.
But the more they were called,
the more they went away from me.
They sacrificed to the Baals
and they burned incense to images.
The framework that I am using here is that Israel was used as energy, fuel, a power source, when they were used as slaves by Egypt. In this process they became associated and familiar with this process, gaining knowledge that they may have been better off, in that season, without.
Also, God provides all things, but the attribution is difficult for mankind to make directly, as it does not make tangible sense, from a human perspective, to attribute the source of all to the ephemeral. In this modern season we have conceived of things like Zero Point Energy, and our science makes us believe that we might ultimately be able to control all in our environment, perfectly. Still, we cannot control all, nor can we even replace all. Elements like quarks are found to be like Legos that are provided, but we are able to conceive of how we cannot replicate them, for even a "successful" attempt at replication would lead to matter out of phase with our own, perhaps like anti-matter but with even more exotic and likely devastating effects than a straightforward energy annihilation. It feels like doing so would introduce something like malicious code, deforming all matter that these particles interact with, at the speed of light, potentially without end. Essentially, God's role as Creator is filled; there is a penalty for going too far along this path.
A sword will flash in their cities;
it will devour their false prophets
and put an end to their plans.
I associated this verse to the sudden untethering of all matter within an iteration of the universe, with this sword able to cut the fundamental forces of physics, once unsheathed. Science, at the current level, is able to force this sword to be unsheathed, through precise particle collisions and the like. At this level, a mistake might be made that cannot be reconciled- an actual cut stuck against The Holy Spirit in their innocence- again resulting, ultimately (but not immediately), in annihilation.
Hosea 11:8-9
“How can I give you up, Ephraim?
How can I hand you over, Israel?
How can I treat you like Admah?
How can I make you like Zeboyim?
My heart is changed within me;
all my compassion is aroused.
I will not carry out my fierce anger,
nor will I devastate Ephraim again.
For I am God, and not a man—
the Holy One among you.
I will not come against their cities."
This section now reads like biology and the generation of independent consciousness. If Ephraim is treated like the head of Israel, in a way, then this is asking "How can I give you, my people, an independent existence from my own? How can I hand over control?" The second question is along the lines of the first "What circumstance could allow me to hand you over, and be worth the process of doing so?" From the perspective of a parent with omniscience, these are supremely difficult questions to answer. The third and fourth questions initially strike me as "If I encompass all in omnipotence, how can there be that which I treat as less sacred and/or foreign?" Admittedly, I lack the historical reference presently for who Admah and Zeboyim are, and I am basing this interpretation off of their singular appearance in the chapter.
Interestingly, while there are multiple interpretations of this one line, the Hebrew makes the distinction: For I am God and not a man (rather than "a mortal" or the like). This draws my attention to Genesis 1:27
So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.
and
John 10:34
Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I have said you are gods’?"
These lines, combined with the sword flashing, feels like the biological process of eggs being created in a human female, where biology and physics find their razor's edge threshold in terms of consciousness and, potentially, experience. If one's universe is cut in half by God, and the aim is to grant them full independence as a god within their own domain, then this prophecy is the story of God- in female form- examining how that reproduction can be accomplished in a good way, without unnecessary or unacceptable losses. I imagine that this thought might easily repeat as a recursive algorithm tens of thousands of times in the womb, as is physically seen. Honestly, it is more difficult to imagine how the process halts after this many iterations, since it is potentially infinite. God here also says "nor will I devastate Ephraim again." This use of again strongly suggests that this devastating has already been done once, perhaps with Jesus, perhaps with all men, perhaps with self, indicating that the plan is not to cross this same threshold again, so that being born again is an evolution, rather than a retraction and repetition of the same process.
In this interpretation, the slicing in half of a reality, done perfectly, is the egg established, and new consciousness conceived, once a true (reproductive) partner is found. Can this be done with Creation in its entirety?
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