IN previous article, I touched on what the concept of heaven in concrete terms ought to mean. It ought to be recognised as the storehouse of intelligence. I went on to explain this especially in its relevance to this discussion. Intelligence in its relevance to this discussion is about the mechanism of operational laws. The operational laws whose empirical certainties can be substantiated in a discernible linkage between cause and effect. This can be said to be the primary method of how God operates and it has equally been scientifically substantiated. You may have heard it before particularly through religion that ‘whatever you sow you will reap’. This is the principle of ‘cause and effect’ .
To religion, it is the principle of justice. It can even be referred to as the principle of love. This is what the concept of law is all about. It is about the principle of ‘cause and effect’. The principle of ‘cause and effect’ will tell you that you must sow corn to reap corn, you must sow wheat to reap wheat. You cannot sow wheat to reap corn and vice versa. This is the scientific validation of the principle of ‘cause and effect. It is about a discernible order of operation. This is what is meant by the rule of intelligence. It is about the link between cause and effect.
It leads to empirical certainty that cannot be faulted. I stand to be corrected if in all my confidence, I tell you that this is the scientific explanation of how God Almighty created the universe. This is because underlying the universe are operational laws whose mechanism of operation is based on the principle of ‘cause and effect’. The primary method on which God operates is resting on the discernible linkage between cause and effect. This linkage establishes order. That is why it has been easy for man today to see the relationship for example between the earth and the sun and that having recognised that the earth rotates round the sun, we have been able to calculate its twenty-four hour cycle to give us what we call one day.
It has been used successfully to let us know that three hundred and sixty-five days cycle gives us what we call one year. The facts pertaining to just this astronomical knowledge alone help us to know our rainy season and dry season; our winter, summer and autumn. One should then be able to appreciate what was going on in the mind of King David when he wrote in Psalm 19 that ‘the heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament showeth his handwork, day unto day uttereth speech and night into night showeth knowledge. There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth’. This is a simple and beautiful way to acknowledge God and His method of operation.
A method of intelligence rings through what David wrote in a way that can best be ‘appreciated from the scientific stand point. There is no religious sentiment to befuddle it. It talks about the empirical certainty of the ways of God. The ways that can best be captured in one word — order. So if you have never really appreciated what it means all this while to say that — order is the first law in heaven, then you should know that this statement is not about Christianity, Islam nor any religion for that matter, it is a statement trying to make it clear to you that the ways of God are about the operation of intelligence that can be scientifically substantiated for the wellbeing of all and so therefore, ‘order is the first law in heaven’ can only mean that heaven in its true concept is the storehouse of intelligence that operates the principle of ‘cause and effect’ for results.
Ayo-Vaughan, a psychologist, lives in Lagos.
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