In the Beginning was Information

with God (Ephesians 5:18-20). The phrase “in Christ” occurs 196times in the New Testament (e. g. John 15:4, Romans 6:1, 1 Corinthians1:30, Galatians 3:28), referring to somebody who has tiedhis life to Jesus and who is sure of his eternal life (1 John 5:13).Such a person eagerly hears and reads God’s Word (Revelation1:3) and has access to the spiritual dimension of the Bible.The four basic entities, mass, energy, information, and will, areillustrated in Figure 30, each time with the appellation “spiritual”in analogy to the biblical description of a spiritual person. It is nowclear that these four created entities originated from God, the Creator.When a natural man is changed into a spiritual person, it isalso a creative act of God, working through Jesus: “Therefore, ifanyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the newhas come!” (2 Corinthians 5:17). This creative transformation fromold to new, from the natural to the spiritual, and from lost to saved,is called both repentance in the Bible (Luke 22:32, Acts 3:19) andbeing born again (John 3:3, and 1 Peter 1:23). This act can only beaccomplished through our own will (e. g. Matthew 23:37b, Luke19:14b). Our willingness or our rejection is decisive for life anddeath, comprising the choice between heaven and hell. The fourspiritual foundations take a central place for a born-again, a believing,or a spiritual person:1. Spiritual information: In the Old Testament God said parabolicallythat He has a fixed purpose when sending his Word to arecipient: “As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, anddo not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud andflourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return toMe empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purposefor which I sent it” (Isaiah 55:10-11). This clearly illustratesthe purpose-achieving and the human-assisting way of divineinformation.By means of several technological and biological examples we willillustrate (see Appendix A3) that in such systems, in each case– energy is saved,– waste of energy is prevented,164