A. physical
B. mental
C. physical and mental
D. spiritual
E. physical, mental and spiritual
F. Who knows?
everything you can comprehend.
as that great philosopher said
it’s big, really big
Temporal.
Physical and mental being but different perspectives of the same thing.
I’m afraid the problem might begin with the title. You were wise to write “Known” in quotation.
I believe every concept we name is an abstraction of reality in order to simplify some manner of it. We look for the “shape” of the smallest particle and its behaviour to realize maybe there is no shape.
The concepts you place into multiple choice are all some of the big broadly defined ones. But I’m sure there’s an important goal to your question. I guess it’s about what “big concept” is more fundamental.
To provide a solid answer in fairness, I’d lean to B.
Because it may appear as the Pythagoreans suggested- “all are number.” And when we demand a definition in physical -stuff- we will soon find ourselves crunching endless numbers. Those numbers are not meaningless, but they can’t be defined into more fundamental -stuff- And as we demand to define spirit in physical things, that too gets absorbed into number. Number stems from mental comprehension more than drive, more than physical action.
We will not understand reality through cold calculation. But perhaps we will find that calculation is just as spiritual, as emotional, as meaningful or valuable as all the theory and religion we identify with.
Mathematicians themselves seem to identify with a nature of calculation. A “sense” of it, more than simple rules.
God Created Man in His Image
This concept is what makes God so “unbelievable”. We have yet to see the “big finger”. Just like he has done with most every other idea, the vanity of mankind has managed to twist it and created God in his image.
Religion has always maintained that it was God who created the universe. Science defends its theory that the universe began about 25 billion years ago by a thermonuclear explosion they dub “The Big Bang”.
The twentieth century came and went with a Bang. Through many technological advancements, science has been able to tell us more and more about the universe than we have ever before imagined. Albert Einstein’s Theory of relativity has rocked the scientific community in such a way that leaves many physicists still skeptical. His death has left many questions unanswered. Science can only hope that an equally genius mathematical mind will come forward and answer some of them.
One of these questions is; “Do parallel universes exist?” Einstein’s relativity theory allows room for the “possibility” of parallel universes.
Another scientific mystery is the “Black hole”. Science cannot tell us much about the black hole except that it is created when a supernova star explodes, leaving a huge “hole” in the universe which has a gravitational pull so strong it pulls all matter within it’s vicinity into it, and nothing can escape it. Not even light.
What does this have to do with the image of god and how it pertains to man? Let’s assume that Einstein was correct and parallel universes do exist. Somewhere, within one of these universes, a supernova star explodes, creating a “black hole”. This huge hole pulls much matter and light into it, and, over the course of 25 billion years, evolves into what we now know as our existing universe.
Each black hole within our universe would then be the portals to other evolving universes, each created by?, a “Big Bang”.
Each evolving universe is as a single cell, which divides and multiplies in and of itself, through the creation of more black holes and more evolving universes, in the exact same manner as in the developement of a human embryo from the first day of conception, only to create the physical body of God.
GOD A being of integrated mind, body and spirit.
Mind is the builder, Body is for physical expression and spirit is the love which keeps it all in harmony.
If man can accept himself as a child of God, he too can become integrated in mind, body and spirit and therefore become as one with God.