Page 785 - Atlas of Creation Volume 3

Harun Yahya

ETERNITY IS HIDDEN IN GOD'S MEMORY

ome of those who do not completely understand that matter is actually a complex of perceptions
formed in the brain fall into error and draw wrong conclusions. For example, some people under-
S stand the explanations about matter being an illusion to mean that matter does not exist. Others
think that matter exists as an illusion only when we are looking at it, but when we are not looking at it, it

does not exist. Neither of these ideas is correct.
First, to say that matter does not exist, or that people, trees or birds do not exist is definitely wrong.
All of these things exist and have been created by God. But, as we have explained from the beginning of
this book, God has created all these things as an image or a perception. That is to say, after God created

these things, He did not give them a concrete independent existence. Every one of them continues to be
created at every moment.
Whether we see them or not, all these things are eternal in God's memory. All those things that have
existed before us, and that will exist after us, have already been created by God in one single moment. As

has been explained in the earlier chapter, time is an illusion; God created time and He is not bound by it.
Therefore, those things that will exist for us in the future have been created in one moment in God's sight
and they currently exist. But we cannot see them yet because we are bound by time.
Just as those things we will see in the future (or will exist in the future for us) are present every mo-

ment in God's memory, so, in the same way, things in the past do not cease to exist, but are present in
God's memory. For example, when you were a fetus in your mother's womb, the day when you started to
learn how to read and write, the moment you picked up your first school report, the moment you first
drove a car, the time an old lady smiled at you when you gave her your seat on a bus, and other such

things you experienced in the past, together with all the moments you will experience in the future, are
at this moment in God's memory and will remain there for eternity.
Suppose you kick a stone as you walk along a path. The time when you would kick that stone was de-
termined and created in your destiny even before you were born. The fact that this stone fell off a larger

piece of rock, and every stage at which each of its cracks and recesses was formed—all of these were pre-
sent in the sight of God even before you kicked the stone.
The same thing is true of a dead butterfly you see in a garbage can or a dry leaf falling from a tree
onto your head. From the time the butterfly was still a caterpillar to the time it left its cocoon, from the

time its wings dried to the time it fell into the garbage, everything was predetermined in its destiny. In
God's sight, the living butterfly and the dead butterfly continue to exist and will continue to exist eter-
nally.

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