Fundamentally, all of creation is information. It is like a program for a computer, except that, rather than being expressed in 1s and 0s, it is written in vibration, spin, and frequency of energy.
I have written before that "God is Energy." From a first century perspective, this is basically the same statement as "God is Pneuma" or "God is Spirit," as what we attribute to energy today was attributed to Pneuma in the first century by the Stoics.
All of creation is information written in vibrational patterns across the "surface" of God Himself. I have previously described it as us being sentient NPCs in a one Player game, and this description is not terribly inaccurate. We are patterns whose only existence is derived from vibrations and "disturbances" within Him.
One consequence of this is that we can never be, physically speaking, any closer to God than we are right now, in this moment. He is the medium through which all of creation is expressed and written, as well as its author. The written word cannot exist except on the page (physical or digital), and so neither can we. That we cannot regularly "experience" this is a fault of our own perception and awareness, not a lack of His presence. A blind man cannot see the sun. This doesn't mean the sun isn't there. A deaf man cannot hear the music, this doesn't mean it isn't playing. The scent of the rose is still just as sweet whether our noses can smell it or not.
There will always be a distinct divide of existence between God and ourselves, just as there is between the program and the programmer; and just as there is between the sound of music and the air through which it is transmitted. But this fact does not negate the existence of either, nor does it make either any less real.
Frequently, it is our own internal "stuff" which keeps us from sensing and experiencing God. It is all the distractions which our senses feed us, as well as our own thoughts and perceptions. We are, in a way, blind to Him from birth, and most don't pay enough attention to anything around them to "see" Him trying to flag us down and reveal Himself to us.
Thus Jesus Christ, someone our senses can register, as God says through Him, "This is what I'm actually like."
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I was also considering the question of reincarnation again this morning, as I do sometimes. It being a theological topic, if not necessarily a Christian one, makes it of interest to me. My thought this morning is that there is an understanding that either a human being dies once and then the judgment, or a soul is reincarnated, and that these two things appear to be contradictory to one another. But my thought this morning is that if you look deeper, they are not.
A human being is composed of several different things. The soul is one of them, as is the biological component of the body, the unique, individual experiences of the person, and so forth. Each and every human being is unique to themselves, and when that human being dies, that unique individual is destroyed.
But this doesn't preclude the soul being transferred to another body, a different biological entity, with different, unique experiences, and so forth. Thus the soul becomes part of a new, unique human being while still remaining the same soul and learning and acquiring all of the experiences from the new human being. And so this new human being in which the soul inhabits is a different one altogether from the previous human being, yet it is still the same soul.
As I have written before, the judgment involved after the destruction of the individual human being may not necessarily lead to either forever paradise or forever torment (as the word usually used in the Greek New Testament for "eternal" does not have to mean "forever," but is more accurately rendered "indefinite" or "outside of time"), but to another transfer to be a part of another human being so that the soul can continue to learn and grow for its own sake. Whether one accepts reincarnation or not, this to me would be a satisfactory way of resolving the one verse in Hebrews, or the one verse in all of Scripture for that matter, which would seem to argue against it.
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